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"The World's Most Dangerous Nerd". Editor @Bullshido—The Art of Fighting BS. Soldier/Scientist/Skeptic. Evolutionary Postmodernist. 11B. Bull Moose.
Austin, TX
Joined March 2008
Let's be real for a second: there is no culture war. There are people trying to make life better for everyone, and there are people whose status in society is threatened by those efforts.
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@DJDynamicUK Hey man, do you chew your own food or need it to be turned into a puree and spoon fed to you first?.
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"I don't want to fix climate change if the solution doesn't involve dismantling capitalism.". This is why you get seated at the kid's table when the grown-ups are talking.
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New rule: if you spent any portion of the pandemic frothing and screeching about the mRNA vaccines for Covid, you can't have one for Cancer.
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The most charitable interpretation is that JP is either back on the drugs or his intellect is in decline. "a moral necessity" is something that applies to everyone—there are 100 other ways to write that sentence that don't imply the reader should see anti-Semitism as necessary.
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@Metal_Crow This is a likely outcome when you use inflated language to sound profound rather than speaking plainly.
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Anyway, the takeaway from this thread is that JP could "accidentally" tweet something like "I am spending 88 minutes today in my garden tilling blood and soil because work sets you free." and his fans would explain how everyone's misunderstanding what he said.
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"Quiet Quitting" is a popular term for those punching down in the class war; meanwhile, the silent wage theft perpetuated on our teachers is rampant and normalized.
If teachers were compensated for their unpaid overtime they would collectively earn $77.5 billion more, according to a new analysis from @myelearnworld. The average US teacher works 540 hours more than they're contracted for. That’s 1.74 billion hours of unpaid overtime.
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Also, goddamnit, I just noticed that beanie baby has the exact same backdrop for his podcast we do, down to the military ammo cans. Hey buddy, one of us actually earned those ammo cans you doughy chud.
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There are people who haven't seen this video of Ben Shapiro's insightful advice on how to deal with sea level rise so since I don't really have anything to contribute to the discourse today, here you go;
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Nowhere near enough effort is being put into addressing the root causes of why people like Joe Rogan and Alex Jones are able to rake in millions for being consistently and dangerously wrong about things. We all know what they are at this point, and yet the body count continues.
So much stupid in such a condensed segment. Joe manages in 1 min to demonstrate how bad his reasoning is, how terrible his sources of information are, what a shit comedian he is, how far down the conspiracy rabbit hole he is, and how genuinely terrified he is of vaccines.
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My favorite new flavor of conspiracy theory is the conspiracy-conspiracy, where "they" trick conspiracy theorists into believing conspiracy theories.
this week in psychosis, Bret thinks Kamala wearing pearl earrings during the debate was a trap set by Goliath to trick Bret's internet friends into believing she was wearing a wire in order to discredit them
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Nobody is going to like this, but Mike Pence is an American hero, and will go down in history for doing the right thing in the face of overwhelming pressure to let democracy fall. He's still whole bastard otherwise, but character means giving credit where it is clearly due.
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The saddest reality is that many dudes will take the word of another dude who is visibly strong over that of a highly credentialed expert who looks physically weak or even just average.
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@Staroxvia @nikicaga That would make it an "interview necessity", not a moral one. It was a ridiculously bad choice of words, exacerbated by Jordan's need to be seen as deep and profound.
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For this latest controversial topic in the culture war, let's check in on what James Lindsay has to say:
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Since the word is trending for all the dumbest reasons, it's worth pointing out that the good people at the Satanic Temple are among the nicest you'll ever meet, and everyone should visit their HQ in Salem.
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Born too late to fight alongside the greatest generation. Born too soon to fight for the last bag of jerky in a burned down Buc-ees. Born just in time to see gay furry hackers fighting fascists
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The average person is highly vulnerable to the fallacy of thinking that because a thing has been normalized, it has been validated. The perfect example of this is the ubiquity of chiropractors, despite chiropractic being utter pseudoscience.
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"Wokism has fuckin' captured every institution we care about.".—Sam Harris, GurusPod.
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Americans that think wealth will neatly pass down from older generations as they die off clearly don't work in the American healthcare system—particularly end of life care, which is designed to separate the elderly from as much of their funds as possible before they pass.
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The Ongoing Saga of a Man Dumb Men Think is a Smart Man — Episode 75:
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Remember: arguing with an idiot isn't for the idiot's benefit, it's to make sure others know what an idiot's argument looks like.
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It sure is fun to socially cosplay as a "rugged individualist" when you have publicly-funded roads, building codes, untainted food, antibiotics, and most importantly, a government-created communication system you can use to brag about how rugged and individualistic you are.
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It sucks that Pete Hotez has to be both an expert on vaccine development, and conspiracy theories. Would be nice to live in a world where he only had to focus on the former.
1/n Nuremberg 2.0 is a QAnon far-right fantasy that the Covid vaccine scientists & virologists will be tried at some sort of military tribunal similar to those following WWII. It’s an excuse to invoke Nazi imagery, designed to intimidate scientists, portray us as public enemies.
