Helen Pluckrose

I believe we have reached new levels of irrationality and disgustingness.

Opinion | The real scandal: Those chatty Trump officials’ loathing of U.S. allies The Signal chat fiasco sends an alarming message about Trump officials’ stance toward Europe.

Why is this admin hostile to our allies and friendly to our adversaries? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I deactivated briefly.

Please Don't Get Stuck On Whether "Cis" Is a Slur or Not. Defend Freedom of Belief and Speech Consistently

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So much free speech on Xitter....

Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks!

You know, I was thinking we should set up a tradition where each Thanksgiving, the English make a gift of a thousand of our most prominent current day Puritans to honour the occasion. What do you think?

Maybe Knowles is not one of the people who says the work are bad, intolerant people if they don't invite their Trump voting family for Thanksgiving. Musk's said that a lot though & he retweeted it.

So, is this a satirical depiction of how wokeists present Trump voters? Normally, this would have a caption like "How the woke imagine MAGA" to make that clear, but the comments aren't responding as though that's what it is. They're responding as though it's the reality of how MAGA are & that's good

But obviously Knowles and Musk are not wokeists &, would not (I would have thought) want to caricature Trump voters as insufferable, intolerant arseholes with creepy degrees of ideological zeal who ruin family gatherings & are best cut out of your life.

"It's not we who are intolerant. It's Trumpists. They really are malevolent ideologically-captured assholes who abuse everybody who disagrees with them & make Thanksgiving miserable. It's perfectly reasonable to cut them out of your life & not see them for Thanksgiving."

On the surface it looks like a thing someone who wanted to justify cutting off the Trump voters in their family & not seeing them at Thanksgiving would create in response to accusations that they’re intolerantly ending relationships with perfectly lovely people who just voted differently.

Can someone explain the context of this to my British brain? x.com/elonmusk/sta...

Good point!

The rage is intense and many people seem committed to proving they do not have a cult-like mentality & in no way resemble the woke by responding to what wasn't said, reporting me to third parties, telling me to shut up, educate myself, that I am a brainwashed wokist, a bully & denying free speech

Certainly. h.pluckrose@gmail.com

I've been pissing off Xitter again.

There's not even really a right to be heard, only to speak. In the marketplace of ideas, people choose who they listen to just as they choose which stalls they buy from in a regular marketplace. If people are not listening to you, it's your responsibility to make your wares more appealing.

Hmmmm. Is Whitney here? She is a woman of good sense. Either that or she is humouring me on the whole tea issue due to a cultural sensitivity notably lacking in you two.

You are both terrible people and I don't know why I still associate with you.

I shall persuade you with the evidence of your taste buds. You are a reasonable people. I predict that you will then make me Queen. Then we will move on to spreading the Good News to Tennessee @joshuaeakle.com where, of course, I will pay due homage to the reigning monarch, Her Grace, Queen Dolly.

@shawnhuckabay.info

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.

The "Twitter is not real life" thing is overplayed. The dominant problem now is not that we overestimate the role that social media plays in public opinion & elections etc, but that we underestimate it.

I'm suggesting you look at it to get an outsider's perspective on your own country. Does it concern you that diplomats and ambassadors are advocating plans to conciliate a single private citizen as a way to forward diplomatic relations with the US rather than the person you democratically elected?

Yeah, I could put a lot of effort into becoming a ballerina. Would the outcome reveal this as a good use of my time? Extremely unlikely.

Failing to reduce yourself to the lowest ethical level of the most despicable of your opponents may indeed result in defeat, but doing so guarantees it. A cause worthy of support must be about more than the pure attainment of power.

And we have this disgustingness. I am very close to despairing of humanity.

And how the fuck are we in a situation where news reporting about plans for defending the Western World against Russia include a lot of commentary on how to flatter the POTUS' ego & make it look like good PR for him rather than a principled & effective strategy?

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The conservative element of my liberalism is coming to the fore too. I think it's because the need to conserve is becoming so pressing &so many on the right who would typically be regarded as conservatives are just not interested in conserving liberal democracy & its institutions.