"I'm sorry, it's a complicated subject, you don't have the education to understand it, but there's just nothing to be done" Well you're right I'm a big dumb ignorant oaf (also due to circumstances you arranged) but hey sometimes I get in a position to crash the plane
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
Looks like you're gonna have to use that big brain you're so proud of to figure out a third option after all! Looks like it's that or we all die! Looks like you big-brained elites find the burden falls back on you because I'M TOO STUPID to understand what must be done
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
One of the first and most popular Game Theory 101 examples is the simple game of Chicken You know how you win a game of Chicken when two cars are speeding toward each other You disconnect your steering wheel and throw it away
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
Maybe I did, in fact, go to a big fancy school and get the sheepskin for my hours clocked in fancy debatey lecture halls and I got the standardized test score saying I have a superior brain and am therefore held *responsible* to *honestly entertain your opposing views*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
Maybe I am *capable* of engaging in the endless intellectual circlejerk over inherently oppressive ideas and fighting tooth and claw with you for hours every day to prove whether racism is empirically correct But you know what? I don't care
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
I am, so to speak, "precommitting" to siding with the big scary mob My car came with a steering wheel, but it doesn't have one anymore I was one of you but I've renounced all the values and norms of your insufferable subculture
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Replying to @arthur_affect @svigalae and
Dude that logic would work if you were someone
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Replying to @_sinity @arthur_affect and
That logic works if you're anyone.
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Replying to @banalexistence @arthur_affect and
I'm not the one boasting about forcing MAD-or-surrender without having any Assured Destruction capability
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Replying to @_sinity @banalexistence and
It's not about *me*, despite the rhetorical use of the word "I" It's about *us* It's about the scenario Scott apparently finds so terrifying, the "mob mentality" of the low-IQ bullies
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The same thing that drives Scott to despair is what gives me hope The "smart people" can't stay in charge forever, no matter how many clever gadgets they build, as long as they're simply outnumbered, and as long as the "dumb people" realize their interests are not aligned
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Replying to @arthur_affect @_sinity and
Because, I want to make this very clear and specific, the California Ideology dream Scott and his friends define themselves by, where a few tech geniuses are able to make rational, utilitarian decisions without any input from the emotional hysterical masses, repulses me
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Replying to @arthur_affect @_sinity and
In a "Marching Morons" scenario I'm on the side of the morons Because, as time has gone on, it becomes clearer and clearer to me how vulnerable I personally am to being declared one of the morons one day
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