WTF Happened to Penn Jillette?!
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The guy used to be an independent thinker and now he's a dyed in the wool NPC captured by the mind virus!
I think the trick is that, these people were always like this, just picked more acceptable targets. As the Overton window shifts, and as people like us get more "extreme" - even if we stay in the exact same place - what these "free thinkers" feel the need to call out starts looking more and more deranged.
Basically, they probably didn't change...they just went mask off and felt they could (and should, to be a Good Person) talk about things that make them look (to people more on "our side") like absolute slobbering retards.
It's not a shift in their personality or opinions, it's a shift in what Free Thinkers should think freely about. Similar things happened to the "skeptic community" and the like. "Skeptics" went from calling out a lot of normie stuff to, ironically, calling out "conspiracy theories," and anyone who doesn't buy into the the normie stuff.
A lot of "free thinkers," especially self professed Free Thinkers, were never actually thinking that freely. Ironically, they were adopting the acceptable opinions of the "free thinker community."
Maybe not "free thinkers" so much as "fedora wearing atheists".
I saw a microcosm of that on Digg where a bunch of "free thinking atheists" started gaming the moderation system to boost their socio-communist ideas. For all their "free thinking" because they rejected conformity and the constraints of "morality and Christianity" but enforced upon themselves the dogmatic beliefs of atheism and socialism.
LGBTQ123 community too. They're so liberal and free thinking but you hit the programming/brainwashing tripwire and boom, it's all NPC talk and conformity.
I feel like atheism is like libertarians. It has no protect from bad actors.
Libertarians are plagued by retards not understanding economics, and just thinking "whatever I want should be legal, I'm libertarian". Left libertarians don't exist. If you just want drugs and abortions, but are otherwise pro-government, you aren't libertarian, you're a degenerate.
Then there are the grifter fags that try to boost individual elements of libertarian ideology - that do not work in a vacuum. Free migration in a welfare state is just parasitism. Free market ideals only work when EVERYONE does them - when the rest of the world is engaging in protectionism and economic warfare, you must as well.