Big Mazel! I get that it's a popular take, but it's lazy. However, terms like fascist and neo-fascist poison the conversation. But as I was thinking about all this, I got other emails. Welcome to Dr. Scott Siskind, blogger. Looking forward to reading you again. Isn't that the kind of sport where you can get kicked in the balls pretty easily? When I first saw this compilation of those comments, most of which I was already familiar with, it was easy for me to dismiss it. All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective parties. I was never able to completely erase myself from the Internet, but I made some strategic decisions - like leaving up a bunch of older stuff that mentioned my real name so that casual searchers would find that instead of my real blog. I hand't heard of the guy before just now, so I'm not sure who to believe but leaning toward the commenter who was less incendiary. Thanks! > who could have guessed that a webzine founded by a violent neo-fascist leader. People who call themselves nationalists today are fascists, or in the fascist pipeline. Big picture stuff; if somebody draws a knife and stabs you, the law of the jungle gives you the go ahead to draw your knife and stab them back. > At times, McInnes appeared to contradict his promise to quit. So, still... Should a particular newspaper be the arbiter of who Public and who is Private? Most people don't start out trying to be influential. The whole point is about opposing the 'they' who is attacking people, which means you *are* supposed to oppose *someone*. Good to have you back! Literally. Don't kick me in the fucking balls! Also, I loved the emotional and rhetorical payoff of your ending: you starting your own new -- and hopefully truly innovative and trendsetting -- practice and "coming out" proudly, as it were, in merging your personal, vocational, and avocational (alternative vocational?) I hope the changes you've made work out for you and make your life more awesome! Some people ccd me on them. I can't wait to read what you write next. I didn't realize how much I would miss you until you were gone. I got emails from some transgender bloggers, who talked about how trans people go by something other than their legal name and have a special interest in not getting outed in the national news. That's all. looking forward to the new predictive processing stuff. Since the information has no benefit or interest to the readers, I think it's a lot harder to make a journalistic case for publicizing it. :). Yes, and the Genovese family was just supposed to pick up garbage and provide security for small business owners. Looking forward to all ACX has to offer. The biggest decline in feeling safe was among "strong liberals", who feel an entire 12 percentage points less safe expressing their opinion now than way back in the hoary old days of 2017. Eventually it became kind of overwhelming. >My family are army brass and they would consider themselves nationalist patriots. I talked to an aggressively unhelpful police officer about my personal security. Now, once you made it clear what the impact is, I think it would have been best for them to agree to not publish your name. Buddy, that right there is... it’s interesting. Nope, though I had the same thought. >>19167439 I used to be a big fan of hers until she got into the whole diaper/furry shit. Honestly makes me sad to see people in the SSC comments defending this guy. The main emotion I was able to pick up from them was annoyance that I was making their lives harder by making a big deal out of this. But, uh, I'm sure if we got a chance to sort it out I would have been humbled by his support. The next year, I tried the job interview circuit again and got hired. Most people believe Gavin is that someone. You didn't put a hairdryer on your practice's site. You can tell if someone is a good journalist by checking whether they "reveal things that people would prefer remain hidden". My confusion was in the context of me being ignorant of any other reasonable recourses available to her. You wrote a lot here, and made a lot of assertions, but I don't see where you presented any arguments that McInnes is a fascist. But I suspect you know that, or you wouldn’t be “no, you-ing” fascism. You could troll people, you could Goatse or Rickroll them, but doxxing was beyond the pale. This was a triumph I'm making a note here, huge success. Gavin MacInnes and the Proud Boys are, to my knowledge, libertarians. This is the best thing one can possibly find out at midnight :). Sounds like you're not really that committed to this not-getting-kicked-in-the-balls thing. His brand new blog, at a brand new domain, after six months of silence, has gotten him (an estimated) hundreds of thousands of dollars in annualized income from his reader base. Time is short. > The group was supposed to act as security and defend speakers, not do brawls. I do think there's a way in which in a world with an internet machine where finding identities is uniquely easier than it has ever been forces journalists to reconsider this question. Or what I like to call, moral behavior (in contrast to amoral behavior, rather than immoral behavior). He's much more careful with his words now. He's called for violence many times: Not *officially* white supremacist, but they've got people working on it! There wasn't even anything controversial on the blog - this was back in the early 2010s, before they invented controversy. You guys have had to listen to me write ad nauseum about cost disease - why does health care cost 4x times more per capita than it did just a generation ago? Hey, your "all psychiatrists" link