let's say person A and person B are arguing on @Twitter (or elsewhere.) it's a political argument, and it's very short:

A: I say that freedom does not exist in a society that permits its police to commit arbitrary homicides at whim. that is not *justice*.

B: word salad🤡

(1/x)
I have now illustrated about three-fourths of the online intellectual activity of the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi / @GOP crowd—the right-wing fringe, who all try so very hard to pretend that they're not right-wing or conservative or any other known thing, but something *special*.

(2/x)
@jordanbpeterson and @elonmusk, both of whom claim to be professional geniuses, talk this way now; so do most @GOP politicians. the fanbases of @bindelj and @MattWalshBlog and @RichardDawkins talk this way: they think that they win arguments by saying, "you're an idiot."

(3/x)
they all think they're *geniuses*, and how do you know? it's because they think so many things are stupid—only for the "brain-dead" or the "retarded" or the "mentally ill"—@jordanbpeterson, who pretends to be a psychologist, can't tell these three things apart these days.

(4/x)
this is almost certainly how men like @ID_AA_Carmack and @RokoMijic talk—in private, at least; the better-behaved of the rigid, bigoted #STEM Lord set are canny enough to keep the slurs and the "moron" talk to more discreet channels. less disciplined persons don't bother.

(5/x)
it's the simplest way to imitate "intelligence": talk about how stupid everything else, and affect to have very shrewd and complicated ideas about WHY everything is stupid—you don't have to *explain* your Theory of Everything™ but of course it's genius, from a genius.

(6/x)
when the @mtaibbi / @conor64 "influencer" set talk about their "nuance", basically they're referring to this: the idea that they have some intricate and subtle explanation for *everything*, but ordinary people wouldn't understand it anyway so why bother to explain?

(7/x)
these people are *especially* fond of this self-indulgent chat about their Theory-of-Everything explanations of things when it comes to #politics—especially for people they don't know. @mtaibbi's ideology is too "nuanced" for words, but he's an expert on leftist strangers!

(8/x)
truly this is an intellectual disease endemic to Western society, which has been fatally warped by #Christianity and its forcible imposition of unities and rigid formulae on everything. the Theory of Everything that @elonmusk or @jordanbpeterson seem to have is God's Plan.

(9/x)
there's One Way™, no others. God made the Universe with *this* fixed and rigid structure, and no other.

this rigidity and fixation on single explanations for everything has been fully *secularized*: #atheists like @michaelshermer and @RichardDawkins haven't escaped it.

(10/x)
"woke" is an especially popular right-wing Theory of Everything.

"woke" theoreticians like @realchrisrufo and @ConceptualJames have crafted "rational" explanations for *everything* they don't like: "gender ideology", communism, anarchism, Black civil rights struggles...

(11/x)
...they manage to get most of human activity into "woke"; unless it's useful for gaining money or power, the @elonmusk / @mtaibbi / @mtracey people don't have much use for the bulk of human endeavours. there's not a lot of profit in writing sonnets these days.

(12/x)
anyway "woke" is very handy for "rational arguments": if a @mtaibbi or @MrAndyNgo fan gets tired of calling people "moron" over and over, or spamming emoji and memetic GIFs at them, they can always bring out "woke" as a bigger gun.

or "narrative". they love that one too.

(13/x)
I'm writing a narrative. right now. that is what human beings do; that is what communication is about: creating a shared narrative.

I am not intoning absolute truths. as forcibly as I can, I state my *opinions*—@mtaibbi &c. say they welcome those, but it's another lie.

(14/x)
everything about these people is a lie. @elonmusk is a lie—that is to say, the person whom #ElonMusk *thinks he is*, the persona that he wants stamped on the foreheads of all eight billion of us, is smoke and mirrors. it's an *act*. his pal @mtaibbi is _doing a bit_.

(15/x)
@ID_AA_Carmack, @bariweiss, @fchollet, @JeffBezos, @jack, any one of a hundred other people I could name—whose lives I have *invaded*, through this medium of @Twitter which Mr. Dorsey so kindly provided—all these people are actors. they present false faces to the world.

(16/x)
I will still be accused of playacting—I have a theatrical way of writing and talking, and...well, I feel that I'm in the same boat as poor Peter Sellers, who once (it is rumored) said that he'd forgotten the sound of his "real voice". I feel a little false myself.

(17/x)
but I detest falsity—especially my own. I *try* to be as real and straightforward as I can. I'm just one very noisy citizen. maybe I'm *crazy*, but I don't think that should matter. aren't our thoughts supposed to be judged on their own? don't words _stand on their own_?

(18/x)
that's why it's particularly *insulting* to me, how a whole bunch of "rational" people, all of whom seem to think they're the second coming of Richard Feynman (and he was a sack of shıte anyway, as a person), can't even pretend they can keep up a logical argument.

(19/x)
that would mean *respecting the words in front of you*, instead of doing a b.s. Sherlock Scan of the person's bio, then classifying them according to your meticulously racist Theory of Everything—like the ruleset in @ID_AA_Carmack's private RPG model of _the whole world_.

