This is the great tragedy of the Bluesky lib. The see people use the word 'liberal' as a pejorative and assume those people must be republicans. There's no space in their worldview for the possibility that there's anything to the left of their beliefs and then they get angry and lash out.
1. He's not that smart, but he's smart enough to trick really stupid people. 2. Whenever he writes a manifesto it reveals how unimpressive he is. 3. We're not the target audience for his schemes and sometimes he'll brazenly lie to trick suckers into holding the bag.
Feel like it's still early bubble hype cycle though, culture wise. The actual product is immaterial, it's when the rubes start putting their money into it.
He's not stupid, he's been the juice behind that last few bubbles and he knows how to pump and dump. He's not stupid, he's just amoral and loves lying to people in order to make money. He'll be pushing quantum computing by 2027.
Wait til dudes with tractors find out about these. Something tells me they won't be installed in the front of Piggly Wigglies but you know someone is going to try and heist one of these.
Would be a real flex at your next house party. 'Oh that? It's like a Coca-cola freestyle except for pills.'
Been picking up some more Lewis Mumford books & got Myth of the Machine II: Pentagon of Power for less than the cost of postage. 1970 edition. Can't tell if it has been rebound or just never opened. Binding uncracked, pages never touched, never checked out of the library. Kids these days. (1970s)
I muted him, account feels too much like a trolling/rage bait/engagement farming deal. None of the arguments felt good faith. Think he just likes riling people up.
Cool semantics. That's going to win people over. 'Actually the Palestinians aren't technically a people?' That's your gotcha fact?
Israel has killed like 70,000 people in the last few years, ignoring the at least 10s of thousands before that and you're going to try and quibble about nationalities?
I mean they're literally actively and transparently committing genocide. That's the starting point, that's not debatable.
I guess it's on you to try and say why genocide is good or it doesn't count because you consider people subhuman etc. But the genocide bit doesn't provide much wiggle room.
Couldn't check my DMs today even though VPN was on; started to worry that Bluesky UK was working around VPNs. Realised I'd accidentally selected UK for my VPN and wondered why anybody would ever use a VPN to pretend to be accessing the internet from the UK. It's the Eritrean passport of internets.
“Why haven’t the protests against successive governments’ complicity in genocide stopped”, a mystery that is apparently beyond our finest political minds to fathom
Eh. It's chicken and egg. This has been part of the Lynchian/Ballardian infrastructure of the US and UK for a long time. More revealing than causative.
in retrospect i think the "zombie" tv/movie craze that encouraged everyone to fantasize about how theyd murk all their neighbors, hole up in their house and eventually run into the woods , was a mistake
