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The Dybbuk Box is still one of the most asked about topics and the Jewitches Patrons voted that this was the post they wanted to see first!

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one of the best academic paper titles

#science #bad science #good science

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How is "reality boils down to belief" fascist? Genuine question, you're a smart person and I want your opinion.

I'm gonna be oversimplifying here so bare with me:

Sometimes I feel like people these days think of fascists like bullies from a movie. They see the dedicated fascist mind as something almost knight-like; a rigorous machine dedicated to things like duty and honor and strength and cruelty.

The experience of being a fascist is a deeply, deeply emotional thing. Hell, a common mantra in alt-right circles is "feels over reals," meaning "evidence cannot truly be evidence if it makes you feel disgusted. Your internal experience of the world is the ultimate metric of truth."

And this isn't a recent idea. Fascists have always been obsessed with the concept of individual willpower. Read: the idea that if you don't get what you want, you didn't want it enough. If you tried your best and didn't reach your goal, it was due to a fundamental weakness of your will.

Humans are not logical creatures. Part of being human is being irrational, and making space for other people when they are irrational. But a massive -massive- part of being a fascist is actively and gleefully ignoring reality to a self-destructive degree. Might makes right, so whatever makes the mighty feel good must therefore be right.

I am not exaggerating when I say "reality boils down to belief" is how fascists see the world. Anything that makes them feel good is true, and anything that makes them feel bad is false. That is how they see the world.

#relevant

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(🎀) P.S what does the - "Which is why I’d like to announce that my next technological endeavor and investment will be in AI and the rise of the machines. Free Palestine. Bow down to Skynet. I am not joking. It’s already happening." - thing... mean? i am schizophrenic and have issues differentiating between fiction and reality. uhhh. halp

Part of Simon's backstory is that he's immensely wealthy. Skynet is the name of the system in Terminator that surveils the whole world, or something.

However, in real life, Skynet is the name of an international freight company.

Basically, Simon's trying to say that he's going to use his wealth and therefore intelligence (the author seems to think these are interchangeable) to create new and better AI, and to replace our species with robots.

I don't think Simon is a bad person, I just think he's stupid, so I think his intention is to make a dark joke about how he will use the machines to make Palestine free, however the rise of the machines trope usually involves the machines turning against humans and killing everyone, so it's pretty tasteless.

#alkenmayer #palestine tw

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(🎀) also "No emotional supply to be found here, my narcissistic friends. You may do all the blogging you like." what the fuck is the ableism. hello.

Pretty sure this is a personal issue on the author's part.

Also they think I'm a narcissist and think every anon ask criticising them is from me. There's actually no better evidence that they don't have any of the IP tracking software they claim to have than that.

Like, presumably even if I was obsessed with them, other people would also be sending them insane asks. That's just averages.

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(🎀) also "Are my words any less true if I am a character? Is anything I’ve said ever, less true?" + "I have, but I am unable to disclose a good portion [of the results of the experiment]" due to NDA" . is really funny + predictable. god.

I mean, at least Kris now presumably knows that NDAs are legitimate when it comes to protecting intellectual property, unlike the last time they tried to invoke that.

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🎀 "History is lost on your species. Utterly lost on it. You are not worthy of being the dominant species anymore." + "I suppose it’s “anti-Semitic” for a “character” to point out humanity’s inhumanity?" etc. <- lol. anyways his shtick still being roleplaying as a cryptid, now, when theres a fucking genocide, people are dying and being slaughtered, theres a communication blackout, is crazy, its so bad. like oh my god. she has no PR team. what the fuck is going on. help.

Okay, so it's antisemitic, and he's only spelling it like that because he wants to claim "Semite" is a racial category, which is false.

There are people who speak Semitic Languages, and antisemite is a term that was specifically created to replace judenhass (hatred of Jews), but conflating those two things so you can pretend antisemitism means hatred of Arabs is a ploy used by (usually) end of times christians who want there to be more bloodshed in the middle east because they think christ will only return to earth when all the other religions have died off or converted.

