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TIL Richard fucking Hanania is a Rationalist, at least according to this excrescence from LW
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tKhbDBkstMJuBv7jg/three-months-in-evaluating-three-rationalist-cases-for-trump
Yeah I'm sure trying to dictate to Harvard who they can hire and what courses they can teach is not leading to a "draconian censorship regime"
[1] to be clear this is attributed to Richard Ngo, not Hanania
To summarize that blog post and the three "Rationalist cases for Trump" that it points to: "We made up a Trump to like and a bunch of Democrats to get mad at".
"Lied during the pandemic" wait what? Did LW do a 180 on covid, or is this a "they gave advice without knowing everything that was later shown wrong?" Because that is quite a dumb thing to say, also calling that leftwing is nuts. And last, did they memoryhole that Scott lied about the pandemic? He said people should stop smoking because it helped with covid. Not because he had proof, just because he thought it would be good if less people smoked.
E: oops wrong person.
E2: 100 upvotes, the conspiracy weird far right people have taken over.
Yeah, the whole "they lied!" nonsense is deeply frustrating. People simultaneously want experts to be responsive and provide information immediately but have no tolerance for "as best we now know" or "given the current circumstances" advice. You can't simultaneously get the most recent cutting-edge information and only get what's been long-settled and validated.
Thing is, you can legit criticize Fauci for his bad communication on masking in the early days of COVID! But it's not gonna land b/c the anti-mask/vax/etc crowd also hate Fauci for the most deranged reasons
Yeah but there is a gulf of difference between, he communicated badly and he lied
When exactly did that "left-wing monoculture" flex its muscles? During Trump 1.0? During the first two years of the Biden administration, when leftists and progressives were criticizing that administration every day for not doing enough on, well, anything? During the second half of the Biden administration, when Republicans controlled the House and leftist criticism of the administration, um, did not grow quiet?
I also want to know what this "draconian censorship regime" is in Europe, because it isn't like they're falling over themselves to take care of trans people or immigrants. Unless he's supporting the freedom to blatantly lie in order to incite violence against minorities.
You still can't be an outright Nazi without people getting mad at you. Obviously unacceptable.