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"It’s because the media is part of the same mystical amalgam of bullshit and vibes that’s keeping the whole thing afloat, a circular economy of access journalism and tech hyperbole that masks something stinking and rotten at its core: OpenAI. …
The opposite of a lack of news and information is not truth or justice or even transparency, it’s chaos."
"It’s because the media is part of the same mystical amalgam of bullshit and vibes that’s keeping the whole thing afloat, a circular economy of access journalism and tech hyperbole that masks something stinking and rotten at its core: OpenAI. …
The opposite of a lack of news and information is not truth or justice or even transparency, it’s chaos."
"Information flows through platforms owned and controlled and manipulated for their ends by these same men. And shocks to the system are exactly what the disaster surveillance capitalists want."
"How does a country burst? To answer this questions, it helps to see matters as do the president and the vice-president: from inside a grift bubble. ...
This end of the United States is possible, in part, because our president and vice-president think that it is impossible."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #JDVance #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #TechBros #broligarchy #grift #corruption
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"Because they are inside a grift bubble, they push for authoritarianism in their own interest, without reckoning with the possibility that their actions can wreck the country. For them, America is a limitless passive resource. ...
The president and vice-president do not know the history of people like themselves, or that of other republics that were needlessly brought down by men of their particular sort."
#Trump #JDVance #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #TechBros #broligarchy #grift #corruption
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"They think that the magic of words will always save them, that there will always be a next grift, that no crisis is so great that it cannot be turned to personal profit. This is true right up until the moment when it is not."
#Trump #JDVance #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #TechBros #broligarchy #grift #corruption
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