in thread "Race in America": Agreed with the poster above that the discussion of taboo and heresy is what makes platforms like this powerful but racism itself now feels like a failing taboo, judging by how much more racist social media has become in the past few years. "Spreading awar... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.0 6.0 Agreed with the post (view hidden) log in to judge received 6.0 6.0 By graphs-posters I mean the HBD-sphere that fights against affirmative action or equity and inclusion by arguing for meritocracy using the aforementioned graphs. They do not possess worldviews capable of seeing human capital ("human capital" itself is fre... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.2 7.2 By graphs-posters I (view hidden) log in to judge received 7.2 7.2 It's funny you bring up Maoists because Zizek has an old article on how the disavowl of one's origins--in this case, the Soviet disavowal of Stalin in contrast with the affirmation of Mao in China--seeded the Party's collapse of legitimacy. As long as slav... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.7 5.7 It's funny you bring (view hidden) log in to judge received 5.7 5.7 YCs brag about "scaling" and hiring 30-150 people in one year to mill around while two engineers carry the whole company on its shoulders. That's how they signal "the market" (since real people embedded within the context of the real world do not exist, ap... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 5.5 5.5 2.1 2.1 YCs brag about "scal (view hidden) log in to judge received 5.5 5.5 2.1 2.1 To say that there is no difference between the Soviet state, a regime which explicitly dissolved the institutions of Russian statehood and legitimacy, and replaced it with a party state, disavowing the imperial autocrats and disavowing original Bolsheviks ... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.6 4.6 To say that there is (view hidden) log in to judge received 4.6 4.6 I think I agree with you that you can't have it both ways but I need to think about it more. I would just add that the new refounding was a top-down imposition on society just like the Soviet state was on its own. Frankly all the "capacity states" of the 2... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.7 1.7 I think I agree with (view hidden) log in to judge received 1.7 1.7 Slave and master moralities according to Nietzsche are the behavioral expressions of certain psychological archetypes. They occur like stones or rain (I choose these metaphors because geneology is is like social geology), or the way certain animals evolve ... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 4.3 4.3 Slave and master mor (view hidden) log in to judge received 4.3 4.3