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American Christianity is so far from what Christ is supposed to have preached that it might as well be based on the Rambo movies instead of the New Testament.
AI couldn’t invent something this dumb.
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Once again I am reminding you that Oprah's contributions to society were on par with lead pipes and cigarettes.
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@realJonRiley Is there any more information on this? The only news article that comes up references Twitter in a citation ouroboros.
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"Why are there so many cases of Autism nowadays?". Because we got a lot better at diagnosing it. "Why are there so many gay and trans people now?". Because they're being murdered less often for refusing to hide. Forward progress makes backward people ask stupid questions.
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@UltraVioletPod @caitlinmoriah Claire has publicly rejected a lot of the antimask/antivax hysteria and related galaxy brain nonsense in the last year or so; can't have been good for subscriptions from that base.
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Title doesn't reflect the contents, but it does reflect the thoughtlessness of people so insulated in their little elite social bubbles that they don't see the consequences of writing titles like these, particularly making normal people feel attackel for doing normal shit.
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If podcasts were a thing in the 90s Joe Rogan absolutely would have had Andrew Wakefield on his, to explain how the MMR vaccine causes autism*. *Which it doesn't, of course, and Wakefield lost his medical license for fraud.
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What in your opinion is the most predatory—but completely legal—industry, particularly one that preys on people's lack of knowledge to generate its revenue?.
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Let me appropriate some youth culture to drive this point home:. You 👏don't 👏get 👏a 👏pass 👏on 👏knowing 👏what 👏you're 👏talking 👏about 👏just 👏because👏you 👏feel 👏really 👏strongly 👏about 👏it 👏.
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If anyone needs to be retroactively "cancelled", it's Oprah Winfrey, for platforming an endless stream of hucksters and con artists like Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil that plague us still to this day.
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This is an unserious post and I'd like to say it is beneath me but that would be as untrue as a conspiracy theory that Ben Shapiro and Dylan Mulvaney are actually the same person running a god-tier culture war grift.
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For much of my young adult life I considered myself a libertarian. But as I grew older and exposed myself to more points of view it became obvious that people who affix that label to themselves spend all their time talking about their liberties rather than their responsibilities.
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The real irony in all this is that the one time the Boomers have a right to complain about Millennials doing Millennial shit like avocado toast brunches and craft beer crawls they're too busy doing Boomer shit like listening to Fox News telling everyone those things are okay now.
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Oh for f'sake. At this point you don't even have to fully grasp the science behind climate change, you just have to notice how utterly stupid the people questioning it are.
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All I want for Christmas is people to stop rewarding posts and people like this with quote tweets—that increase their engagement and push them higher in the algorithm—and start screenshotting them instead if you have to dunk on them (which they deserve).
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I'm old enough to remember when a whole magazine about HIV denialism had to shutter its doors because the staff all died of AIDS.
Nice of Bret to use his appearance in front of millions of listeners on Rogan today to talk about how he is now an HIV/AIDS denialist. He finds the evidence that AIDS is not caused by HIV but by the gay lifestyle to be "surprisingly compelling."
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I don't want Joe Rogan to be censored. I want Joe Rogan to change his mind. Imagine how much of an impact for the better it would be if his audience was exposed to credible information instead of conspiracies, and science instead of snake oil.
Doctors call out Spotify over Joe Rogan spreading “false and societally harmful” covid-19 claims
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My favorite subgenre of SciFi is fake pulp covers. If I had no adult responsibilities in a world where there weren't more important things to do, I would dedicate most of my free time to actually writing books for these.
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@WADeptHealth This is an ideological statement, not an evidence-based policy position. "Trusting" our bodies which were adapted to seek high-calorie foods because they were scarce for our ancestors (but widely available today) is how you increase the obesity epidemic.
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Everything you need to know about the gap between capitalism in theory, and capitalism in practice, is demonstrated by the fact that AI stands poised to eliminate jobs from the creative class, the working class, and even the professional class, but none of the executive class.
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And a hearty FAFO to yet another Gravy Seal, but can we instead talk about the for-profit radicalization of vulnerable men?
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I don't want to be that guy (any more than necessary), but since nobody's saying it loud enough—people's need for comforting belief and assurance in the face of an indifferent universe is the mark, but Religion itself is the grift.
Jordan Peterson has gone full evangelical, these right-wing grifters are so predictable
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The problem with extreme wealth inequality isn't one of merit or moral luck, it's about a few people having an outsized impact on everyone else's lives while at the same time being almost fully insulated from any consequences.
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The modern American rural male has been so thoroughly plowed by far right media bullshit that they root for the boot.
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So the narrative that abortion is an attack on women by men not only leaves out the fact that the preponderance of support for abortion bans comes from conservative women, but also denies those women's agency, and as a consequence, their portion of responsibility for the problem.
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What I want to see in 2024 is trans influencers getting super into AR-15s and plate carriers, vikings, American flags, the lumberjack aesthetic, and lifted 4x4 trucks with poorly-aimed headlights. effectively erasing the identity of people like Kid Rock.
