In the following video Tulsi Gabbard warns America NOT to invade Iran.
However not even Oprah could stop the war with Iraq, despite hosting a series of anti-war shows to it in the few months before it began:
Why are these wars so hard to stop? And why do even Presidents like Trump , Obama, and George W. Bush, who campaigned against them, suddenly start supporting them once they get into office?
Commenter philosopher believes there’s a secret elite he calls “Master” who orders the Presidsent around once he gets into power. So why do people run for President if they’re just going to be bossed around once they get there? Perhaps they think that by getting elected President, they’ll be in charge, but only once they get there does Master reveal himself.
While this may sound like a psychotic delusion, there are similar theories to explain the Fermi Paradox. In the fabulous after-on pocast, it was suggested that the reason we’ve never been visited by aliens is that a Master species of aliens has ordered all advanced life in the galaxy to leave us alone, and if we too become technologically advanced enough to visit distant planets, these Master aliens will reveal themselves to us too, and tell us what the rules are.
It could work the same way in American society. You never find out about the secret elite running things until you gain enough power for Master to reveal himself to you.
Do I actually believe this? Not in the literal way philosopher does. I believe “Master” is better understood as a metaphor for the huge lobbying groups that buy politicians, but I don’t believe there are any independent individuals ordering most recent presidents around. But it would make a great horror film!
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, are language expression abilities lower in bilinguals?
Name said:
yes. Bilinguals have to make more effort than monolinguals to speak in the language spoken by the monolinguals, to speak the exact same way the monolingual speaks.
small brained oprah said:
mongolian survivor of the nazis: every night i dream of the heap of 9,000 [redacted by pp, may 20/ 2019]
pumpkinperson said:
Yawn. They were genuine holocaust survivors, they just lied about how they met & it took a holocaust expert to catch the lie.
And only someone with your demented humour would find a 9000 predator troll funny.
Overall oprah only reported about six fake stories in 25 years of interviewing 30,000 people which is a great record for a TABLOID talk show; a genre that relied on sensational headlines & would even encourage guests to exaggerate
Name redacted by pp, may 21, 2019 said:
it did NOT take a holocaust expert [redacted by pp, may 21, 2019]
pumpkinperson said:
Yeah it did. Tens of millions of people were moved by their story & they were even invited back years later. No one suspected anything for years. Someone even bought the movie rights. Only then did a historian looking at maps of concentration camps conclude it was not possible
pumpkinperson said:
And only someone with your extremely unsexy brand of white male midwestern generation x hipster humour would find 9000 predators funny.
Like all proles, mug of pee is EXTREMELY parochial
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, since language expression (if vocab is Lower, itād most likely take more effort to get the same point across, even if itās thinking about words you know) abilities are Lowe, so, since I lost one point (raw score) on my similarities test, because I explained it wrong (even though I conceptualized it properly)- since oral expression is lower in bilinguals, can I give myself that point (raw score).
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, is my reasoning above correct?
Bruno said:
Pumpkin, news give you an opportunity to speak about Stephen Smith again. He became a billionaire by teaming with an Indian. He is very concerned by black ethnic interest while being a nerd introvert (like Carlson). And his wives are trophy white girls.
The average SAT of the best full black college is just the 50th percentile wich is +1sd for blacks. They look like priviledge black more than nerd blacks. A bit the contrary to Smith who went to Cornell and then Columbia.
Such an interesting character in the news …
pumpkinperson said:
Yes I heard about him paying off the debt of morehouse students.
GondwanaMan said:
Robert Smith actually–Yes his benevolence is such an inspiration to the black race. Now if only he can cut me check for my student loans.
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, would it be safe to give myself that one point I lost on the similarities test because of badly explaining a similarity (I understood the concept).
pumpkinperson said:
I already gave you my opinion
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, I forgot to mention, would it be LIKELY I lost the point due to bilingualism.
