I meant huh what as in “jaw flapping open, flabber fully gasted”, and this is all just ... wow.
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Replying to @kraftwurker
It's funny how his schizophrenic delusions could be as colorful and varied as him being the Emperor of Antarctica and red ties being a signal people were communist infiltrators But it all still came back to an evil Jewish conspiracy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kraftwurker
That's the whole thing, you're laughing along with some wacky cartoon conspiracy theory some weird disturbed person online seems to actually believe and then they always bring the Jews into it They can't just be lizard aliens they have to be JEWISH lizard aliens
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kraftwurker
My compassion for conspiracy theorists dried up once I realized this. I had been thinking of them as hapless people swept up into absurd beliefs through bad epistemology. But the prejudice came first, and it's always motivated reasoning from there.
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Replying to @ArcaneVoid @kraftwurker
John Nash always maintained he was only antisemitic when he was psychotic, and it all went away when he got proper treatment Just like he was also apparently only gay when he was off his meds Again,
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Officially choosing to believe that I avoided this in terms of paranoid schizophrenia failure modes by not having to Bring The Jews Into It due to being the Jews myself already tbh
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @arthur_affect and
It didn't stop Bobby Fischer...
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Replying to @MockWooloo @arthur_affect and
I thought he was just (“just”) bipolar? Same genetic marker so there’s probably some extent to which the distinction’s meaningfully fake I guess but I’m less than qualified to know things about how
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @arthur_affect and
In all honesty, I'm not actually sure just which psychotic disorder(s) Fischer actually had
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Replying to @MockWooloo @chrysopoetics and
Fischer resisted diagnosis and treatment his entire life so we'll never get any kind of definitive answer on that
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As far as his antisemitism goes, Garry Kasparov wrote a biography of him speculating that (as with John Nash) the antisemitism was linked to anticommunism, as it so frequently is, especially in the Cold War
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MockWooloo and
Fischer in particular, during his reign as World Champion, saw himself as this kind of lone rebel surrounded by a huge team of "Soviet Jewish" players coordinating with each other to take him down and destroy him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MockWooloo and
The toxic circumstance of legitimately being famous and legitimately being targeted by a lot of people while also having suffered paranoid symptoms since childhood
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