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I get asked so often why there are so many racists and bigots in the martial arts world that I wish I could point to the literal brain damage involved, but somehow that's not the most significant factor.
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Not to get too personal, but if you are reading this tweet, you are watching me change my views on firearms ownership in real time.
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Nothing to see here, just the self-appointed spokesperson for Skepticism falling for a BS organization.
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A couple months ago I started doing at least one of my meals each day as a vegan meal, and ever since I've felt remarkably better. than everyone else.
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Oh look, nobody's favorite MMA fighter is a full-blown Holocaust denier now. Well isn't that nice.
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This is an opportunity to remind everyone that the phrase, "Alternative Medicine" should really be spelled "Alternative to Medicine".
Guess what you should do instead (based on a study of 20 people, which does not measure any cold or flu outcomes directly)?.
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If you exercise 14 days a week you will get 200% stronger in 50% of the time.
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Some men lead lives of quiet desperation, others choose to break out the foghorns and kazoos.
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Of all the podcasters who've taken Russian money, I actually don't think Joe Rogan is among them. He's just organically gullible.
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If you ever wanted to study the intersection of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, grifters, snake oil, sexual predators, cults, gurus, and toxic masculinity—all in one convenient space—I can't think of a more perfect subculture than the Martial Arts.
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@thomaschattwill The perverse incentive of intersectionality is that the more victimized you are by birth or circumstance, the more social capital you have with those who see this as a reason why your voice should be amplified over others.
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Future generations will look back on a footnote about a man who sold something called "AlphaBrain" to an audience of millions, took a parasite drug for a viral infection, and at one point wasn't sure if we landed on the moon, and wet themselves laughing at all of us.
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This is the ideal male body. You might not like it, but this is what peak masculinity looks like.
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The so-called "traditionalists" can't talk about Character, because they align themselves publicly with the unscrupulous and conniving. Nor can they talk about Virtue—without contempt for those who "signal" it—for the same reason. All they can talk about, sadly, is Nostalgia.
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The quote tweets are my daily reminder of how I could have made wheelbarrows of cash by changing my username to something like "Pebcak the Natufian" and grifting off these gullible marks if it wasn't for pesky morals.
The saddest reality is that many dudes will take the word of another dude who is visibly strong over that of a highly credentialed expert who looks physically weak or even just average.
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Ladies, for much cheaper you can buy an amulet that protects you from Russell Brand:
Russell Brand, remade as a right-wing Christian influencer, is now selling a "magical amulet" that protects you from WiFi signals and other "evil energies." Only $239.99 per amulet.
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Ok fine, bring back the New Atheists.
Imagine you get on a plane and you have to listen to this
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One reason why Martial Arts are cringe involves the motte and bailey of dudes who desperately want others (and themselves) to believe they're badasses, but when called to demonstrate they can actually fight, retreat to "it's not about fighting, it's about honor, discipline, etc.".
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The reason shitleeches like Andrew Tate—and to a lesser extent, dudes like Liver King and V Shred—have so much success preying on young men's innate drive to physical prowess is precisely because they're stepping into an information gap unfilled by better men.
Watch an actual sports scientist (@misraetel) just absolutely gorilla stomp all over Andrew Tate's garbage workout instructional video:
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This week, in "Why We Can't Have Nice Things": undereducated people thinking Science is done by podcast.
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Being emotionally fragile isn't always a choice, but when it is, it'd be nice if nobody made that choice—especially when it's cynical, performative, and contrived to manipulate.
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@michaelshermer Because if it's one person who we can count on to represent a situation fairly and accurately, it's Elon Musk. "sKePtiC".
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Me in 2014: "Man, it would be amazing if Elon went to Mars.". Me in 2024: "Man, it would be amazing if Elon went to Mars.".
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If you'd told 10 year-old me that adult me would live in a world where everyone had a camera in their pocket, he would have assumed that meant he'd finally get to see overwhelming proof of Bigfoot and UFOs, not cops doing crimes.
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The incoming flood of tweets pointing out the hypocrisy of Matt Walsh saying 16 year-olds should be impregnated out of one side of his mouth and calling people "groomers" out of the other glosses over the fact that these people do not give the faintest shit about hypocrisy.
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The max range of the M249 is around 3600m. Missouri is ranked 47th out of 50 for early education.
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I get a lot of grief for openly admitting I agree with Sam Harris sometimes. And since I'm a glutton for punishment, here is one of those times (via his FB):
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As someone who trains new soldiers, I always love seeing these human tube socks who couldn't make it past the first hundred yards of the new Army basic training program without having vomited up decades worth of foie gras and merlot, opine on the topic of hard military training.
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Your reminder that for decades Russia has funded and directed campaigns to split up the United States, from secession movements in California, to Texas; and spent considerable effort on Brexit—which succeeded—to the economic detriment of the UK. Because unlike Americans, they
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If the X-Fliles was rebooted today, Scully would still be a physician but Mulder would have a right wing podcast.
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