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Let's hope when Carl Benjamin is jailed, he gets a good manshaming in prison. Someone who responds to a woman making likely false claims about receiving rape threats by commenting that he wouldn't rape her deserves nothing less. Even - especially, even - when he adds the word even.

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Regardless of the politics. Let’s agree on one thing. If women are sexually assaulted the main thing is to ensure it’s as painful and inaccessible tomorrow as it is today to prosecute the assailant and gamble with your life choices and reputation. Then we can all bicker outside of the realité to ou...

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Regardless of the politics. Let’s agree on one thing. If women are sexually assaulted the main thing is to ensure it’s as painful and inaccessible tomorrow as it is today to prosecute the assailant and gamble with your life choices and reputation. Then we can all bicker outside of the realité to ou...

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Stephen Pinker tweeted about this. Pretty damning of the social sciences I like the bit where they more or less submitted a chapter of Mein Kampf to a feminist type journal. We've seem this before of course but its always good to reproduce research. It just strengthens the conclusions. it goes to s...

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Thai guy wrote:
pontifex wrote:
Thai guy wrote:Now who's trying too hard.
Not me. I'm just insulting you. The responses, however...
Why are you posting at 3am?

Because I'm a nightowl. Always have been. Why are you posting so poorly?

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Thai guy wrote:Now who's trying too hard.

Not me. I'm just insulting you. The responses, however...

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Thai guy wrote: Dumbshit? Halfwit? Try-hard? You're better than this usually. You've fallen from your "leftist, liberal" heights.

Nah. I'm just telling you what I think of you. Occasionally I do that. Conceited people with no basis for their conceitedness irritate me. I guess it's a weakness. Kill me.

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Surely the only way one could argue a 'patriarchy' is a real thing is if its taken as fact men and womens brains are different and on average they prefer different types of jobs... and as traditionally female dominated roles get paid less than traditionally male dominated roles... then its the men ...

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:lol: Not taking Peterson being found out too well, are you. I find the concerted effort rather funny, actually. I'm just telling you what I think of you, personally. What concerted effort? You and Seneca tag-teamed for two pages using your biggest words trying to explain away Peterson's brain fart...

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:lol: Not taking Peterson being found out too well, are you. I find the concerted effort rather funny, actually. I'm just telling you what I think of you, personally. What concerted effort? You and Seneca tag-teamed for two pages using your biggest words trying to explain away Peterson's brain fart...

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Thai guy wrote: Not taking Peterson being found out too well, are you.

I find the concerted effort rather funny, actually. I'm just telling you what I think of you, personally.

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The man who got him his job: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2018/05/25/i-was-jordan-petersons-strongest-supporter-now-i-think-hes-dangerous.html Peterson is such a f**king charlatan. That was really interesting because it was a personal account - Schiff actually put Peterson and his family up in h...

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Hmm. My wife is a nurse, from a southern European country. She has what is effectively a masters degree. She is smart and passionate. She helps mothers bring babies into the world, works very anti-social hours that inhibit her ability to care for her own (as yet unborn) child, and is poorly compens...

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If we were arguing all this shit in an honest way, rather than a completely dishonest way, we might be able to sort it all out. Unfortunately, this is all characterised not in terms of the average, but in terms of the top of society, and there is no patience.

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One for bimboman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kUuURByaXc Just started it. I wonder if Peterson pushes back on the exclusively materialist outlook of Pinker's claims. If anyone would, I would guess it would be him. We do need to talk about growing inequality, a la Piketty, though. We measure ou...

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One for bimboman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kUuURByaXc Just started it. I wonder if Peterson pushes back on the exclusively materialist outlook of Pinker's claims. If anyone would, I would guess it would be him. We do need to talk about growing inequality, a la Piketty, though. We measure ou...

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Another way of putting it, from Vox: https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/ ... liberalism

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Here's Taleb's article, for convenience: https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577 What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class...

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One for bimboman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kUuURByaXc Just started it. I wonder if Peterson pushes back on the exclusively materialist outlook of Pinker's claims. If anyone would, I would guess it would be him. We do need to talk about growing inequality, a la Piketty, though. We measure our...

