Intellectual Dark Web

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  • BonSeff2

    • DAIRY QUEEN IS AN ENERGY VACUUM REPLETE WITH CHAOSBonSeff
    • oh good, now it's clear what the king stands for :)renderedred
  • Nairn1

    I gotta say, this is the most twattiestly-named thread I think I've ever seen on QBN/NT.

    I'm sure the content's fine, but really.

    • "different thinking" is now intellectual dark web. Worrying in a way, I hear youmugwart
  • yuekit4

    • What a line up of intellectual heavyweights lol ;)yuekit
    • holy hell what a shit fest of delusional moronscolin_s
    • indeed colin, talk about damaging your brand by association.fadein11
  • Morning_star-8

    [-6]

    Happy New Year you special pirates.

    The video discussion is worth a look if you want a left leaning perspective on the value and meaning of the IDW.

  • Morning_star-3

    [-3]

    Sam Harris Podcast
    No.145 - The Information War

    Sam Harris speaks with Renée DiResta about Russia’s “Internet Research Agency” and its efforts to amplify conspiracy thinking and partisan conflict in the United States.

    https://samharris.org/podcasts/1…

    The podcast frames what is sure to be a very difficult discussion of what the fuck do we do about the exploitation of news and social media channels. How much manipulation we are prepared to tolerate and ultimately, what is freedom of speech.

    With Sam Harris and now Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin having left Patreon due to inhibited freedoms, censorship issues and political bias, it seems to me that the very structure of how we interact as humans and who can we ultimately trust is under scrutiny.

    Are you sure they're you friends?

    • Trust no-one.
      Kill the rest.
      PhanLo
    • Is the 'Lo' part of your name short for 'Lonely'? ;)Morning_star
    • You r listening to a podcast about intellectual bubbles while being in the bubble. Fascinating.pr2
    • @pr2 I'd invite you to, perhaps, listen to the podcast before broadcasting your laser like analysis. I wouldn't want to look ignorant and foolish.Morning_star
    • And i invite you to broaden your horizon. By listening to all those same folks - you are reinforcing your bubble because they all present...pr2
    • ...similar view of reality (more or less).pr2
    • Clearly the very structure of how we interact as humans is now under threat because... uh... three guys left a website.yuekit
    • Do you not understand how some people start to see this gang as a bit tedious and self-important when even their fans are penning lines like that?yuekit
  • BonSeff0

    • <The man actually believes in the White Genocide Theory and has been part of a UK Channel 5 doc and isn't someone identified as part of the IDW. Your point Bon?Morning_star
    • Did you hold a vote with your boys and exile him?BonSeff
    • Yes. We all sat round and, at length, discussed Jungs interpretation of the racist architype and decided he shouldn't be allowed in the neopatriarchyMorning_star
  • BonSeff0

    • lol this guy used to be the main writer for Breitbart, why is he taken seriously by people?yuekit
  • BonSeff0

    • The master race is 5'1"?BonSeff
    • And Jewish.Morning_star
    • Wasn't referring to Shapiro here, just using him as a measuring stick.BonSeff
    • Apologies for getting your message wrong. Who'd have thought that misunderstanding comments, snippets and soundbites could be such a minefield. :)Morning_star
  • Morning_star-6

    @BonSelf

    Why?

    The briefest of checks shows a tweet in the last few hours from Shapiro denouncing this racist prick. Your assumption of guilt by association is just plain lazy.

