There is a [response higher up the thread](https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ifiyso/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_august_24_2020/g3e63mh/) - this lovely fellow was banned for a week, later upped to a month in light of his other comments.
Also looked at the guy's comment history. Doesn't he have a job? How does he have so much time on his hands?
That subreddit's all overgrown man-children on the spectrum living off their parents' - isn't it? And from what I see on posts from SSC/Motte/IDW holy shit it's a porridge of bad statistics, bad psychology, bad faith arguments dressed up in fancy words. Peel back the jargon, and even middle schoolers will be ashamed of those word vomits.
I do like how his response to someone calling his post
evil-even-by-themotte-standards is to say “actually it is you
calling me evil that is the real low point for themotte”
Why are you afraid of escalation against rabid dogs? We are not
talking about an equal and separate nation here, which might be our
friend or foe, we are talking about scum (in this case, picturesquely,
wife beaters and sex-criminals) running rampant for no other reason, and
with no deeper determination, than because they can.
When do you escalate, if not now? They will go on doing it until the
red carpet is withdrawn.
So I don’t know what you’re talking about, except that you seem to
resent a youth for defending his fellow citizens from predators, and to
want to hold him responsible for their rabid inclination to attack
anyone who defies their little state-sponsored reign of terror.
we are talking about scum (in this case, picturesquely, wife beaters
and sex-criminals) running rampant for no other reason, and with no
deeper determination, than because they can.
Check out how this paragraph better describes excessive force by law
enforcement than the people they’re trying to describe.
It’s become a sort of “meme” (I hate using that term given that the academic consensus is that “memes” aren’t a thing but whatever) in right wing and hard right circles because a handful of local mayors, police etc. stood on the BLM side - such as in Portland - against police brutality
Apparently that means the riots and so on are “state-sponsored”...these people have driven themselves fucking nuts
US politics has always been nuts tbh. Look at the authoritarian slant after 9/11, the bombings by Clinton to distract the public from him having sex, the crazies buying up guns and ammo during Obama (which is back now btw, so even the crazies are betting against Trump). And im leaving so much stuff out.
And the scary part is, due to US cultural hegemony, it is spreading.
“Meme” is a coinage by Richard Dawkins which hypothesised that ideas could reproduce themselves in a similar way to “genes”. It produced a flurry of academic interest and became a phrase in the popular conscience, both in the form of the more colloquial internet memes thing, and in the more intellectual sense as a way of describing how people pick up ideas. But after the storm subsided “memetics” as a study was discredited by researchers, the only journal of the field shut down, and now the only people who talk seriously about “memes” as a unit of human thought are cranks and bloggers.
Christ I’m happy I’ve forgotten so much of the stupid shit people tried to do with memetics
In the UK we had the “psychologist” (I use the term loosely) trying to use it to discredit Islam and then manufacturing a controversy over the fact that some Muslim kids (understandably) peacefully walked out of her lecture
It became one of those awful “free speech” causes celebre in the media out of absolutely fucking nothing because was at the tail end of the height of the New Atheism thing
It’s super funny in the bleakest possible sense that the right-wing/self-identified-liberal response to the “rioter” who used his *own legal gun* to attempt to remove the kid’s *illegal gun* after said kid *fucking killed people with it* was to say “how dare that rioter brandish a gun at the murderer” but it’s also all so desperately predictable
I have spent enough time on the internet to know that a certain type
of forum (free speech, anything goes) that fetishizes their IQ attract
the worst of racist scum.
Hitler: I have killed a Jewish family.
Liberal: I am crying and shaking rn. This is so unbelievable.
Nevertheless, that’s YOUR opinion and you have a right to it.
Hitler: I will kill again.
Liberal: Unfortunately I have to block you now, even though as said you
are entitled to your views,
This is the comment that inspired the creation of /r/theschism because of how bad it is.
I do like how his response to someone calling his post evil-even-by-themotte-standards is to say “actually it is you calling me evil that is the real low point for themotte”
Some highlights.
Check out how this paragraph better describes excessive force by law enforcement than the people they’re trying to describe.
The difference between the noble defender of America vs the rioters is truly no deeper than skin.
Literally. Black vs white. We all know white = good, and thousands of years of social programming surely cannot be wrong, chestertons fence n all.
Yes I’m mocking and being extremely sardonic. The real difference out there is one side was excited to kill and the other was protesting murder.
I have spent enough time on the internet to know that a certain type of forum (free speech, anything goes) that fetishizes their IQ attract the worst of racist scum.
What’s the meme that’s like:
Hitler: I have killed a Jewish family.
Liberal: I am crying and shaking rn. This is so unbelievable. Nevertheless, that’s YOUR opinion and you have a right to it.
Hitler: I will kill again.
Liberal: Unfortunately I have to block you now, even though as said you are entitled to your views,
?