Yeah, I really wonder whether going back to unsong now, as a not-so-oblivious twenty something, would be a very different experience
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i haven't read it and have no idea, my experience archive diving his other stuff is that he starts out like 80/20 "just a pretty good blogger" vs "i am just asking questions about something that happens to be sort of reactionary-flavored"
aug 30, 2025, 7:34 pm • 5 0 • view
a pile of sneerers spent like since 2013 tracking Scott's dog whistles for eight years, then in 2021 that email from 2014 leaked which was "HELL YES THE POINT OF SSC IS TO PROMOTE RACE SCIENCE AND NEOREACTION" and we were like, he just emailed it out
aug 31, 2025, 9:15 am • 13 2 • view
oh hey bro i was getting ready to put "go through the email line the line and explain what it literally seems to mean" on my todo list since people were saying they had seen it before and not read it carefully
aug 31, 2025, 9:17 am • 3 0 • view
you would believe how many centrists advocating an SSC article i showed that email that says "THE POINT OF SSC IS TO MAKE YOU MORE RACIST" and they'd go "well i liked *that* article" and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa fucking liberals
aug 31, 2025, 9:37 am • 12 1 • view
it's lke hipsters, nobody hates liberals like a liberal
aug 31, 2025, 9:38 am • 4 1 • view