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The unnaturally preserved head of Doctor John Cook Bennett. https://t.co/nnkUkMDYo9
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Mar 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In the three countries in which it arose, fascism was a reaction of the middle-class to the unwillingness or incapacity of the ruling class to resist communism

In each case the ruling class (correctly) regarded the fascists as boorish, historically illiterate, & dangerous This guy was not a Nazi who grew a liberal conscience

He was an aristocrat who watched as his country was slowly piloted into an iceberg by a gang of dumb schizos on meth

whether he could have done any more than he did is an interesting question Image
Mar 6 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Dune 2 is about God making fools of everyone including Denis Villeneuve & Frank Herbert

There's a true story here & it's just extremely obvious where the storytellers are not true to it

The stuff that doesn't work sticks out so clearly as an edit, not of a piece with the whole Timothèe Chalameê: mostly very good

The parts where he is "acting" Messianic are where he is most true & believable

The parts where he resists his mission & despairs that they won't let him be a humble ordinary boy ring false

(this is the whole movie in microcosm)
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Mar 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
If a category includes everything, it means nothing

"limiting" & "exclusionary" is literally what categories are

of course he's implying some ineffable *spiritual* essence to Scottishness but if you try to nail him down on who exemplifies it he'll say that's exclusionary too And if there is some ineffable spiritual essence to Scottishness, do we offer govt benefits or franchise only to True Scotsmen?

Obviously not - the purpose of this kind of talk is not to define the category under consideration but to eradicate it

Feb 12 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
You can tell your churchgoing aunt that her faith is being deployed cynically by people who hate her, but she's not supposed to care who makes the critique - only whether it's true

Can you explain to her why she shouldn't wash an abortionist's feet?

That's all that matters The lie here is not that Jesus said to Love Your Enemies (he did, & you should)

The lie is that you ought to prefer your enemies, or that your enemies get to tell you what loving them means, or that loving your enemies is inconsistent with arguing with them, or killing them
Feb 1 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Disparate impact is the stealth abolition of private property

Disparate impact renders all goods de facto non-excludable - anything you offer to customers must also be accessible to vandals & parasites

Which means that all goods become a Commons, subject to the Tragedy thereof Disparate impact is not an immediate & direct abolition of property because the impact is examined in court, case by case

So instead of a spasm of bolshevik violence you have this spreading tumor of communist dysfunction in every domain where disparate impact has been tested
Dec 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Catastrophe is a commons

Institutions can't respond to the threat of demographic collapse for the same reason they can't respond to the threat of nuclear war

The problem is so catastrophic that you can't bet on being right about it

(full episode here: ) blog.exitgroup.us/p/54-natal-con…
Yep - the only groups that can respond to existential risks like these are groups that might conceivably survive them

Your family can prepare for demographic collapse - your retirement fund manager can't

(which means there's arbitrage lying around)

Aug 11, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
If you are a single woman you need to understand: you do not have male friends, you have suitors

Sometimes it's because they "just want sex", but more often it's because:

>men will develop romantic feelings for almost any woman they genuinely like being around

>suppressing… https://t.co/yF2qDqclFotwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
this is why the friendzone is such an ugly trap

A man being willing to accept that position is prima facie evidence of a lack of self-respect or a lack of honesty - usually both - & women can smell it on you, which makes you even less desirable than before
Aug 8, 2023 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Ammon is a Good Shepherd, dealing with hirelings who do not own the sheep, who flee when the wolves come

His story says flatly what Jesus leaves implicit: the shepherd's job is to fight wolves Image Jesus lays his life down for the sheep - meaning, presumably, getting eaten instead

He conquers the threat by being so abundant as to exhaust it

Death swallowed up in victory, leading captivity captive

(This saying baffled the Jews, who said he was mad & had a devil) Image
Jun 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Church has been running both of these playbooks in parallel since the 1950s, to different audiences

