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    Edit: Nvm, I'll shut up about Peter Thiel now
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    I'm also talking about the way his body works mechanically. But anyways...sorry y'all for LimyLoo-ing another thread into the ditch...
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    But I wasn't even commenting on his behavior. I referenced a factor influencing his motor movements. How are motor movements not behavior?
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    Well, I'd say your development is massively more influential on your behavior and personality than the minutia of your lifestyle (e.g. How you sit and how long you sit) Look, I'm not trying to boil his personality all down to a single factor, but what is certain is that when people are screwed up and anti-social (e.g. Wanting to do away with social democracy because it's impeding your income), it's not a complete mystery as to how they got that way...dysfunctional socialization is what gives us school shooters, sexual sadists and serial killers (yes I think he's that bad...given the power he would do massive harm)
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    I stand by my assessment
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    /masturbatory ponitification
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    Yeah that dude is up there on the autism spectrum. But the body thing in particular, if you do not use your body properly, it becomes awkward also. So, people that sit at desks and never stretch and exercise generally have bad posture, weird gaits, tense muscle movements, etc. There are pictures of him when he was young, and his posture was the same then. I have two friends with (actual diagnosed) Asperger'sand they are very physically awkward, and in general it's almost always* because blindness to social cues prevented them from learning "body language," so to speak. (*Although occasionally caused by dyspraxia and muscle-tone issues) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_(psychology) I use Asperger's as a reference/example because it's fairly well-understood how the 'social blindness' associated with ASD causes awkwardness/clumsiness. Anyway, much of our empathy stems from our embodied understanding of others. If you see a torture scene in a movie where someone is getting their fingernails pulled out, very often you'll instinctively cover your fingertips or ball up your hand, because you are mapping that person's bodily experience onto your own body. This bodily rapport is a huge factor in empathy, and it's largely learned b the age of four, and I'm saying PT never learned it.
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    What would MLK or Thoreau do? Vandalize cardboard signs, obviously
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    I am all for civil disobedience, but grabbing a sign out of the hands of a Trump supporter is really some lowbrow civil disobedience. It's the political equivalent of an armpit fart.
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    Just look at Peter Thiel's physical awkwardness (literally just watch him walk out onto the stage): https://youtube.com/watch?v=UTJB8AkT1dk That is a person who has not learned how to navigate the social world with his body.
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    Thiel has been on my radar for the last couple years. I often go out of my way to watch him talk as he's such a strange case study of a human being... First off, he is obsessed with the concept of "mimetic desire" and imitation, and basically sees it as evidence that people are sheep ("sheeple," you might say). Whereas the reality is, imitation is a massively adaptive trait, it's really only found in humans and some higher primates, and it's essentially a really clever way of outsourcing cognitive busywork. One thing you can pretty reliably tell about a person is how well they were socialized during development--as well as their general social disposition--based on how comfortable they are in their body. This might sound like Phrenology, but we learned during the Constructivist explosion in psychology that humans--and many other social primates--engage in 'rough and tumble play' when they're developing in order to learn social "games," and how to enact those "games" with their body. (This is exactly why people with Asperger's generally don't look comfortable in their body, btw.) There's (of course) a bit more to it than that, but that's a start. But anyway, Thiel is a very physically-awkward person and that tells you (at least) something about his psychosocial disposition. And as has been mentioned, he thinks 'social democracy' is outmoded, basically because it interferes with his ability to make money. So I seem him as a deeply misanthropic person, who presents his misanthropy as a deep concern for "freedom" and other such honorable values.
