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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Donāt worry, Kelsey Piper managed to use it as an opportunity to be a bluecheck dipshit.
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Why donāt you tell us what those are Kelsey
If Piper ever starts to publish essays on what goals and policy positions she thinks make her or SlateScott āsincere centre-leftistsā they are going to be a trip. Just the explanation why she feels more comfortable saying what she believes under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Big Balls than under Bidenās centrist technocrats would require a few doses of my favourite substance to get through.
Edit: I would also love to hear āso you agree that the talking head on Fox News who suggested executing the homeless is despicable, what about your friend Scott Alexander proposing to sterilize the poor and substance users before they receive help?ā
Iām at least enjoying the many comments calling her out, but damn she just doubles down even after being given many many examples of him being a far-right nationalist monster who engaged in attempts to outright subvert democracy.
Yeah and missing the point that a lot of people think āsome ideas are so shit they shouldnāt be debated the right wayā esp not ideas about others who are not you and stuff we have debated (and fought over) again and again already. It is like the IRA, Kirk needs to be lucky once, trans people/minorities/university professors(*) need to be lucky every time, again and again, forever. This is just the dumbest level of object level vs meta level thinking out there. When somebody enters the marketplace with sawdust they claim is flour every week you toss them out, donāt let them in next time. And you should notice they only try to sell this āflourā to the poor.
*: my second point, Piper is also very full of shit here. You know what happened to uni professors who debated/corrected/were women/poc in his space? They got put on the TPUSA watchlist and got death and rape threats. He was part of the organisation who ran that database. So this imagined idealized platonic Kirk shaped object isnāt even real. Hell you can see in debates the tricks he pulls so his side thinks he wins. That creepy smile he makes after a point that he knows is bullshit, that is to knock people off balance so people react oddly (as it is a really creepy smile) and donāt react to the dumb shit he just said. See this clip for example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jrsy1aB6OSk (it cuts off before she talks about how creepy his smile is). Note he is lying about the fetus thing, and if this wasnāt a high stress debate and people got time to think about things they would just reply with āso a dolphin fetus is a dolphin little human being?ā. But that is professional debaters vs college students for you. This is not a man who was interested in truth or having his mind changed. And this smile is not some incident, he does it in other places.
Itās also yet another case of privileged people somehow failing to understand that there is no ārightā way to advocate for tearing families apart or purging people who donāt fit your ideal. Like, Iām not a fan of political violence but Iām also not going to act like this asshole was any less part of the problem because he ostensibly believed in respecting the stateās monopoly on violence as he advocated for that violence to be used against me and mine.