I can sound callous in how I discuss this sometimes because of the harsh realities of it I think our political norms refuse to acknowledge, but I care...
They in fact did not move millions back to Africa. So this would be supporters of empty rhetoric, who showed by their behavior that, despite being com...
It may be true that there is more to history than the stories of great men. But even if that's true, there most certainly isn't any less to history th...
No, and neither has anybody else because they represented ridiculously tiny numbers far below the threshold of significance as representing popular se...
For a lot of them (not all) yes, that was true. It didn't justify slavery, but it was true. Slavery was wrong, but also Africa was not a utopian proto...
I repeat my previous statement concerning the fact that American blacks were not eager to migrate to any other country, since you haven't contradicted...
This absolutely 100% conforms to my model from the OP and does not conflict with it whatsoever. It's the strongest evidence I've seen so far that I am...
OK, let's follow this insanity to its logical conclusion. Which means that this wasn't an achievement. (according to your standard stated immediately ...
I suppose if by "egalitarian" you mean "bound together in a very non-egalitiaran hierarchy where some outside very non-egalitarian higher authority wi...
There is no way in which that is anywhere even slightly close to true. The closer people get to the harsh, brutal realities of survival in nature, bei...
European colonization is clearly the relevant past. If you press them, they will define pre-colonial societies as oppressive also because they all bel...
A great example of how the National Science Foundation's pronouncements already blew away when the political winds shifted is how a 1996 episode of Bi...
No, they really dont. The category of "indigenous" means "oppressted by whites" and nothing else. Their only interest in so-called "indigenous peoples...
That doesn't seem like a leap: that seems to be implicit in what "progressive" means as a basic concept. Not that a progressive necessarily has negati...
If, as hypercin asserts, "Even handedness is not a strength of a model that is supposed to be rooted in fact." then there are a number of facts I coul...
To disprove it, you would need historical counterexamples, not psychology. A historical movement which is indisputably left wing which is anti-progres...
I don't believe in AGI. If it's possible then there's only one man who can do it: John Carmack at Keen Technologies. But I don't think even he's going...
A sane reading of Jesus's Golden Rule includes its context as part of the larger Christian ethic to inform its meaning. In Matthew 7, Jesus asserts: T...
That's not motivation because it doesn't get into why they think of the past as good or bad. Those are conclusions, not motivations for the conclusion...
Haidt is attempting to psychologize the motivations behind political ideology. I'm merely categorizing political ideologies by content. While I do not...
This is self-serving Leftist rhetoric, trying to redefine the terms in a way that's complimentary to the Left and insulting to the Right. A major stre...
I am planning a second part to this essay which will deal with the Political Compass's second axis. For now, I can say that your fringe anarchism is n...
I meant to define "Left" and "Right" and not to adjudicate conservative vs reactionary or progressive vs radical. The Left-Right schema as described h...
I'm not convinced the wokists actually are socialist at all. I mean, they do support welfare programs, but they infest Big Tech and seem to have no in...
Yeah, that's what my original post said. Trump is disconnected from conservatism. But also, conservatism itself has proven unable to deal with the pro...
For me, it would heavily depend on some very sharp distinctive specifics on what "blasphemer" means in this hypothetical. If "blasphemer" means "Anyon...
A lot of people, including myself, have changed their views significantly in response to the high tide of Leftist domination that occurred civilizatio...
One's personal moral convictions are always, always opinions about what the objective moral truths are and nothing else. They cannot avoid being so by...
I think that if it is fair to say that a naturalist-materialist-atheist can posit the existence of tables and chairs meaningfully then they can posit ...
Something like henotheism does appear in some of C. S. Lewis's fiction, but what the apologetics works say is in fact monotheism. Saying that all or m...
I know I quote or reference C. S. Lewis a lot, but he's just way too relevant to this whole topic. In "The Abolition of Man" (1943) Lewis actualy uses...
Actually, no. That's not how monotheism works. As C. S. Lewis explained, the pagan gods weren't simply altogether false but are instead to be understo...
But the products all the increased capacity are going into are specialized hardware only for cloud data centers. Local compute is being phased out! Th...
What I've found is a strong tendency to comprehend Islam only by analogy to the same aforementioned WASP Evangelical demographic. Of course that's not...
Trump does represent a break from previous American foreign policy -- one that it appears had to eventually come by one side or the other because he's...
Within your sarcasm, you are correct that I am putting forward a specific theory for describing or diagnosing or understanding the mentality of atheis...
Absolutely and this is a point I am consciously very confused about right now. I know I've gone way too far to the Right on economics my entire life a...
Transgender persons do not exist. The very term "transgender" is an anti-concept. This doesn't mean I want anybody rounded up or punished or whatever:...
I thought I'd said some of it in my post. Consumer RAM prices exploded by about 500% recently due to "AI" data center demand. This wouldn't be such a ...
The oncoming industry trend I'm afraid of is for all local compute -- including all on-premises servers -- to be considered a legacy technology fundam...
I think that just as the cosmological argument proves the existence of God from knowing the existence of tables and chairs, so too the moral argument ...
As I undersatnd it, the major explicit policy goal of the Pax Americana was to undermine international Communism. The policy could have been argued to...
My instinct for most of my life has been to categorically dismiss any contemporary economic idea from Europe, not only out of a doctrinaire devotion t...
I ran some of these ideas through an LLM and its response was that my ideas are essentially in the category of "postliberalism" and that I need to rea...
I think that in different ways, both the Left and the Right are equally to blame for this. The Right are to blame for this because of their blind unth...
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