Date: August 14th, 2026 2:13 PM Author: Confused chest-beating station
The people believing retarded crank schizo shit they read on the internet totally aren't credulous morons for believing weird shit, just to not feel "normie"!
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:21 PM Author: Confused chest-beating station
Yeah because believing a claim that has survived decades of attempts to falsify it, generates successful predictions, and is independently checked by people who do not share the same institutions is definitely the same epistemic status as believing some mentally retarded schizo crank generating conspiracy bullshit for his youtube channel! This makes you such a BOOMER for believing in scholarly consensus over mentally retarded crank bullshit!
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:31 PM Author: Confused chest-beating station
Using the scientific method to understand the virology and molecular biology of the virus (which we did perfectly effectively), and engineering effective interventions on top of that knowledge are two different things
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:35 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
Look bud "science" is flame, ok? We go on vibes here. Covid and the flu are the same, just like the common cold, cancer, and scurvy. In this house we believe in the Four Humours. Enjoy taking the heart attack jab and fretting about climate change, we're doing just fine with leaches and sacrificing goats to appease the Sun God.
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:20 PM Author: Boyish painfully honest step-uncle's house potus
(guy spamming the board 24/7 about the universe being a "simulation" going into butthurt rage spiral about people's reasonable questions about sus moon landing)
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:26 PM Author: Confused chest-beating station
I never claimed to be certain that we are living in a simulation or even to be able to estimate the probability that we are, and even if I did that's a legitimate area of scholarly inquiry. Nick Bostrom writes about it. Where moon landing hoax shit is universally considered mentally retarded crank bullshit
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:50 PM Author: Boyish painfully honest step-uncle's house potus
you’re ridiculous, and you argue poorly.
the notion that “simulation theory” and “just asking questions” about whether life is a computer program is somehow more intellectually respectable than examining anomalies in the moon-landing evidence is absurd.
do you also take the government’s grainy photo propaganda of interstellar UAPs stalking Navy jets at face value? you probably think that's totally real too.
Date: August 14th, 2026 3:03 PM Author: Confused chest-beating station
No. You are conflating very different kinds of claims into one bucket labeled “questioning official reality". Simulation hypothesis is speculative metaphysics/philosophy of computation. It doesn't require accusing any particular group of scientists, engineers, or institutions of coordinated fraud. It asks whether our observed physics and consciousness are consistent with being inside a computational process run by some more advanced system. You can take the argument seriously without assigning it a high probability or treating it as settled.
Moon landing hoax claims are different. They require a large scale, multi-decade conspiracy involving NASA, contractors, physical samples, other countries who had every incentive to expose NASA. The claimed “anomalies” have been repeatedly examined and explained by ordinary engineering and physics.
Navy UAP videos are in a third category. It is entirely legitimate to analyze the sensor data to analyze whether the objects (or apparent objects) in the video are genuinely physical objects or anomalous. What isn't legitimate is making the leap to say that since the videos are anomalous that they must be part of some government conspiracy to cover up alien craft. That puts it into the same bucket as moon landing hoax crankery.
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:24 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
Feels weird to be further right than 95% of the population and almost always the most right-leaning in a social circle but come here and my rep is milquetoast turbocuck that has no business calling himself a con.
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:39 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
You're right that it's not the same thing but you also know that there's a lot of overlap and conflation which is why the cranks are calling me a lib defender of the status quo and bringing up covid and blm because I believe we landed on the moon.
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:36 PM Author: Confused chest-beating station
Gunneratattt is definitely more right than most people irl. Especially educated people. When do you ever see nazi dorks spouting fringe shit irl? It's always in extremely online spaces.
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:40 PM Author: Richard Ames
I guess it depends on what you consider fringe. There is a lot of stuff that is "fringe," but not necessarily baseless. e.g.) being opposed to the Civil Rights Act.
Many people will not say anything about that even if they agree with the arguments.
But again, I am not sure what you are really referring to.
Date: August 14th, 2026 3:12 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
Also a lot of what I say is rooted in what I think is reasonably achievable or what's best strategically. I might aay "You're retarded if you think X is possible", but that doesn't mean that if I could wave a magic wand I wouldn't do X.
Date: August 14th, 2026 3:22 PM Author: exciting stage
No he isnt. Believes in student loan forgivenss, tranny rights, abortion, luigi mangione did nothing wrong, socially liberal in general, has tons other economic populist/berniebro beliefs.
He just occasionally signals "in group" membership bc fitting in here is important to him for some bizarre reason.
Date: August 14th, 2026 3:43 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
Trump loves troons and abortions. And jews which is why he loves eternal middle class goy debt slavery.