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Today I was teaching some gender studies students about peer review, and how it is largely broken. I managed to start an open debate about how 'branch-stacking' in peer review is not a good thing, and saw a few sparks of realisation in the room. My good deed for the day. (Related to IYI).

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Blyth misses this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0

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Here's Taleb's article, for convenience: https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577 What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class ...

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A year old, but new to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUqCrtg-wNY Blyth is one of my favourite political economists, who came to prominence during the Greece crisis. Yep, he’s very good :thumbup: Farking funny, too. I don't agree with his every word, but the man is one of the few commentators ...

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A year old, but new to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUqCrtg-wNY

Blyth is one of my favourite political economists, who came to prominence during the Greece crisis.

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Existential Comics ‏ @existentialcoms These right wing "self help" gurus are pretty surreal. They are like: 1. Exercise regularly. 2. Focus on concrete goals. 3. Find supportive friends. 4. Women are serpentine creatures that undermine society and must be tamed by a dominant will. 5. Stay hydrated....

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Watching that interview (and many of the others), you come to suspect that there has been a secret promise of a Nobel prize to the first person to land a significant blow on Peterson.

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unseenwork wrote:
I'm also not a fan of this 'shine your shoes, get a job' solution as to an extent I would see it as perpetuating this idea of the pursuit of power in order to gain access to women.

So you think we should redistribute the means of reproduction?

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What? You don't think I've been able to have good faith discussions over a long period, or you think I've shifted radically? I don't. I think the establishment left has. The left has moved a long, long way since the 90s, and they are no longer liberal in the traditional sense. I haven't budged sinc...

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Well thank you both...I try to flail impotently in the centre of the room as much as possible. Well, take it as a compliment while keeping in context just how woeful the left liberal performance has been in here over the years. Hey! I've mostly been willing to engage seriously with the ideas over t...

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Well thank you both...I try to flail impotently in the centre of the room as much as possible. Well, take it as a compliment while keeping in context just how woeful the left liberal performance has been in here over the years. Hey! I've mostly been willing to engage seriously with the ideas over t...

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Sure. Good chat. You're not quite as radically progressive as you sometimes suggest, on the evidence you've provided.

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The irony of the culture of dismissal of the wisdom acquired by years on earth is that those promoting it will fall victim to their own ideology at younger and younger ages. The cycles are becoming shorter and shorter, and it seems to me that the churn we are producing is inherently inhuman, and bi...

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One of the reasons I hold the positions I do, by the way, is that I love genuine cultural diversity. I see American cultural imperialism as a huge threat to that, and I see increasingly homogeneous cities across Europe and the world. I also see reactionary movements like radical Islam as a response...

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The irony of the culture of dismissal of the wisdom acquired by years on earth is that those promoting it will fall victim to their own ideology at younger and younger ages. The cycles are becoming shorter and shorter, and it seems to me that the churn we are producing is inherently inhuman, and bio...

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They may or may not be amoral, but I think they don't really understand, or reflect on, the consequences of change - my point is, that is the ideology of our time, and, unguided, the result is churn, rather than progress. AI is a good example. Sure, there are people warning us to be very, very care...

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They may or may not be amoral, but I think they don't really understand, or reflect on, the consequences of change - my point is, that is the ideology of our time, and, unguided, the result is churn, rather than progress. AI is a good example. Sure, there are people warning us to be very, very care...

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Fair enough. I tend to agree with Peterson that progress is only truly progress if it actually improves social outcomes. Otherwise it's not progress, it's churn. The failure to appreciate that does appear to be a central part of the zeitgeist - seen also in the attempt to lionise youth and denigrat...

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So anyone care to summarise what Peterson was saying on enforced monogamy - I hadn't seen or heard anything on it until now, and it certainly doesn't sound like anything I could agree with. It sounds like a regressive answer to a problem, that focuses on men at the expense of women. What was he try...

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Perhaps it was. Please refer to my statements about what I view as Peterson's contempt for unguided progressivism from previous pages. Sure - I was only trying to explain why I see him as slightly right rather than left. I wasn't trying to say he was wrong (although I certainly don't agree based on...

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Perhaps it was. Please refer to my statements about what I view as Peterson's contempt for unguided progressivism from previous pages. Sure - I was only trying to explain why I see him as slightly right rather than left. I wasn't trying to say he was wrong (although I certainly don't agree based on...

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