Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. What a year, huh?)
just to note that reportedly the palantir employees are for whatever reason going through a massive āhans, are we the baddiesā moment, almost a whole year into the second trump administration.
as i wrote elsewhere, those people need to be subjected to actual social consequences of choosing to work with and for the u.s. concentration camp administration office.
On a semi-adjacent note I came across an attorney who helped to establish and run the Department of Homeland Security (under Bush AND Trump 1)
Who wants you to know heās ENRAGED. And EMBARRASSED. How the American Schutzstaffel is doing Schutzstaffel things
He also wants you to know heās Jewish (so am I, and I know our history enough that Homeland Security always had āBlood and Soilā connotations you fucking shande)
I have family working there, who told me during the holidays, āCurrent leadership makes me uncomfortable, but money is goodā
Every impression I had of them completely shattered, cannot fathom that level out sell out exists in people I thought I knew.
As a bonus, their former partner was a former employee who became a whistleblower and has now gone full howard hughes
anyone who can get a job at palantir can get an equivalent paying job at a company thatās at least measurably less evil. what a lazy copout
On one hand as a poor grad student in the past, I could imagine working for a truly repugnant corp. but like if youāve already made millions from your stock options, wtf are you doing. Idk, i really thought theyād have some shame over it, but they said shit like āour customers really like our deliverablesā and i just fucking left with my wife
this happens like clockwork
Itās so blindingly obvious that itās become obscure again so it bears pointing out, someone really went ahead and named a tech company after a fantasy torment nexus and people thought it wouldnāt be sketch.