If I cared about conforming to the xo zeitgeist why tf would I say things I believe that I know are unpopular? Me pointing out that prevailing opinions here are radical alienates me even further. So how tf is any of this about me being accepted here?
Date: August 14th, 2026 3:46 PM Author: exciting stage
("95th pecentile conservative" who is socially liberal but economically liberal)
95 percent of cinservatives were pro tranny and pro abortion and pro spending hundreds of billions on losers with student loans at my HS all the time, it was no big deal
Date: August 14th, 2026 3:51 PM Author: exciting stage
Youre the one deflecting. "Feels weird to be further right than 95% of the population" but your views on most social and economic issues are basically reddit as you have been forced to admit.
Date: August 14th, 2026 3:58 PM Author: exciting stage
it is quite simple, you are a redditard who wants to fit in but have a conflicting desire to still express your views on here. Yeah there is tension in that, but such is life. This is pretty standard fare among posers in all spheres of society.
You hope that by just repeating and forcememing that you are a "95th percentile conservative" enough times and forcefully enough you can forcememe it onto people and get them to overlook your regurgitation of reddit trash.
Date: August 14th, 2026 4:12 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
No, I said it knowing you cranks would be irate in a thread about you being irate. I know that xo is trending further to extremely online cranks and has been for a decade. I don't think anything can change that and eventually you fags will "win" when the only active poasters remaining are people lime you.
I think you defaulting to my motivation being rooted it being accepted is projection. To you online is real and you're concerned about your e-reputation, so you assume it's mine as well. But that makes no sense when I poast all sorts of shit I know will be unpopular with people like you. The gayest thing I can think of it curating poasting to be liked. I poast because I like anonymously bloviating and don't recognize monikers after 20 years here unless they're very notable or interesting poasters
Date: August 14th, 2026 3:50 PM Author: exciting stage
Lol come on, Trumps beliefs are well to the right of yours and his actions on abortion, trannies, student loans, etc have all gone counter to your beliefs.
Date: August 14th, 2026 4:03 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
An ideal system would include restricting the franchise to men + some assurance of civic investment + intelligence and abolishing prisons in favor of execution and corporal punishment immediately after convicition.
Date: August 14th, 2026 4:05 PM Author: Richard Ames
Yes I would classify much of this as right wing. But any pro-troon bullshit is just insane. So unfortunately when this is put in place, we will have to execute you as well. Thank.
Date: August 14th, 2026 4:19 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
I'm not pro-troon per se I'm anti government having a role there in large part because we just lived through the woke era and I think you retards are crazy giving the government that power when 5 years ago it wanted to make chopping your childs cock off compulsory.
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:37 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
This includes friends within internal GOP stuff.
You're correct that the closer you get to the fringe the more exponentially radical you are. I'm pointing out that the people in the 99% have a very skewed idea of what the spectrum is.
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:48 PM Author: Richard Ames
The reason why people think you aren't nearly as "right wing" as you say you are is because your poasts often read as though you have a Morally Superior view of yourself and that you Have It All Figured Out. A sort of general incuriosity.
It obviously doesn't mean you should entertain every theory, but why not just ignore the bullshit you find insane?
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:52 PM Author: Confused chest-beating station
Intellectual curiosity is not an open ended duty to treat every claim as provisionally serious. gunnerattt is not close minded toward evidence that could actually move the needle on an issue.
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:58 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
Yeah I'm a very open-minded person and that's reflected in political (and identity) diversity in my social circle. I can tolerate any opinion so long as it has some thread of logic and rooted in facts, even if it's tenuous and I think it's ridiculous. I've had long subthreads with TBF and EPAH and it's never devolved into the shit you see today.
Maybe it comes off as haughty but I'm not going to go "haha maybe" when someone is arguing for something that is objectively, observably false. I mean that in the strictest sense. If you want to believe bigfoot exists, Bush did 9/11, or something like that I don't get frustrated. It's the flat earth tier shit that triggers my autism.
Date: August 14th, 2026 2:53 PM Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)
Haven't found a better timewaster than xo. I didn't have this reputation before. That's the majority of content here and browsing xo is my default when I'm bored at work or something. You're right I should probably just quit. When I look at some subthread arguing with some crank I don't think it was a very good use of time or entertaining. I'd be better off scrolling Insta reels.
Date: August 14th, 2026 3:21 PM Author: irate corner
pretty much. his biggest issue is he comes off as a smug dork despite never having evidenced a shred of true insight or real intelligence. it’s very spaceporn-esque, although to his credit he is clearly smarter and less grating than spaceporn.