Fonzie was a CIA counter-intelligence agent. said:
the horrible reality is too subtle for pill to unnustan.
pill can’t make the human pest vs non-human pest analogy.
today there’s much talk of how 99% of muslims are good and shouldn’t be punished for the 1% of muslims who are bad.
but it’s not about punishment.
it’s about preventing terrorism.
no muslims, no muslim terrorism.
schizophrenia and mania (and oprah worship) are really just immaturity and stupidity.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
I understand exactly what youre saying. I just don’t find the analogy helpful.
oprah is God, and peepee is her prophet. said:
Name redacted by pp, may 21, 2019 said:
pill is right. swank is wrong.
2 points is the most one can do to improve what his (or her) DNA allows him (or her).
some total slob women are still sexier than women who strive.
striving is GROSS.
BUT…
who’s a natural 10 varies with the judge. heteroscedasticity of looks is supported by data from dating sites.
in person gabbard is hideous because edward james olmos acne scars. she’s only pretty in her pictures.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
Actually I think a man can improve in attractiveness much more than a woman because women value things like status, social status, charisma and pedigree with a man whereas for most men its only about looks.
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, if comprehension was underestimate by about 1.5 scaled score points, itād be reasonable to assume that similarities would also be underestimated by that much?
Name redacted by pp, may 21, 2019 said:
i’ve decided to sell out to the mongolians.
my children’s book will be available shortly.
The Irish Setter Who Wanted to Be a Puggle
oprah in the tott's ad would be 100% out of place. said:
pontifex maximus said:
it’s the same with the popish/orthodox religion.
all other religions are WEIRD!
benedict (ratzinger) called them “gravely deficient”.
in the future everyone will speak english and everyone will be a roman catholic.
why aren't all dogs as beautiful as irish setters? said:
10-20% atrophy is just average.
there’s a case report of a woman who (supposedly) died (at age 61 iiuc) from hd (she WAS genetically positive), BUT…
her brain showed no “inclusions” and NO loss of neurons.
according to the report she was a black lesbian.
yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.... said:
just kidding.
she was a white woman.
Munchkin Person [TRUE philosopher] said:
”Just so stories”
Rahul said:
Pumpkin, by how much do you estimate similarities is underestimated in bilinguals?
Mikey Blayze said:
Paradoxical Misconceptions About Statistics:
Since Pumpkin has neglected to explain this at any point in time over the years, i see its up to me.
When most people think of “average height” or “average intelligence” they think “Oh most men are 5ft 9 and IQ 100.” This is not the case.
Take 10 men put them in a room. Most people think 5 of those guys will be 5ft 9 and the rest taller or shorter.
Thats not true what actually happen is 1 of the men will be 5ft9 and the rest will be taller or shorter. That 5ft9 guy is simply the anchor, smack dab in the center, whom determines who’s short and who’s tall. Most men are actually either short, OR they are tall. Very very very very few men are actually “average”
You can also use common sense, how many people you know that take an IQ test actually score a “100.” Most likely very few to none at all, the majority of people you know score higher or lower.
So a man that is average looking, with average build, and average physique, of average age, and average health, with an IQ of 100, and 5ft 9 in height is paradoxically exceptionally rare.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
Yeah i prefer median.
Bruno said:
Mike, the paradox vanished away if you say it that way :
90 to 110 IQ : 50% of the population spread into 20 points
0-70 + 130-180+ : 5% of the population over 120 points
In between : 45% of the population over 40 points
At the same time, I donāt know what are the consequences – all things being equal – of a difference between 95 ans 105.
It depends if IQ differences are more like height – not that much because the tallest men is less than 50% taller than the average men – or more like differences in acuity, colour vision, reaction time to drugs ….. that are huge in quantity and even in kind.
Bruno said:
So compared to the middle, third category is two tiles less densified, and second category (gifted and limited) is 60 times less densified !
mikeyblayze said:
The paradox is literally how many guys do you know have an IQ 100 despite it being “average”
Its not average at all
Bruno said:
That isnāt a paradox at all š
itās only because an interval is not the same thing as a discrete number.
