What if Charlie Kirk got got by the Lord

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.

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.)

One of the most rancid cretinous awful pieces of shit ever produced by American society, some disgusting dynastic backwash who got his own brother hooked on heroin and raped his babysitter and floated to the top of the pile like pond scum because that's the type of person American culture valorises

i hope RFK redacted redacted redacted. redacted

Just resposting because sometimes it feels good to repost sans any context

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Basically my approach to posting is what Paul Virilio lays out here

They’re calling it the Gregk Method, and more and more people are trying it

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

One distinction between the 'Working toward the Führer' dynamic of the Third Reich vs. the current paradigm is the original Führer at least had some idea of what he was trying to build that his adherents could approximate, whereas Trump's brain is pudding and his lackeys are fame-hungry podcasters.

I'm 33 and have struggled with socialisation my entire life (both reading other people's emotions and processing/expressing my own) and I could not give less of a shit about the 'cause' than simply being given the support to understand myself and how to make living and existing in the world easier.

Shaun King is the George Galloway of American politics

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

Like, everyone can clearly see Starmer's Labour Government are done and, because he's bolted to McSweeney, if he goes down, the whole thing goes down with him. And yet, even among all this, nobody is talking about the Lib Dems. It costs Ed Davey nothing to talk up like this. It's not gonna happen.

Charlie Kirk touching the Wailing Wall praying for more subscribers

It’s so funny how all the public figures who talk glowingly about how visiting Israel changed their lives and had a profound spiritual impact upon them are all, to a one, the absolute worst people society could possibly produce lol

The acted as if the power the state abdicated would just cease to exist. Sorry it went somewhere and in a capitalist society that means it goes to the capitalist.

Unfortunately, those companies have failed to consider: The Chinese Century

It really is a marker of how severely Keir Starmer and the Labour Party are fucking things up right now that are Davey and the Liberal Democrats have spent the day running rings around them on BBC coverage of Reform; Elon Musk; foreign lobbying; EU trade deals and youth social media use.

These dumbasses really think Sharia Law is some fucking hocus pocus wingardium leviosa Harry Potter spell that Muslims are incapable of confronting whereas the majority of my Muslim friends simply do not give a shit so long as you treat them with respect and dignity that any human deserves

Feeling like a slob atm so let us reminisce together

Revisiting this little book from @plutopress.bsky.social from 1988 (and from where I got my banner image).

It’s this (good thread)

This is why Jensen Huang flew to the UK to schmooze with the British government. So much of the shit in the AI sphere is a massive Ponzi scheme / money-shuffling operation so they’re desperately trying to plug themselves into as many state financial apparatuses as they can before the music stops.

Great* thread this *terrifying

Tl;dr: Quantitative Easing *did* happen after 2008, but it went to Silicon Valley and tech oligarchs who used it to build gambling apps that drove our parents insane as our high streets and communities died and got replaced by drop-shipping ecomm sites that decimated labour rights and human dignity.

There's plenty of options left for nation states, but it's been a depressing week watching U.S. tech bosses being uh...invited to eat the U.K's lunch at Windsor.

The reason centrist pundits can only beat up on the left is because if they ever admitted that the left was correct about anything they’d have to admit they were correct about a lot of things and that ends in full on existential crisis territory for those guys

And this, right here, is what I am going to begin referring to as the 'Israel Aperture'.

Fuck it: FOUR movies I consider perfect

I'm seeing Ethan Coen's name (goofball), but no Joel (pensive). It brings me no joy to declare that Joel is a collaborator and will not be spared in the show trials presided by his brother, who will bang the gavel, which will bounce up, bonk him on the nose and send him tumbling down a staircase.

Posi vibes time: Share a film that you think is overlooked but which has pure feel-good vibes. LET IT RIDE (1989) “An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day.”

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.)

Oh look, it’s that darned Palestine exception again.

A vital point: None of this would've been possible in the UK context if our political and social spheres weren't dominated by a resentful aristocratic, political and media elite desperate to enact petty revenge fantasies against a plebian class that dismantled their pretensions of prestige.

Elon won this round but “public discourse” has been lining up the dominos for like 2 decades, all of this is hindsight but I think it’s a bit complacent to say you never imagined after years-and-years of “immigrants are taking things from you” was going to lead to anything bad

Much as I agree that Twitter is an accelerant here, the fact is British Elites have a 100 year history of being extremely sympathetic for racism and fascism. They were primed and ready for any scant justification to lean in to all of that stuff.

The Shining City on a Hill is splashing like a Magikarp ✍️

A vital point: None of this would've been possible in the UK context if our political and social spheres weren't dominated by a resentful aristocratic, political and media elite desperate to enact petty revenge fantasies against a plebian class that dismantled their pretensions of prestige.

Absolutely. The coup de grace was that Elon claimed to be 'eliminating bots' while turning Twitter into a 'establish consensus by bot-ridden polls' that none of our journalism class seem to want to reckon with so they recite these "Twitter poll says 99% of Brits want migrants to be executed".

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

Fuck it: FOUR movies I consider perfect

What movie do you consider perfect?

Here's an article by a totally normal and not deranged columnist whom everyone who matters takes very seriously and believes has been ever-so-hard done to by the nasty intolerant left. It even mentions Russell Brand – but not in the way you'd think! Happy monday :) Paywall link: archive.today/iU327