Just now it hit me: that is a gut-bustingly funny joke.
Fascists don't have freedom. They have confusion: the State doesn't forbid something clearly enough, so they do it anyway, and the State can't be bothered to correct them. They didn't stop being retarded, after all. The Fascists have a giant fire to put out, they don't have time to get through thick moronic skulls if they don't absolutely have to.
It is said that you can be too smart to talk. "Much more recently, D.K. Simonton found that persuasiveness is at its maximum when the IQ differential between speaker and audience is about 20 points." I got ganked by this one.
*(Ascended aside.)
From computers, we know this is not actually true. If you define a communication protocol, the situation is asymmetric; either you can adhere to the protocol, or you can't. Any form of smart enough is smart enough.
Computers can use what's called, I believe, paging. If you have a program that doesn't fit in RAM, you can copy part of the program to the hard drive and then just keep going. Perhaps squishy carbonic mortals have some artificial limit which prevents them from doing this, but that would violate Turing completeness. It should be possible to communicate any idea to anyone who wants to hear it, as long as both can use a Turing-complete communication protocol.
Basically a smart person is smart enough to figure out how to dumb it down. Yes, it's clear that if I speak "naturally" then very, very few folk can grasp what I'm trying to say, but it's hardly impossible for me to mimic a 125 IQ. I've tried it, and it worked immediately.
Anyone smart enough to explicitly define a communication protocol can communicate with anyone else smart enough to respond in kind.
Communication is largely blocked by religion and lack of desire.
You can't wake up someone pretending to be asleep.
You can't communicate a complex idea to someone who inherently dislikes complex ideas. They will refuse to use the communication protocol. Egalitarianism, envy, etc etc.
You can't communicate an idea that contradicts a merchant-caste member's pre-existing religion. They don't care about ideas, they care about which professions will lead to having the most friends. Due to loss aversion, generally they focus on keeping the friends they already have. If your idea would piss off their friends, then no matter how persuasive you are, they won't buy it.
Trying to use IQ as an excuse is exactly that, an excuse.
P.S. On the other hand, note that since you can't cooperate with a non-communicator, and by assumption you're smarter than they are, they are ripe for exploitation. Practically begging for it.
If we assume Putin isn't failing, what is his objective? Is there a coherent hypothetical strategy?
Simple: generating veterans.
The longer the "war" continues, the more battle-hardened soldiers he gets. Easily worth whatever it's costing him.
"Why the conscription?"
The experience farming was going so well he decided to expand the program. He has a bunch of folk he wants battle ready and he's giving them a taste of the fight. Ukraine offers a nice soft target and an excuse to keep the kid gloves on.
How wonderfully anti-Christian.
Of course 'hypothesis' is a pretentious way of saying 'guess.'
There's an issue when it comes time for the final push. If he suddenly changes strategies to playing for keeps, he will need a fig leaf. One of many ways this guess can be refuted: he never changes strategy and genuinely gets bogged down.
The Last Psychiatrist had great difficulty putting his thoughts in plain language. I like that he's difficult to decode, because it's good training, but at some point it's not time to lift heavy things for its own sake, it's time to go get things done.
A narcissist needs to shut up and do what they're told.
"There's only one that's universally effective, I've said it before and no one liked it. This is step 1: fake it.
You'll
say: but this isn't a treatment, this doesn't make a real change in me,
this isn't going to make me less of a narcissist if I'm faking!
All
of those answers are the narcissism talking. All of those answers miss
the point: your treatment isn't for you, it's for everyone else."
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/02/the_other_ego_epidemic.html
They should explicitly ask others for their interests, and then serve those interests, in a literal or blind and dumb way, instead of their own. They should say nothing which doesn't directly contribute to serving another's interests. They can ask for clarification, for example, or inquire if the service could be improved.
Ideally they wouldn't even cook their own food or buy their own clothes, like a child. They are, after all, developmentally arrested in childhood. They would make it worth the while of the person supplying these things by explicitly serving them.
The narcissist will naturally try to twist the requests into somehow being self-serving. It will be a virtue signal or they will get the lion's share of the benefit or whatever. Hence, it must be robotic and strictly rules-based. Folk will often be disappointed because they will wink-wink nudge-nudge and the treated narcissist will deliberately ignore the implication, but over a few repetitions the folk should figure them out and exploit them properly.
