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@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social

Reason over feelings, whenever the two come into conflict.

created November 5, 2024

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Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a fringe political app for leftists. Every single post here therefore carries implicit political undertone. I’m not “making anything about politics” — Everything here constantly already is, as a fundamental consequence of what this place is.

29/8/2025, 5:42:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Hate is an inherent leftist trait. When you don’t have right-wing people around to hate, you turn on each other. The hate isn’t a property of the people around you; It’s inherent to yourself and you carry it with you everywhere you go. It’s amusing to watch. That’s all.

29/8/2025, 5:38:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Leftists love to argue, and it’s funny to see them argue amongst themselves here on Bluesky since there’s almost nobody else here for them to argue with.

28/8/2025, 2:25:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

No, we just need known insane people not to have them. Transgender = known insane, by definition.

28/8/2025, 2:22:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Ironically the only reason people feel any need to identify as “transgender” is that they can only think of gender in terms of rigid gender norms. Rather than being OK with being an effeminate male, for example, the guy feels like the only way it’s OK to be effeminate is to “be” female.

31/3/2025, 7:23:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Obviously, villains don't like normal people.

31/3/2025, 1:24:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Some naive kid with a cartoon avatar talking about the world as if he knows something. You're still sitting there on Tutorial Island, not really fully grown up yet. You need to sit down and actually listen to those of us who have experience and know what we're talking about.

30/3/2025, 9:07:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

No, you are objectively 100% demonstrably wrong about that. Your whole political philosophy is built on a provable lie. It's sad how much mental gymnastics you go through in order to support evil like you are. You should have taken a second to realize that you are the evil bad guy.

30/3/2025, 9:06:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

And now randomly you’re getting aggressive just because I’m trying to clarify the conversation. This is why people don’t like you and why you have to hang out on a tiny little specialized social network (1.2% the traffic of X) just to find the few people who can tolerate you.

30/3/2025, 5:30:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Your mistake seems to be assuming that people share posts based on the author of the post rather than the content of the post. I do agree that leftists tend to be author-centric like this, but intelligent people (especially Libertarians) share ideas rather than people.

30/3/2025, 5:29:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m 100% sure that I don’t know who that is. This is exactly like how I don’t know who you are despite responding to you. Is this clear to you or do you need a little bit more explanation before correcting yourself?

30/3/2025, 5:27:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Don’t know why you’d bring up mass murderers in a conversation where they aren’t relevant.

30/3/2025, 2:12:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t even know who that is. But apparently you do.

30/3/2025, 2:10:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Meanwhile, the one I originally replied to is a walking contradiction.

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30/3/2025, 4:52:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m making it clear that a society that openly celebrates murder based on arbitrary value systems isn’t a society that benefits you.

30/3/2025, 4:49:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

By this arbitrary reasoning, eliminating you would be necessary for human progress

30/3/2025, 2:59:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you ever think to yourself that maybe you base too much of your life on TV shows?

30/3/2025, 2:58:18 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks like they’re on the upswing.

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30/3/2025, 2:01:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

The scale of 5600-5680… lmao.

30/3/2025, 2:00:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Doubling down on proving my point

29/3/2025, 3:29:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol

29/3/2025, 3:29:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

The comments to this post prove that Bluesky is nothing more than a political site for left-wingers to spew hatred. You took a post that had nothing at all to do with politics and somehow made it about politics, simply because you have no life/hobbies/work to talk about.

28/3/2025, 6:29:01 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

X has about 250 million daily active users. Bluesky has about 3 million daily active users. So… When is Bluesky shutting down?

28/3/2025, 3:23:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m convinced that the reason why you made this explicitly a DEI hire is because you wanted the joke to write itself loooool

26/3/2025, 12:46:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

So ironic. Celebrating a crime and calling yourself a hero.

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25/3/2025, 3:13:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Given the audience for this app, XXL+ sizes are probably the “medium” lol.

24/3/2025, 7:25:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Speaking of cringey stereotyped outfits, have you looked at what’s on top of your head?

24/3/2025, 7:24:15 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s ironic that Venmo is owned by PayPal, PayPal is how Musk earned his initial wealth, and most people here are here solely because they don’t want to be involved with things associated with Musk lol.

24/3/2025, 7:23:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

They don’t like Little Caesars pizza.

