Alexander Nicholi 🧧 @alex@schelling.pt

The fact that this is a choice about values is what puts it over a line of total reprehensibility.

It means there’s no recourse to correct for casualties within the value system. That’s because the people following it don’t care about the casualties.

This is, IMO, actually evil

This isn’t some kind of wistful conservatism about the past before.

This is pointing out that business has adopted an ethos that cares none for the functioning of the greater society they’re in.

This is an explicit choice about values, not an accident of the commons.

Thiel said competition is for losers, that monopoly is where it’s at, and while that’s great for making money I think we’re all starting to appreciate how deeply that has fucked up the social fabric of our society.

Peter Thiel is the ultimate citation for every kind of socioeconomic manoeuvre that’s really socially fucked up but really financially enriching

Yeah, you know all those companies like Amazon that are already overstaying their welcome? Thiel underwrote their domination strat. https://twitter.com/lastcontrarian/status/1470436500055592962

I’m going to torpedo the Maldives
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RT @sullyj3
The smart guy urge to pretend you're a dumb guy but like in a smart way
https://twitter.com/sullyj3/status/1470543859490770944

Every modern car these days has a Cadillac converter inside it for fuel efficiency standards.

My thoughts were it might be more efficient if we just made all the other cars directly instead of having them get internally converted from Cadillacs inside their engine bays.

Shinzo Abraham Lincoln

On twitter, you’re just making shit up — so you can then proceed to get mad at it.
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RT @cdixon
In web2, you are just borrowing things — until the actual owners change their mind. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1470362934496923650
https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1470374120055615488

Here’s some news for everyone like the OP: not only are the relevant parties aware of facts like this, they’re becoming increasingly informed about little bullshit stints your types like to pull when you get busted for being a uninformed asshole.

It’s as remarkable as it is disgusting: the elite turns her ignorance into a sanctimonious condemnation of the public’s intellect, as if she knew it wasn’t an endorsement all along, running her arrogant trap on behalf of some public that can’t have known better.
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RT @jordanzakarin
People are stressing the fact that Person of the Year isn’t necessarily an endorsement, but I don’t think the vast majority of the public knows that. It…
https://twitter.com/jordanzakarin/status/1470383328012472325

I must have missed when Time started giving out this Goodest Person of the Year Award.
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RT @jordanzakarin
Elon Musk was forced to pay $100 million to two former workers for racial discrimination, is being sued by dozens more for the same thing, is also being sued for sexual harassment at Tesla, was found guilty of union-busting by the NLRB, and donated $0 to charity. Good choice. https://twitter.com/time/status/1470372755384291331
https://twitter.com/jordanzakarin/status/1470379650643894276

There is nothing that truly binds us together besides ruthless economic co-prosperity empire regime.

If anything greater had a chance at redefining America, it was Christianity. Since that train sailed we must look back to the core of what this country has always been.

The American society will reinvent itself without institutions as its vanguard, because it has no choice.

Contrary to DC propaganda and in utter defiance of every extant cultural force elsewhere, the Americans will do this because there’s no reason to compel anything different.
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RT @nicholatian
i have come to believe that it is not practical to scale & thrive in today’s wild world through any kind of social vehicle that can be unde…
https://twitter.com/nicholatian/status/1470595611556814848

reason I’m not afraid of these developments is because it is not a signal of impending authoritarianism, but a signal of impending irrelevance

Two things starkly separate the US from Chyna and they have not wavered:
- popular attitudes toward dissent
- lack of willpower to Force
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RT @varunramg
Society's normalization of China-style state propaganda (good or bad causes) is alarming
https://twitter.com/varunramg/status/1470587867445530631

The core problem is that the people making the changes wildly overestimate the upside of their actions, while the reality that forms is one of a net negative, often even in the terms they choose to measure it in (e.g. death tolls)
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RT @joodaloop
we'll never be rid of bullshit regulations because it only causes harm on the margin, never enough to necessiate change. and always a finger to point somewhere else.

but imo that shit adds up
https://twitter.com/joodaloop/status/1470613384517144577