Being exploited is the point. They're exploitable anyway, but after treatment, the exploitation is easy and favours the honest, instead of difficult and favouring traitors & defectors.
This is very explicitly not a cure. There is no cure for narcissism, but that's fine; to their horror, the narcissist isn't treated for the narcissist's sake, they are treated for everyone else's sake. This works, therefore it is a treatment.
Note that medicine is poison. If you take vitamin A (cod liver oil) when you don't have a vitamin A deficiency, you will get sick. Ritalin is not good for you, it's just that severe ADD is even worse, so it can be a good trade. Likewise, if you apply the narcissism treatment to someone who isn't sick, they will develop narcissism. E.g. a good Christian isn't supposed to buy chocolates or whatever for themselves. That's "greed" kek. You can't eat the last peach, but you can take the last peach if someone offers it to you. Others are supposed to gift you your needs (and you're not supposed to ask). This norm, and the constellation of related norms, is a recipe for causing narcissism.
Someone who has developed narcissism already can't get their needs met. What they need is to stop hating themselves, but to do that they have to have already stopped hating themselves. What kind of absolute bastard would hate even themselves, after all? It's time to give up and simply direct themselves to the needs of others.
Further note that you can't pair two narcissists. (Reminiscent of the way that gays like men, not other effeminate gays.) The narcissist can't honestly state their needs, so having a narcissist serve another narcissist will fail catastrophically in one of a wide variety of ways. No matter how bad you think it will get, it will be worse.
P.S. If you want to see a narcissist absolutely explode as a result of being seen to be a narcissist, there you go. Naturally almost all predditors are horrible narcissists, so the comments are broadly supportive.
P.P.S. Properly decoded, goddamn LastPsych is good. "People ask: "why do you focus on pop culture?" Because that's all the
culture 300 million Americans ever received for 30+ years."
"The problem wasn't TV, the problem was the absence of adults,
real adults"
It's like, oh yeah, JBP is just another narcissist, isn't he?
Since Biden isn't crowing about them, I would guess they're not CIA-funded for once. Might even be a genuine internal elite play. I'm only guessing, though.
Anyway, time to shame someone for bad predictions.
"Preventing the spread of a pandemic disease is one of the very few
things that even I, a hardcore anti-statist, would have conceded that
states can probably do more effectively than stateless systems. So the
fact that USG is basically just... not... is pretty enlightening"
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/kevin_bowen/status/1235723843345375232
Should have been more anti-Statist.
"The the fact that China did a better job than USG must be...darkly enlightening."
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/patrissimo/status/1235809046436798464
hahaha lol
"They appear to have stopped infections within China. The only major outbreak to have been stopped so far."The disease had already gotten out to other countries."
Great work, China. Your enemies thank you for your tireless efforts on their behalf.
Conquest's Third Law respects no king and no border. It is sublimely true under every black government.
Look at the shit they have to pull to deal with their terminal approach anxiety.
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/coldhealing/status/1585642130621763584
If she just asked him out - especially the ones on the right - it's very very likely to work. However, she genuinely cannot handle rejection, so you get this instead.
The kind thing to do is notice her frantic plotting, take pity on her, and ask her out yourself...
"Wonder how much of the spread of blank slatism can be explained by the fact that young people don't have kids anymore"
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/joe_r_Odonnell/status/1595414959793446912
The other way around. Folk don't have kids (certainly not more than one kid) because they know they'll have great difficulty continuing to believe in the Holy Blank Slate if they have children. Having such a hard disproof - especially one you're exposed to daily - makes it nearly impossible to keep up the pretense.
And that's heresy. You're not a Heretic, are you? Better avoid having kids.
Primarily leftists can't do security because security is responsible.
In particular, leftists can't do security because they're not strong or healthy enough to pull it off. They are self-aware of the fact that without the advantages of offence they simply cannot win. Indeed, not only do they need to be on the offence, they have to be on the offence against someone who has been demoralized and refuses to fight back.
You can also say they lack the conscientiousness to maintain fences. Every fifth fencepost will simply be missing. The latinx will forget the password and they'll have to open a hole in the fence for her. If you build a fence for them and tattoo the password on their foreheads they will "forget" to maintain it, going full grasshopper.
"They're so used to a position of overwhelming dominance I doubt serious defensive preparations ever entered their minds."
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/Outsideness/status/1596356530320076801
