whipaway

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by whipaway 5y ago
> It hasn’t ever happened once in 70 years. do you expect the government to publish photographs or something from some of the most important sites of national defense?
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by whipaway 5y ago
> 100% we’re being trolled. I have a hard time rationalizing or disproving the Malmstrom base incident, along with other stuff that's allegedly happened around nuclear facilities. On top of the growing noise about government records
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by whipaway 5y ago
> if there was anything else that was dismissed or treated with disdain simply because of pure contrarianism to anything with Trump-adjacency It's blindingly clear that you can (remarkably this should raise eyebrows, but in this cas
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by whipaway 5y ago
> He basically lets the Trump administration off the hook That's pretty loaded. Should we let the entire liberal political establishment off the hook for screaming at the top of their lungs that Trump is evil for not going gung-ho w
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by whipaway 5y ago
> This is also an unrepeatable experiment This frustrates any discussion about the pandemic and government response (and more broadly practically any question about govt policy & history), namely that these assertions always resort
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by whipaway 5y ago
> and OP started it So really you're implying both comments should be downvoted and flagged?
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by whipaway 5y ago
> seem to treat their agoraphobia with the same fervor and source of moral purity as a religion Oh yea, I'm gay and it clicked to me recently that the gay clubs I go to are basically just monasteries now. It used to be that gay peop
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by whipaway 5y ago
Isn't this precisely the type of comment that goes against site guidelines? Curiously, because of the ideological bent of many in the SV crowd, a comment like this evades the downvoting that the OP gets. It seems to me that there'
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by whipaway 5y ago
That brings to mind "safetyism" coined in the The Coddling of the American Mind. Unsurprisingly safety is invoked in a variety of ways when certain people encounter ideas they don't like. Doing so allows a person to completel
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by whipaway 5y ago
Yea I largely agree with all the stuff you're saying. Regarding Trump though, I think he did do himself a massive disservice giving space to people like Fauci and Bolton. Although, with a generous interpretation, he certainly seems to
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by whipaway 5y ago
Yea I think back to generations past, where you'd find yourself being sent to Normandy or something or stationed on a ship that just got hit by a torpedo. Chance of death - >>1%. Now healthy people with a fraction of a percent ri
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by whipaway 5y ago
It's sad that medical advice offers little to people, effectively waiting until people are suffocating to rush them to the hospital. There's something seriously broken about how people are being treated.
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by whipaway 5y ago
This is an intersection of so many things: politics (outsourcing your judgment to your enemy and effectively just doing the opposite of them), brain-structure propensity for fear, esteem for authorities and experts (fundamentally the tenden
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by whipaway 5y ago
They've been so circumspect about their advice, their advice is practically useless and even worse: induces society-wide agoraphobia and fear. This does not come without consequence, the health effects of destroying the normal fabric o
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by whipaway 5y ago
Under a critical reading, the idea that "the world is neurotypical" is useful to say for someone who wants to gain power in the world by problematizing society and prescribing their own "fixes."
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by whipaway 5y ago
DEI is so obviously demagoguery and in practice the groups that profess it resemble a religion or cult. Unsurprisingly the organizations that spearhead it are communists set on seeing that society as it exists today collapses. The strict an