points to a Google cache rather than directly to the page being linked. It seems like you were a pretty busy LJer until you took that down and set up SSC, but (1) it wasn't that easy to find your real last name from your LJ as I recall (only from like one reference to it in a comment under the earliest LJ post publicly viewable in the mid-2010's? Gavin has sufficiently denounced them. Welcome back. Glad to have you back. What an introductory post, too! He repeatedly described the group as “we”, throughout a lengthy defence of its actions, said “this is 100% a legal gesture, and it is 100% about alleviating sentencing”, and also called his actions a “stepping down gesture, in quotation marks”. Yes, please. A lot of them had stories like mine - failed an interview they should have aced, and the interviewer mentioned their blog as an issue. That magical atmosphere was powered by some ancient relic of machinery beyond human ken, and we just turned off that machine for most of a year and changed out half its parts". Good times. But the people emailing me understood that we're all in this together, and that if oppressed people don't stand up for the rights of the privileged, no one will. An emotional response that is understandable, arguably impolite and unnecessary, but can hardly be called justice. The whole point of this thread is that Scott made some pretty wild claims about Gavin Mcinness without much evidence except for a highly biased Wikipedia article. I assume it’s because they simply don’t fully grasp the power they wield. I got an email from a former member of the GamerGate movement, offering advice on managing PR. Great to see you pull strength out of adversity. With malice towards none, with charity towards all, with firmness in the ṛta as reflective equilibrium gives us to see the ṛta, let us restart our mutual explorations, begin anew the joyful reduction of uncertainty wherever it may lead us. They also didn't get the UN General Assembly involved, it was UN _Women_. It is a great comfort to know that someone like you exists in the world at this time in history. To the degree that the world makes sense to me, to the degree that I've been able to untie some of the thornier knots and be rewarded with the relief of mental clarity, a lot of it has been because of things I learned while blogging. Images uploaded are the responsibility of the Poster. Is this someone you're actually familiar with and have followed or just skimmed the Wikipedia article? As I was trying to figure out how this was going to work financially, Substack convinced me that I could make decent money here. I was nevertheless humbled by their support. It’s among the class of people whose decisions decide who has influence and who doesn’t. But somehow that just made it even more infuriating. seriously Scott ? We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. I got emails from medical interns and residents, telling me they enjoyed hearing about my experiences in medicine. They act to compartmentalize and divide people and they retard debate in a semantic morass. We're glad you're back. (Although some of Scott's writings on feminism also didn't help. I think they're correct. Respectfully. So, what happened to the deadly neurotoxin? There is hope! Vic declined multiple requests for an interview or any sort of conversation, so this guy went to force him to respond. Maybe nobody is using it yet, because this topic isn't one that begets discussion! I'm not even angry I'm being so sincere right now. You’re a Red. If it isn't relevant-enough in your book, then I concede that your book is more interesting than mine. So the only thing that reporters have to do is to be less narcissistic and selfish, where they see themselves as the only channel of information that needs anonymity to work, and extend those exact same ethics to others. I am a fan of them both. Of course, under many moral system, and most people's moral intuitions, you wouldn't be *wrong* to revenge-murder them, especially if you tried the police and they couldn't make a case. 32% of people worry they would be fired if their political views became generally known, including 28% of Democrats and 38% of Republicans. Congratulations on your first steps to demist the fog of war in your maps of healthcare. I also just got a call from my bank for exactly this, lmao. If you are a rich person, your house will probably be better protected, and the police is more likely to think twice about the evidence they have before kicking down your door. ", Speaking of, I have one remaining contact in the Proud Boys, an old friend who I knew before the Proud Boys and who got me to join in the first place. I wanted to protect my anonymity, but I Streisand-Effected myself, and a bunch of trolls went around posting my real name everywhere they could find. I'm a software engineer who's never been in a fight in his life. And if you’re not very careful, you risk being convinced to get involved in some bad shit. Well, reporters already withhold useful information from the public: the names of sources who don't want to be public. Best of luck with your new practice, I look forward to your conversation with Alex Tabarrok whether you succeed or fail gloriously. The cost of potentially silencing him should therefor weigh much more heavily than the very minimal benefit of publishing the name. Or they might have been deliberately interviewing friendly sources first, in order to make me feel safe so I would grant them an interview, and then moved on to the unfriendly ones after they knew that wouldn't happen. Or, in layman's terms, sometimes you have to be a crazy