the alt-right

Nathan J Robinson presumably ready and waiting for the attack dogs

maybe he becomes a cult figure too, the Adversary

Paoli, Indiana is the middle of nowhere. It's a nice little farm town that has a town center out of Mayberry, mostly known for a place where you can ski (believe it or not). It's about 1/2 way between Bloomington and Louisville. I'd figure it has to be pretty tore up by heroin probably like much of this area of the country.

Says one: "I STILL can't find the memes."

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) March 14, 2018

thereby instantly transforming himself into a meme

Paoli, Indiana is the middle of nowhere. It's a nice little farm town that has a town center out of Mayberry, mostly known for a place where you can ski (believe it or not). It's about 1/2 way between Bloomington and Louisville. I'd figure it has to be pretty tore up by heroin probably like much of this area of the country.

― earlnash

however, it's hard to confirm this because of the difficulty of finding anybody who would willingly travel to small-town indiana

I frikkin love Nathan Robinson

Yeah, the tweet from JP is hilarious in context. He clearly doesn't know what the book is.

my fav part of the article is the list of JP quotes he just starts riffing on

“There is no being without imperfection.” No shit.

“The future is the place of all potential monsters.” The future is the place for all potential everything.

“People do not care whether or not they succeed; they care about whether or not they fail.” Which is apparently different.

“People aren’t after happiness, they’re after not hurting.” I’m actually after happiness, thanks.

“You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.” Unless you are frightened of leopards, and are subsequently eaten by leopards.

i totally havent been paying attention to JP, i forgot he was the toronto guy who was acting all shitty over trans ppl wanting to be called by their actual pronouns, hahaahaaaaa of course the alt right loves him

however, it's hard to confirm this because of the difficulty of finding anybody who would willingly travel to small-town indiana

― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Friday, March 16, 2018 7:54 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like indiana...

But here I am already giving Peterson’s work a more coherent summary than it actually deserves. And after all, if “many human stories have common moral lessons” was his point, he would have been saying something so obvious that nobody would think to credit it as a novel insight.

This was my takeaway from trying to read Nassim Taleb's book - who is not quite as deeply connected to the alt-right as Peterson but definitely adjacent

i like indiana...

― flappy bird

sorry, i'm an ex-hoosier as of last year, for a while i'll have the same opinions on indiana as a recent ex-catholic has on catholicism

exterminate! fake news! MAGA! exterminate! exterminate!

That Robinson article, good stuff

There's always a fatal flaw when "white supremacist" and "intellectual leader" comes together.

It's like saying you're the lead particle physicist for the local sewage treatment plant. https://t.co/bjWyhI5C1O

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 18, 2018

Lol truth. There are no clever racists

This is a decent article (warning: link takes you to The Intercept)

A fun review of JP’s book, with an assist from Shuja Haider:

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-194-fck-12-feat-shuja-haider-and-elon-musk-31818

Lol truth. There are no clever racists

yeah i find that so dumb. some really smart people are racist.

william d hamilton was a smart guy.

he wrote this

"it seems to me one of the most paradoxical of all the many impacts Judaism has had on the present world that it is the cousins (at least in a broad ethnic sense) of the very people who claim, on the authority of ancient writings, a right to deprive other Middle Easterners of their land and freedom, who generate from among their intellectuals the arguments that convince the rest of us that panhumanism is a worthy ideal and that the course that follows from it is Homo's best hope for the future. A long list of examples could easily be given: I could start, for example, with Karl Popper and his book The Open Society and Its Enemies and I could end with books of Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould. It seems to be particularly these men of Jewish origin (not, however, orthodox followers of the faith as a rule) who seek to persuade us that race differences are non-existent and everyone can mate with everyone in confidence of equally capable children."

some really smart people are racist.

This is true. But professional racists (people who have made their racism the core of their public identity—Richard Spencer, David Duke, et al.) are all dumb as shit.

racism is inherently stupid therefore

not that smart/stupid is a binary proposition anyway, but sincerely holding racist beliefs is way up there on the stupidometer

racism religion is inherently stupid therefore

not that smart/stupid is a binary proposition anyway, but sincerely holding racist religious beliefs is way up there on the stupidometer

Wait what’s happening now

Intelligence has no bearing on how dumb a belief you can hold, b/c beliefs don’t always form that way.

Also being hella intelligent + hella racist = early 20th C support for eugenics and sterilization

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/

it's a good article, but I found Peterson's response fairly persuasive:

And you call me a fascist? You sanctimonious prick. If you were in my room at the moment, I'd slap you happily. https://t.co/sC3Lc9Hhlu

— Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) March 20, 2018

In Peterson's own words, “Toughen up, you weasel.”

snowflake triggered

Lobster Boy Is Not Owned pic.twitter.com/PGkMhy0Enp

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) March 20, 2018

it’s always the real men who feel the most pain

if only

"I will hit U" is what someone says who knows they've lost the debate.

I don't know what's more incredible: this guy's overall level of gooniness, or that he has the following that he does.

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.

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

Jared Taylor and the American Renaissance: worst bar band ever

Sounds like a tribute band that is doomed to failure tbh.

their decision to focus exclusively on material from the mccarty-relf era is what really doomed them

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

a shame pankaj mishra isn't on twitter to tweet back PUT YOUR HANDS ON THE CAR AND PREPARE TO DIE

Great article by Mishra. The historical reflections are especially good.

lol Grauniad and all, but this from the weekend by Mishra covers a lot of similar ground in entertaining fashion
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/17/the-crisis-in-modern-masculinity

its not easy, being green
having to spend each day the colour of the leaves
and ppl tend to pass you over
cos you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water
or stars in the sky

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 paperwhite
i'm still mad

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

yeah idk about that ime ppl will do anything to avoid blaming themselves for anything

"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

Though it's more like what someone who lacks the capability to engage on the same level says.