No, I have him tagged. He does this shit all the time.

Confrontational just for the sake of it, always puts himself on a moral pedestal and talks down to everyone else for not realizing his superior genius.

He's not just shitposting. At least not deliberately.

Well yeah, if you could tell yourself honestly that your main vocation is worthwhile, wouldn't that be immensely better than just having the weekends to make up for the pointless tedium and misery of your weekdays?

I've been hearing his shows for more than ten years. Served as a brutal eye opener when one day I realized the true jokes weren't from the man's mouth but was sitting in the audience. And I'm not even american.

Enjoy.

no, they're right. I was making a joke, but also trying to make a point that such a vague description of a person can ultimately provide unintended results.

think of me as a Diogenes of sorts.

edit: out of morbid curiosity, what's your tag for me?

Okay? I've been watching him a lot longer than that. I read his book when I was 12. Length of exposure doesn't really matter. There's nothing particularly brutalizing about any of it. It just makes you think. If that brutalizes you, it's time to grow up.

Except that everyone here besides you seems to understand that what Epstein got in trouble for wasn't merely "staying at home jacking off," and to frame it as such is doing him and all his buddies a huge favor.

It's like if someone goes to prison for doing murder and you say "Well, that person eats food every day. You also eat food every day. Coincidence?" It focuses on the wrong detail.

I have you tagged as simply "unserious"; likely as an indication of the quality of rational argumentation you've displayed in a previous discussion. It's a fairly tame tag, but from what I've observed of you in the time since then, it seems to hold.

I don't think you're a troll necessarily, just a little overzealous at times and potentially disingenuous

It didn't brutalize me if only to make me think. Others that I've presented to his work found it crass and out of place. He was a very inteligent man.

you must not know who Diogenes is.

he's mostly famous for this interaction with Plato.

When Plato defined human beings as featherless bipeds and was praised for the brilliance of his definition. So, Diogenes plucked a chicken, brought it to Plato’s academy and declared “Behold – Plato’s human being.”

given the definition of what a "man not causing any goddamn trouble" looks like, I took the opportunity to provide an example that the definition was inadequate and lacked context.

while looking for the story above I found a plethora of others and found this one amusingly relatable.

Given this disdain for manners, Diogenes was known for his brutal honesty in conversation. He had no regard for social etiquette whatsoever and was known to frequently urinate and masturbate in public. When he was criticized for this, he pointed out that what he was doing was normal, and that everyone engaged in these activities, but hid in private what he did openly.

you can read more about Diogenes here.

Oh I'm familiar with Diogenes. He also fucked dogs if you didn't know.

That exchange with Plato wasn't something that really occured, by the way. It was a scene from a satire, pretty sure written by Aristophanes.

them: privacy is no longer guaranteed

you: git gud scrub

sounds like you need a reality check

Currently torn between FOMO and JOMO.

Oh I'm familiar with Diogenes. He also fucked dogs if you didn't know.

that's such a Diogenes thing to do 🤣

in fairness, he did teach the dog to walk upright and shaved it completely bare to meet the definition of a man.

of course it didn't really happen. it wasn't written down until 600 years later by Diogenes Laertius, and even by then the stories were more parables than historical events.

Okay, that gave me a chuckle

They did not say it wasn't guaranteed, they heavily implied it was impossible.