24/3/2025, 7:19:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/3/2025, 12:39:11 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s bullshit lol.

7/3/2025, 11:22:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social)

This is so good: x.com/0rf/status/1...

6/3/2025, 2:37:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Loooooooooooool x.com/ksorbs/statu...

4/3/2025, 9:58:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a lot more complicated than this though: * Fear of lots of expensive treatments only to not discover what is going on with you (or to find it's not treatable). * Fear of being misdiagnosed or mistreated and developing a new condition by consequence. * Etc.

17/2/2025, 5:29:39 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s funny to me that these are written primarily in Spanish and instruct people not to talk about their immigration status. Tells you everything you need to know right there about how subversive this intends to be. For what it’s worth: Non-citizens do NOT have citizenship rights lol.

15/2/2025, 1:40:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s wild for someone to believe that 65 words is “an essay”. You’re turning yourself into a textbook example of the dwindling attention span.

12/2/2025, 2:49:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

“Therapy speak”? Lol. Maybe that’s the only place you’ve heard these words. This is simply called “psychology”.

12/2/2025, 2:47:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Definitely.

10/2/2025, 3:40:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Your clear narcissism however is what will protect your ego from recognizing reality. That narcissism you have on full display is clearly a defense mechanism. More power to you, I guess — It’s not me that it’s hurting.

10/2/2025, 3:37:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

But listen. Sometimes you try your hardest at something, and it just doesn’t work. You find out you’re not good at it. That’s what happened. You and I both know it.

10/2/2025, 3:30:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

If I flopped as hard as you did, maybe I’d repeat that often and force myself to believe it, too. It would be hard to resist pretending I wasn’t trying my hardest. Soothes the ego.

10/2/2025, 3:29:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Ironically, a gay leftist hanging out on Bluesky seeking engagement by saying what they know is popular here — THAT is “hanging out in an echo chamber”. It’s so odd that you can’t see the indisputable fact that you’re the only one participating in an echo chamber here.

10/2/2025, 3:28:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Is there really? You sound defensive to me.

10/2/2025, 3:27:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

I recommend learning an actual skill, getting a real job, and doing something that actually benefits society. Your self-worship isn’t something the world is broadly interested in. This should be obvious when you compare your outcomes to the amount of time/energy you put into it.

9/2/2025, 2:37:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s kinda ironic that someone who has been trying their hardest for at least 3 years to get their YouTube channel off the ground only to end up with literally 50 subscribers is telling others about “saying things nobody cares about” loooool.

9/2/2025, 2:35:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

By contrast, your head is totally devoid of rational thinking, and your content seems to be centered mostly around yourself. Typical leftist narcissism. You think it’s normal just because you absorb examples of other narcissists doing it.

9/2/2025, 12:58:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

“Screaming into the void” is a weird characterization. Dunno what you even imply by that. Of course I’m anonymous online. You should be too (and you basically are, but you’re half-assing it). There’s no purpose in making a conversation about thoughts and ideas somehow about myself.

9/2/2025, 12:52:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Ironic that you match one of those 3 buckets.

8/2/2025, 11:13:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Have you looked at your own profile lately?

7/2/2025, 4:02:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re already doing it. Good practice!

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7/2/2025, 4:00:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, obviously.

7/2/2025, 3:59:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ve seen plenty of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and hate on here (do you ignore “hate” if you’re “hating the right people”?). I haven’t really seen anti-constitutional rhetoric or genuine Nazi salutes promoted on any social media site.

7/2/2025, 3:58:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Except: 1. It’s not actually “the good of the whole” at all. 2. There’s nothing inherently virtuous about Bluesky. It’s VC-funded and you’re just in the early honeymoon phase of growth-seeking startups. 3. Bluesky’s activity has declined since its peak. Arguably it’s dying.

7/2/2025, 3:05:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social)

Apparently I’m in the top 6-10% of followers on this app… and I’m absolutely not trying to be lol. More of a sign of what a ghost town this place is. Source: Bluesky official data (bsky.jazco.dev/stats).

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7/2/2025, 3:01:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Being embarrassed by something like this is a sign of at least mild narcissism. It shows that you think others think about you way more than they actually do.

