Paul Molitor, Hall Monitor
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So you're telling me if I engineer away whatever's left of my moral character and self-respect, I can pay off my student loans if I yell the n-word at someone in a fast-food franchise. Nice! Utilitarianism says this is ok
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So you're telling me if I engineer away whatever's left of my moral character and self-respect, I can pay off my student loans if I yell the n-word at someone in a fast-food franchise. Nice! Utilitarianism says this is ok
One thing about fascists is that, since most of them are very stupid, smarter rich people full of hubris think they can manipulate them to their own ends. This doesn't work because cunning, demagoguery, and shamelessness have their own momentum.
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
One thing about fascists is that, since most of them are very stupid, smarter rich people full of hubris think they can manipulate them to their own ends. This doesn't work because cunning, demagoguery, and shamelessness have their own momentum.
He's the closest person to a p-zombie that has ever existed. He shows no signs of interiority or a conscious experience of the world.
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
He's the closest person to a p-zombie that has ever existed. He shows no signs of interiority or a conscious experience of the world.
Yeah. A lot of science is impractical, head-in-the-clouds stuff, and then all of a sudden it isn't.
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Yeah. A lot of science is impractical, head-in-the-clouds stuff, and then all of a sudden it isn't.
Gingrich is also a trained historian, come to think
December 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Gingrich is also a trained historian, come to think
Kissinger was a professor of European History at Harvard
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Kissinger was a professor of European History at Harvard
Humanities academics (many) have been so demoralized by assaults on their departments by admins that they think they need to invent some kind of use-case for their disciplines. The humanities are intrinsically worth studying! You don't need those.
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Humanities academics (many) have been so demoralized by assaults on their departments by admins that they think they need to invent some kind of use-case for their disciplines. The humanities are intrinsically worth studying! You don't need those.
The idea that someone who has a Ph.D. in English has better moral sense than someone with a GED who works as a janitor in the same sense that, except in Good Will Hunting, a physics Ph.D. certainly has a better grasp of linear algebra than the janitor is ridiculous if you think for five seconds.
December 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The idea that someone who has a Ph.D. in English has better moral sense than someone with a GED who works as a janitor in the same sense that, except in Good Will Hunting, a physics Ph.D. certainly has a better grasp of linear algebra than the janitor is ridiculous if you think for five seconds.
Pandemics are a kind of weird natural disaster. They are not predictable (unlike hurricanes in Florida or earthquakes in Japan) and there isn't an evildoer to blame for them. They just happen. This makes it hard for people to fit into a narrative on how the world works, which creates confusion.
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Pandemics are a kind of weird natural disaster. They are not predictable (unlike hurricanes in Florida or earthquakes in Japan) and there isn't an evildoer to blame for them. They just happen. This makes it hard for people to fit into a narrative on how the world works, which creates confusion.
2) absolutely. Everything in the 2020s will be defined by Covid trauma. It is a giant gravitational object that everything revolves around but no one can see or remember. Right-wingers are stuck in denial and anger, most liberals are in depression or acceptance. The forever-masks are in bargaining.
December 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
2) absolutely. Everything in the 2020s will be defined by Covid trauma. It is a giant gravitational object that everything revolves around but no one can see or remember. Right-wingers are stuck in denial and anger, most liberals are in depression or acceptance. The forever-masks are in bargaining.
This is especially famously true of DoorDash. In Seattle the only available delivery food was pizza. I was aware that Chinese was delivered in NYC because of movies, but not out here.
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This is especially famously true of DoorDash. In Seattle the only available delivery food was pizza. I was aware that Chinese was delivered in NYC because of movies, but not out here.
The amount people spent in 2019 or 2020 would have been considered insane in 1995 or even 2005. People ordering shit every day that my (upper-middle-class) family would have bought in a six-times-a-year mall run in the 90s or 00s.
December 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The amount people spent in 2019 or 2020 would have been considered insane in 1995 or even 2005. People ordering shit every day that my (upper-middle-class) family would have bought in a six-times-a-year mall run in the 90s or 00s.
Also, ZIRP and e-retail kicked off a wave of wildcat consumerism in the 2010s that people miss and are angry that interest hikes ruined it.
December 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Also, ZIRP and e-retail kicked off a wave of wildcat consumerism in the 2010s that people miss and are angry that interest hikes ruined it.
This country is impossible to take seriously lmao
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This country is impossible to take seriously lmao
This, and the trans woman exclusion from Labour women's conferences, and the architect of the Grenfell disaster and Brexit advocate being a man with a spherical head named "Lord Pickles"
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This, and the trans woman exclusion from Labour women's conferences, and the architect of the Grenfell disaster and Brexit advocate being a man with a spherical head named "Lord Pickles"
A ton of elite journalists are nerds who admired the people who bullied them in high school and want to do it for their careers. And the bullies from Eton and Oxbridge sound so sophisticated and witty when they do it!
December 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A ton of elite journalists are nerds who admired the people who bullied them in high school and want to do it for their careers. And the bullies from Eton and Oxbridge sound so sophisticated and witty when they do it!
It's so cool that Britain turned into a giant HOA run by aggrieved people with zero gratitude for their affluence who are incapable of experiencing fun, pleasure, or tranquility
December 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It's so cool that Britain turned into a giant HOA run by aggrieved people with zero gratitude for their affluence who are incapable of experiencing fun, pleasure, or tranquility
"We built an online public square and it ended up being a Nazi sewer" is a very difficult truth to accept
December 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"We built an online public square and it ended up being a Nazi sewer" is a very difficult truth to accept
There is also the element that Gen X elites in general are still attached to a kind of techno-optimism from the 90s that has aged quite badly
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
There is also the element that Gen X elites in general are still attached to a kind of techno-optimism from the 90s that has aged quite badly
One of the reasons we have laws accommodating disabled people at their jobs is that when accommodated they are as productive as anyone else. Not only is it compassionate, it's good business.
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
One of the reasons we have laws accommodating disabled people at their jobs is that when accommodated they are as productive as anyone else. Not only is it compassionate, it's good business.
I think it is still more WWI. The hobbits are a tribute to the working-class men Tolkien fought alongside at the Somme—supposedly stupid brutes (many of whom couldn't even vote before universal male suffrage)—whose courage and tenacity won the war.
December 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I think it is still more WWI. The hobbits are a tribute to the working-class men Tolkien fought alongside at the Somme—supposedly stupid brutes (many of whom couldn't even vote before universal male suffrage)—whose courage and tenacity won the war.
They know they're spouting nonsense, but come out ahead if enough rubes/marks fall for it
December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
They know they're spouting nonsense, but come out ahead if enough rubes/marks fall for it
Basically, the right wing convinced themselves that the random assassination of a two-bit podcaster would be their Reichstag Fire moment to take power, and when that obviously didn't happen, they dropped it like it was hot
December 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Basically, the right wing convinced themselves that the random assassination of a two-bit podcaster would be their Reichstag Fire moment to take power, and when that obviously didn't happen, they dropped it like it was hot
More to the point, Peterson and Tate et al. are basically cult leaders operating on the internet instead of in remote compounds. The first step in cult recruitment is to isolate the recruit from family, friends, and anyone who cares about them (in this case, mostly women but also "cucks)
December 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
More to the point, Peterson and Tate et al. are basically cult leaders operating on the internet instead of in remote compounds. The first step in cult recruitment is to isolate the recruit from family, friends, and anyone who cares about them (in this case, mostly women but also "cucks)
*Jordan Peterson voice* "It's actually gay to GET pussy"
December 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
*Jordan Peterson voice* "It's actually gay to GET pussy"