The character thing is... well, it's not even that annoying. Like I can believe that if you were a thousand year old demon and people kept saying you weren't, that might get irksome and you might have some fun with it. The problem is in the execution.

On the face of it, no it wouldn't be problematic for a character to do that, but when the character does it in an offensive manner, then yes, it becomes offensive. Exactly the same as if you were any other person.

Simon's problem has always been in the execution.

#christianity tw #palestine israel tw #alkenmayer

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(🎀) ive also noticed that his viewer/note count seems to be way less than before, when i first saw and heard of him he had 50-100+ notes minimum. personal posts have like 10-30. what happened lmfaooo people dgaf anymore. 🎉🥂 cheers

well he's not doing anything interesting.

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(🎀) "A person can be both Jewish and wrong. Wrong is wrong. Doesn’t matter who is doing it or what the “justification”" wild, why hes bringing up jewish ppl and wont stfu about it + antisemitism is beyond me. "And if a single one of you come into my ask box or comments to say ANYTHING about antisemitism I will track you down and gut you." this is mostly what shocked me the most. like... wow. threatening violence for bringing up antisemitism. damn.

I mean, I did have some hope that after all the work he put in (and he did put in work! He tried to change! And he backslid immediately!), he might be able to tell the difference between the Israeli Government and Jewish People, but apparently not.

The antisemitism threat is just because he wants people to get in his inbox and accuse him of it so he can pretend to be a wounded victim again. He LOVES playing the victim card. I should ignore it if I were you.

#alkenmayer

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(🎀) hey so your recent post made me curious so i looked on simons blog. the shit hes saying is so far out of line. "Religion is a plague. It WILL kill all of you eventually." <- great generalization there buddy, im sure you in all your nonhuman glory is immune to bias and generalizations and etc. he spouts of "you arent immune to propaganda" but says this shit. religion in of itself isnt the problem / core root of the problem idk how this author doesnt see that. seems very anti-theist cultural christian to me. thoughts?

We already know "Simon" is a Dawkins-esque anti-theist, but what I'm more interested in is this:

It amuses me to no end that you see objectivity as superiority.

Just the assumption that because he's not human, he must be objective. There's no reason that should be.

Like, idk how to explain that if you're alive you have biases. It's the core concept behind the age old question "If God is good, then why do bad things happen to good people?" The answer is simple; we think dying of a disease is bad, but the virus that caused the disease thinks it's good, and a perfectly good god can't choose humanity over all his/her/its other creations.

I'm not even religious and I can work that one out.

#alkenmayer #bias

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Cannot believe it only took the Arab/Israeli conflict heating up again for Simon to out himself... again.

#alkenmayer #i guess this is where we are

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I think people would armchair diagnose bad people with cluster B disorders much less if psychiatric disorders hadn't all been given names by ableists who of course picked the traits most unberarable to "sane" people to name them rather than, you know, the ways it affects the people that have them. It's like, when doctors are all "this disorder gives you extremely low self esteem. and it's called the Selfish Fucking Asshole Disorder" or "this disorder makes you want to die so bad. and it's called the Hysteric Bitch Disorder" or "this disorder disconnects you from your peers. and it's called the Insane Evil Cunt Disorder" and so on and so forth, so of course you have people going "oh, this person is a selfish fucking asshole, they MUST have Selfish Fucking Asshole Disorder! this further proves that all people with this disorder are like that in the first place!" Do You See It

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#i tried to exert jester's privilege and all I got was this crappy cryptid

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#stolen generation #colourism

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incidentally, this means that the writer behind simon would have 100% fallen for satanic panic and other cultlike thinking as well. Which explains their obsession with "narcissists".

Okay I know I said I wasn't gonna talk about Simon but like, this is what's written in the Satanic Panic wikipedia page.

The lack of credible evidence for the more extreme interpretations often being seen as evidence of an effective conspiracy rather than an indication that the allegations are unfounded.

I was never able to express exactly what the problem with his "experiment" was. It's this.