7/2/2025, 2:55:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Btw if you’re gonna have an anonymous account, you shouldn’t include a screenshot that shows us which timezone you live in. And that you either can’t afford 5G or live in a pocket of that timezone that doesn’t have 5G coverage.

7/2/2025, 2:52:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

But just wait a little bit, I’ve got video links on tap that I’ll share in this thread at the end of the day lol.

7/2/2025, 2:48:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

What’s a little ironic for someone talking about “taking things out of context” is that those images were a response to this meme that was widely circulating at the time — it made no mention of any sort of temporal gesture. Just an arm angle, and that’s it. “Moving the goalposts”.

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7/2/2025, 2:47:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait, are you actually pinning your defense on the hope that there’s no video of a similar gesture? Lol, you’re gonna be so disappointed. I’ll let you double down on this for a little bit though before sharing, in order to maximize the shame you feel when you see you’re proven wrong.

7/2/2025, 2:44:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Nothing like getting mad about a supposed “random picture without any context” when you didn’t see any issue with the “random picture without any context” it replied to lmao. The context (in case it wasn’t obvious): The George Floyd riots.

7/2/2025, 2:41:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Are you expecting an exacting list of every single person? Might take a long time to compile.

7/2/2025, 2:39:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Small aircraft go down fairly often, but now it just “feels like” it’s happening more often because you’re paying more attention to it.

7/2/2025, 2:38:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Why pay $10 for something you can do for free? That name is just an imaginary thing that exists only in your mind and that only you care about. Exercise your imagination without paying for the privilege.

7/2/2025, 2:35:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

You violent far leftists have the weirdest obsession with these in particular.

7/2/2025, 2:31:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Lmao is this the lie you tell yourself? You actually believe this? The far left is this:

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7/2/2025, 2:26:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah, we are still hearing people talk about how “voter ID doesn’t matter because nobody submits fraudulent votes”, for example.

7/2/2025, 2:19:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol. You’re reaching really hard. This is like complaining that someone didn’t report the $57.16 they made on a garage sale to the IRS.

6/2/2025, 2:13:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s just hilarious to see the same people who ridiculed the notion of a “stolen election” now suddenly come around to the idea when they’re on the losing side.

6/2/2025, 2:10:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah. No funding if it’s “about” preferential treatment for minority groups. You know you can be dark-colored skin without making it your entire personality, right?

4/2/2025, 3:49:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Funny that you’d call someone a “troll” just because they’re calling out obvious BS when they see it. But sure, have some videos if you need them in order to calibrate your common sense against your political bias. Here is one: x.com/letfreedomri... Another: x.com/joshwalkos/s...

4/2/2025, 3:46:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

What are you gonna do, storm the capitol?!

4/2/2025, 3:43:22 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, this tiny social media app is also full of the handful of people who hate AI. And the 5090 is widely understood as a prosumer card largely hyped for its ability to run AI inference effectively.

4/2/2025, 3:31:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Why would you be surprised? A lot of Bluesky are the “chronically-unemployed jealous far-left communist” types. That’s a group of people who feel intense bitterness when they see someone flexing an expensive purchase.

4/2/2025, 3:28:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

What “current US crisis” are you even talking about?

4/2/2025, 3:25:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Source: “Trust me bro.” You’re talking about this as though you were there in person under his command. Lmao.

4/2/2025, 3:03:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

(Typically, this is the inflection point at which someone prefers to block or ignore rather than struggle to save face)

30/1/2025, 10:27:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Question for you, though: In the hypothetical world where your premise wasn’t incorrect, would you have called him “undocumented”, or “illegal”?

30/1/2025, 10:25:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

I commonly hear this false premise within leftist echo chambers. He was in Canada under his mother’s citizenship, studied in the US with a student visa, and then worked via an H1B visa before becoming a citizen. This isn’t a matter of preferential treatment — It’s a matter of factual inaccuracy.

30/1/2025, 10:24:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

The correct term btw is “illegal immigrant”. Pay careful attention to the first word in the term.

27/1/2025, 9:02:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

“Not having the right papers” lmaooo. What a dismissive way to say that they entered and remain in the country illegally. Substituting “undocumented” as a euphemism for “illegal” glosses over the substance of the issue.

27/1/2025, 9:01:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently nothing else I wrote was worthy of a block, but citing a science paper from NIH that conflicted with his pre-existing beliefs was enough to do it. Go figure.