    • why was he there in the first place? this "denouncing" thing is pretty stupid in my view. he seems happy in the picture.renderedred
    • the briefest of checks could've told shapiro NOT to hug it out with that guy ;)renderedred
    • Actually Shapiro wrote several articles defending him, saying the left made up him being racist etc...when it was obviousyuekit
    • ^ even better LOLrenderedred
    • https://www.dailywir…yuekit
    • This racist prick has always been a racist prick. This isn't breaking news.BonSeff
    • It is to me. I’m not in the US so his political ideals are new to me. What is troubling is that a majority of his state must have voted for him.Morning_star
    • @yuekit. could you point to an article in which Shapiro defends him because in that one you posted he doesn’t.Morning_star
  • Morning_star-6

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    @Yuekit

    What puzzles me most is how you are certain you know more about what Dave Rubins political position is than he does. In the video below Rubin explains, in no uncertain terms, what he thinks and how he is Libertarian at heart but has some ideas that run contrary to that position, like a more social approach to Healthcare and Education.

    Could you explain why you are so focussed on portraying anybody with a political opinion in the centre or to the right of that, as far right, even when they explain, at length, where they sit politically. Or similar assumptions of far right tendencies because they appear in a photo with someone with questionable ideals. It's not reasonable or logical. That to me is the definition of ‘dishonest framing’.

    It may be because the left has moved so far left that it can only operate in polarised terms, in the echo chamber of irrationality, misinformation and ad hominem attacks. The left is continually edging closer to extreme ideals (equality of outcome for fucks sake), whilst closing it’s mind to the insanity and horror of what those ideals mean to a country, community, family and individual. Just because the left isn’t down with the individual it doesn’t mean it can eject it’s responsibilities as a group.


    • * let's add some art in the background in order to appeal liberals.... lolSalarrue
    • So within two years this guy went from being a liberal talk show host to a "libertarian" pundit to praising people like Trump and Bolsonaro.yuekit
    • Amazing that you would take him seriously. Of course the whole reason he felt the need to make this video is because so many people figured out his nonsense.yuekit
    • all Dave Rubin does is complain about the left. boring af. oh, and advertise guns.inteliboy
    • Anyone aligning with Dennis Prager can suckit.BonSeff
  • monNom0

    I saw an excerpt from this interview and he made a really interesting point. Maybe the polarization we are seeing has a lot to do with the things you just can't talk about in polite company anymore. And because you can't talk about them, nobody does and there's a big vacuum in the middle where the nuanced ideas would normally be. All you are left with are the ideas way out on the fringes that get spouted by antisocial people.
    Probably a bad paraphrase, but I think there's something to that.

    ttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VUD...

    • https://m.youtube.co…monNom
    • Stephen Pinker on Joe Rogan podcastmonNom
    • much of it is self perpetuating. The intellectual dark web is just the web renamed for marketing purposes. The sense of victimhood is overplayedFax_Benson
    • @fax. No it's not. The IDW is a name given to a group of people including Harris, The Weinsteins, Perterson, Hoff-Somers etc as a joke and it stuck.Morning_star
    • https://en.wikipedia…Morning_star
    • not literally - I mean that joke tag has been adopted as a marketing ploy. The whole rebel outsider, too hot for the mainstream silliness.Fax_Benson
  • renderedred6

  • Morning_star-3

    Jack Dorsey talks to Sam Harris.

    It's very good and insightful. Listen to it. Go on.

    https://samharris.org/podcasts/1…

    • tried this. haven't found the right hook to enjoy Harris yet but more importantly couldn't listen to Twitter whinge about being Twitter. had to bail.MrAbominable
    • There's a bit in Rogans latest podcast with Harris where he talks about the interview. Harris seems to think that Dorsey is an artful question dodger.Morning_star
    • ^ maybe i'll try via that. i agree. the bit i caught was a sort of mea culpa about how Tw can do better. Yeah ok.MrAbominable
    • listening now. my vote is still out on Harris. He's a bit too much like me in temperament which i usually hate. still working on it.MrAbominable
    • ^The Tim Pool #1242 is my favorite of the Tw analysis.MrAbominable
  • Morning_star-5

    A link below to an article which discusses analysis of YouTubers political preferences and some illumination of the untruths perpetuated into mainstream media and politics.

    It doesn’t surprise me that this is one of the conclusions.

    “The harmfulness of a video seems to be a factor of the viewer’s politics more than the video itself.”

