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A Guide To The Worst Year Of Our Lives (feat. @JREG )

Sisyphus 55 | February 26, 2026



@JREG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGSGPehp0RWfca-kENgBJ9Q

@HOUSECAT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPZHZzvSPYvqyk-nFS9kDA

TRANSCRIPT: https://sisyphus089.medium.com/f-ck-2020-6574c01fab4a?sk=1e9e423ad3811273ce2eba8667b49cc8

FOOTAGE USED: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeHhCR9lwiQbHoWmU2r2ZepfHad37_fib

SOURCES: https://sisyphus089.medium.com/sources-a4d3b45cd83a

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  9. @sinity8068

    February 26, 2026 at 3:49 am

    Paradox of tolerance is a heavily abused 'argument'. Sorta relevant quote:

    > We started by asking: *millions of people are conspicuously praising every outgroup they can think of, while conspicuously condemning their own in-group. This seems contrary to what we know about social psychology. What’s up?* We noted that outgroups are rarely literally “the group most different from you”, and in fact far more likely to be groups very similar to you sharing almost all your characteristics and living in the same area. We then noted that *although liberals and conservatives live in the same area, they might as well be two totally different countries or universe as far as level of interaction were concerned.*

    > Contra the usual idea of them being marked only by voting behavior, we described them as very different tribes with totally different cultures. You can speak of “American culture” only in the same way you can speak of “Asian culture” – that is, with a lot of interior boundaries being pushed under the rug.

    > The outgroup of the Red Tribe is occasionally blacks and gays and Muslims, more often the Blue Tribe.

    > *The Blue Tribe has performed some kind of very impressive act of alchemy, and transmuted all of its outgroup hatred to the Red Tribe.*

    > This is not surprising. Ethnic differences have proven quite tractable in the face of shared strategic aims. Even the Nazis, not known for their ethnic tolerance, were able to get all buddy-buddy with the Japanese when they had a common cause. *Research suggests Blue Tribe / Red Tribe prejudice to be much stronger than better-known types of prejudice like racism.* Once the Blue Tribe was able to enlist the blacks and gays and Muslims in their ranks, they became allies of convenience who deserve to be rehabilitated with mildly condescending paeans to their virtue. “There never was a coward where the shamrock grows.”

    > Spending your entire life insulting the other tribe and talking about how terrible they are makes you look, well, tribalistic. It is definitely not high class. So *when members of the Blue Tribe decide to dedicate their entire life to yelling about how terrible the Red Tribe is, they make sure that instead of saying “the Red Tribe”, they say “America”, or “white people”, or “straight white men”. That way it’s humble self-criticism.* They are so interested in justice that they are willing to critique their own beloved side, much as it pains them to do so. We know they are not exaggerating, because one might exaggerate the flaws of an enemy, but that anyone would exaggerate their own flaws fails the criterion of embarrassment.

    > The Blue Tribe always has an excuse at hand to persecute and crush any Red Tribers unfortunate enough to fall into its light-matter-universe by defining them as all-powerful domineering oppressors. They appeal to the fact that this is definitely the way it works in the Red Tribe’s dark-matter-universe, and that’s in the same country so it has to be the same community for all intents and purposes. As a result, every Blue Tribe institution is permanently licensed to take whatever emergency measures are necessary against the Red Tribe, however disturbing they might otherwise seem.

    > *And so how virtuous, how noble the Blue Tribe! Perfectly tolerant of all of the different groups that just so happen to be allied with them, never intolerant unless it happen to be against intolerance itself. Never stooping to engage in petty tribal conflict like that awful Red Tribe, but always nobly criticizing their own culture and striving to make it better!*

    > Sorry. But I hope this is at least a little convincing. *The weird dynamic of outgroup-philia and ingroup-phobia isn’t anything of the sort. It’s just good old-fashioned in-group-favoritism and outgroup bashing, a little more sophisticated and a little more sneaky.*

    ————

    > Bombard people with images of a far-off land they already hate and tell them to hate it more, and the result is ramping up the intolerance on the couple of dazed and marginalized representatives of that culture who have ended up stuck on your half of the divide. Sure enough, *if industry or culture or community gets Blue enough, Red Tribe members start getting harassed, fired from their jobs (Brendan Eich being the obvious example) or otherwise shown the door.* Think of Brendan Eich as a member of a tiny religious minority surrounded by people who hate that minority. Suddenly firing him doesn’t seem very noble.

    > If you mix together Podunk, Texas and Mosul, Iraq, you can prove that Muslims are scary and very powerful people who are executing Christians all the time – and so we have a great excuse for kicking the one remaining Muslim family, random people who never hurt anyone, out of town.

    > And if you mix together the open-source tech industry and the parallel universe where you can’t wear a FreeBSD t-shirt without risking someone trying to exorcise you, you can prove that Christians are scary and very powerful people who are persecuting everyone else all the time, and you have a great excuse for kicking one of the few people willing to affiliate with the Red Tribe, a guy who never hurt anyone, out of town.

    > *When a friend of mine heard Eich got fired, she didn’t see anything wrong with it. “I can tolerate anything except intolerance,” she said.*

    > *“Intolerance” is starting to look like another one of those words like “white” and “American”.*

    > *“I can tolerate anything except the outgroup.” Doesn’t sound quite so noble now, does it?*

  13. @littlejack59

    February 26, 2026 at 3:49 am

    This video goes over the topic of bullshit as if it an all knowing being immune to bullshit
    how does one self know weather or not they are consuming or spewing bullshit

  38. @73_65

    February 26, 2026 at 3:49 am

    The problem of climate change will likely not be effectively worked on for quite a while as the vast majority who advocate on it from my observations support one of 2 equally incorrect sides, those who dont think it exists, and those who think switching purely to "renewables"(wind, solar, and hydro-electric) are the solution, if either looked at the long term, they would(hopefully) agree nuclear power, fission and fusion, are the only realistic long term options for large scale power as in both cases the fuel is cheap and the powerplants still have much room to grow, unlike other power options.

  40. @mclovin4gigi37

    February 26, 2026 at 3:49 am

    I'm just going to say it
    I'm well aware of the shit from riots to fires to corruption and division to disease and fires and explosion in Beirut and wars in Eurasia and feral bees and extinctions and of course the restrictions and financial loss

    I had one of the BEST years of my entire Life in 2020😎🚬🥃🍻👍👍

    Did anyone else ♥️♥️♥️♥️ 2020?

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