This guy sounds like a moron.
Imagine you commit your professional life to a thesis that you thought was right and, even better, seemed completely unfalsifiable. As that theory with decades of work falls apart, are you just going to say âmy bad guys, I was wrong for a few decadesâ?
Nah bro fuck that you gotta double down.
Kinda like what happened today, only that was over internet bullshit.
Yep. Theoretical physicists, for example, do it all the time.
If your chosen career path is primarily to make bold predictions in a speculative or inexact field, itâs what you signed up for.
You are right and it is not surprising that JM has doubled down (much easier than the alternative). The problem is that other people still cling to him and his views (cough cough).
The charitable view here is that the same bias is in play here too.
I canât really speak with some sort of moral authority here, as an entire meme on 2+2 was built from my recalcitrant take on the 2009 economy as things went to shit, but hey I can recognize that biased thought pattern.
The other people do not have decades of their intellectual capital invested in JMâs thesis as JM does. So I cut them no slack. Of course, they may be invested as well, but not to the extent that JM is. It should always be easier for âfollowersâ to shed a false belief compared to the originator of said belief.
Not nearly as easily as it could have during the Cuban Missile crisis.
Fascinating. I change thread titles all the time and never knew if anyone noticed. Good to know.
Some communism experts who have never lived under it too, now.
You not so sure about those war crimes, either?
This. âBet you a million that man will walk on Mars before I dieâ.
Guess that gag doesnât work too well on a gambling forum where people know about escrows and shit. On the flip side, non-gamblers donât get it at all.
oh and btw this reminds me. SKâs post of âitâs better in context, just watch the 70 minute videoâ is some of the laziest trolling Iâve ever seen. Donât get me wrong it still worked, but itâs still pure trolling. Itâs an old game, and something heâs pulled on me in his origins of covid nonsense.
Youâll notice he never actually says what the context is in that post, and he almost certainly didnât watch the 70min video in the 33 minutes between suzzers and his post. He never watched that video in its entirety, and almost certainly didnât watch it period.
He simply didnât have a real response, so what he does is put the onus back on you to prove what you said. By asserting that thereâs some magical context, itâs up to you waste 70 minutes of your life listening to that garbage. Itâs like a medical insurance company denying every claim, thereâs a good chance you wonât appeal, and he can âwinâ there. Youâll see him follow that up with âWhat do you mean X?â (This is also something he does to avoid a real response, and again to put the onus on you to drive discussion when he doesnât have that real response)
But yeah victor, Iâm not watching JMâs 70 minute video that was posted as an obvious troll. No one should honestly. You didnât either.
On the other hand he gets to sit at home and laugh that people wasted their time watching his YouTubez, so it still kind of worked.
His goal isnât to win the argument itâs to derail threads, piss people off, and waste peopleâs time.
I watched the whole video on Saturday or Sunday.
Was lapka an expert?
you can easily search for measheimer on other forums and see the video come up in much the same way that sk brings it up. like posting multiple times, with the same vacuous argument, inviting it to watch at time codes. the algorithm loves that shit too on an 8 year old lecture rehosted at multiple academic channels.
The russian trollfarm Metodichka is somewhat easy to recognize, although sometimes it seeps through not directly but via willingly useful idiots, who pick it up elsewhere.
No idea, but pretty sure she wasnât a big fan. Certainly more of an expert than some yank in a cushy IT job that pays about three times as much as his actual skills warrant, and with a quality of living he couldnât dream of in the promised lands he so wistfully longs for, and who is perpetually whining about the country that provides him that opportunity.
Iâm certainly not an expert on Russia or Ukraine and never presented myself as such. Donât know who this IT worker is youâre talking about but sounds like a real freerider, fuck that guy.
Iâll give you 3 guesses, and if you get it wrong, itâs off to the Gulags for you.
discussed on other forums is very different than âI watched this video on my own in its entiretyâ. Iâd buy that he cribbed from another place though.