Notices by William Gillis 🏴 (rechelon@mastodon.social)

Sucks that he was into reactionary shit like evopsych gender nonsense, but honestly tho congratulations to the grey tribe / rationalist milieu for producing their first Actually Effective Altruist.

The claims adjustor's manifesto is 🔥.

Good shit, no lengthy rants against the queers like in Ted K's bullshit. Just clean and directly to the common points pretty much everyone on the planet agrees with.

Also how do you people not realize that not only does the Grey Tribe love to read Ted K as a right of passage and constant callback, but pretty much all of the right from the neoreactionaries to golden dawn nazis love Ted and constantly reference him.

Like this shit is bog-standard.

Like I have a small cottage industry preying upon these Grey Tribe folks and breaking their brains by proving that their notion of free speech / marketplace of ideas is being incorrectly formulated, and a more coherent consequentialist version supports No Platforming nazis.

c4ss.org/content/50151

Like this is as plumbline as one could possibly be in the Slate Star Codex comments sections. There's hundreds of thousands of copies of this guy.

I've found absolutely nothing from him that breaks with this mold. Like he's not weird and quirky. His opinions are all exactly party line.

I don't mean this (entirely) disparagingly. I'm just shocked that so many people are unfamiliar with the grey tribe world.

Like if you're surprised that a "tech bro" would be hostile to NFTs as an obvious hype scam, you have a bad map of the different camps grouped as "tech bros."

Luigi Mangione has INCREDIBLY STANDARD "grey tribe" politics.

Approves of meritocratic social hierarchy and technological capacity, but bemoans the erosion of tradition by feminism and atheism. Hates antifa no platforming. Flirts with anticiv thinkers. Supports nuclear power and animal liberation.

If you wouldn't cheer at the liberation of a nazi extermination camp because such happened to be done by the US or the Red Army "and only serves their interests", you are so completely fucking cooked.

There's more than a few reasons that Israel has been bombing buildings that kept Assad's intelligence and diplomatic records.

Assad and Israel have long collaborated and shared a ton of mutual interests, Assad did not at all like the pressure the Palestinian refugees in Syria placed on him.

The struggle against US imperialism is incoherent without the struggle against Russian imperialism. We cheer when prison walls are torn down in Israel or Syria.

These absolute clowns have no fucking principles, consistency, or values whatsoever. Just the same old campist/tankie trash briefly repackaged as common cause with anarchists.

"Unity Of Fields" can eat a fucking bullet, absolutely despicable campist scum incapable of diagnosing imperialism much less fighting it. There's no place in anarchism for these monsters.

This is the liberation of all prisoners from the "Palestine Branch" prison, which the US infamously used as a black site to torture and kill countless people it had abducted in other counties after September 11th.

Fuck every single Assadist. And fuck every single leftist who collected paychecks to defend the butcher.

His victims have stormed his palace in Damascus and one day I hope they'll be in your fucking house too.

People are going to be pouring into radical spaces in the next few months looking to get involved, and the grifters and tankies are going to come out of the woodwork to try to eat them.

Every infoshop and org should be mass printing warnings about tankie cults:

https://antidotezine.com/2024/07/01/zine-red-flags/

People love Trump because 1) our epistemic ecosystems are toxic sludge, 2) many people have intense investments in the (often non-material) benefits of patriarchy and racism, 3) fear of ratcheting cancelation has scared every type of amoral bastard into mobilizing together...

Love the inane "trump voters are just a product of material conditions" re-tread of 2016's "it's just economic anxiety." Same sort of reactionaries saying it, but they've swapped from identifying as libs to marxists. 🧵

There is no grand leftist coalition in the wings waiting to be discovered. The election could have easily gone the other way from happenstance, but there is no vast mobilization of class consciousness and the working class that will ever happen. That's an 1800s era map of power.

How we got here was libs and leftists incessantly downplaying the existence of fascists as a marginal fringe that could never matter. But the "Right Wing Death Squads" and "the natural order is warlords raping young men and eating them" folks really do constitute millions now.

4) transphobia is intense and rabidly popular rn as a blowback to progress, 5) mild personal inconveniences and changes to every day life during COVID radicalized people for life, 6) the left keeps pratfalling with horrifically bad analysis, and yes 7) inflation sucks.

We're dealing with a huge number of hardened fash who are not going to see the light. They will likewise exploit any vulnerability they can find. If they think we haven't prepared to make civil war or genocide sufficiently painful for them, they will embrace such.