Philosopher of language, Java software engineer, occasional rants about politics and religion. Currently residing in Warsaw, Poland. Moderately conservative institutionalist, slightly anti-clerical Catholic. No hate speech allowed.
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I invite the authors of this bullshit take that academics are the most hostile to opposing views to attempt to bring up an opposing view on any of the right wing celebrities on Twitter. They can then tell us how many of the replies were death wishes and how many were "just" insults.
Update: państwo vs korpo 1:0, po interwencji min. @kpelczynska.bsky.social wpis przywrócono :)
Think the Hegseth Signalgate case was FOIA as well.
I'm trying to keep up, so let me get this straight - is the current most plausible theory that Kirk was a victim of the intra-MAGA war between TPUSA and Groypers?
Sounded like an Onion headline. Unfortunately not an Onion headline :(
Trump is literally cosplaying Louis XIV. "L'État, c'est moi".
Meanwhile, here's what the right is doing on Twitter. You know, the right that's full of righteous outrage right now and absolutely would never ever condone any political violence.
No właśnie za to wg. nich 😛
Nie bardzo.
Zdecydowanie przestaje. Mam wrażenie, jakby alt-right tym Kirkiem poszedł na ostateczne zwarcie, ma być jednolity przekaz medialny, wszystko inne ma zostać zagłuszone, stłumione i zakrzyczane.
Poparcie dla przemocy i terroryzmu.
Yep.
Yep.
O, fejsik mi właśnie skasował posta :D
Wrzuciłem screeny.
Na dobranoc napisałem Wam parę słów o Kirku i prawicy (amerykańskiej i nie tylko) - chyba mnie nie wpuszczą do USA przez najbliższe lata :( www.facebook.com/ilintar/post...
Yes. The nihilistic double-think knows no bounds.
If someone needs a reminder, *this* is how the very Charlie Kirk, the angel, the saint, the paragon of civil activity, responded to the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi: www.imdb.com/news/ni63814...
The pathos is as much exaggerated as much as their earlier mocking is blatant, provocative and norm-shattering. They break rules of decorum in an extreme way (the very Charlie Kirk called for posting bail for the person that assaulted Paul Pelosi), then they suddenly switch to extreme outrage.
This. Very important. Remember the alt-right hypocrisy. They're disgustingly consistent at this behavior. When someone outside their circle dies, they mock it, ridicule it, belittle it, all expressions of "freedom of speech". When one of their own dies, they suddenly switch to extreme pathos mode.
This is an *excellent* text, thank you very much for this. It explains a nagging question I have had in a while - while I sympathize with Haidt much more than the average member here, I've always found his explanations about the origins of campus polarization simplistic. Now it all clicks.
It's insane how well the alt-right has globalized itself and thus linked their collective interests. If a liberal political dies i.e. in an assasination, it's usually local news. When an alt-right celebrity dies, it's suddenly major news *worldwide* and everyone is supposed to empathize.
Eh. Masakra. Ciekawe, co dziewczynę o lewicowych poglądach zagnało na tamtą stronę sceny politycznej.
Czemu ten pan w drugim okienku wygląda jak Łukasz Warzecha?
This thread, in its entirety. Charlie Kirk died as a consequence of the way of life he himself endorsed and propagated. But the response won't be one of reflection - it will be one of cynical, targeted retaliation. Innocent people will die for it, just so the right's bloodthirst can be satiated.
Tak, a co?
Czytam tekst z gazety "Parkiet". Straszy on "niewyobrażalnymi konsekwencjami", jeśli TSUE uwali WIBOR. A co to za konsekwencje? Oto one:
This is basically the "honest people don't have anything to hide" mentality. Kavanaugh spells it out explicitly.
That audience being orcs, apparently, if we use the Tolkienian analogies, or other minions of Sauron. Note how he mentions the One Ring as a *positive* reference.
What do we do? - Decide that we have to be even more right-wing on immigration ... approval falls to historically low levels, 10% approve, 70% disapprove What do we do? KEEP DOING WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, IT HAS TO START WORKING EVENTUALLY!
Labour: we just won the elections because people were tired of Conservatives and "austerity". What do we do? - More austerity ... approval falls, Reform starts inciting anti-immigrant fears What do we do? - Start validating Reform propaganda ... approval falls, Reform starts literally inciting riots
I would even go so far as to call for the impeachment of Bill Clinton!
Let us all share a moment of silence for the legal doctrine of "originalism", as its most vehement supporters in SCOTUS enable literally the actions the Founding Fathers feared from the government and put in writing.
This is how the entire contemporary alt-right movement works. They *pretend* to be conservative, using the conservative language, appealing to conservative values etc. But the only thing that counts is expanding tribal power - and once that is possible, all the conservative verbiage gets thrown out.
When this SCOTUS applied it to Biden, you *could* at least argue that it was in line with the conservative principles. Now, with how it goes out of its way to *enable* Trump (with those shadow docket, unexplained reversals), they've revealed themselves as postmodern, pseudoconservative hacks.