Letās say you average 100 IQ tests for a group of 1M people , so you would had an IQ with two decimals.
The number of people exactly 100 IQ, among this million people, will be 100 times smaller than with obly one IQ test.
It would still be in both cases the most frequent number.
venice beach said:
what’s fascinating about carlos is how short he was.
if you’ve ever used a chuckit you know how great an invention the atlatl was.
in other words, longer legs should be able to kick much harder and longer arms throw much harder, but…
it’s NOT that simple.
last time i checked my brother an i are exactkly the same height, 6'1.25". and same shoe size, 12. said:
it’s pretty clear to me that today 6’3″ is the sweet spot of man sexiness for women.
but maybe that should be deflated as men exaggerate and you have to take your shoes off.
but the sweet spot of sumo, lifting, sprinting, etc. appears to be 6’1″.
…
but my bro’s feet are skinny, a long toe.
i have manly wide feet.
to be a black lesbian or not to be a black lesbian. that is the qeustion. said:
in the recent documentary Generation Wealth, peepee is made fun of, laughed at, ridiculed.
https://ww1.putlockers.net/generation-wealth/
even germans get it.
pumpkinperson said:
peepee is made fun of, laughed at, ridiculed.
In your dreams
Mikey Blayze said:
The fact that you are a meme, leads credence to his statement.
jews are prettier than china people. said:
the kid makes a 36.
when is sat the ACT that was almost impossible.
the ACT had a very high ceiling. 31 was the 99th percentile.
LOADED said:
Almost every single American concept is related to Native American ancestry.
LOADED said:
It’s like a good mix of Native ancestry and Elizabethan England or something. A mix of old English values and Native American ancestry. `
LOADED said:
Everything is excessively complex in a stereotypical sense. Either you conform or you fail. It’s so dramatic.
LOADED said:
I just want you guys to know I don’t conform. I don’t conform to anything. I am a non-comformist.
Nehemiah said:
@Loaded, Are you saying that you consistently conform to non-conformity, sort of like self-described free thinkers who all think the same thing about a wide array of controversial subjects?
LOADED said:
Yeah, I like to do things really differently, but conform to the pattern of thought that maybe the greats went through. I’m no great person, but I think I can relate in many instances from life history to behavioral patterns. Im a really compulsive person. I cannot break habits for the love of me. I am very fine tuned to react a certain way too to things. It’s a lot of accidental conforming to your environment, even though that may be the easiest way to survive.
Hope I answered your question. You seem like a really good thinker so I admire that, and I need to strive to have that frame of thought I guess.
Rahul said:
Loaded. Lol, itās never breaking a habit, itās always veering into another one!
LOADED said:
Sure Im gonna take life advice from some idiot savant who only knows how to take tests and ask questions about them lol.
Rahul said:
Lol true. Pretty much all I do here is ask questions about tests, half the time I donāt even know how the fuck to start a conversation.
I have the same exact problem of sticking on to habits and never being able to break em, so what happens is I just get bored of that thing and thereās a new habit I get sucked into.
Rahul said:
Oh, and it wasnāt supposed to be life advice (What does a 20 year old know about life, let alone some dumbass 16), it was supposed to be relatability. Fuck, should probs work being less of a dumbass, especially in social situations.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
Really interesting interview. Lots of counter-intuitive suggestions on investing.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
Woah. In Buffets interview with yahoo he said something in passing which makes me think he knows about HBD. He said back in the 40s and 50s China was really not achieving its potential based on intellectual capacity, soil fertility, etc”.
So Buffet is basically saying, even in the 50s, the chinese had the brains to get to 1st world standards.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
Actually I think the same about India. I have always said I believe India could be a lot wealthier and developed if it had a 1 child policy.