Now that everybody hears everything that is said in public (& the Church's public profile has risen as one of the last holdouts), that kind of targeting is no longer possible The Church's tone is confusing to outsiders but we've been hearing both narratives, "the growing gulf between righteous & wicked" & "our deep love & respect for our friends of other faiths" since most of us were born
Jun 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Formalized eugenics has always struck me the same as rationalists trying to build minmaxed synthetic religions

You don't know how the organic thing works

You don't even know which variables matter, let alone how to adjust them or how they interact or what the tradeoffs are There's obviously a dumb version of this argument which is that bad matches are impossible or unimportant or don't happen at scale (they do)

But a psychically healthy person's sense of smell holds a more effective breeding algorithm than your data model
Jun 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
conservatives argue for a total ban on sex or violence because they're afraid to say what they really think (that some sex & violence is good, & some is bad) - & progressives are calling their bluff

There is no neutral, objective way to acculturate children Image & they're obviously framing this to divide us against Christians but no Latter-day Saint parent wants the Bible banned

the progressive atheist who submitted this complaint got them to ban the Book of Mormon as well
May 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It would be one thing if these were bad or malicious decisions made by a tyrant, because you could kill him or try to persuade him - but there's no tyrant & not really even any decisions

Nobody's in charge, you are in a bus in the air over a gorge For instance wokeness is not a conspiracy, nobody seriously intended for it to happen, it's just entropy - mindless machines following the contours of a single incentive gradient

May 28, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
ok vivek i am listening I do not care about the Republican primary, it does not matter

but it's pretty wild to hear guys like this say things that only frogs could say a couple years ago
May 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
we regret to inform you that the dishwasher is also gay taking my gay brand car to the gay brand store for a 12-pack of gay brand beer for the gay brand ball game
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
verymuch like the online argument about whether Everybody should go to trade school or Everybody should become a FAANG product manager

the people who are in danger of raising emotionally, psychologically, & financially unfit kids don't follow me on Twitter I don't know what everybody on the whole planet should do but I feel very comfortable encouraging You, dear reader, to raise a family

& if I can I'd like to rebuild the infrastructure that makes it possible for You to do that
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Collapsing fertility is the defining issue of our generation

No cultural, religious, or ideological project can survive if it doesn't iterate - if you care about anything at all, you should care about this

extradeadjcb.substack.com/p/natal-confer… Image Follow us here, and check out natalism.org to learn more

May 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
we should embrace this

if you placed the Founding Fathers in a room with literally any ordinary American & allowed them to talk politics/philosophy, they would experience intense mutual revulsion to the point of violence when conservatives defend "the Founding Fathers" they are obviously not defending men who fought duels, castrated sodomites, exercised patriarchal authority over their wives & servants

if you ask them they'll tell you: "oh not that part, obviously not that part"
May 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Lots of "takeaways" and "moments" from the Trump town hall but very hard to find full video - anybody got a link? CNN made him look like an adult

They keep trying to nail him down to these flag-waver slogans, & he just says these are big multivariate issues & he's not running for god-emperor, there will have to be negotiation

Mar 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There is no necessary connection between violence & hatred, or violence & judgment There is no contradiction here:

Mar 25, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
procedural democracy selects & rewards & requires cluster-B, & instills it where it doesn't already exist

women like this are the natural apex predators of procedural democracy, they cannot be unseated within its rules on the other hand "all you would have to do" is to physically lift her up off the floor & carry her out of that room

you could do it, I could do it, it wouldn't be hard
Mar 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#47: Zach Martin talks about the jobs that AI will create & destroy, what language models like ChatGPT can & can't do, & how wordcels & creatives can make a lot more money by learning a little bit of code

exitgroup.substack.com/p/47-our-new-n… Zach majored in linguistics, & has been working in NLP for over a decade

He came to @exit_org with the concept for a machine learning boot camp, & brought together a team to make it real

Launch is next month, check it out: Shaolin.ai