Anon-ish hate-ish mail yay!
I got some fan mail from a superhero who got lost on their way back to Bizarro World. Anon has a name, actually, but using it here would be too mean unless I seriously toned down the snark and I’d rather not tone down the snark because it amuses me more this way.
> (this is in reference to your long post about That One finnish feminist website.) I don’t understand how you could realize you were being mean and brainwashing people and silencing people and still be proud of it, and this really bothers me.
It would be far too easy to just point out that “I’ve mellowed a lot since then” part and note that I’m simply refusing to sugarcoat my past actions or pretend that “evil”, or especially “dubious, unfair and simultaenously brutally effective”, never pays. It does, that’s why it’s able to exist in the first place.
In the x-rationalist community there’s a standard thought experiment regarding sunk costs: “imagine you’ve been magically teleported into this situation, now what do you do?” When the having-iternalized-the-advantages-of-civility and feeling-sufficiently-high-status-to-not-get-easily-defensive-threatened you is teleported into the position of someone with a history of aggressive actions having led into a really powerful position, do you hold onto that position while using your powers for good, or do you just throw everything down the drain and let entropy revert things into the standard white neurotypical cisfeminism that usually dominates everywhere? If you choose the latter, well congratulations you’ve effectively protected the world from being taken over by you. That’s what makes things outside the window the way they are. Nice job preventing unbreaking-of-it, hero.
Also, I’m always amused at how everyone treats TOFC as the entire world and acts like exclusion from one community is equal to perfect ostracism everywhere ever. No it isn’t. Even many of my best friends and people I admire the most would be perfectly ineligible for its membership.
> Hopefully you won’t take this as an insult, given your tags, but my first impression (DISCLAIMER: I haven’t binged your blog, so uneven reliability) of you from that post is that your actions are those of a real-life supervillain in terms of morals and not just aesthetic.
I’m also the person who talks communists into privatizing the atmosphere. Just saying that you really should judge things by their content, instead of their superficial resemblances, because superficial resemblances just lead everyone to shitty conclusions. If we look at the extent of my supervillainy, I’ve advocated unscrupulously saving millions of lives, and taken control of the SJ overton window in one country to effectively no-platform the bad kind of SJ. I’m just going to assume you haven’t realized the actual content of my actions because it’s a more charitable interpretation than the alternative that you’d consider such actions evil.
> You seem to be objectively pretty smart though
I’m glad we’re on the same page here, at least.
> and you’d definitely be a Hitler/ISIS and not a Mao/Stalin dictator in the event that your life plans succeed.
You do realize that one category of those managed to piss off pretty much the entire world and tried to eradicate some of the most productive parts of their population for basically shits and giggles and got their asses utterly whooped as a result and discredited their ideologies; while the other two ruled with relative success till the ends of their lives, oversaw dramatic development and victories at a terrible human cost, and have inspired hordes of apologetics among the downtrodden that to this day probably number in the millions, despite being arguably responsible for far greater humanitarian tragedies, right? Right? pleasesayrightohmygod…
Some people have seriously claimed that Mao, even without any sugarcoating, might have been the single most effective altruist in the world. That’s what smart and successful supervillainy looks like. Not the obviously evil antics that are basically little more than the geopolitical equivalent of gluing a “kick me” sign onto one’s buttocks.
I’m pretty certain anon might actually be some kind of a bizarro world superhero who’s kind of amateurishly trying to manipulate me to being less effective in my supervillainy from the perspective of us both.
> On behalf of all us humans made of flesh and not steel, I hope that doesn’t happen, though. (not in the ask box because it’s not really a question, hope that’s okay?)
No need to worry, politics is ugly, violent and ineffective. My supervillainy will happen on the free market. Bwa ha ha, I’m going to invent something that creates value to people and then capture some of that value if I can! Behold my evil plan of fulfilling people’s desires in voluntary interactions! I’d be way less of a supervillain than John Galt because I believe in open source and empowering the miserable to become formidable and to uplift them from the ugliness their environment forces them into, instead of just contemptuously looking down upon them from my glass towers where I hatch dramatic speeches that utterly fail to recognize the complexities of the world.
Or if I somehow end up the dictator of whateveria I shall abolish corporate welfare and lots of coercive and hurtful laws, and institute an UBI and cost-effective services even to the disprivileged parts of the population. Mwa ha ha ha, my evil plans are so horrible mere mortal minds can’t even comprehend their true nature! But yeah, a libertarian dictatorship would be an interesting sight. (The consensus seems to be that I’m some kind of a libertarian, but the exact left-right-top-bottom subtype classification is as reliable as a dyslexic 4-year-old’s directions in navigating a confusing central european old town’s street network for the first time using only a pre-ww2 map with all street names removed. All *I* know is that the website which measures how much people side with Bernie Sanders considers me a “left-wing laissez-faire small government deregulation capitalist” who should generally vote socialist, but favors libertarian on the economy and republican on the environment. And obviously matches Sanders in 90+% with a generous two-digit margin to any others. Your guess into how the fuck that happened is as good as mine; they didn’t even offer UBI as an option anywhere!)
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