(20/x)
I've been called a "liberal", by people who think that somehow settles the argument, more times than I can remember—on @Twitter, by some ranting nerd in the tow of @jordanbpeterson or @jessesingal or @JackPosobiec or whoever. some "genius" who only speaks in animated GIF.

(21/x)
I'm tearing it all down. I don't care that I'm _alone_. I don't care that I have no social standing—I will rip down #capitalism and #Christianity and the thoroughly *rotten* culture that those two evils have engendered. I think it's a moral imperative. it's this or death.

(22/x)
a society in which @MattWalshBlog or @mtaibbi or @elonmusk can simply *go on*, bulldozing their way through the world doing more and more evil and hiding behind mere _public-relations blithering_ and aggressive social posturing...that's not a society that should exist.

~Chara

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Feb 3
I ask my few readers to consider the following possibility: ALL "#conservative" ideology these days—whether it's from @GOP ideologues or the @Conservatives' ideologues or #Christian ideologues or "gender critical" ideologues of the @bindelj sort—has a very specific motive.

(1/x)
not the motive you might be thinking!

I suggest that ALL these people—@DouthatNYT, @realchrisrufo, @Docstockk, @michaelshermer, whoever—adapt their ideology specifically according to who humiliates them in arguments the most reliably. because these people *can't argue*.

(2/x)
right-wing ideology can't be supported *logically*, because the core and center of "movement #conservatism" is irrational and emotional: they like old beliefs and old concepts, old ways of wielding power and regulating human beings, and they don't want anything to change.

(3/x)
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Feb 2
yes, @HistoryBoomer, it's entirely credible for @Yascha_Mounk and @conor64 and @bariweiss (who likes trying to get professors fired, if they're insufficiently deferential towards @Israel's genocidal tendencies) to want to ban books. it's almost _necessary_ for them to want that.
why do I say that? because the political beliefs of @bariweiss &c. are intellectually absurd, indefensible except via suppression of competing ideas. Weiss, for example, subscribes to "gender criticism", which pretends that masculinity is a scientific trait of the human penis.
the *only way* to preserve the ideologies of @bariweiss (and @conor64 and the rest of that gang) is through *cheating*.

and they all do compare notes, @HistoryBoomer; I rather hope you're not clinging to some illusion that these propagandists are independent of one another.
Read 5 tweets
Feb 2
wow, I "love" how @elonmusk is such a contemptibly *cowardly* man-child that he's convinced himself that only "bots" hate him. @mtaibbi's bestest buddy really is THAT gutless—he's so scared of being hated, that he's forced to pretend that the people who hate him aren't "real".
@Twitter / @TwitterDev bot functionality was legitimately useful—and now @elonmusk's taking it away from us because he and his wretched fanbase have all been daydreaming that "bots" are why Musk's name is mud on #Twitter.

no, Elon—that's just you. you're a turd of a person.
you're a human turd, @elonmusk, a turd with lots of money so you've been able to buy yourself some chums who tell you day and night that you're the saviour of the world. but it's not true. @mtaibbi and @stillgray and @lhfang and the rest of them are *using* you.
Read 5 tweets
Feb 2
we've said it before but we really like the #KamenRider Build theme: "Be the One", by Pandora.



🎵 be the light / be the light
we'll take darkness into brightness, yeah
leading you into the light
be the light
oh, you'll be alive
be the one / be the one 🎵
#KamenRider Build and its overflowing heroic anguish served as emotional counterpoint to some of the most painful months of our lives—working in the slippery and dangerous biodiesel factory, then having to drop everything to go to San Diego and be with our dying father.

~Chara
Evolt was gearing up yet another diabolical plan (he had so many of them!) about the time that we were watching our father expire.

a lot of #KamenRider (and #SuperSentai) has chanced to line up with our life's worst moments—tokusatsu is woven into the fabric of our life.

~Chara
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Feb 1
I've been talking about how Western culture tends to loathe its children, and how a large subset of the West thinks that the best way to raise children is by hurling abuse and threats at them, military boot-camp style.

that reminds me of this poor guy: Todd Marinovich.

(1/x)
he's one of those sad sacks who ends up on "NFL's Greatest Bust" lists. his pro football career followed a rather familiar trajectory: he'd been schooled into a star football player, seemed really impressive (if erratic) in college, and then bombed on the national stage.

(2/x)
and then decades later people laugh over amusing #sports #journalism pieces about what a massive flop he was, and maybe search YouTube for some amusing clips of old games in which Marinovich threw an interception, or whatever. (I didn't find any myself.)

(3/x)
Read 12 tweets
Feb 1
the possibility of someone like Tetsuo existing is the inevitable result of humanity's intersection with the numinous. if this sort of thing is *possible at all*—if it's possible for an ordinary human being to acquire godlike powers over matter and energy—then Tetsuo is possible. Image
magic doesn't exist, so the #Christians and @michaelshermer both say (curious how they always agree in almost every way) but the human _fiction_ about magic seems to grasp this fundamental truth: magic + humanity = world-shaking catastrophe, with appalling ease.

~Chara
it's not clear that humanity *can* safely wield "true magic", which for the sake of discussion I'll define roughly as "magic capable of causing objectively measurable changes on matter and energy". casting a fireball ought to be *measurable*—producing real heat and flame.

~Chara
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