193 – Building Baileys with Yassine Meskhout

We speak with Yassine Meskhout of The Bailey about… a whole bunch of things actually.

LINKS

Yassine’s Substack

The Motte

The Bailey podcast

Yassine’s I Am Here Because Of Blind Dumb Luck

Check Here For Racial Oppression – history of the US Federal racial categories

SSC post popularizing & explaining the Motte And Bailey Doctrine

Alex Jones as Epic Poetry

Yassine’s posts on Paul Ehrlich’s Gymnastics and Meghan Murphy’s Speedrun Guide to Logical Fallacies

There Are No Amendments in Islam

Eleven Magic Words

Morality is Accidental & Self-Congratulatory

Consider The Hand Axe

Slavery in Video Games

The post about that video game with slavery



0:00:23 – Hard open

0:01:05 – Yassine is (officially) white

0:19:48 – Official open + The Bailey podcast

0:26:36 – MCU-level mental gymnastics

0:55:55 – Yassine on Eleven Magic Words and being a Public Defender

1:20:41 – There Are No Amendments in Islam

1:37:48 – Any anti-tech movement is necessarily a pro-slavery movement

1:51:50 – Guild of the Rose Update

1:53:10 – Feedback

1:56:42 – Less Wrong Posts

2:17:58 – Thank the Patron



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