May 30, 2022 • 3HR 47M

BJ Campbell: You Have Been Captured By Your Politics

Also, We Discuss Literally Every Controversial Topic

 
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BJ Campbell is the author of the Handwaving Freakoutery newsletter.

We discuss a variety of topics, including egregores, a term he uses to describe a type of online conformity behaviour, updating moralities, statistics, guns, evolutionary psychology, vaccines, wokeness, war, nationalism, political violence, January 6th, QAnon, coordiantion problems, religions in the online era, gun-prepping, the post-liberal right, Curtis Yarvin, crime rates, Shiri’s scissor, and why everything needs more chaos. 

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Egregores:

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The Mathematical Case for Prepping:

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HWFO on Gender Gap:

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Firehose of Bullshit:

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You thought I was done with the disinformation articles? Haha, that’s hilarious. But today we’re going to be talking about institutionalized disinformation again, so I don’t have to bother you with obscure math that no normal person knows. That’s for part 3…
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a year ago · 12 likes · 2 comments · Cactus
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Hanania on Fragile Wokeness: 

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Earlier this year, NS Lyons wrote a piece on why wokeness is here to stay. I’d like to focus on his first of twenty reasons, as I think he likely considers it one of the most important. 1. One does not simply walk away from religious beliefs. What is called “Wokeness” – or the “Successor Ideology,” or the “New Faith,” or what have you (note the foe hasn…
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Yascha Mounk: The Great Experiment https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665275/the-great-experiment-by-yascha-mounk/

Network Connectivity in Pizzagate:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233879

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