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Steve Being
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"In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very unhappy and has widely been regarded as a bad move."
- HHG2tG
- HHG2tG
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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
The word from the united States. 🇪🇺
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The word from the united States. 🇪🇺
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At some point politicians and commentators in Europe might want to start defending our system as really not too bad and far better than any realistic alternative notwithstanding frustration that we aren't all richer.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
At some point politicians and commentators in Europe might want to start defending our system as really not too bad and far better than any realistic alternative notwithstanding frustration that we aren't all richer.
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This is not burden-sharing or even burden-shifting. It is the US abdicating its role in European security at the time when the threat is greater than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Europe must plan how to defend itself - starting by integrating Ukraine into planning & force structures.
‘The U.S. officials told their counterparts that if Europe does not meet the 2027 deadline, the U.S. may stop participating in some NATO defense coordination mechanisms’.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Exclusive: US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say
The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week,...
www.reuters.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is not burden-sharing or even burden-shifting. It is the US abdicating its role in European security at the time when the threat is greater than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Europe must plan how to defend itself - starting by integrating Ukraine into planning & force structures.
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Reading www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u.... A few points:
1. "Cultivating American
industrial strength must become the highest priority of national economic policy." I wonder if Bessent agrees?
2. "we want a people who are proud, happy and optimistic...
1. "Cultivating American
industrial strength must become the highest priority of national economic policy." I wonder if Bessent agrees?
2. "we want a people who are proud, happy and optimistic...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reading www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u.... A few points:
1. "Cultivating American
industrial strength must become the highest priority of national economic policy." I wonder if Bessent agrees?
2. "we want a people who are proud, happy and optimistic...
1. "Cultivating American
industrial strength must become the highest priority of national economic policy." I wonder if Bessent agrees?
2. "we want a people who are proud, happy and optimistic...
My reflex is to avoid calling it "rejoining". Just tell people you've got a great idea and list the benefits, they'll bite your arm off.
‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU?
‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU?
The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its name
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My reflex is to avoid calling it "rejoining". Just tell people you've got a great idea and list the benefits, they'll bite your arm off.
*overdub soundtrack: 5 year old trying to test boundaries*
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
*overdub soundtrack: 5 year old trying to test boundaries*
I wouldn't attribute a _platform_ with opinions, we are legion, but, this...
"...Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."
"...Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I wouldn't attribute a _platform_ with opinions, we are legion, but, this...
"...Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."
"...Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."
With friends like these...
>> “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth”, [...] makes explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
>> “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth”, [...] makes explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right
Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
With friends like these...
>> “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth”, [...] makes explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
>> “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth”, [...] makes explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This really is some top quality work.
'Merica, you got this. (We have HIGNfY...)
youtube.com/watch?v=MrPY...
'Merica, you got this. (We have HIGNfY...)
youtube.com/watch?v=MrPY...
Trump Launches War on Drug Traffickers… Unless They’re Also Honduran Ex-Presidents | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
This really is some top quality work.
'Merica, you got this. (We have HIGNfY...)
youtube.com/watch?v=MrPY...
'Merica, you got this. (We have HIGNfY...)
youtube.com/watch?v=MrPY...
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It is by sheer luck that Russian reckless sabotage has not resulted in a major, uningorable, mass fatal incident in Western Europe.
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It is by sheer luck that Russian reckless sabotage has not resulted in a major, uningorable, mass fatal incident in Western Europe.
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Just a vicious, lawless regime.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just a vicious, lawless regime.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
The spectacle of masked gangs of state vigilantes, ripping people out of cars in full view of the street, is a terrible reminder of how quickly the unthinkable can become normal in a democratic society.
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Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.
I am told that internal Ukrainian army information shows that more than 26,000 Russian soldiers were killed or critically wounded in the month of November. Confirmed by videos. No wonder Putin wants to get Trump to give him territory for free
one.no
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.
