the hitlerian victims of communism foundation on twitter: USSR pin awarded to farmers for "Mastery of Cannabis Breeding". Are these your "Marxist" values??

happy 4/20

homosexuals, imagine you're going skydiving with a homophobic baby.
suddenly the baby tells you he won't open his parachute until you renounce homosexuality. what would you do?

the "rebellious right", the "dark counter to modernity", the "this is what they don't want you to know", the "male loneliness", all of it - framed as a criticism of modern society, but in such a way so as to wield the freedom of "true" natural hierarchies to be released, and subordinate

speech against the bigotry is not also an equal exercise of free speech, but is a "censorious" attempt by "modern society" to "constrain" the freedom of natural hierarchy. but the irony, of course, is that there is no such thing as "natural hierarchy". hierarchy must be

the right wing argument for freedom of speech to advocate for bigotry against censorship and against consequences takes this form: "freedom" is only freedom of natural hierarchy against modern society and speeking it is speaking forth freedom. in this state of affairs, counter-

the right wing criticism of modernity always operates the same: it identifies the alienation of modern life, but its solution is to respond to this state of affairs with the so-called "freedom" of "natural hierarchies": man over woman, white over racialized, family over foreigner, nation over other

First the frogs now this 😔

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS UPSET WHEN SHE SEES SLUGGO LAYING ON THE GROUND, HIS BACK AGAINST A ROCK NANCY: SLUGGO--- YOU'RE THE LAZIEST BOY IN TOWN P2-NANCY POINTS TO A BEE SITTING ON A FLOWER … BZZZ BZZ NANCY : HERE, TAKE A CLOSE-UP OF THE BUSY BEE IN THAT FLOWER-- NANCY HANDS SLUGGO A MAGNIFYING GLASS P3- NANCY: IT MAY INSPIRE YOU TO BE MORE AMBITIOUS SLUGGO GETS A CLOSER LOOK OF THE BEE WITH THE MAGNIFYING GLASS P4- SLUGGO SEES THE BEE, BUT ITS NOT BUSY, BUT LAYING ON ITS BACK TAKING A NAP

Seated for Speed Racer in IMAX

She’s perfect

Free speech absolutism.

no war but infowars

Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability. Civil servants are sworn to uphold the constitution, report wrongdoing to officials, follow the rules. They are in most respects more accountable than our politicians to ethical and legal requirements, and more difficult to buy off. This makes government slower and more irritating for sure, and puts those officials at odds with the Musks, Andreessens, and Karps of the world, whose vision and interests benefits from reduced oversight and accountability.

I think the Palantir attacks on bureaucrats here is ideological - like the similarly despised professors, they are a potential source of criticism.
But it is also practical. The administrative class is tasked with imposing accountability, which Palantir - like the Trump administration - dislikes.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

The manifesto is incoherent about public service until you realize that Karp is presenting you with two types of public servants: civil servants fired under Trump, and the tech elites who venture into government.
The former deserve your scorn.
The latter merit your understanding and praise.

image of Palantir stock price increasing after Trump elected

Karp once studied and opposed fascism. How did he become someone a Trump defender? Palantir's value is fused to MAGA.

In the Times, @michellegoldberg.bsky.social says: "the best explanation for Karp’s journey — as for most of his right-wing billionaire compatriots — is the vulgar materialist one.”

Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

The manifesto makes a straightforward case that government and Silicon Valley power must be fused in order to defend Western values - which are superior to others - with hard rather than soft power. For many, this sounds like techno-fascism.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Infowars’ endless afterlife The Onion may finally boot Alex Jones from his studio, but years of damage have already been done.

NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Infowars, now 110% more gay.

A message to Sickos abandoning All-American Alcohol for the Latest Fad “420 Day”:

Just because you CANnabis doesn't mean you SHOULDabis.

@theonion.com

Ed Krassenstein I'm Center-left. I don't smoke weed

Happy 4/20 reprobates

With this new InfoWars, we will democratize psychological torture, welcoming brutal and sadistic ideas from everyone, even the very stupidest among us. It will be like the Manhattan Project, only instead of a bomb, we will be building a website. The InfoWars of tomorrow will converge into a swirling vortex of content about content, talent acquiring talent, rings of concentric media mergers processing all human artistry into one endlessly digestible slurry. This will be a dank, sunless place, one where panic and capital feed on each other like twins in the womb of a hulking, unknowable monster—a monster known by many names, but which I like to call modern-day America.

What a beautiful piece of writing from my boss, @brycetetraeder.bsky.social.

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Yes.

Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

What could we do, via democratic processes, to curtail the influence of these anti-democratic, publicly funded institutions? Perhaps, we could reduce their funding in favor of more egalitarian programs. Something like…something to do with their funding…hmm…

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

As I do every year on 4/20, I will be following the Jeopardy! interview segment tonight by saying “Dream blunt rotation. Now let’s get back into the Jeopardy! round.”