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    or the Negroid community
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    Well, here come the Putin tactics: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5cs64r/kellyanne_conway_says_harry_reid_should_be_very/
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    Well, to the extent you were saying things will be fine, I was saying we have no real reason to think that, and thinking that might actually make things worse
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    I'm not trying to be contrarian. I'm just cautioning against the 'things on balance get better' complacency. I think the appropriate attitude for humanity right now is great anxiety about the environment and about the recent global rise of extreme right-wing nationalism (If not outright authoritarianism) Thinking things will always be okay is a "moral hazard" and it can cause people to make bad situations way worse And this is what (at least partly) caused the banking crisis ("no matter what we do, there is a bailout that will protect the system from collapsing") And this quite possibly contributed to the low voter turnout among Democrats ("the polls say HRC is a lock so it's redundant for me to vote") Likewise with every other possible problem Including climate catastrophe and the sorts of problems we already went through in the 20th century (but didn't learn a fucking thing) So no, we shouldn't be hopeful We should act as if the future depends on exactly what we do And avoid complacency at all costs
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    Citation needed, innit. There is no magical law that says things must get better. Humanity spent the 20th century trying to destroy itself with wars and nukes and genocides, and the only reason we wormed our way out of the apocalypse *twice* during the Cold War was dumb fucking luck. It's way easier to break things than to improve and maintain them. Humanity spent many thousands of years with an authoritarian boot on its collective throat, and it seems like some of us are eager to be in that position again. But, as Hoodie said, people are mobilizing. People are rallying around Bernie. There is no greater motivator in the universe than pain and negative emotion, and we currently have a massive surplus of that, so we'll see.
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    Person of Interest - decent-to-solid/10
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    Dancing Pube Sasquatch
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    It really, really depends on the minutia of the law... One concern with discrimination laws is the possibility of "discrimination" being too broadly defined and restricting speech that others simply don't like. That is what appears to be happening up in Canada with bill C-16. There is a core of sensible protections like protecting trans people from housing and employment discrimination and hate crimes. But then there are details around the fringes of the bill--pertaining specifically to speech--that are potentially cause for concern: the way the bill is worded, it might preclude professors from teaching certain empirical findings in biology, psychology, and evolution. There are actual, salient sex/gender differences with regards to biology, evolutionary psychology, psychometrics and so on, and the bill is worded in such a way that empirical findings that are perceived as disparaging on the basis of gender might be illegal to teach. And hopefully I don't need to spell out why criminalizing certain "ugly truths" might be bad news, but that is essentially what the early days of Maoist China were all about..
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    Yeah that's why I was more afraid of Cruz winning the Trump to some degree. When someone Trump is full of shit it goes both ways, he comes from a backround as a apathetic rich guy, not a delusional religious nut. Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk We also had a presidential candidate who wanted to outlaw masturbation...I think it was Santorum, but we've had so many fundamentalist nutjob candidates that they've kinda all blurred together in my head.
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    Here are Thiel's favorite economists: comrades Strauss and Friedman (y'know, those leftist revolutionaries that inspired the leftist economic policies of comrades Reagan and Thatcher): https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&persist_app=1&v=W3byZ5WfTzA
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    P.S. There's nothing "leftist" about wanting unfettered monopolies. Get your head on straight, mate.
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    someone capable of waging war in the name of leftist philosophies. mental and physical. That sounds fun to me. I really hate my 9-5. Why don't we let them do it, so there will be a violent revolution? Then afterwards we can put whoever we want into power and get rid of this back and forth election nonsense? If by "we" you mean the remaining 50% of the population that doesn't starve to death during the "transition"... This is what really bums me out: people think anarchy and Revolution would do less harm than "this back and forth election nonsense." I sorta think people don't realize just how bad things can get, especially Americans. They picture Che Guevara swooping in and saving them--smoothly and painlessly--from the oppressive system, ignoring the glaring fucking fact that this oppressive system is the reason they're comfortable enough to worry about such things, and if you destabilize it then the chaos you're so well-protected from comes flooding back in. Adieu, I'm starting to think you're a genuine nihilist who is happy to upend anything and everything out of sheer boredom, regardless of the harm it would cause.
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    Thiel believes that companies inherently strive towards monopoly (which makes sense, I guess) but he ALSO believes that they should be allowed to get there, unimpeded by regulation. Now, we fucking know what monopolies look like. Given enough time and 'freedom', they grow like cancer and make life hell for anyone on the outside of them. So when he talks about 'freedom' being incompatible with democracy, he is saying that he and people like him should be free to accumulate endless wealth and power, regardless of the impact on society. If the country/world turns into a corporatocracy that is miserable for most people living in it, well that is just a testament to our 'freedom.' So no, I'm not 'open-minded' about Peter Thiel being given more power.
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