So here's why I vigorously protest the use of the term "conservatives" to describe today's right-wingers, from Trump to the SCOTUS majority. Conservatives generally want courts to systematically *prevent* government executive abuse of power, not *enable* it by setting new precedents.
Also corresponds well with my hypothesis that the elites of the Democratic Party are extremely risk-averse. They want to avoid any confrontation that's not within the bounds of the confrontation rules they know (i.e. the elections).
The worst kind of people, appealing to the worst kind of instincts.
If this was done by the Biden administration, we'd have "pro-life" news sources from the entire world talking about this case and the "government murderers" would've been a news topic worldwide for at least a week (plus a talking point for "prolifers" for at least a year to come).
While I'm sympathetic to the plight of many of the minorities, especially under the current US government, I've found that people who turn *every discussion* into the "persecuted minority" cliche while positioning themselves as victims are generally really toxic and not very interesting.
Yeah, let's talk about convenience and speed of payment methods or about cheap broadband internet accessibility. Surely USA, the world's most technologically advanced country, wouldn't be behind a country like Poland in those respects, right? 😁
A to Polska właśnie.
Let's hope you're right...
Yeah, that's what I mean. Half of the full court is Trump nominees.
Isn't it the case that the full court needs to agree to an en-banc rehearing?
This court is 6-6 split between Trump and non-Trump nominates. And among the non-Trump nominates, the CJ (Pryor) is a Bush nominee. Not that sure about the en-banc.
Mhm. Przy czym o ile wiem, odcinek "Nocna Zmiana" to czasem puszczali :D :D :D
The only thing wrong here is Posobiec not rotting in jail for all his actions.
As a Polish person, I'm absolutely saddened and frustrated with how well Russian propaganda has worked over the years, esp. on the Polish right. They're declaratively anti-Russian, but they've been eating all the propaganda without any resistance.
As long as it was relegated to those message boards, I'd agree with you. But once it has become mainstream, re-labeling it as niche Nazi content won't help. A lot of the recipients don't actually associate it with Nazi content these days.
I don't really believe that politics in today's (nor ever, probably) reality is a game you can play perfectly clean. You have to get your hands dirty, which is why it isn't for everyone. The worst thing you can do is complain about the rules.
I wouldn't really go that far. It's a toxic way of messaging to be sure, but historically politicans had to be skilled at rhetoric, and part of rhetoric is being able to convey their messages to their audience. If there are cultural trends of communicating in this way, then so be it.
Wondering if RFK Jr.'s "no safe and tested vaccines" stance extends to the rabies vaccine, or if he somehow makes an exemption for that one.
It's "inverted Katsas, Rao", they drew a panel without a Trumpian majority.
Definitely one of those "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" moments. I, for one, welcome our new dolphin overlords. The dolphin takeover of Earth can't come soon enough.
People who don't observe the dynamics here and stumble upon one of those topics and get really piled upon, insulted, added to blocklists and thrown in the general "fascism supporter" bin won't really think it's a good experience. Twitter has a wider userbase, so they can always find a niche.
But it's not really like that. I really like BlueSky and I wouldn't go back to Twitter if they paid me because it's so toxic, but there are some groupthink topics here on BSky. And if you take a principled stand on one of them, you might end up getting really piled on for really no good reason.
If after all the blatant partisanship the SCOTUS has displayed with the administrative stays, the new Democratic government agrees to get effectively blocked by SCOTUS saying "hey, you have to play by the rules", that means they haven't learned anything.
Yeah. This is the disgusting method of the new postmodern right, which is basically: grab as much power as possible, trample all the rules, then when you're not in power anymore try to pretend like the rules are back and the new government has to agree to get refereed by people you installed.
They don't. They were on the panel for July I believe and took their sweet time with all the controversial Trump decisions. This is probably going to an en-bancc rehearing.
"Now on sale: DEATHCOIN!"
D + E.
Ah, sorry, you're right.
I'm wondering - will it be contempt proceedings next if they miss the 6:30 deadline? She certainly isn't playing around.
I guess she's read the J.G.G vs Trump case file VERY CAREFULLY. Also, I'm quite sure Judge Boasberg is waiting on that en banc rehearing to add the government's behavior in this case to his list of exhibits.
I see the Judge is not playing around. Now she's ordered a show cause for the missing report AND the report by 6:30.
Our warm thoughts go to Justice Rao, whose behavior on the special panel with first delaying and then blocking the contempt proceedings from that case have allowed the government to run the same shit all over again.
Yeah, looked interesting. It seems like Katsas is basically treating this like "I ruled that way, but it was a split decision and procedures are procedures, so let's hold it for now" while Rao is actively fighting a pro-Trump crusade here.
Yes, a reason she shares with Phillip Jefferson, most likely. See also: Ashli Babbitt's funeral.
