I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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The article spends a quarter of the article suggesting really valid reasons why someone (me) may not have heard the song but doubles down on saying it's because we're smug instead of just acknowledging that the song of the summer as a concept is dead now

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It would have been a much more interesting article if they had said that! Also pretending that radio country is not just a CLASS signifier but also a RACE and REGION signifier is wildly problematic. There's a region of the US where country is popular and that's it.

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It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby.

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