I don't know what's more incredible: this guy's overall level of gooniness, or that he has the following that he does.
― zchyrs, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
He's not going away, either. The CBC just brought him on last night to weigh in (poorly) on the Ontario provincial election, for some goddamn reason.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
Meantime
lmao Paul Nehlen's campaign is now too anti-Semitic for white supremacists Jared Taylor and American Renaissance pic.twitter.com/bGra5uznoQ— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 20, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
Jared Taylor and the American Renaissance: worst bar band ever
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
Sounds like a tribute band that is doomed to failure tbh.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
their decision to focus exclusively on material from the mccarty-relf era is what really doomed them
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link
getting a lot of enjoyment out of perpetually-weeping, kermit-voiced scarecrow jordan peterson threatening physical violence on social media
what a time to be alive
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
a shame pankaj mishra isn't on twitter to tweet back PUT YOUR HANDS ON THE CAR AND PREPARE TO DIE
― ogmor, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
Great article by Mishra. The historical reflections are especially good.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
lol Grauniad and all, but this from the weekend by Mishra covers a lot of similar ground in entertaining fashionhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/17/the-crisis-in-modern-masculinity
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
its not easy, being greenhaving to spend each day the colour of the leavesand ppl tend to pass you overcos you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the wateror stars in the sky
― (robot gives Mum a hot dirty slap) (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
the other day, the motherfucking kindle store showed me a J Peterson book in the Recommended For You bar across the bottom of the home page on my paperwhitei'm still mad
― when worlds collide I'll see you again (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
A very good point about Jordan Peterson's whole "people want to blame the world for their problems" nonsense. pic.twitter.com/7LYxVMnRaU— Bhaskar Sunkara (@sunraysunray) March 19, 2018
perhaps
― j., Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
yeah idk about that ime ppl will do anything to avoid blaming themselves for anything
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
"I will hit U" is what someone says who knows they've lost the debate.
― zchyrs, Tuesday, March 20, 2018 1:38 PM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
Though it's more like what someone who lacks the capability to engage on the same level says.
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
― Mordy, Tuesday, March 20, 2018 9:39 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup. Total bullshit.
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest neither you nor Mordy have actually done the reading
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
what reading do i need to do i read the entire tweet
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
You were so post to read the screenshot...
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
Nevermind, I fucked that up.
People do avoid blaming themselves but they also cling to their own agency something fierce - the idea that you're limited only by yourself, that if you work hard enough you can achieve anything, is super comforting and super popular. So that tweet isn't entirely off-base.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
I just watched the video of his comments to the Sun. They almost fully convinced me to vote Liberal.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
No, it is entirely off-base, and it's doing the exact same thing that Jordan Peterson apparently does, only substituting 'late capitalism' or whatever for women and minorities and pointy-heads.
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
Hence, the BernieTrumpBro continuum
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
Wtf?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
lol ok
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
moo you do know that the vast majority of bernie people voted for hillary right? barring insane outliers the phenomenon you're describing isn't one
― Simon H., Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
fuck I have to fp myself for taking the bait there. sorry everyone
― Simon H., Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
Oh, I should've made clear: I was talking to Mordy, not you.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
Of course there are other ways to run away from being wrong besides "I'll fight you."
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
And to drill down, you're talking about peoples' proclivity for *crediting* themselves, while the tweeter is talking about their proclivity for *blaming* themselves.
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
that's your projection of "all people ever" which ignores gigantic swathes of modern science about the brain and how humans think of themselves and others
so pvmic, really
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, March 20, 2018 3:10 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
how has this cunt not made it to 51 yet?
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
BernieBro uses the c word, film at 11.
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, March 20, 2018 5:09 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
― Moo Vaughn, Tuesday, March 20, 2018 4:06 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm scottish and i don't care about bernie sanders
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
bernie sanders would be a centrist gun nut where i come from
jp's comment is equally trite i think but not bc he has it precisely backwards (like that tweet suggests) but more bc ppl blame themselves and others on multiple levels (something as a jungian you'd think he'd know) and sometimes cover for each other. we blame ourselves bc we fear that we're powerless (the corollary to the assertion that we cling to the idea that we can make a positive intervention in our own lives) and we blame others bc we fear that we are personally deficient. but the idea that jp has some nietzchean ubermensch alternative he's offering to these cycle of recriminations seems belied by the fact that he just has other specious recriminations (like against the ppl who blame 'capitalism' instead of themselves). i don't buy tho that blaming others is somehow difficult for the human being just listen the next time someone has a list of excuses for why something happened and who is to blame.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
let's check in and see how the @jordanbpeterson subreddit is taking his twitter meltdown pic.twitter.com/OYcBqMBpb0— JD-800 💽 (@thejd800) March 20, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link
yikes
― maura, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/lobbyist-says-he-was-nearly-killed-by-man-he-hired-to-investigate-seth-richs-death/2018/03/19/a4261e48-2baa-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html
― Moo Vaughn, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
that's some amazing can't-even shit
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
Lol:
asked about what to do about climate change if activism is a terrible idea that leads to the end of Western civilization, Jordan Peterson replies: "how did you get to this event? Did you drive here?"the interviewer says: "uh, no, public transport"which stumps Peterson pic.twitter.com/165hz0iWGY— ☀️👀 (@zei_nabq) March 15, 2018
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 03:10 (six years ago) link
goddamned shame the "investigator" couldn't finish the job, and i'm not talking about finding Seth Rich's killer.
these fucking clowns.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
"I thought I had the story of the decade,” Burkman recalled. His wife, Susan, was more skeptical. She warned him that she didn’t think he was dealing with the FBI. But, he said, the emails “looked super real,"
how in the actual fuck is this person not living in a box under a bridge
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 03:21 (six years ago) link
I urge his wife to not, in fact, stand by her man.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
Burkman said he is now traveling with security. But the experience has not soured him on conspiracy theories. His profiling project concluded that Rich was shot by a hired killer, and he wonders if Doherty was working for someone else.
You know, seems to me you can pull a realllll long con on this guy.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link
"Now I know the fourth guy you hired was put up the shadowy forces behind the third guy but the FIFTH guy, trust me."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 03:56 (six years ago) link
we blame ourselves bc we fear that we're powerless (the corollary to the assertion that we cling to the idea that we can make a positive intervention in our own lives) and we blame others bc we fear that we are personally deficient.
yes it seems weird to debate whether it's easier for ppl to "imagine they could have succeeded if they did something different" or easier to believe that they failed due to external factors beyond their control, when surely what most ppl are afraid of is the third option, that you failed because you personally are inherently and irremediably inadequate, defective - the first two options both give you the comfort that you *could* have succeeded under the right circumstances
― soref, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 07:22 (six years ago) link