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27/1/2025, 8:58:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

The reason the “trailer park stereotype” is useful as a basis for comparison is that it conjures imagery of people who are “slightly dull” but who generally have the cognitive ability to handle most of the issues that come up in everyday life without too much outside assistance.

27/1/2025, 8:54:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Not really worth discussing this tangent further since: 1. You received sufficient evidence to refute your insinuation, and (most importantly), 2. The dispute is not essential the discussion. It’s only meant as a barometer for reference for those of us who have lived in trailer parks.

27/1/2025, 8:52:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Dunno what you mean by “if science happened to it”. It’s not even clear that YOU even know what you mean. As for the correlation between SES and IQ? That’s well-understood. I assume this is what you mean by “science happening to it”: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

27/1/2025, 8:49:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump’s IQ is probably low-mid 90s. He’s definitely not a genius — luckily he’s in a role where he delegates a lot of work and therefore doesn’t need to be one. I’ve had a lot of people take tests — you might be surprised. “Stereotypical simple trailer park redneck” type is usually around low 90s.

24/1/2025, 7:06:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

People who are vaguely familiar with the IQ scale regularly claim that they’re 150+ (despite this being exceptionally rare, e.g. 46 per 100,000). And they regularly underestimate others’ IQ (75 is a bottom 5% score and requires more assistance than people assume).

24/1/2025, 6:55:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

And yet that’s what most of Bluesky is — People reposting bullshit because they like what it says (e.g. claiming Elon did a “Nazi salute” lmao). It’s just a far-left mirror of Truth Social, really. W/R/T OP — It’s funny how people talk about IQ constantly but have poor calibration for it.

24/1/2025, 6:50:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Unfortunately, Tumblr is a cesspool of people with a peculiar set of characteristics: * Good at writing. * Bad at thinking. This combination is at high risk of spreading misinformation, especially to people who are biased to “want to believe” whatever had been written.

24/1/2025, 6:46:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

“Tolerance” is absolutely NOT a “social contract”. The pseudo-intellectual Tumblr meme that claims that it is? It’s counterfacutal. Unlike a moral stance, a social contract needs to have specific terms understood by all parties. This is why “laws” are social contracts, but “ideals” are not.

24/1/2025, 6:43:05 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

“Tolerance” is absolutely NOT a “social contract”. The pseudo-intellectual Tumblr meme that claims that it is? It’s counterfacutal. Unlike a moral stance, a social contract needs to have specific terms understood by all parties. This is why “laws” are social contracts, but “ideals” are not.

24/1/2025, 6:43:05 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s so funny to see misinformation like this spread. The hypocrisy of people calling themselves “tolerant” while behaving otherwise. The “paradox of intolerance” is called a “paradox” because it cannot be resolved. The only takeaway is that “tolerance” can’t exist universally.

24/1/2025, 6:39:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

“Real licorice” is actually pretty bad for you. Lots of negative side effects and no real redeeming qualities. However (at least in the US) most “licorice” candy is actually just “licorice flavored” via anise (no actual licorice at all).

24/1/2025, 6:33:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Here you go kid: bsky.app/profile/ifor...

24/1/2025, 6:27:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like there’s a good reason you’re “unpublished” — you can’t be trusted to write facts.

24/1/2025, 6:08:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

“Known Nazi enthusiast” lmao. Saying a lie doesn’t make it true.

24/1/2025, 6:07:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this a new gender?

24/1/2025, 5:29:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

lol that’s you just characterizing the exact same thing differently based on how you feel about each person you should sit down and reflect on how your own bias causes you to perceive the world

24/1/2025, 5:27:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok lol x.com/defiyantlyfr...

23/1/2025, 3:01:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

I come back to Bluesky so infrequently that I don’t even remember what we were talking about. And you haven’t really given me a good reason to be particularly interested in this conversation, so I’m not really inclined to scroll up and remind myself.

22/1/2025, 10:15:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Libertarian Tech Lead (@iforgotwhyimhere.bsky.social) reply parent

It did not take me 5 hours to come up with anything I wrote. Believe it or not, people with jobs and real lives do not hang out on Bluesky waiting to respond to every single reply that comes through. Lmao.

21/1/2025, 11:44:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view