The problem for them is that the cops are actually the army of the rich and state and national government is controlled by billionaire lickers. They could go to DSA meetings and picket, but at best they could get a DSA member to be rude to them and then complain about it.
Aella’s dumb fucking sign pisses me off. No shit the 1% pay lots of taxes, they have a lot of money!
These people are convinced it’s the poorest that are getting a free lunch.
These guys really are just another boring cult. They’re Christian Scientists. They’re aesthetic realists.
Also more than the president of the US.
Close enough, welcome back Rachel Dolezal. Although in fairness to Rachel Dolezal*, she at least went to work for the NAACP, rather than becoming a footsoldier of fascism.
No wonder this guy thought Zohran Mamdani was trying to lie about his racial identity: he lies like he breathes, and assumes others do too
*You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Rachel Dolezal
Fork found in kitchen
I honestly don’t know, and if anyone tries to find out he might delete his blog again. If he is on a Thiel sinecure or running his own business, he shouldn’t be using the first person
I don’t think Scott Alexander is entitled to get annoyed about excessive anti-racism programmes in the workplace given that he is well known to be very racist.
Hell, maybe he has done an above-average number of unconscious bias trainings and DEI workshops and racism book clubs, but it’s because he keeps talking about how black people are mentally inferior at work and making him do training is cheaper than firing him.
California just had a small one the other day, so maybe Scott Alexander’s shitty opinions cause earthquakes.
We wanted to be able to hold a job without reciting DEI shibboleths or filling in multiple-choice exams about how white people cause earthquakes. Instead we got a thousand scientific studies cancelled because they used the string “trans-” in a sentence on transmembrane proteins.
If you were too racist to see the wood for the trees, that’s your problem comrade! Well, actually it’s everyone’s problem now.
I think they’re claiming that they are aware of the potential issues in how knowledge is produced (bias, unconscious or not)…but they think that they are uniquely humble and aware of all the issues, they certainly aren’t influenced by ideology, and they aren’t susceptible to the same logical fallacies as everyone else.
I think starting with Sam Bankman Fried is a solid idea. Relatively informed members of the general public a) know who that guy is, and b) know that he made some really poor decisions. He does not have the silicon valley mystique that attaches itself to some other adherents, I think fewer people will think “well that guy is really smart, why would he be in a cult”. Then you can go back and explain EA and LessWrong and Yudkowsky’s role in all of this.
Everything I have read about this guy creeps me out or pisses me off.
While googling around for stuff about them I found this article about a sting Hope Not Hate did on them. They produced a slideshow of doom for a fictional wealthy investor, imagining a proposed eugenicist city state on the Isle of Man.
What is it with these people and islands? Bankman-Fried wanted to buy Nauru. I assume none of them realize the inherent economic and planning disadvantages of building your empire on a tiny island…
“pro-LGBT rights” here means “pro Peter Thiel”. He gives them a lot of money.
They don’t want to make a population level impact on demographics, they want their kids to be the new aristocracy
If nothing else, they’ll be able to start a great punk band.
Yikes !
Their attitude to kids, based on that nightmarish Guardian interview, is extremely fucked. Hopefully their children will break the cycle.
What a cunt.