There's A New World Coming (1973)

There's A New World Coming (1973)

There's A New World Coming (1973) (get ready)

This is evidence against everything RFK and Trump are saying--there was a time where Tylenol was off the shelves and almost a whole subsequent year where demand plummeted. So you'd be able to go, "Huh, fewer autistic babies in 1983" if it were true.

It is normal to feel insane when the entire political and journalist class across the Anglophone world is getting horned up over the idea of segregating, criminalizing, and exterminating you and all of your friends.

time lapse of Janine receiving her baby spinach leaf

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

Y'all realize that if RFK thought he could actually force this change they wouldn't be doing this press conference, right? They'd just do it. This regime is incredibly weak and every time they demand people believe them over their lying eyes they get weaker.

the amish community getting bizarrely great PR recently with their embrace of social media and podcasts leading to influencing government decision making about vaccines because “the amish don’t have autistic people” is one of those things that even a year ago i would find totally unbelievable

it's a fuckin shame. we used to fake things in this country.

The funniest part of this is acetaminophen is the (perfectly safe) drug. Tylenol is a *brand*, and by attacking the brand and not the drug, the US government has just given Kenvue a massive gift when this goes to court. Their lawyers are likely drooling right now.

This motherfucker was sharing the Jack Nicholson Anger Management GIF last week

I'm hearing they've discovered a cure for neurotypicality?

Even with advertising and more zealous rules against account splitting, streaming services are a sinkhole to run, and are rapidly reaching the point where they have to account for that as well as inflation - Netflix's base with-ads subscription will be 40-50 a month in a few years

TRUMP: and tylenol….we don’t like the tylenol….they call it acetaminophen but we know what it is and it’s really very bad RFK Jr: ::vomiting up computer chips::

This is like when Trump was suggesting we could treat COVID with bleach or ultraviolet light but instead of having a real doctor behind him to be like “uh, yeah, don’t do that” we just have people who are like “yes, do that, and also all of science has been lying to you”.

I will never vote for a pro-life candidate and that is a promise. fuck you

Trying to fit it to the chorus of 'One Nation Under A Groove'

Re thread I reposted (sorry): unfortunately, the best long term scenario - these companies/oligarchs rapidly being destroyed in some gargantuan economic crash - is also the worst short term scenario, because it will take out the state-replacing infrastructure built up in the last 15-20 years

The problem with Thatcherism is eventually you—the State—not only run out of money, but the means or even the vision of how to generate it, and you wake up one day, and all that money, and power, and sovereignty, is in the hands of a deterritorialised capitalist force that you have no control over.

Our leaders spent four+ decades thinking the market would create perfect solutions to our problems; that the economic could supersede the political, all the while ignoring the question of power. Now, power is in the hands of private capital and big tech, and they are preparing to assert themselves.

We can laugh at techno-libertarian states like Liberland or Special Economic Zones as pipe dreams, but that's what these guys are going for, and as companies like Palantir plug themselves into the UK apparatus, they are also preparing to render it inoperable without them, whence the turn. (cont.)

Now, with states like the UK on their knees, and Big Tech fully plugged into global economic flows and governance structures, they're preparing the coup de grace, which is delegitimisation and dismantling of the nation-state form in toto. (cont.)

As these crises exacerbated, states like the UK turned evermore desperately to Silicon Valley and their bullshit magic-boxes as the panaceas to solve all our problems in one fell swoop, which they have been all too happy to gas up at every opportunity (See Altman and Elon's entire PR play). (cont.)

Because our leaders then spent post-2008 pursuing varying degrees of austerity, creating a limp and disempowered state incapable of responding to pressing political questions, a bunch of morbid outgrowths emerged (Brexit and the post-Obama backlash being the best examples) (cont.)

To give a schematic overview of the past decade, the ZIRP era empowered Silicon Valley to build wealth and infrastructure equivalent to micro-states, which our neoliberal leaders, allergic as they are to the idea of state intervention, were all too happy to facilitate. (cont.)

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

RFK Jr. invented a parallel reality in which he is the only one who understands how science and medicine really work, and filled it with weird fake shit he half-remembered hearing on podcasts. Most anti-vax types are like this at least a little bit. Trump is just thinking of a big ACME-brand needle.

The whole time that Trump has been saying dumb shit about vaccines, which goes back well before he got into politics, his big issue has always been that The Needle Is Too Big, and that there's too much stuff in it. They're putting dozens, hundreds of things in the needle, it's too big for babies.

There's this undercurrent running through it like "All these tech bros moved politically right wing because *they were mistreated by Biden*!!!!" As if it's totally normal to drop all of your (allegedly) strongly-held personal beliefs because someone said the word "regulation" in a whisper.

to summarize the disney/kimmel situation

Thread. 🧵 When I interviewed Toni Basil back in 2021 we were both kind of amazed that there still hadn’t been a full-length bells-and-whistles documentary made about her incredible life. These people won’t be with us forever, you know.

It’s funny that when MAGA loons stop buying Bud Light they keep making Bud Light but Disney caved 4 days after they suspended Kimmel. Here’s a fact about right wing boycott threats: they’re empty because they don’t actually buy anything

"I'm cancelling your show ... for a week!"

They demand people accept a “tradeoff” in which they don’t have to actually lose the Black support they’re willing to trade in. Which is impossible.

White people across the political spectrum really want to sacrifice the rights and freedoms of everyone else if it keeps them comfortable. That's always been the problem

This is best understood by recognising that this isn’t because *the public* have been wildly radicalising themselves to the far right for well over a decade. It’s politicians and media figures who have been roasting their own brains and egging each other on, with results that are all around us.

this comes across as an attempt to look at the history of silicon valley with rose tinted glasses not only has ilicon valley always been about money, it is also where most problematic, racist, eugenist and white supremacist ideas were born/resuscitated

With relief, I will now return to not-watching Jimmy Kimmel on my own terms!

and those southern segregationists were a powerful conservative bloc that nearly derailed his second term!

to be more specific, although FDR had to play ball with southern segregationists in congress, he did not do so by sacrificing black voters in the urban north to their whims.

sort of incredible that they’re moving at full speed to create the unitary executive for an executive whose popularity is in freefall

We gotta expand the Supreme Court by like 50 people

I’m fine with the Rapture as long as the man from Mars does not eat my cars and guitars and head

For his friends, Donald Trump provides protection from the law; for his enemies, punishment. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

if I could give one piece of advice to the youths out there, it is this: you are going to be fucking broke anyway, pursue whatever it is that you enjoy and ignore the late-career academics who insist it is better in the private sector. it is not, they are out of touch. get that PhD!!!

"America has always been bad." True! But it's also getting worse and like super-quickly? You get this right?

this is why i think talking about how the US has always been engaged in brutal repression has to be like, introducing people to actual history 102. cuz no what is happening actually is very unusual and i dont think it lets your ie donald rumsfelds off the hook to say so

If a company is going to do propaganda and surveillance, then by god it should be an American company.