bastard so people won't walk all over you. Hey, your "all psychiatrists" link points to a Google cache rather than directly to the page being linked. I've missed your insight dearly during this crazy time. Especially if I clarify things and say "don't do that"? I am generally sympathetic, but I also see why the Times Reporters did not find your arguments convincing. The Russians fought for their freedom in 1917 - and won! One of them ended up with a total trade volume in the four digits. When joining the group, you had to read and agree to a set of rules that included "we don't start fights, but we do finish them!" Reporters typically seem to regret having anonymous sources, but accept it, because this is often the only way that certain information gets to the public. Another detail is that doxing is an asymmetric weapon. I understand that your point is: well there's a lot of people who fall short of important enough but like... where? I don’t think he falls of the side of “private citizen with expectation of privacy” anymore. He told them not to go to the January 6th protest. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Pog animated GIFs to your conversations. But the other reason I didn't do it was...well, suppose Power comes up to you and says hey, I'm gonna kick you in the balls. We need more violence from the Trump people... choke a bitch, choke a tranny", "Get ready to blow someone's fuckin' head off". Wonderful to have you back :), It took literally the first post for me to remember “Oh yeah, Scott manages to convince me and fascists that he is on our wavelength at the same time.”. The Times (a British newspaper unrelated to NYT) hacked his email and exposed his real identity, and his chief forced him to delete the blog in order to keep his job. There's so much left to say! to a very simplistic statement they can get behind. This isn't just conservatives - it's also moderates (64%), liberals (52%) and even many strong liberals (42%). That way you know everyone who has commented has read the piece! I think this might be what the Catholics call "invincible ignorance". She granted an interview to a Vice reporter under the condition that he not reveal some sensitive details of her personal life which could get her in trouble with the Chinese authorities. For a Red, anyone opposed to communism is a “fascist.” You guys have been playing that card for about 90 years, though you briefly stopped, during the Non-Aggression Pact (1939-1941). My friend, you are weirdly invested in defending the proud boys for someone who thinks they’re actually bad. The original accusation of Scott was about Gavin. And I think they are correct to note that your blog had gained notoriety, and that you had not exactly discouraged it. (seriously asking. I just signed up for an annual subscription, the first time I've paid for writing online. With all due respect to these reporters, and with complete admission of my own bias, I reject this entire way of looking at things. 1 Appearance 2 Personality 3 Series 3.1 Seasons 4 Specials 5 Movies 6 Magical Abilities 6.1 Known Transformations 7 Trivia 8 References Always hungry, perceptive, protective, and caring, Kiko has shown many times how he worries about and loves Bloom, her family and his friends. He later regretted saying that and meant simply Western. I agree with this. But he did find a way to make the offending policewoman remember the day she harassed him as something other than Tuesday. You had me grinning the whole way through, and very nearly tearing up at the end. I get that it's a popular take, but it's lazy. > Just understand that other people use different definitions of the word, interpret his words and actions differently, and do not forgive or dismiss the things that you do. Ctrl-f works so much better if you don't have to click "Load more" fifty times first. But it was still a good learning experience. Both to inure potential members (not to mention society more broadly) to their fascist ideology, but to avoid legal trouble. I wondered if I'd enjoy the break. One thing led to another, and eventually a mostly-peaceful revolution ousted the government of Tunisia. I’m really sorry, buddy. If I find a web layout annoying or hard to read, others will to and I'd like Scott's business to be a success. But at the moment and in the grand scheme of things it's worth everything. Thank you for everything Scott! (I feel stupid and bad for asking this, but that feeling doesn't actually provide me with a clear spelled out answer, so...). Wouldn't it be fair to say I had passed that point? He returns just as they're holding his funeral, and gets to listen to everyone praise his life and talk about how much they loved him. Scott should be smart enough to know not to link to _any_ controversial figure's Wikipedia article. I also recommend scrapping like button, if possible. Gavin's alright, and the show is pretty tight. As to what is or isn't fascism, that is a quite complex question to pin down, and I find Eric S. Raymond's essay on the subject to be an excellent and very relevant attempt: This does seem like the week when the difficulty level goes down a notch. I only discovered taxometrics a few months ago and I haven't talked your ears off about it yet - that will change! I see the subreddit AstralCodexTen is private. You just admitted to it. Welcome back Scott! And those people are sniffing their own farts about how overblown his influence is. "When I look out there it makes me glad I've got you". (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/proud-boys-founder-gavin-mcinnes-quits-far-right-group). So the only thing that reporters