I skimmed this thread and OOP is mad that you can beat Civ without literally conquering the world, a change which may have been made for balance and depth; but ig its just another attempt by the soiboi elites to longhouse gamers
Edit: whoops, turns out everyone wrote my comment but better. Have an unhinged quote retweet instead
Here's the article I had in mind. His argument is that we should bless the proles with shame (the high iqs will naturally grow towards success), and shy away from "conferring" status; there'd be no point since the low-iqs wouldn't maintain their societal positions, and intervention beyond stable homes and a clean environment barely raise iq anyway.
I used to think that the libertarianism was the most sociopathic mainstream ideology...
The Atlantic's biggest anti-DEI proponent just wrote an article on the memoir of a writer on the fringe of the IDW. He was actually one of the guys I had in mind when I suggested the stubstack weekly.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/rob-henderson-memoir-yale-troubled/677620/
In case you're unfamiliar with Rob Henderson - and you probably are - he's an orphan who climbed his way out of poverty, made it to Yale and now tweets about wokie cosmopolitans victim communists, the family unit, and the heritabilty of IQ.
Fantastically enough he's also a big proponent of the success sequence? One his commenters suggests that he may have the causality of the sequence reversed, and Henderson says...
His whole square-peg-round-hole shtick is based on glazing hereditarianism while simultaneously purporting conservative values on personal responsibility. He also has countless podcasts with Richard "it's cruel that we let the 85-iq blacks believe they're capable of self-actualization" Hannania; on paper you'd think that an orphan would be repulsed by Hannania's love for setting societal expectations of success based on demographic, but I guess Henderson's cool with all the lesser orphans ending up janitors at best as long as they have a highschool degree and no bastards. It's just good luck that he ended up with a high enough iq to make it to Yale, too bad about the other kids but there's nothing you can do 🤷♂️.
At the end if the day Henderson is just like every modern right wing ideologue. Just post after post of personal grievances masquerading as social critque; each one unexamined and subtlety incompatible with one another
Courtesy of r/programmingcirclejerk
"Ex"-cultist? This dude seems nuts
Man I do NOT fuck with TracingWoodgrains. I assume that most of the people who interact with Hannania - and his ilk of wordy r9k robots and reply guys - is a a crypto-reactionary. But I think Tracey just really really likes tweeting and culture war fence straddling? Somehow it's still obnoxious.
Scott Alexander is one of the most gifted and prolific writers of our day—compelling and strikingly original on any number of topics.
An assessment of a writer's skill, with no regards to prose. This is what happens when the only text you consume come from techie microbloggers
He's (very wordly) paraphrasing the common esoteric right wing belif that anti-racism is a belief only truly held by whites, and that it is simultaneously the contemporary western white's only mistake.
A cousin from the same parent thread goes a step further and claims that whites...
I think he seems to have realized a terrible truth for a lot of WNs who are deeply used to their particular kind of persecution complex and enemy hierarchy, which is that much of the state of the modern west is a direct product of the ‘white temperament’ and white population preferences, possibly on a genetic level.
...are GENETICALLY inclined to support diversity, which is a claim so fantastically racist that it might just offend everyone on Earth.
Also this comment from the motte is definitely ethnonationalist, no?
Agreed, though, that a lot of white Americans are kind of like hobbits, in their lack of antibodies against general blank slatism, outgroup preferences, and progressive American culture. They might make a stink face at the young white male cosmopolitan who arrives in town for an extended study abroad program, but will root for outsiders and people that hate them when it comes to college football/basketball, the NFL, the NBA. Quokka would be the rationalist sphere term of art, here. “Cucks” might even apply. Relatedly, this has been touched upon in the Norf FC series of memes with regard to whites on the other side of the pond.
It's the Motte special. Comments that are structurally culture critiques, but functionally a Turner Diaries summary.
At first I wondered why a post about a man disavowing white supremacy wasn't NSFW; but it's because he didn't get any better? He's not a white supremacist because white supremacy is too inclusive and not racist enough against the shittier whites? He concluded that an ENTIRE GEOGRAPHICAL REGION was genetic backwash before he considered self-reflection?
It is completely insane what the substack/X combo is doing to young men. It's like CTE but concentrated entirely on the part of your brain that lets you tolerate other races.
The follow-up destroyed me
How many kids have you fathered for the cause, Charles?
The ~~neo-nazis~~ ~~groypers~~ ~~reactionaries~~ Caucasian enjoyers have reached peak levels of eating each other
Are you familiar with the 4chan iq "study"? He's trying to do an impromptu iq test on this woman.
It's incredible because the blogger based their beliefs off of evidence and reality instead of markov chains and hallucinations.