    It goes on to suggest that the truth about a YouTubers political position is largely ignored in favour of the veiwers uninformed perception and prejudices.

    ...“There seems to be a higher proportion of reactionary anti-social justice content compared to other platforms, and many YouTubers focus on the most extreme actions of progressive activists — unfairly labeling this as indicative of “the left.”

    Despite this, calls for censorship... are intolerant, partisan, and extreme. Their targets include centrist and mainstream right commentators (e.g. Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager) and they offer no viewpoint-neutral rules of what an acceptable YouTube video is. The justification offered is that their videos are “harmful” — a concept that has crept so far that it is almost meaningless.”...

    It goes some way to illustrate that the outrage of social justice fans, left-leaning dogooders and neocommunists is based in ugly fantasy rather than reality.

    Beauty is truth. Truth is beauty.

    https://intpolicydigest.org/2019…

    • How does one objectively classify whether someone is right wing or far right?yuekit
    • This gets to the heart of what annoys me about the "IDW" movement -- there seems to be an effort to normalize far right views while pretending that the left isyuekit
    • super extreme due to a handful of crazy feminists. That is not logical or reasonable.yuekit
    • ^ re your question. You have obviously managed to classify what views are far-right -- and therefor those that hold those views are so.Gnash
    • How have you done that objectively?Gnash
    • There is not a clear cut definition, but at one point most people agreed Breitbart (the publication Ben Shapiro edited) was far right -- now according to theyuekit
    • article Morning_star linked, Shapiro is a "centrist" or a "mainstream conservative." His site literally had a section devoted to "black crime" and he reportedyuekit
    • to Steve Bannon every day -- is that mainstream in your view? And same thing with the efforts of IDW shows like as the Rubin Report to present the views ofyuekit
  • Morning_star-3

    @yuekit

    — How does one objectively classify whether someone is right wing or far right?

    Why do you need to? It becomes quite obvious from what the say and how they act. Assuming guilt by association is a disturbing and destructive feature of dictatorial, oppressive, fascist, communist, racist, totalitarian, regimes. Your assumptions generate an opinion based on false information. It’s valueless.

    — This gets to the heart of what annoys me about the "IDW" movement -- there seems to be an effort to normalize far right views while pretending that the left is super extreme due to a handful of crazy feminists. That is not logical or reasonable.

    In that last comment Yuekit you demonstrated exactly what the research claims to show. Rather than start a discussion or challenge the creators you paint something as ‘harmful’ or ‘far right’ without any rational analysis. I’ll challenge you to bring one example of your claim that the members of the IDW are normalising far right views. (My suspicion is that your definition of ‘far right’ is so broad as to tarnish those that are merely attempting to open up a discussion in good faith)

    It seems the only thing that you’ve managed to extract from the article after dismissing the conclusions (why?) is a largely irrelevant point about the content of Shapiro’s website. You seem happy enough to group people together and judge them with unsophisticated stereotyping if they don’t fall comfortably into your political safe space but you claim racism and discrimination when someone makes a similar point about the issues faced by, for example, black communities or gender based groups.

    We need to be able to discuss these issues openly and in good faith. Nothing should be taboo. How do you expect to address the problems of sexual harassment or equal opportunity or violent crime when many won’t engage because of a misguided and prejudiced ‘group think’ assumption.

    • A great example would be Dave Rubin's recent comment (while interviewing a far-right, anti-immigrant Canadian politician) that because the left is so terrible,yuekit
    • he can't blame people if they embrace actual ethnonationalism.yuekit
    • That is a completely absurd view, but it perfectly captures the skewed framing that goes on with many of these guys -- painting the left in the harshest termsyuekit
    • possible, while giving a sympathetic platform to extremes on the other side.yuekit
    • this might be an interesting dialogue if the troll knob was dialed waaaay down.MrAbominable
    • @yuekit. Replied in another post.Morning_star
  • Morning_star-2

    @yuekit, you said...

