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Yeah I think I'm done with this website after reading this

congrats, this was probably the most awful thing I've read this week

> I was gaslighting myself for a while that they were just busy, but when I heard about a couple of social things that I wasn't invited to, I realised that the friendships weren't …

> I moved to the US (Bay Area) about 10 years ago after having spent much of my youth elsewhere, and to this day, I haven't been able adjust to the lack of informal social interact…

> It has very high social trust, low inequality, very low crime, affordable housing, universal healthcare, and so on. I wonder how long these metrics will last. Social trust is def…

> You can't solve a culture of pervasive government surveillance by inventing new tech, because that tech will just be outlawed or regulated to death I call bs. New regulation move…

nowhere in that thing do I see any mention of things like work life balance, it's just a bunch of claptrap about "infrastructures of oppression". Whatever that's supposed to mean n…

So at this point what's your argument? Change the subject, make up a slippery slope, and then scream about "fascism"? What's your goal here? To be so ridiculous that any sort of co…

> against the wishes of both its practitioners Because our wishes conflict with their economic motives > the people receiving the treatment, who say it helps them Again, children w…

> "Allowed" is a telling choice of words though! You're advocating for a state-enforced limit on what people are allowed to choose for themselves. To children. What people are allo…

> The term "transition" as used here is a euphemism that covers interfering with a child's puberty in a way that is likely to sterilize them for life if the treatment persists, and…

> why aren't experts in the field taking that evidence into account? Money. Build your entire career around treatments for trans minors, and without them you have no career

> but then actually mean something else “kids shouldn’t be allowed to transition” and then introduce legislation to that effect. Minors aren't capable of consent. The treatments ha…

> The only reason anyone is talking about it is because he’s trying to use it as a cover story Why are people trying to make this guy sound clever and self aware? He sounds unhinge…

> The guy has been seriously unhinged for a long time no doubt made much worse by the ability of uber-rich dudes to surround themselves with sycophants. Kanye 2.0

Why are people trying to read some bullshit ulterior motives out of what this guy is doing? He knows what he's doing. There's nothing "clever" about it. Someone talks about these t…

"satire" isn't a defense for this guy There's this trend: people say awful, transgressive shit and then say "oh we were only kidding" Also there's another trend: megalomaniac celeb…

> I can’t tell are for effect / satire or whether he’s changed his point of view in a rational way or whether he’s becoming unhinged Why are people here trying to give this guy a w…

I read HOD a couple times, which is related to European subjugation of Africa Nowhere in it do I find any sort criticism of the harms that were done. He describes the awful conditi…

Values like this? > A certain enormous buck n*** encountered in Haiti fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal to the end of my da…

> The problems just show up differently. Social media, online bullying and body shaming hurt girls more than boys. And video game addiction, desperation due to purposelessness and …

> Social media in and of itself is really just an accelerant for the particular set of social expectations we stack on girls and women around appearance and how that relates to sel…

If we're in a place where we no longer need to waste 6 figure salaries on administrators and provosts so they can churn out boilerplate by hand, why even hire them in the first pla…