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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago (1 children)

why are the lower classes...

If any statement starts off like this, it's time to get the guillotines out.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Why are the lower classes not simply guillotining the upper classes?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Brianna Wuld you kindly throw yourself into a volcano.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The volcano does not someone so loathsome.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you're saying here but I agree

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I love (read: hate) every time some hypothetical example of pedophilia gets discussed and it's like "okay but hear me out, the victim gets a gorillion dollars, an island, a robot monkey friend, the cure for cancer, and technically all of the emotional trauma gets offloaded to their clone that gets created from a sample of ethically sourced DNA. Would it then be okay?"

Just... fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seriously it's like "oh here's a fucking Rube-Goldberg procession of contrived scenarios designed to reach a point where you finally agree there's a point I'm trying to make and not just making you participate in me cranking my brain hog."

It's philosophy 101 meets edgelord meets bazinga meets pedophile apologia. It's a quadrilogy of shit. I fucking hate these people so much. Helluva way to start my day.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"ok, but hear me out. What if they paid the market rate for pedophilia"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

There's a reason why big-yud and his "LessWr*ng" cult are so preoccupied with "thought experiments" that pretty much always involve justifying torture and the like.

I don't know if those kinds of creepy fucks can ever be rid of the brainworms wriggling around in them, or if there's anything there at all but brainworms

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

lmao that site became pathetic almost immediately. They all just regurgitate Nietzche and came up with dialectical materialism, but since they're STEM lords, none of them have actually read Nietzche or Marx. Then they fawn over one another for this "deep and insightful" posting. Nothing they say is new, but got damn if anyone were to point this out.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've gotten howled at before for saying so, but I'll say it again: techbro cults like that are infested with self-described "autodidacts" which is a fancy way of saying "doesn't actually fucking know what they profess to know but will bumblefuck anyway, sometimes boosted by venture capital" my-hero

Yeah, it's fucked up, but even mocking the idea of "autodidacts" and all the harm the particularly rich ones cause is somehow upsetting to a certain bunch. It's like I become the gestalt manifestation of every wicked petty tyrant teacher that ever gave someone detention, my power only being potentially challenged by awesome radical rebels that say "actually I am an 'autodidact' and I already know everything" or something. Those rebels without a clue tend to have a belief that they can easily distinguish reality entirely for themselves without even an acknowledgement of the accumulated knowledge and expertise of everyone that came before. No wonder such smug-yet-credulous folks tend to fall for snake oil salesmen so easily. debord-tired

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (3 children)

throwing these guys into the mining shaft and constructing long term nuclear waste warning message over it

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The mine shaft is hungry. It demands flesh.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is not a place of honor

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

No highly esteemed deed is comemorated here

Nothing valued is here

What was here was dangerous and repulsive to us

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bit idea: Nazi complaining about how many friendships they lost over supporting a country perpetuating genocide

Oh wait

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (7 children)

She sucks so much, for the uninformed, Brianna Wu is on the board for Progressive Victory, a PAC that funds shitty centrist streamers getting their stream kids to do extremely questionably effective voter outreach. She uses it as vehicle to insert her charisma void and terrible opinons in front of new audiences of unwary viewers.

All star cast:

( I think to her credit Emma Viglend seems to have disengaged from them after October 7)

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Clown to clown to clown to clown communication

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Intra circus communication

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Skynet achieved sentience but Honknet never will

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

We really have emojis for everything

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

the axis of evil no-oil

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Lmao why do all the biggest losers have to host little seminars. Do they really think they're great political minds?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

There’s a lot of money in filling up conference centers with bodies. The amounts of money our clients spend on an event boggles my mind. So yes, everyone does have to host their little seminars so line can go up.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Emma Viglend

I fucking knew it. Of course she hangs out with reactionary trash. We lost Michael Brooks for this TYT fuck? Suck dems gonna suck dem, I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

what a lineup for democracy

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"I have a high IQ" when said out loud, voluntarily, is almost always a red flag for some creepy techbro adjacent shit. epsteingelion

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

umm, ackshually, he didn't say he has a high IQ, only that the lower class have low IQs nerd maybe-later-kiddo

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

umm, ackshually, he didn't say he has a high IQ, only that the lower class have low IQs

It's a clever tactic that's also common in online PVP games: "MY TEAM SUCKS" has the unspoken implication of "I AM SUPERIOR TO THE REST OF MY TEAM AND THIS LOSS ISN'T MY FAULT WHATSOEVER" heated-gamer-moment

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

peak use of that emoji

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hey Brianna has it struck you that maybe you have lost a ton of friends because they have principals and you support a genocide?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

The overlap between Brianna Wu's complaints and the average MAGA boomer's complaints about feeling lonely without all the "wokes" that have disowned them seems quite significant.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

dont worry the Porsches are her real friends anyway

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Entirely unrelated, but your pfp is just soo good.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bermuda? Yes, back from Bermuda and the 20th century, heh-heh. And, believe me, you can have it. One big modern mess!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I have no idea what you are talking about

But it's still funny che-smile

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

It's a reference to Disney's The Sword in the Stone (1963) -- it's an animated riff on Arthurian legend, with some wacky hijinks thrown in for good measure.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Brianna Wu? That zionist scumwoman who rolled her eyes every time someone brought up Israel's genocidal nature? That crackeress? That absolute Babylonian wretch? Doesn't surprise me that this neo-klansman is the kind of company she keeps.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I just got word that the babylonian copper scam artists also reject associating with her

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

making up hypothetical scenarios where the child consents because I am a reasonable high-iq person libertarian-approaching

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Bro, just say you're a certified paedophile and go - no need for the thought experiments

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