Coś o nim wiesz? Na pierwszy rzut oka wygląda w miarę spoko.
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USA: będziemy wam pompować najbardziej porąbane partie skrajnie prawicowe, wpływać na wybory, niszczyć społeczeństwa naszym syfnym bigtechem, a do tego jeszcze wprowadzimy wam cła. A, i nasze koszmarne auta też. Europa: dobrze, panie Trumpie, tak jest, panie Trumpie, przepraszamy, panie Trumpie...
Poszedłem zerknąć co tam na NaziTwitterku. Nic nowego, dzień jak co dzień.
Translation: the attacks work very well and Ukraine should make sure the pipeline never comes back online, like with Nord Stream.
If I were the lawyer for the poor kid's parents right now, the first thing I'd probably do is run the exact messages from their son's chat through the OpenAI Moderation API and check what the reported self-harm scores were, just in case OpenAI tried to mount a defense of "we couldn't have known".
(dark sarcasm aside, congratulations, but I would really feel much safer about it if it wasn't an AMERICAN lab doing the research right now :/)
Don't worry, Kennedy will find a way to kill it anyway /s
I mean, FFS, they even ADVERTISE THEY HAVE A PRODUCT FOR THIS: platform.openai.com/docs/guides/...
This. It is absolutely trivial to add a self-harm verification framework to live chats. It is even more trivial to do a periodic verification routine that checks ongoing chats for self-harm indicators and flags users. The decision not to do that is caused by the usual reason: it would cost extra.
Starmer to na pewno źle, Newsom - nie wiem. Starmer po prostu robi *wszystko inne* fatalnie.
No nie wiem. Dla mnie Newsom to jest kandydat na drugiego Starmera: fajnie, że potrafi przywalić Trumpowi, ale trochę słabo, że realnie by chciał realizować program pt. "wincyj neoliberalizmu, lud wytrzyma".
Co Ty tam wiesz, Wiktorze Fidurski :P
Cóż, nic dodać, nic ująć :/ To jest niesamowite, jak spektakularnie liberałowie w całej Europie *niczego nie rozumieją*. I wszędzie wpadają w tę samą pułapkę (głównie ze względu na antykonfrontacyjny profil osobowościowy): przesuwania polityki ku prawicy zamiast ostrego rozprawienia się z nią.
In one respect, the alt-right is right. Europe is weak. We should have expelled that POS Orban and his cronies from the EU long ago, hit them with sanctions and barred Russian money poisoning the European and American political sphere via Hungarian proxies. Now we're reaping the consequences.
Boo-hoo.
Przeglądam profil posłanki Matysiak na Xie i chyba mam jakiś błąd. To niemożliwe, żeby posłanka, która w ekspresowym tempie punktuje każdą wpadkę polityków koalicji choćby w Pierdziszewie Dolnym nie napisała nic o wecie prezydenta... prawda?
Oh yes, definitely. It's even worse in some very patriarchal countries like Japan and South Korea: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikom... www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
How about: "Hey, Donald Trump: stop trying to institute martial law without any reasons into peaceful cities that have no problems with law enforcement"? Do they have to play the stupid "distraction" card every time?
It's worse. It's a Nazi bar in which the owner can snap a finger and reduce all the non-Nazis voices by 80%, then come in and say "excuse me? I can't hear you!". The obvious biases aren't that dangerous. It's the infinite ability of the owner to make it *appear* like a normal chat space.
No it doesn't. At worst you get like one or two tankies that you can block immediately and never hear from them again. On X the algorithm feeds you like 500 fresh troll accounts on every post you make and they all post shit like this.
So yes, if you not only say BlueSky is comparable in terms of vitriol and hate to X, but you say it's actually *much worse*, the only thing that says is how your perception is *extremely* skewed.
You apparently have never had a situation on X when the algorithm marked you as a target for trolls. I don't think you can point to a BlueSky thread where one person receives like 50 insults and 5 death threats alone for what they wrote. On X that's absolutely everyday stuff.
Yeah, for all the Republican shouting about "minimalist state", the US has a terrible legal system where basically the state is afforded maximum leniency and credibility against individuals who can't do anything to fight back without paying huge legal fees.
I think the Ukrainians should inflict enough damage on the Druzhba pipeline to put it permanently out of order, that way Orban and Fico and their cronies won't have anything to repeatedly
Niech zgadnę: "bp. Oder zobowiązał się do rychłego rozpoczęcia prac nad przygotowaniem kompleksowego dokumentu dot. współpracy Komisji z Episkopatem".
Oh look, another case of "Why I vehemently oppose This Very Thing in cases involving Those Other People, but My Case Is Totally Special And Different", by Yet Another Conservative Hypocrite.
It's the famous "Trump curve" aka "Trump cycle". Meets with Putin, is almost ready to make peace with Russia and call for Zelensky to give up Ukraine, then meets with Zelensky, starts taunting Putin and threatening Russia with weapon deliveries for Ukraine :>
