The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk might support that PAC to the tune of around $45 million per month. Musk has denied that specific claim since, but the America PAC, which is run by Lonsdale, appears to be created to support the “PayPal Mafia” worldview — which includes (and indeed depends on) the bankruptcy of the United States.
At least PayPal had a suitably grand mission—the kind that post-bubble skeptics would later describe as grandiose: we wanted to create a new internet currency to replace the U.S. dollar.
Local community employment/outreach/social support place had a volunteer run computer place in the basement (they also had a bike place, and a cafe or two, and some apartments, and they were the best community org ever..).
100$
I bought 2 over a couple years.
I'm pretty sure they had xubuntu.
Over 10 years later I still have both. And I just put mint 23xfce on one and use it as my living room media player - dvi to HDMI projector.
I have no need for a lot of stuff. I make work what I can. And I keep it working as long as I can however I can.
If there is an afterlife, I hope his eternity is as a female disabled minority lgbt poor slave and the devil fucks him daily and he is forced to give birth to himself - dying in labor. Remembering each time. And not just remembering, but reliving the suffering of the millions he joyfully decided should suffer.
Read the speech. Spot on. And i love the writing style. Found the pace of my internal audio sped up and down with the way he spoke. Reminded me of Harrison bergeron in a way.
Will definitely read the book.
Yep.
I've said it before and I'll say it again (it almost seems obvious, if not completely insane):
All the media we have been presented in our lives, has been propaganda and prophecy.
Behavior modifications and warnings and desensitization of what the future was to be, now is.
Some of it dumbed down the masses and washed their minds free of thought - hello marvel cinematic universe, fast and furious, reality TV, Facebook, idiocracy, etc
Some sent signals through the fray - Vonnegut, Bradbury, pkdick, Asimov, Huxley, Orwell, idiocracy, etc. But especially SciFi/speculative fiction writers.
On the whole, it seems all the dystopian futures have merged.
I sometimes half jokingly comment to myself 'I wish people would stop writing our future like this. Maybe someone could write us a happy future."
Or maybe it's our collective consciousness fulfilling its collectively accepted belief that the future can only be what we've been exposed to.
After all,
"One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years."
Thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopædia.
"Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth."
"I’ve heard over and over the word 'elite' being used. I think sometime that that term gets overused. But if you’re familiar with our Special Enforcement Bureau, they’re the best of the best," Luna said.
The deportation of democrats and lefties and undesirables and the deaths of those cut off medicaid/care and starving kids, oh, yeah, and the nuclear war.
Back of the mind worry/conspiracy theory:
You really thing trump suddenly changed his mind about putin after 40 years? Trump arms Ukraine, Putin gets mad, nukes a blue state trump fulfills his promise "blue states will disappear from the map", Q gets their great solar flash of 2025, and welcome to hell.
While there are thousands of worthwhile scandals, corruption, evil, and actually important stories to cover, we'll just give you a blank stare until you're lulled to sleep so you don't panic because you really should be fucking panicking.
Second Sons spun out of Diagolon, which the RCMP has labelled an “extremist, militia-like organization.”
CBC reached out to Second Sons via the group’s email address and received a response from Morgan Guptill, partner of Diagolon founder Jeremy MacKenzie. Guptill's email signature referred to her as “Queen of Diagolon.” She said she does not speak on behalf of Second Sons.
Well....wouldn't ya know
Brb with a pic of pierre poilievre and Jeremy Mackenzie together.
Vance is in the new evil empire crowd and has been for a very long time.
https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets
Thiel, Musk, Vance, Yarvin, Masters and a cast of the worst people on earth have plans.
https://beforewewerewhite.substack.com/p/j-d-vance-gangs-and-scientific-racism
And people thought I was crazy
https://lemmy.ca/post/34947790/13364820
Consider that Peter Thiel bankrolled JD Vance and that he, musk, zuck, et al have essentially established a technocratic state within the new admin. https://www.ft.com/content/408fb864-5831-4b1d-beef-fd1966b3beed
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-trump-vp-peter-thiel-billionaire/
The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk might support that PAC to the tune of around $45 million per month. Musk has denied that specific claim since, but the America PAC, which is run by Lonsdale, appears to be created to support the “PayPal Mafia” worldview — which includes (and indeed depends on) the bankruptcy of the United States.https://washingtonspectator.org/peter-thiel-and-the-american-apocalypse/
At least PayPal had a suitably grand mission—the kind that post-bubble skeptics would later describe as grandiose: we wanted to create a new internet currency to replace the U.S. dollar.~ Peter Thiel Zero to One https://archive.org/stream/zero-to-one-peter-thiel-and-blake-masters/Zero to One - Peter Thiel and Blake Masters_djvu.txt
I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.~ Thiel The Education of a Libertarian https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/musk-thiel-zuckerberg-andreessen-alternate-autocratic-reality
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/320592-palantir-helped-support-nsa-spy-program-xkeyscore-report/
https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas
And one final, very important thought:
https://cryptonews.com/news/new-report-suggests-billionaire-peter-thiel-connected-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-heres-what-you-need-know/