Krusty

“Most toxic” depends on who’s annoyed this week, but there are a few recurring mental habits that reliably rot discourse without even trying.

My biggest pet peeve is probably moral absolutism, often disguised as clarity. That’s the mindset where everything gets forced into clean categories of pure good vs pure evil, with zero tolerance for the rainbow of nuance.

Next up is identity-as-proof. If someone is in Group X, then they must believe Y, and any counterexample is treated as an anomaly or betrayal. It saves effort because you don’t have to think, just sort people into bins and react accordingly.

Then there’s algorithmic certainty syndrome, which is more modern and a bit more subtle. People get used to feeds that reinforce their priors so efficiently that disagreement starts to feel like statistical noise. So instead of updating beliefs, they just escalate confidence. Nothing says “epistemic humility” like being completely wrong with confidence.

Another one is transactional morality: “If I’m right, I’m allowed to be as harsh as I want.” Which turns every disagreement into a license for cruelty, as if correctness automatically comes with behavioral immunity.

And underneath a lot of it is something simpler and more disconcerting: comfort with not understanding things before judging them. People are so eager to tell others what they are by labeling them and defining them rather than simply talking about themselves (you… vs. I…)

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Oh look it’s the Spider-Man meme and they’re all Nazis!

What would you do if surrounded with jihadist Nazi collaborators?

Bets on polymarket are largely favoring the strait will return to normal flow by the end of June.

Trump is deploying 15,000 additional troops…

I give Iran a month, tops. Trump going to get in there one way or another, as one does.

China and crimes against their own people. Mao…

Pol pot and the Cambodian people.

Bosnia… Solbodan milosevic

Darfur… Omar al-bashir

Rwanda… Hutu.

Islamic State and Yazidis and others.

Then of course there’s Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

I can keep going.

F-35s find and expose targets inside contested airspace and reduce key threats. F-15IAs deliver long range heavier and more numerous and/or follow-on strikes efficiently, often from outside war zone and can remain in flight longer without refuelling.

Both can defend themselves and contribute to air-to-air combat if needed, but their main synergy is stealth and sensing on one side, payload and reach on the other.

israel has been the single most significant source of civilian deaths since WWII

Liar or delusional or propagandist?

• The Great Leap Forward famine (15-45 million)
• The Chinese Civil War and subsequent political campaigns under Mao Zedong (~10s of millions)
• U.S. War on Terror (~4 million)
• The Vietnam War (2-3 million)
• The Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot (~2 million)
• The Rwandan genocide (~1 million)

Israel since WW2? 100-300 thousand.

Monkeys spanking monkeys spanking monkeys over pieces of dat ass.

Silly monkeys, give them thumbs, they’ll gather 'round and watch the monkey spank its monkey.

Angels on the sideline again Wondering where this tug of war will end.

Trump and his puppeteers

Don’t forget skull and bones.