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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
An morewronger discusses the āpoints systemā implemented by the Ukrainian armed forces where soldiers can spend points earned by destroying Russian targets on new drone hardware
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sJpwvYsC5tJis8onw/the-ukraine-war-and-the-kill-market
Lots of wittering about markets and Gotthards law, but what struck me was
(my emphasis)
What āmarket in abortionā, motherfucker???
i consent/i consent/ i donāt!!
lol who asked them? stop the presses, homegrown techbro has an Opinion! also when you use up drones itās only natural that youāll need new ones. even observation drones go down all the time, and rewarding certain targets is just making sure that drones donāt get blown up on stupid shit, so this is government specifically incentivizing what would be most important targets to them, on top of regular rules of engagement and more specific orders. this one seems to be meant as supplementary program that also, or even primarily, makes nice videos for propaganda
these are drones for drone kills, nothing else. biggest thing iāve seen is that some units get donations from their drone videos, and used these to get a car or jammer or more drones, but never APC or anything like that, itās too big deal and too expensive, and drone operator is unlikely to benefit from APC anyway
wtf? if using a thing gives you advantage over not using a thing, then you use it, if both sides are using a thing then itās just red queen race. lots of current war looks like it even if frontlines are static
and this changes what exactly? all it will cause is slight preference in targeting because thereās only so many drones to be given out, and drone operator has to do the everything else part of their job. dogshit reasoning
isnāt this the same crowd that like prediction markets and assassination markets
Yeah they are normally all over anything with the word āmarketā in it, with an almost religious like belief in marketās ability to solve things.
My suspicion is that the writer has picked up some anti-Ukrainian sentiment from the US right wing (which in order to rationalize and justify Trumpās constant sucking up to Putin has looked for any and every angle to tear Ukraine down). And this anti-Ukrainian sentiment has somehow trumped their worship of marketsā¦ Checking back through their posting history to try to discern their exact political alignmentā¦ itās hard to say, theyāve got the Scott Alexander thing going on where they use disconnected historical examples crossed with a bad analogies crossed with misappropriated terms from philosophy to make points that you canāt follow unless you already know their real intended context. So idk.
Ah yes the centrist grey/gray tribe. āProstitutionā(ow look a shibboleth, see also āsex workā), and āabortion marketsā(??) vs kidney markets.
Im reminded of Jordan Peterson once dropping without a hint of self awareness, that conservatives have a higher disgust response.