have to do is to be less narcissistic and selfish, where they see themselves as the only channel of information that needs anonymity to work, and extend those exact same ethics to others.". Not enough contrast. Try to anticipate other people's reaction and be preemptively sympathetic. Your doing so was a huge boon to free culture and to rabid fans like myself who like having things on paper :). I'm trying to convince you, the average Internet person. They might have assumed I had something to hide, and wanted to figure out what it was just in case it was a better story than the original. But of course I would be a hypocrite. I am humbled by their support. It's quite surreal to find "they stop there" as a deadpan assertion written below the very article describing how they came for Scott. Excellent news! The current leader of the Proud Boys - Enrique Tarrio - is Cuban/latino which most wouldn't consider white. (I had a crappy time even finding my own comment again to reply to you!) I got emails from people in a host of weird and difficult situations, telling me about how reading my blog was the only thing that kept them sane through difficult times. Is this a pro-doxxing email? Literally brought a tear to my eye. Hey, Scott! At the time (and in-context), those comments seemed to be hyperbole about self-defense. Click the link we sent to , or click here to log in. I can only hope the people at my real funeral are as kind. Say why it was necessary for my career to publish those papers under my real name. the portal robot ? It fit my priors as someone who had been assaulted and seen others be assaulted at campus events, but had never been a victim of or personally witnessed politically-motivated violence by a conservative against a leftist. (And every time someone likes your comment. Am I an entitled jerk for causing such a stir just so I can feel safe and comfortable? So I'm going to try to start a medical practice that provides great health care to uninsured people for 4x less than what anyone else charges. So good to have you back Scott. Getting all these emails made me realize that, whatever the merits of my own case, maybe by accident, I was fighting for something important here. The notes on supplements definitely has that feel to it of a sane person patiently explaining something in a world of insanity. I think your post raises the question but I'm not sure it does anything to clarify the line. I'm about to read them, jus wanted To let you know you weren't the only one confused by it, and if that makes you stupid and bad I guess we can be stupid and bad together. "and that smiley face will haunt my dreams" made me laugh uncontrollably out loud. Someone doesn't have to spout fascist rhetoric every day of the week in every interaction they have in order to be a fascist. Unique Discord Stickers designed and sold by artists. Would you understand it if the NYT published those? So sure, deleting my blog wasn't the most, shall we say, rational response to the situation. And I left my job. But psychotherapy classes also teach you to not to let past traumas control your life even after they've stopped being relevant. A friend of a friend reports her grandmother in Slovakia heard a story about me on Slovak-language radio. For them, it was Tuesday. I'm so glad to see you back again. Scott has returned to us!! But it's infuriating to have it happen because Power can't bring itself to care. But in my worldview, I start with the right to anonymity, and they need to make an affirmative case for doxxing me. Right, but, any joy in that song was washed out by that solid year of people doing really sincere covers of Still Alive on ukelele / trombone / dot matrix printer etc. I wanted to avoid losing my day job, but ended up quitting so they wouldn't be affected by the fallout. Oh wow, oh wow. I got advice from people who are more famous than I am, who have allayed some fears and offered some suggestions. No, seriously, it was awful. I'm very psyched. I'm not sure any of them were especially actionable, at least not while the Geneva Convention remains in effect. Portal is one of the greatest games ever made and Jonathan Coulton is one of the best living musicians. I think the New York Times wanted to write a fairly boring article about me, but some guideline said they had to reveal subjects' real identities, if they knew them, unless the subject was in one of a few predefined sympathetic categories (eg sex workers). - they're influential! Scott literally didn't know who Gavin was until last year, so I doubt he's knowledgeable of the man's complicated history. It sucks that his life had to get turned upside down, but he won the fucking lottery and we have to take the good with the bad. Like it *was* Scott all along? ), The lack of a "no, seriously, just load all the comments right now onto this page so I can search/scan/whatever them myself" button is painful for me, and possibly not just me. I'm not even sure the public needs to know the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. You're definitely not alone. No, seriously, I spent 2 months in a locked down hospital last year getting my head zapped therapeutically, and and I think I may have some screen/memory burn-in in addition to the horrendous tinnitus :D. > I don't think anyone at the Times bore me ill will, at least not originally. Scott cares more about keeping the taboo intact than about affirming the right to stab back when stabbed. Sure. I don't have much to add to what innumerable others have said, but boy am I glad you're back. Now, not all fascists are Nazis.
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