“Deter sneerers and critics with this simply JS trick!”

Obviously the arse end.

It’s ironic that there is a “good old days” of (state) Communism, seeing that it was supposed to be the end of history.

(side note, back in HS I saw a graph illustrating the Marxist theory that successive revolutions lifted human civilization up a series of stairs (pastoralism -> city states -> feudalism -> centralized kingdoms -> bourgeois capitalism) up until Communism where these steps became an ascending straight line… and I though “hey, why does the line straighten out just there???”)

I think a big part of Marx’ appeal back in the day was that he was fully slotted into the rationalist milieu of the time. Identifying an impersonal, inevitable “march of progress” that wasn’t religious was a powerful idea for some people.

(btw the Communist Manifesto is 150 years old and could have been written yesterday, at least the first part)

By all accounts, postwar Soviet union was a pretty sexist and racist place. It’s no wonder the “old guard” communists look at today’s blue-haired leftists and sound just like crusty old fascists.

Yeah I’m kinda familiar with the realities of drug development and testing, which is why I prefaced my comments with the solution being essentially magic. If we find hte magic bullet for cancer I expect it will be a slow grind and a lot of trial and error, so the wealth will be diluted across many entities. Not to mention the current business of cancer care might try hard to stop it…

Let’s put it to the test:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40473060
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35619789

That said, I’m mildly curious as to what influence if any the Collinses have on “real”, religious fascist pro-natalists, but not enough to go spelunking in the sewers to find out.

Yeah they are media grifters plain and simple. Once the Thiel gravy train ends they’ll pivot to something else, or messily divorce.

That piece has been referenced here before, but thanks for diving into the comments. The one about Marx is pretty funny, I’m sure the commenter has only read the Cliff Nots of both Marx and “current leftists”.

The hypothetical here is interesting in that it shows this commenter basically being a money maximiser. Say you’re the inventor of this cure - you’re the only one who understands it, basically it’s magic. You have 2 choices:

1. squeeze every patient and healthcare system for as much as they can bear. After all, this is a cure for cancer, there’s an upper limit to how much people and governments are prepared to spend, just put the price $1 below that. Profit!

or you can

2. offer the invention for free, still live a good life as a consultant or employee of a drug company, or just spend your time handling speaking engagements at $200,000 a pop, and get remembered throughout history as one of the saviors of humankind.

I will have to agree.

Wow the Unz review seems like a very cursed site.

Case in point: Steve Sailer references RMS: https://web.archive.org/web/20240510121546/https://www.unz.com/isteve/richard-m-stallman/

I’ve never heard of these boxers, but this was pretty funny

In this corner: Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury, a bald 6’9” behemoth who resembles the Amazing Colossal Man of 1957 sci-fi B-movie infamy. Fury was born 35 years ago to Irish Traveller parents […]

I doubt that either Fury or Usyk understand the term “white” as Americans do. The main ethnic identity I’ve seen Fury claim is that of an Irish Gypsy whose people have been oppressed by the British for centuries. Fury even once let these words slip from his lips before one of his fights with Deontay Wilder when asked if there was a racial element to their matchup:

We’re all hauman beings. It doesn’t matter if you’re black, white, pink or green. We share the same blood. We are humans.

(mispelling in original)

Shocking that a pro boxer named Fury is a better human being than some self-proclaimed racist blogger.

even the old version randomly hides comments under “load more comments”, for no ohter reason than for literal clicks as far as I can see

Nah, to do that you need widespread ecological collapse, famine, lack of clean drinking water, and ideally a really good infectious disease.

Sad they’re dissing the classics, like Incontinentia Buttocks.

Already asked and answered elsewhere in the comments.

Edit see https://awful.systems/post/1587716

k. have fun getting punched.

To find a partner and start a family? Or to dress so that people make fun of you online?

Something something poker up his backside.

Nice link ,but man is Reddit shit to read nowadays with the newish layout.