Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
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.
Inventor of the ideological turing test (Bryan Caplan, occasional intellectual sparring partner of SSC) doesnāt understand how vaccines work.
(E: And he is certainly not joking. More: My doctor, and all of you were wrong because I didnāt explain myself well (this longer post, while coming closer to a point still sucks. High āshooting the people who clean phones into spaceā feeling))
dude got fucking ratioed lol
āIdeological Turing testā?
Not gonna look up what that is, but Iām sure itās debatebro ācivilityā fetishism.
It is the not totally bad idea that you understand a different perspective if you can reliably write pieces of text in such a way that somebody from that perspective cannot tell you donāt hold that ideological position.
It fails pretty quickly when tribalism comes into play (aka do it a few times, conclude āour side is better at passing this test, so we are betterā, ideologies being broad and people not always realizing which ideology they really are in/differences in definitions. And other issues like it is just a bit of intellectual masturbation, depending on finding neutral people of that perspective. āyou failed the intellectual turing test so we can ignore your criticism of our sideā. āYou would fail an intellectual turing test so we can ignore youā. It being debate bro culture with extra steps. People are not actually interested in the test but use the test as an argument to bash people (you once failed at detecting sarcasm and misattributed a sarcastic joke from a leftwinger to the far right? This shows the entire left fails the intellectual turing test and should not be listened to). etc etc. /rant
Somehow thatās even dumber than I thought. Especially given the amount of actual political discourse taking the form of ācan you believe the woke left wants to allow doctors to trans your children at the age of 3 months!ā
Could some of these people write a compelling pro-trans argument? Probably, given that their exaggerations are absurd, nonsensical , and/or contradictory on their face and that the pro-trans arguments are generally rooted in basic respect for peopleās autonomy over their own bodies. But that doesnāt stop them from lying about what trans people actually want in order to gain political power by stoking the rightās identitarian outrage.
Depends on who you mean with āthose peopleā I think the people of themotte woudl have a lot of trouble writing a pro trans argument for example. Esp as the people in there who are leftwingers (or pretend to be) tend to be anti trans, and there is also a big tendency for them to not understand basic leftwing ideas. That one leftwinger (forgot their name for now they had some number in their name) who kept engaging there, got a few complaints they kept reexplaining the same stuff.
Yeah, if you keep ignoring the explanations and misrepresenting people, they will have to do that. (or quit).
I mean, for the doctor itās pretty hard to tell a dude who is āGMU econ prof, NYT bestseller, father of 4, author of Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, Case Against Education, Open Borders, & BBBā apart from any other entitled white guy whose read too much Facebook.
Practically is there much difference?
Holy shit heās doubling down
I made the mistake of reading the comments on that substack and Iām beginning to actually feel the raw desperation of these sycophants for someone of ānoteā to notice them.
This is the genius-level discourse that Bryan Caplan foments in his marketplace of ideas.
the dead mall of ideas
Is he ever going to specify which booster? If he refused Tdap he is a menace to society not because of risk of tetanus but spreading pertussis to the vulnerable.
Still, anyone that took him seriously before this should be embarrassed.
Itās really really hard for me to take grown men who make a show of being deathly afraid of a little jab you can barely feel seriously.
Same here. Any kind of jabās a PITA for me, and anything intravenous is some of the worst shit Iāve ever experienced, but Iāve gritted my teeth and gotten through them no problem.
Woo, complaining about a community note is big Karen energy.