Quality BM joke:
BM and NF are chatting over the fence between their identical semi-detached homes.
NF: Of course, my house is worth much more than yours.
BM: How so? They're the same.
NF: Because mine isn't next door to NF.
BM and NF are chatting over the fence between their identical semi-detached homes.
NF: Of course, my house is worth much more than yours.
BM: How so? They're the same.
NF: Because mine isn't next door to NF.
ITV are now asking Farage about his schoolboy comments and Farage is talking over the correspondent and instead ranting about Bernard Manning and how Manning appeared on ITV in the past. This is all quite odd.
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Quality BM joke:
BM and NF are chatting over the fence between their identical semi-detached homes.
NF: Of course, my house is worth much more than yours.
BM: How so? They're the same.
NF: Because mine isn't next door to NF.
BM and NF are chatting over the fence between their identical semi-detached homes.
NF: Of course, my house is worth much more than yours.
BM: How so? They're the same.
NF: Because mine isn't next door to NF.
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
popular.info
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
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Trump: “Ilhan Omar is garbage. Her friends are garbage.
“They come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch.
“We don't want them here, let them go back and fix their country.”
“They come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch.
“We don't want them here, let them go back and fix their country.”
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Trump: “Ilhan Omar is garbage. Her friends are garbage.
“They come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch.
“We don't want them here, let them go back and fix their country.”
“They come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch.
“We don't want them here, let them go back and fix their country.”
Trump isn't there any more. (Which is of course, a mixed blessing.)
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Trump isn't there any more. (Which is of course, a mixed blessing.)
🎶 On the first day of Christmas...🎶
Twelve further prisoners mistakenly released, says David Lammy
Twelve further prisoners mistakenly released, says David Lammy
The releases happened in the past three weeks, coming on top of 91 prisoners who were freed by mistake between April and October.
www.bbc.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🎶 On the first day of Christmas...🎶
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Growing up with a sister who has a learning disability, I’ve seen people shout the R word at her. That was in the 80s and 90s. Now we’re in the 2020s and I am seeing world leaders and tech leaders use it and I cannot begin to tell you how devastating that is.
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Growing up with a sister who has a learning disability, I’ve seen people shout the R word at her. That was in the 80s and 90s. Now we’re in the 2020s and I am seeing world leaders and tech leaders use it and I cannot begin to tell you how devastating that is.
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Under the bus you go.
CNN: 'The White House said Monday that Adm. Frank M. Mitch Bradley, commander of the US Special Operations Command, was responsible for ordering a second, targeted strike on an alleged drug vessel operating in the Caribbean…after the first strike did not kill everyone aboard.'
CNN: 'The White House said Monday that Adm. Frank M. Mitch Bradley, commander of the US Special Operations Command, was responsible for ordering a second, targeted strike on an alleged drug vessel operating in the Caribbean…after the first strike did not kill everyone aboard.'
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Under the bus you go.
CNN: 'The White House said Monday that Adm. Frank M. Mitch Bradley, commander of the US Special Operations Command, was responsible for ordering a second, targeted strike on an alleged drug vessel operating in the Caribbean…after the first strike did not kill everyone aboard.'
CNN: 'The White House said Monday that Adm. Frank M. Mitch Bradley, commander of the US Special Operations Command, was responsible for ordering a second, targeted strike on an alleged drug vessel operating in the Caribbean…after the first strike did not kill everyone aboard.'
Interesting to see where Kemi Badenoch gets her news.
It's always someone else's fault? She literally denies any association with the *checks notes* Conservative Party pre-her.
It's always someone else's fault? She literally denies any association with the *checks notes* Conservative Party pre-her.
The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault.
You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not
You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Interesting to see where Kemi Badenoch gets her news.
It's always someone else's fault? She literally denies any association with the *checks notes* Conservative Party pre-her.
It's always someone else's fault? She literally denies any association with the *checks notes* Conservative Party pre-her.
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Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.