My brain is broken. If you know you know for rest of you, you don’t want to know.
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Pass, thanks. My brain cannot handle more trauma just now.
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I feel like that’s kind of an insult to dorks? He’s just another mediocre white dude with fascist leanings…
The article illustrates, among other things, an important truth: that an over-investment in the idea of intelligence per se, and in particular the obsession with IQ as a measure of personal worth, is almost always a symptom of a stunted intellect.
Yeah… spot on!
She suggests that his embrace of a provocative ideology might be a “repetition compulsion”, a psychic defence allowing him to reframe the ostracisation he felt as an unpopular, nerdy kid.
Much like Musk, though, one wonders if the “unpopular, nerdy” thing is a persona that dipshits like this cultivate to justify being assholes? I’m guessing in reality, he was actually a bully at some point?
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Dork usually means someone with poor social skills. I think there are three general paths for that:
- I guess I need to practice my social skills more.
- Eh, I’m happy enough with what I have now.
- Why don’t these losers appreciate my obvious excellence?
Yarvin is plainly the third, as are a lot of the self-proclaimed “geniuses” of the right. I’ll agree it would be nice to have a more specific name for it, since the first two don’t really deserve to be associated with that toxicity. 
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True!
Yeah, I was wondering about something like “malignant dork”. But that still sounds like the “dork” part is the shameful bit to my ears. And it really shouldn’t be; whatever your opinion of dorks (I embrace my dorkiness and that of others), it’s not the important bit here.
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ETA
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Just to mention that this story, important as it is, has graphic descriptions of animal cruelty and probably more human cruelty.
(I noped right out of the article when I got to the sixth paragraph, which was describing the actions of a 14-year-old girl. I had to protect my mental health, which has been taking a beating lately.)
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I am Sorry. I don’t know why do they need to go down to the smallest details of the crimes. I also believe these stories must be told, but the details aren’t essentials to the message.
Here in Brazil, the police is cracking down some crime rings that use internet services and game servers to recruit deranged people UP to comit crime just for the thrill.
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Lollapa-losers
I stole this term from Jay Leno.
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No worries.
Teenage cult leaders who have a global reach with other kids on social media is an important story.
But dog, these kids. I just don’t know what else to say. 
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