"whoever thinks money can buy anything has never had any." --- florian homm said:
fact 1: the developing world has gotten poorer over the last 40 years with the sole exception of china.
fact 2: mongolians and useful non-mongolians have explained this as “magic capitalism”.
fact 3: china is a communist country not just in name. government directs/controls
the economy more than in any developed country.
conclusion: [redacted by pp, may 23, 2019]
if only peepee had ever actually talked to a white person... said:
so everyone who isn;t a [redacted by pp, may 23, 2019] knows what everyone knows but can’t say because mongolian media monopoly.
charlie rose said iraq should be richer than it is because talented people because cradle of civilization.
pumpkinperson said:
pill is dumb enough to be surprised that Buffett believes in hbd
For an alt-right person, pillās social IQ is spectacularly low
The Social Justice Warrior said:
Buffet was asked about the trade war and he said he didn’t want to answer. So basically he thinks the trade war idea of trump is terrible. Hahahaha.
Name redacted by pp, may 23, 2019 said:
not necesarily. buffett has said the exact opposite, that the trade deficit is a much bigger threat to future prosperity than the budget deficit. and he’s right.
the sovereign state which is economically dependent on other states is an oxymoron.
in other words…
“free trade” is inherently UN-democratic and ANTI-sovereignty…and if the state is NOT sovereign then its people cannot be sovereign…
The Social Justice Warrior said:
Yeah he talks about it in the vid. Basically he said he suspects a country that kept running gigantic trade defecits with another would eventually get the idea to devalue the value of the paper they give them leading to perhaps war.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
Must be very weird for buffet to have grown up in the 50s and had eisenhower as president and the 50s culture and everything all the way to today having Donald Trump as president hahahaha.
Although in many ways Donald Trump is a creature of the 50s and 60s as well I must say.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
Buffet vs Trump
You can tell Trump is a bit ruffled by Buffets charge against him. But Trumpy is right in the sense all the other established brands and developers in atlantic city also tanked.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
The fact that Buffet endorsed Hilary shows low social IQ.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
This is really good as well.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
Course I disagree with Munger on income inequality. A lot of it predates QE, although QE didn’t exaggerate it.
Personally if I was printing money I’d use it to do public works schemes, or give tax cuts to the poorest. Not inflate rich peoples portfolios.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
#QE DID exaggerate it
"whoever thinks money can buy anything has never had any." --- florian homm said:
munger is a moron.
LOADED said:
How big of a meme is Pumpkin, Mikey? Is he a central part of humanity’s scope of thought.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
“Is he a central part of humanityās scope of thought.”
Im starting to thnk you are a troll or very very autistic.
LOADED said:
I’m a naive autist, I would say. Not a predatory one or one that someone would have any sort of doubts about.
LOADED said:
I’m actually more Aspergers as I communicate through emotions. If you’ve ever noticed how I talk on the Internet.
LOADED said:
I think you may be a clinical psychopath though. Nothing wrong with that. You’ll live a successful and happy life as many psychopaths do.
Mikey Blayze said:
Pumpkin as the hi IQ childless intellectual far leftist whom is secretly on the far right is not only a hilarious meme but also a damn common one.
Nehemiah said:
I don’t think Trump has any intention of attacking Iran. Bolton, yes, but not Trump. He knows his re-election chances are probably toast if the Strait of Hormuz gets blocked, or if Iran finds a way to send Saudi Arabia’s booby-trapped oil fields up in flames, or both. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand how risky such an attack would be. Only a fanatic would do it, and Trump may be bull-headed (not always a bad thing), but he is no fanatic.
LOADED said:
alt-right people do not have superior social intelligence. that is a lie. i think that superior social intelligence is enjoyed by those who don’t even care about political matters. politics is kind of like the movie “the dark knight.” resembles its morals appropriately, i think.
Munchkin Person [TRUE philosopher] said:
Sincerity is a sign of low social intelligence specially with macchiavelian ends.
LOADED said:
I’m an awfully sincere person. I think I may be at the short end of this stick when it comes to falling for sentimentality.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
So I got a job at Citi. Yay. Starting on monday. Hopefully I can do well and impress the people that gave michael forman his job and his power.
pumpkinperson said:
So I got a job at Citi. Yay. Starting on monday. Hopefully I can do well and impress the people that gave michael forman his job and his power.
