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The intellectual and cultural contributions of Garfield >>>>> the intellectual and cultural contributions of "Rationalists" (https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/zh0h4i/the_intellectual_and_cultural_contributions_of/)
posted on December 09, 2022 03:40 PM by u/acausalrobotgod
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The intellectual and cultural contributions of “Rationalists”: Roko’s basilisk, neoreactionaries, bad fan fiction. And the first is somewhat of a joke at their expense.

The intellectual and cultural contributions of Garfield: mainstreaming hatred of Mondays, increasing appreciation of lasagna, general positivity. Who doesn’t love this sassy feline?

u/Shitgenstein 50 points at 1670601053.000000

Garfield gave us Garfield minus Garfield.

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u/acausalrobotgod 42 points at 1670601561.000000
A truly great contribution! Rationalists gave us rationalism without rationality, which is decidedly less satisfying.
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u/Shitgenstein 25 points at 1670603244.000000
"Post-rationalist," i.e. wannabe tradcath but with rationalist jargon.
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u/acausalrobotgod 26 points at 1670603734.000000
wannabe tradcath who doesn't believe in God and likes sex (but not sluts (but will have sex with them)) but likes the fascism and rigid dogmatism.
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u/Soyweiser 10 points at 1670611498.000000
[The post rationalist addition to culture](https://i.imgflip.com/73rog8.jpg)
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u/Nixavee 4 points at 1670764534.000000
"Post-rationalist" is such a funny name to me. To anyone who does not know the context of the Rationalists saying "I'm a post-rationalist" would just sound like declaring that you have abandoned reason altogether
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u/sawbladex 1 points at 1680215188.000000
Scientology has a similar feature. Who would be against the study of science?
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u/dgerard 1 points at 1670779811.000000
"the sequences are sorta laaaame but i say Bayes and want to keep doing scientific racisms"
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u/Myrdradek 17 points at 1670603565.000000
Garfield Minus Garfield is funny, but the version where they just take out Garfield's thought bubbles and it's Jon rambling to his cat about nonsense are funnier.
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u/Not_FinancialAdvice 5 points at 1670608586.000000
Garfield also gave us US Acres.
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u/LargeIgneousProvince 9 points at 1670620156.000000
Garfield and Friends >>>> Garfield the newspaper comic
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u/DELETED 11 points at 1670601252.000000
Garfield is greater than the absence of his parts
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u/pusillanimouslist 20 points at 1670607450.000000

Heck, the earlier runs of Dilbert are way more astute and culturally impactful than the rationalists. And that’s even after you discount the fact that Scott Adams went insane and turned the entire comic into reactionary complaint hour

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u/repe_sorsa 2 points at 1670663083.000000
I still follow Dilbert and it honestly hasn't deteriorated as much as you're often led to believe. The Facebook Uncle Scott's reactionary complaint hour is quite rare, those just seem to be the ones that get shared.
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u/blolfighter 7 points at 1670625921.000000

I made lasagna today and it was delicious.

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u/saucerwizard 3 points at 1670621730.000000

guess what my obese tabby is named

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u/lobotomy42 5 points at 1670604545.000000

I want to like this

Real talk though Garfield sucks

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u/acausalrobotgod 17 points at 1670604761.000000
No matter how much Garfield sucks, Garfield has a greater positive intellectual and cultural contribution than "Rationalists".
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u/lobotomy42 2 points at 1670604798.000000
Do I have to choose?
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u/acausalrobotgod 32 points at 1670605505.000000
Yes. Garfield has never advocated eugenics.
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u/MechanizedCoffee 11 points at 1670621117.000000
I googled, "Garfield eugenics" thinking I'd maybe find something funny. Instead I found an actual 1929 paper from the University of Vermont from a eugenics society who studied a family in the town of Garfield. I knew a little about the history of eugenics in the United States but it never occurred to me that there of course would be academic papers from eugenicists and now I'm wandering down a strange and disturbing rabbit hole. Fuck eugenicists. The cat Garfield and all my homies hate eugenicists.
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u/dgerard 4 points at 1670627360.000000
well, there was that dog sperm
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u/DELETED 3 points at 1670632185.000000
Odie should've stepped off he was warned
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u/lobotomy42 8 points at 1670605537.000000
That’s probably true
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u/thetrombonist 2 points at 1670629578.000000
Probably
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u/finfinfin 9 points at 1670611931.000000
You should watch 24 hours of video essays on youtube. It's basically reading the sequences, but good.
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u/lithiumbrigadebait 4 points at 1670614101.000000
Breadtube pipeline vibes
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u/lobotomy42 4 points at 1670615368.000000
Um I am not sure there is such a thing as “reading the sequences but good”
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u/dgerard 14 points at 1670627335.000000
not reading the sequences
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u/Abandondero 3 points at 1670616270.000000
I could only find the first one: [07/27/1978](https://youtu.be/NAh9oLs67Cw?t=55)
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u/saucerwizard 2 points at 1670621800.000000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySGtniX4QrU
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u/WorldlinessAwkward69 1 points at 1670698864.000000
I've been misreading Garfield all along. Thank you for bringing me into the light.
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