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elementarynationalism

Militant atheists have won a lawsuit demanding a First World War memorial cross erected by the American Legion has to be torn down from public land because muh separation of church and state.

Yeah no, the new atheists are going in the camps first.

jeremyvyoral72

This is just so sad. For any atheists out there, why? I understand the separation of church and state, but the American legion is not government, it is a private organization. Why attack a memorial to the dead erected by a private charity that has did for so many years? It just makes you look like an ass.

awhiffofcavendish

Self righteous superiority complex.

gouachevalier

“So, this week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself where does it stop?“

–President Trump

Leftists sure do enjoy proving their opponents right, don’t they?

higher-order

And people wonder why Atheists are hated.

mitigatedchaos

Athiests are, as far as I can tell, right about the whole “no God” thing.  It certainly makes a lot more sense WRT bad things happening to good people than any religious explanation does, and doesn’t have the whole problem of Hell thing.

You usually have to combine Atheism with something else to get this course of action, though.  Like Leftism, or so on.

The thing is, people who were abused by religion, or under religious pretenses?  They are going to HATE religion.  So long as religion abuses or is used as a pretense to abuse people, you are going to get these kinds of reactions.

And they typically don’t agree with the religious on what morality is, so just sticking to the religious morality more strictly isn’t going to sort it.

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bambamramfan
bambamramfan

Watching the alt-right pile on any lefty accused of sex crimes is always a refreshing reminder of just how little they really care about due process and witch hunts.

The rationalists I respect are the ones who at least seem to give the tiniest bit of a fuck about consistency in this regard.

mitigatedchaos

It’s really about undermining the credibility of their opposition. While they also make troll posts for this purpose, it’s important to remember that any immoral behavior risks empowering whoever one’s opposition are, since a true failure bottoms out at the truth instead of an empty hole in the air, so once it’s out there, it’s got more teeth than mere doubt.

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argumate

Anonymous asked:

Seems like a shitty thing to do; if they wanted to get rid of the money there are plenty of worthwhile charities out there. As an art project or statement... sheesh.

argumate answered:

it’s just paper, man.

although later of course their kids were old enough to hear about it and say what the fuck dad, why

mitigatedchaos

If I’m the government, I authorize printing another million in cash and write a heartfelt letter thanking them for their donation, which I then immediately spend on something popular with the voters.

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argumate
argumate

Even HPMOR points out that people who obsess over avoiding death are typically considered evil, and Peter blood-of-the-youth Thiel isn’t really doing anything to counter that impression, is he.

blackblocberniebros

I kinda hope someone shoots Thiel, not just because he deserves it, but also because it would be so great for all his research into human longevity to go to waste. You might be able to outrun telomere decay or whatever, but you can’t outrun hot lead.

argumate

unless I’m woefully misinformed about the level of his crimes against humanity, I’d be extremely hesitant to endorse murdering the man as I think any grounds on which to do so would apply to way too many people.

blackblocberniebros

Being a billionaire in and of itself constitutes an extremely serious crime. One cannot possess that level of power and influence over other people’s lives without, not even intending to, carelessly harming and killing people.

There’s a reason people use the word “obscene” to describe extreme wealth. Because that’s what it is, disgusting, brutal, bloody, destructive.

argumate

guess Jack Ma is ten times as bad, then

does it make a difference if his billions are invested in shares of publicly traded companies, US government bonds, or cash stashed in a storage locker?

if you divided the ownership of his wealth between ten people, but they kept it in the exact same form as he has it now, would that make them each 1/10 as evil as he is, even though the net effect of the wealth on society hasn’t changed?

mitigatedchaos

…why do I suddenly find myself rooting for Peter Thiel to become immortal, and not just discover life extension technologies that can eventually be extended to most of humanity?

Anyhow, what difference does it make if it’s a person that has that power, versus vast, impersonal forces?  Vast, impersonal forces carelessly harm and kill lots of people as well, but their perceived liability is spread so wide that it’s hard to see - and composed of the same personal failings but spread out over a lot of smaller and imperfect humans.

….vast, impersonal forces that could easily exist, or have equivalents, under other economic modes.  

For instance, if we executed all the billionaires, how many people would die due to subsequent lack of technological progress and making that technology cheap enough to be widely accessible?

It seems to me like the pro-guillotine camp here would deny any moral liability for these after-effects.

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argumate
argumate

at least I can claim to have consistently opposed the idea of invading Iraq since before it was even suggested, on the following eminently sensible grounds:

- you know Bush will fuck it up
- and whoever replaces Bush won’t do it any better
- seriously the only way to make Iraq a worse place would be to bomb it
- no it won’t make a wave of progressive democracy sweep across the region
- you idiot

mitigatedchaos

I was too young to be all that politically conscious at the time.

I realized what a mistake it was by the time I could vote, and voted accordingly, though I didn’t participate in any sort of anti-war protests.  The anti-war protesters are not my people.

Of course, then the guy after him allowed the destabilization of Libya and undermined the idea of the U.S. making agreements that offer any protection if one doesn’t have nuclear weapons.

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collapsedsquid
collapsedsquid

“Socialism“ has had a lot of connotations over it’s history and I see all sorts of representations of what it means in fiction and I just saw one that combined both “Brainwashed Soviet Drone stereotype“ with “Trigger-warning SJW stereotype“ and that’s a real WTF moment.

EDIT: And they even kept the labor element where it was a bunch of ex-cons who formed a labor union.  I expect the critique of socialism to be that these are contradictory elements, but this is just so weird.

mitigatedchaos

The labor connection is where it really breaks, since actual labor types don’t seem to go in for SJWness from what I’ve seen.

The wannabe revolutionaries in this country these days, who talk about how they want to “smash homophobic islamophobic capitalist patriarchy” do seem to be the SJW types, with lamentations among some of the older, more labor-focused types that this idpol is a form of ideological capture/misdirection by the Capitalists.

politics

Anonymous asked:

Unrelated to you; was just venting because I figured you'd understand.

The ambiguity is why half the responses were jokes, really.

I haven’t encountered much in the way of people that seemed too much like broken mirror detailed satires of what I believe, at least not for the past few years.

There are probably people out there that are like versions of that for what I believed at 18.

anons asks politics

Anonymous asked:

Current feeling: the slow-onset realization that a well-written insight porn blog vaguely in line with your ideology is in fact in a quantum superposition of passing and failing the Intellectual Turing Test: either they're legitimate, but they're literally insane and believe in a fundamentally broken and incomplete version of your ideology, or they are a hatefully-but-painstakingly-crafted satirical troll persona of someone on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum from you.

Pick the response you prefer the best:

You see, that’s the secret, anon, my dear.  We all believe in fundamentally broken and incomplete versions of ideology, for we are all broken and incomplete people.  As for those fortune favors, we heal our wounds with gold.

If this blog is of a broken and insane version of an ideology, just what ideology is its complete spiritual whole?

A-are you @mailadreapta?? I-Is this about @wrathofgnon??

I’m not WrathOfGnon, I swear!

I have valid release forms for all the models that appear in my insight porn blog.

My lawyer has advised me not to say any more on the matter.

Weaponizing the Statue of Liberty as a political policy is just a discourse lightning rod to distract the Media while the real work of altering zoning laws at the national level is undertaken.  Also remember to check for the #shtpost tag on any post on this blog.

At any rate, I lack the energy to craft an entire blog out of spite.  Usually, on an emotional level, I take anyone seriously until they piss me off enough, at which point I just don’t care about their opinions anymore.  Grudges take too much energy.

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