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This reminded me that TWG has a Twitter account. I could have done without that reminder.

A few years ago, I would have pointed to Elon Musk as someone approximately where I was in the political spectrum. The left pushed him away, the right welcomed him, and he spent hundreds of millions of dollars and put in immense effort to elect Trump.

No, you embossed carbuncle. Apartheid boy was evil all along; you were just too media-illiterate to see through the propaganda.

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The left made him call that guy a pedo in 2018, and tell his first wife he was the alpha in the relationship in 2000. Thanks Obama.

E: forgot about the ‘im actually a socialist, but with a more capitalist character’ tweet

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The left did not push Elon Musk away. The left has fundamentally different interests and values to the billionaire and alleged rapist.

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TWG: is a good reminder that atrocities don’t come from convenient avatars of all I oppose

Random bluecheck: On the contrary, this just reaffirms my biases that e/accs and AGI race-promoters are the source of every bad thing in the world.

TWG: was he e/acc?

We are in the ‘he only followed some e/acc, he never said he was e/acc’ phase. Wonder what his manifesto will say.

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Hopefully it elaborates on whatever the fuck this is:

Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal.

The solution to falling birthdates isn’t immigration. It’s cultural.

Encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness and spirituality:

  • ban Tenga fleshlights and “Japan Real Hole” custom pornstar pocket pussies being sold in Don Quixote grocery stores
  • replace conveyor belt sushi and restaurant vending machine ordering, with actual human interaction with a waiter
  • replace 24/7 eSports cafes where young males earn false fitness signals via Tekken fighting and Overwatch shooting games, with athletics in school
  • heavily stigmatize maid cafes where lonely salarymen pay young girls to dress as anime characters and perform anime dances for them
  • revitalize traditional Japanese culture (Shintoism, Okinawan karate, onsen, etc)

If we couldn’t react with “wake up babe, new copypasta just dropped” or “tag yourself, I’m the false fitness signal in the maid café”, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.

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this whole exchange is so beautiful i love these stupid fucking idiots WHY ARE THEY EVERYWHERE

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this guy nailing the UHC CEO is the only good thing they will ever have a chance of claiming credit for, so of course they rush to disavow him

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lol that’s exquisite

but you could tell the guy was into Effective Altruism from how he did dust specks vs CEOs

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From the replies:

I see the interest in AI, Peter Thiel, and the far future, but it’s a lot more rationality adjacent than EA.

“It’s a lot more country than western”

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meanwhile his twitter:

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The starving people are tied to the track, the trolley barreling down at them, they are screaming at the rich to release them or pull the lever, which they can’t, not without the rich guys help. But the rich are not helping. Why are the rich not helping Elon?

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