    — A great example would be Dave Rubin's recent comment (while interviewing a far-right, anti-immigrant Canadian politician) that because the left is so terrible, he can't blame people if they embrace actual ethnonationalism.

    I assume this is the interview with Maxime Bernier? Who isn’t a far right politician or anti-immigration. So why would you say he is? He’s a conservative who wants an open discourse about immigration policies.

    I asked for an example of your claim that the IDW is normalising far right views. What you’ve given isn’t that. If you want to have a discussion about the dangers of polarising political views and the absence of a forum where these views can aired, without knee jerk reaction and left or right leaning toddlers chucking their toys out of the pram, then maybe here is as good a place as any. I’m ready when you are, sincerely.

    — That is a completely absurd view, but it perfectly captures the skewed framing that goes on with many of these guys -- painting the left in the harshest terms possible, while giving a sympathetic platform to extremes on the other side.

    It’s not absurd. Considering the destruction of the centre ground and both left and right leaning organisations and individuals doing their utmost to paint their opposition as extremist, it is a fair point. If there is no centre and the only other places are the far right (as suggested by the left) or Communism (as suggested by the right) what are voters meant to do? The moment they get pissed off with their traditional political alligences being portrayed as super crazy vegetable soup it IS understandable to look for answers elsewhere and if the only places to seek solace are harbouring extreme ideas then the choice seems to be made for them.

    This is not just a problem for the left or the right, it’s the whole political landscape that’s under attack from incredibly destructive identity politics. I heard Eric Weinstein the other day talking about how ‘identity’ is a financially cheaper and polarising way to win votes rather than traditional ‘labour’ focussed policies. He might be right.

    • re "normalizing" i shuddered at that earlier. largely these IDW people are uneasy about calling themselves Liberals. Now reflexively "Classic Liberals".MrAbominable
    • Hmmm I guess we're not going to agree on this. The idea that the ENTIRE left is so extreme that your only choice is between communists and Nazis does seemyuekit
    • quite absurd and silly to me.yuekit
    • It's easy to lose track of the actual numbers when you are focused on the latest outrage. But in reality, there is barely a majority of Democrats that evenyuekit
    • identify as liberal in the U.S. So the idea that they are all commies seems a bit ridiculous, to say the least.yuekit
    • Can you not see that in painting Maxime Bernier, a sitting MP in the Canadian parliament, as far right you are instrumental in perpetuating the problem...Morning_star
    • ...you are complaining about.Morning_star
    • I think you have made it pretty clear where your sympathies life. He's not "anti immigration" he's a "conservative who wants an open discourse about immigrationyuekit
  • inteliboy2

    I'm finding myself listening less and less to these guys.

    There's only a certain number of times I can hear Rubin and co complain about university campuses. You start to form this world view that we're in some kind of neo-liberal feminist cultural crisis.

    When in the reality, it's the right and 'far right' that are in control of todays political climate across the world. Not a bunch of annoying pink haired twenty somethings on twitter.

    Though do still tune in occasionally to Harris and Rogan - they seem to be the only guys that explore other shit like AI, consciousness, science and tech.

    • i tend to agree, Rubin and Shapiro annoy the shit out of me, they seem to think less in favour of provocation. I can't get enough of the Weinsteins. With...Morning_star
    • +1BonSeff
    • ...regard to the pink haired twenty somethings, i think they need to grow a set and start engaging with those that disagree with them.Morning_star
    • Rogan is dark web?monospaced
    • YepMorning_star
    • meet the IDW ;) . https://www.nytimes.…Morning_star
    • IDW if a format not an ideology, mono.MrAbominable
    • ^ isMrAbominable
  • uan2

    Andrew Yang is a nice product of this intellectual movement.

  • Gnash0

    • holy shit this is painful.what a tool._niko
  • uan0


    the knowledge is available, he describes where we are at and hopefully will go as 'humanz'.