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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

At what point do we start tagging him with "racist sympathizer Peter Thiel"?

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

En masse, as soon as we can.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

peter thiels bestie, was allegedly defenestrated last year, his boytoy , not his husband. also the fact the p2025 and heritage foundation is funded by thiel himself, but the endgame doesnt include "people" like THIEL in thier society.

thiel likes to do things behind the scenes, so he avoids any responsibilities, plus hes gay so he would face much resistance in his policies if he was up and front, like the log cabin people.

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 1 day ago (9 children)

How is it that the weirdest dudes keep ending up with so much power and influence. Like, this is just bigoted shit obviously, but it's weird bigoted shit. What is it about people that makes them look at a weirdo freak (derogatory) like this and think "this is a man I need to have direct the entirety of my belief system going forward"?

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Social media has accelerated this. No one would know who this guy was in the 90s, for example.

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[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago

Useful idiots. There needs to be somebody who stands in front of the crowd and takes the blame. That person must be weird enough that people don't keep following once the support is removed.

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago
[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 235 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (26 children)

Excuse me?

profoundly negrous

This motherfucker is so racist he invented a new term.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 125 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It’s 4chan speak, I’ve seen it before.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You need to hang out in better places.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago

It’s good to lurk and keep an eye on extremist spaces imho. Not good for the mental health, but helpful in intervening/deradicalizing teenagers following down those rabbit holes. Good to also prep counters and debunks to narratives before they take hold.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

While I can understand his syntax, I fail to understand the substance of that sentence.

Now I'm curious how wealth can be utilized in a manner that pertains to African-Americans. Funding sickle cell anemia research?

[–] AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think he is basically saying "I think that black people are bad. I also think that some billionaires are bad, but it's #notallbillionaires . The innate badness that black people have and the bad billionaires have are the same, so I am going to call the bad billionaires black". In other words, racist bullshit

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[–] blackwateropeth@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hahaha, what the fuck does that even mean???? What a clown

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

From Meriam-Webster's entry on the word

Did the definition of n----r change?

There is a widespread belief that the original meaning of n----r, as defined in dictionaries, was "an ignorant person," and a related belief that current dictionary definitions describing its use as a hateful, racist epithet are a recent change. We do not know the source of those beliefs, but they are not accurate. The word was first included in a Merriam-Webster dictionary in 1864, at which time it was defined as a synonym of Negro, with a note indicating that it was used "in derision or depreciation." There has never been a definition like "an ignorant person" for this word in any subsequent dictionary published by this company. Nor do we know of such a definition in any earlier dictionary.

There's been an attempt among white racists over the years to try and redeem the hard-r N-word. They'll say that it originally meant just an ignorant or foolish person in general, not only black people specifically. But this is a historical fiction. It's always been used as a slur against black people. It was originally a complete synonym for "negro." If you asked Yarvin, and he didn't just admit outright to being a flaming racist, he would likely justify it by making a claim like this. He would claim that he's saying these billionaires are just corrupt and foolish. He would say that it's OK to use the word, as he's not referring to black people, just ignorant and lazy people in general. He would say he's using the non-racist definition of the n-word. But again, this is a historical fiction.

Sometimes racists will cite words like "niggardly", meaning cheap or stingy, as an example of how the n-word could be used in ways not applying just to black people. Niggardly is a word that sounds like the n-word but actually does have a non-racist history. They'll try to link niggardly to the hard-r n-word. But what they ignore is that the word niggardly has a completely different etymological root. Niggardly shares roots with words like niggling, tracing back to the 13th century nig, meaning simply a stingy person. The n-word however, as Meriam-Webster notes, derives directly from the Spanish negro.. Racists will connect the n-word to words like niggardly, niggling, etc., citing their real history as non-racist words, and say that the n-word can also be used non-offensively because of this. But there is no common etymological root between the hard-r n-word and similar sounding words that do actually have a non-racist history.

Of course, it's all ultimately a moot point. In polite society today, most people understandably avoid using any word that remotely sounds like the n-word. See controversies around the word niggardly. And really, there's little reason to use words like niggardly, even if one could argue that they're technically not racist. They just sound way too similar, and there's plenty of other perfectly valid words to use in their place. And ultimately, someone could just as easily be hurt or offended by words that sound similar to the n-word even if they're technically not directly related. The words are best avoided, as they just end up hurting people for no good reason, even if some etymologist might argue they're not directly related.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Curtis Yarvin is an endashger.

The appropriate words to put in there are Nigglers. Cause they are all niggler-rich. They niggle away at us: pay me for this pay me for that. They didn't do any work or produce anything but a stranglehold on their workers (niggling away their/your hours for niggled pay).

Lynch the Nigglers. Billionaires & corporations. Lynch em all.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 49 points 1 day ago (15 children)

I’m middle aged now, but I have to admit, while I’ve always known there was racism still around, and still part of the government. I’m blown away though at just how much more of it, and how deeply rooted it is. The kind of people in charge right now are literal cartoon villains when I was a kid.

I mean that literally.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 139 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)
[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I find it funny how bad guys in fiction openly expresses that they’re in the dark side. That’s so comical it can’t happen in reality. Right?

Nah, this guy is embracing ”Dark Enlightenment” as his core philosophy.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You start out thinking that the fictional one-dimensional villains are realistic as a kid

Then you grow up and realize that they were just intentionally overdone hyperbole

Then you grow up even more and realize that the fictional one-dimensional villains are very real

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know what... You run with that. I have no idea wtf it means, but if you stay pointed at the billionaires...

Well, a piece of shit launched at my enemy isn't my friend, but I'm not going to get in it's way either

[–] bravesentry@feddit.org 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

he apparently has no problem with the billionaire part of their existence, so no. fuck him.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

Don't interrupt your enemy's enemy dumbass

I'm not saying they're your friend, just don't interrupt the fight. Use it. Let them fight

Don't interrupt two enemies who are making a mistake, don't be a fucking idiot. Use the opportunity, win.

That's all that matters - win and never forget why you did it

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 31 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Negrous

Motherfucker out here just making up entirely new racial slurs.

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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 103 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

(I read the tweet)

Mother of God...

(I read his Wikipedia page)

Oh, this is actually mild by his standards, my goodness...

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 51 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Ok, i reconstruct the slur in my mind and...what the fuck is that even mean? It sounds like another one of those word salad by intoxicated individual that mean absolutely nothing but also trying to be profoundly racist.

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[–] FrostbittenDuck@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure you won't get banned for using the hard R on Twitter anymore, so what is the actual point? I mean, even if you did, avoiding the actual word wouldn't trick anyone into thinking you mean anything but what you do.

[–] Vitaly_Chernobyl@sopuli.xyz 78 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can we please go back to a time when psychos like this guy were largely irrelevant?

I hate the internet sometimes.

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[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

He is really fucking dumb, in addition to, being an absolute piece of shit.

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Now you, too, know about Curtis Yarvin. You thought Jordan Peterson was bad? Welcome to the club.

And people think I'm exaggerating or polarising when I call Peter Thiel a neoliberal fascist.

edit: it seems some people don't understand that Neoliberalism and Fascism do, in fact, go together very well. And that the fascism we're all facing now does not look the same as 90 years ago.

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