The left: Let's not kill anyone. The right: Let us embrace Hakko ichiu and expel the roundeyes. The alt-center: *presses detonator*

It is not just that liberals don’t know what conservatives think. Not knowing what other people think would be like, you think they support immigration, but it turns out they’re against immigration. Liberals know that conservatives are against immigration. They’re not confused or uneducated about *what* conservatives think. What they lack is a model of how and why conservatives think as they do. What most of them cannot do is take the other side of the argument in a debate. When they model conservatives it basically reduces to, “well, I guess I’m just a big dumb idiot racist.” If you point this out, they do long threads about how you’re desperate for their approval, which is just another demonstration of the same phenomenon. The term that people use for this kind of understanding is, “theory of mind.” It’s not my term. I didn’t invent it. We could use some other term. But you need *some* term for this to distinguish it from merely not understanding what other people think. I don’t really see the utility of finding some other term. This term captures it pretty well. People know what it means. It seems to be working just fine.

Guaranteed 100% that people posting fantasies of "bullying nerds" online are actually massive loser nerds who are jealous of people who are good at science and math instead of just reading comics and watching movies.

We are days away from libs claiming that the 2nd Amendment protects their God-given right to build copies of God from bits and sand in their own allodial garage

If you don't vote for Diego Hitlerio your entire economy is gonna collapse too

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.

So much of the US political system functions as a protection racket “Billionaires - pay us a protection fee or we will agitate our constituency of retarded peasants to take all your wealth!! It’s the same thing with data centers and basically everything else productive people in society try to build “Give us political donations NOW - otherwise we convince the proles you’re like, draining the oceans or something! We’ll tell them you’re drinking the oceans lol! They’ll believe us too, they’re CRAZY dumb man” Everyone who creates everything just gets shaken down by mobs of weaponized retards

What the smooth brains believe.

Europeans experiencing New Jersey on their way to the World Cup

> woman in California registers dog to vote > successfully casts multiple mail-in ballots > “gets caught” by turning herself in; says she was trying to prove a point > gets arrested, awaiting sentencing > Governor of California takes a victory lap re:election security > tfw

They’re using the guy beheading your brother in the street to distract you from your real enemy: Jeff Bezos delivering medicine to your front door overnight

Can I say something

I love Germania but some parts of it do come across as Tacitus asking a roided chudbarian if his people have ever done anything wrong, and blissfully believing whatever he tells him. "So in Rome we have this thing called adultery." "We don't do that in GERMANY" "Wow. Amazing."

“The US doesn’t have the population density for high-speed rail” has always been a fig leaf for the much more embarrassing truth that the US doesn’t have the industrial or political capacity for high-speed rail. Every other deflection (“Why would we even WANT HSR?”) is cope.

99th percentile yt boy motion

And now on to Zeitgeist

Rally to the duck (Mauna Loa back bar)

Be there or be ■

Rbot’s a longtime mutual but when I finally met him in person I was still blown away by his erudition. Our first words to each other were a veritable Stanley & Livingstone moment of the internet age: “Is that really your accent?” “Yes it’s my fucking accent!” Highly recommend

If AOC really grew up in the Bronx in a working class family and went to say, CUNY, instead of her father being an architect, growing up in Westchester, and going to BU, it would be a better story. If Platner really was a salt-of-the-earth working class type guy, had a family he was raising, had a real, profitable aquaculture business, and had some organic class interests that he translated into lib politics, it would be a better story. I could go on, but none of this stuff feels real. It comes off as staged and contrived and I think a lot of people get that. No one who is paying attention thinks these politics have an honest referent and it’s unclear why the lib left can’t articulate itself ideologically in a transparent way without the subterfuge and artifice.

I actually made him play Dawn of War