You can impress them by mopping the exucutive floors extra hard
The Social Justice Warrior said:
No really
The Social Justice Warrior said:
I do think east asians being good at math must be a genetic thing but I can’t understand why. Unlike jews who specialised in mercantile activities most asians for thousands of years were farmers so why would they be good at math? Autism?
LOADED said:
Nah dawg, it’s all about having to count the rice fields and stuff. Plus, it’s probably just a remnant from the archetypal days where there was a need for having to be good at visual-spatial things. But nah, maybe you’re right, autism does cause the ability to be good at math. Im really good at math. i even did a genetic test to prove it. Im somewhere in like the 80th percentile.
Thinking Mouse said:
Different fertility rates amongst different economic classes, correlating with iq becuase of the imperfect meritocrazy in china. At least thats what lee kuan yew said. What needs to be noted is that test exams could be cheated on and merchants made lots of children, so this would favour verbal intelligence. You might think its wrong then, but arent japanese more autistic and empathic? some say yes others no and yet more one of the alternatives. Also consider the mongolians, who got higher spatial IQ (quant) according to some studies. Perhaps the chinese are the jews of asia. Mongolians got bigger brains apperently.
Many hardcore Han supremacists would like to bicker more on the details, especially on the notion of avaraging all chinese people when northern and central chinese are their prefered group.
Do you think an high empathy high verbal group is possible? I guess the SS was intended to be that.
Nordics are the mongolians of europe?
According to many, chinese stand out compared to other east asians, while the japanese are an mixture of koreans and a dash of philipinos.
Thinking Mouse said:
So this would be concluded with an jewish strata in china and their amoral autist servants. Two divergent evolutionary paths, dependent on eachoder.
Autism being a product of stability and marrige, which china had much of. The autists that reproduce arent super autistic but get darwinistically fitter through having an competeive edge thanks to an appropriate amount of autistic traits in stability, thus gaining more prevalence for each generation, withouht having the replicators face the big issued of crippiling autism.
The dependency comes through autists saving oppurtunity costs by outsourcing verbal activity, thus furnishing autists and raising the bar of acceptable autism. More autism leads to more profit for the verbaly inclined. a feedback loop emerges.
So why doesnt chinese culture exume high verbal?
PP said that smart people can find solutions while dumber people need to invent solutions becuase they cant find them with the situation given.
Thats a little hard to grasp, but i interpreted that as chinese being more competent at maintaining an conservative anti-liberal culture and thus not having the old mores get tarnished despite the expected trajectory predicted by historical materialism. columbus succeding becuase europe was fragmented. European music developing becuase of the catholic church becoming weaker etc.
Another explanation could be that chinese people have become smarter during modernity, becuase of improvements in agriculture speeding up the aut-schiz-feedbackloop in th qing dynasty, and thus chinese only surpasing the west during the 20th century, becuase of the western elites decrease in fertility rates during the 19th century thanks to contraceptives and monogamy. I think this would coroborate smauel mortons data on cranial capacity, aswell as modern data.
Thinking Mouse said:
I mean stand out in an bad way. Chinese are often called “mainlanders” which is derogative.
LOADED said:
I really wanna post rap videos for u guys to enjoy but it seems like Pumpkin will never make it happen.
LOADED said:
I guess it’s all about having an expanded network to work with. Break it down for us, Mikey.
LOADED said:
I just don’t get it. Look at the history of China. How does on country go from an opium-den inhabiting population to a population of brilliant geniuses.
LOADED said:
Maybe the Bible is like literal fact and things like that did happen. Like magic and stuff is a potentially viable thing. Does anyone here have a similar opinion or no?
The Social Justice Warrior said:
I was thinking about how autism effects a persons understanding of morality and good and bad. And obviously morality is primarily a social reasoning concept. So if you are totally impaired socially, how does someone autistic reason morally?
