Unfortunately a useless middle-layer is an essential ingredient to the modern corporation. Until glaring wokeness becomes career suicide, all we can do is milk the corps and seek out smaller employment settings.

I based that off a debatable quote, but he at least was known as a pop-culture icon while he was breathing. Hawking is the better example, having published books intended to be consumed by those without physics degrees.

Sure, many people are helpless if earnest, or afraid to step out of line, but just as many gleefully adopt primitive personalities (i.e. what leads to the doublethink I quoted).

It's semantics, but I utterly refuse to call anyone that doesn't have a full belief in the first and second amendments liberals. I do use 'shitlib' because that's fewer syllables than 'regressive leftist'. It's alright if you object to enlightenment era liberalism and it's unforeseen consequences, but the casual Republican calling Democratic-progressives 'liberals' is committing a tactical mistake (in the tribal affiliation, culture-war sense).

Divide and conquer tactics that lead to the marginalization of groups like Golden Dawn is something I intend to write a high-effort essay on, but my summary is this: class-solidarity is axiomatically bullshit, if at least not evil like identity politics. My plain example; the working-class faring better after the black death culled Europe's peasant population. Another reason why compromising with socialists of any brand isn't worthwhile. There is no unity with those of the same SES with those that fall for DaC tactics, such as the genuinely woke, for they are liabilities towards peaceful, productive coexistence.

Prima donas like Arthmoor, who double-dip off open-collaboration/free-culture achievements, are not our friends. Frankly, Nexusmods should have required CC-SA like permissions from the get-go for file hosting, and had pages linking to mods hosted on other websites.

Filtering through tards who can't operate their computer, but expect others to hold their hand, was already bad enough before the DEI wave of the last decade. Creators really need to be drilled into their heads what a sampling bias is, and seen vs unseen in general (vocal minority that whines on mod pages vs silent majority). Platforms could do a lot to signify reputation before being allowed to hassle creators.

I was a kid, so all I remember was left-leaning teachers ragging on Bush, Iraq War, and NCLB + standardized testing, years later piecing together that they ignored how NCLB was very bipartisan. Right now, I'm mad having just learned that it had a limited provision for vouchers that was gutted out of the bill. Regressives never want to be like Europe when it's inconvenient to partisan orthodoxy.

Social security reform was one of the few authentic things a recent president has attempted, and the NPCs of both parties just gulped the propaganda down. Even George Carlin, who can be characteristically contrarian, just repeated the cliches in his otherwise great segment about the big club. I get the indirect point about Wall St. power brokers not giving a shit about us, but not even allowing younger Americans to take some of their own money out of the Social Security Trust is so parasitically two-faced.

Better than helping pass unconstitutional legislation, but that's more normal, and thus less vivid and less rhetorically blameable. Let's go suck Lincoln's and FDR's cocks because they were so active in pushing and passing legislation.

Economists play their part in masking the transfer of wealth from the productive to the parasitic.

Ron Paul was an actual libertarian who wanted to dismantle the federal dept. of education, so that 10% should not have mattered. But we see politicians as personalities to identify with, instead of as constitutionally restricted administrators. Stakeless democracy is such a dysfunctional, two-faced form of government.

I'm of the opinion that the original KiA2 should be archived, through backup and/or shutting down activity. It's not been as active since your account got suspended, but continued activity risks old conversations being memory holed. IMO, KiA2 had one of the higher signal/noise ratios among mid-sized unorthodox communities.

The Satanic Temple is just a political grift, started a decade ago. LeVayan Satanism might have been part of the Atheist hubris that common man doesn't gravitate towards religion, but they're at least largely separate from this currentYear opportunism.

I think 99% figure come from a guy doing a grep/google search of either scientists' personal pages or publications, and finding man-made global warming mentioned. Big Lie levels of sloppy methodology.