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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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14 points

StRev was calling him TPOT adjacent and woodgrains was having a bit of a panic over it.

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“Our righteous warriors are only supposed to kill brown people and women, not captains of industry!!”

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dust specks vs CEOs

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Thats a very real viewpoint being pushed by the Thiel adjacent far righters.

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tfw the Holy Book (Atlas Shrugged) was misinterpreted.

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According to his goodreads he had not read it yet.

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“My heavens, our self-regarding supremacist ideology can’t possibly imply violence… can it???”

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It’s so embarrassing to watch upper-middle class (at best!) rationalists get their panties in a twist over Luigi. At least the right wing talking heads are getting paid, these guys are just mad he did things instead of tweeting about things.

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Do you have a link? I’m interested. (Also, I see you posted something similar a couple hours before I did. Sorry I missed that!)

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From the replies:

I see the interest in AI, Peter Thiel, and the far future, but it’s a lot more rationality adjacent than EA.

“It’s a lot more country than western”

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lol that’s exquisite

but you could tell the guy was into Effective Altruism from how he did dust specks vs CEOs

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this guy nailing the UHC CEO is the only good thing they will ever have a chance of claiming credit for, so of course they rush to disavow him

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