The answer is authority figures and rules. If the rule is there, its automatically legitimate and makes sense. In fact an autistic person wouldn’t even ask themselves if a rule made sense. Unless it was really abrupt change or in a trivial area like playing a board game or something.
Even if you don’t accept this, you still have to ask yourself how does an autistic person think about what is good and evil. Its pretty scary since a growing proportion of the Wests population is getting more and more autistic as more white collar workers, especially engineers/computer programmers mate.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
To autistic people’s credit they seem to be a lot more atheistic than normies. Although in my opinion atheism itself is stupid, its better than believing in Zeus or Quatzilcoatl the snake serpent god and basing your morality on what priests say.
when atheists (autists) figure out what they mean by "atheism" tell me. said:
congatulations!
you have reached the antepenultimate level of the ancient secret society of which i am the internet’s sole representative, the order of the black dildo.
as a famous autist said in a moment of non-autism: Religions are, for the most part, bad, but religion is not.
it’s not clear what atheists mean by “atheism”. does it mean all religions are retarded or does it mean God is a retarded concept or does it mean…? when christianity was just getting started the christians were labeled atheists and superstitious because they wouldn’t worship the ancient gods or the emperor.
LOADED said:
Pumpkin, you want somethin good for your blog, I got it. It’s that variation in skulls is increasing. Before, skull variation was limited, but now there’s so much variation, especially between races. That’s how you can prove races exist. Because of skull variation. And now skull variation is diversifying even more, causing even more races. To deny race is to deny a fundamental truth.
LOADED said:
Pill doesn’t understand that with 7 billion or more people we have everyone basically contributing something unique to society and building it. More people in the population isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a different thing.
LOADED said:
It’s all about population control. Everything has to do with mouse utopia and population size.
The Social Justice Warrior said:
āIf you want to come here and have sex with a woman, go for your life,ā said Bolsonaro, per The Guardian. āBut we canāt let this place become known as a gay tourism paradise. Brazil canāt be a country of the gay world, of gay tourism. We have families.ā
Hahahahahaha. I wish I was brazilian so I could access more of his statements.
LOADED said:
East asians are a bunch of conformists. They aren’t going to do anything special in our society. Sorry, but duh, Thking Mouse. Ur saying some really retarded shit right now and im starting to get offended.
Thinking Mouse said:
“East asians are a bunch of conformists”
That’s what I said. Since farming is more labour intensive and verbal jobs less so the majority of the pull is going to be the Autistic, still, I think there are creative elements that have emerged recently, it’s parsimonious with the data. In the past east Asians did nothing, but now they are starting to advance chemistry and maths and technology by an decent amount. Most importantly they’ve achieved great military feats like Yamashita during ww2 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Singapore ). As I’ve said I’m agnostic regarding Chinese. East Asians have had many destructive wars and much poverty, it’s only now they are reaching European standards of living. Even if they’re smart I did argue that they were evil, maybe you missed that. Admittedly I’m biased towards nordicism, and I think that it could be due to an lack of knowledge regarding Asia.
“They arenāt going to do anything special in our society.”
I think they might declare war on the west through having more preparation and more collectivism. In 20-30 years, it’s going to be their only time to shine, becuase the west will be in it’s lowest point and automation/internet/better transportation give east Asia (and I suspect an future pan-asian allience) the ability to send 10s or even 100s of million men in the army. ABM systems will make nukes irrelevant and kinetic bombardment will be the new toy. With kinetic bombardment you could raze entire megaloposies in weeks, and so an post-razed war is where China would be prepared. Something along the lines of 50-200kt of energy with no radion and speeds in the Kms/sec, for only 8-20 million dollars. Maybe it can be perfected to lengths not known by me. troops can march in directly after the blast, That’s kinda scary.
“im starting to get offended.”
Why? Becuase you expected more of me? Becuase you’re South Asian (egi)?
LOADED said:
I might be the most socially savvy person i know. pill wouldnt believe it cuz im too much of a hothead but other than that i think people really fear me.