I haven't seen people wilfully misunderstand all possible criticism of them so hard since the last time rationalists hit the headlines, with Scott Alexander - eviltoast
  • self@awful.systemsM
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    1 year ago

    But dismissing the majority of the community is like saying the entirety of Antifa

    drink!

    it’s actually amazing to me how many folks in that thread say they love behind the bastards but don’t appear to have learned anything from it. it’s all “oh man I thought Robert Evans would love my particular techfash grift run by billionaires” which, like, what did they think the point of the podcast was this whole time?

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      1 year ago

      If you listen to behind the bastards for a while and don’t come away at least itching a little closer towards being a crazy anti-capitalist man with a lot of guns hiding somewhere in the woods I can help you.

      Anderson would be disappointed