The Curtis Yarvin / Peter Thiel “Dark Enlightenment” was overtly anti-democracy and had some dollars behind it, but has been a clown show of an ideology from the start (over 15 years ago) and has only withered more in daylight.

Whether it’s morally right, there’s a wide canyon between proposing an entire alternative political system, and deplatforming people on X or Starlink.

Never updating your browser again is a pretty bad idea when it comes to security

As long as that’s the labor the immigrants are intending to do… Otherwise you get a situation like Canada has where IT professionals from India arrive to find they have few job prospects but still need a place to live.

Watch next year’s models have LTE modems…for your convenience of course

Well you’re replying to me, so I’ll take a crack at it. The whole purpose of the federal government is to represent the states, and the intention of the electoral colleges is to balance their interests. If the national popular vote was the only thing that mattered, there would be almost no reason for candidates to care about policy issues that uniquely affect states with smaller populations like Alaska.

Good thing the number for California is not correct…

Your math for California is off by a factor of ten. California’s per-capita electoral votes would be 0.00000141025

There’s a minimum representation of votes (3) for statehood. In Alaska’s case there are a large number of natives who are directly affected by policy at the federal level. The state is also very important strategically for defense and energy production.

California electoral votes: 55

Alaska electoral votes: 3

Mavis Beacon would cry if she were around to see this

Had a college roommate who would walk to the shower in socks, shower (for whatever that was worth), and come back wearing the SAME FUCKING SOCKS. “Do I smell or something?” “Yeah you do bro, and yes it is affecting you socially”.

But did he change his habits? Nope.

he tried to cozy up to the libertarians and they rejected him for not being very libertarian at all

They basically want a return to monarchy, and yet they self style as ‘libertarian’. Fuck those losers.

Unspent / uninvested money might as well be on Mars. When the government hands out money, it soaks into physical goods and equities and drives their prices up. This is exactly what has happened over the past five years with “emergency” spending.

Money creation is not value creation

if you want to speedrun a financial collapse through deficit spending

Fuck all these assholes

How is the status quo benefiting anyone? The lines aren’t moving, soldiers and civilians are dying daily.

And yes, you are still a war hawk if you support the status quo of war to continue.

IMO Ukraine should be admitted to NATO after negotiating a peace treaty.

I’d argue they already did and yeah fuck Putin but we should be questioning whether it is morally right to support a stalemate that is killing a whole generation of Ukrainian men. We should absolutely be questioning how it is the American’s responsibility to support that indefinitely with taxes when we are so insanely in debt. How are any of these carve-outs appropriate in an “Immigration” bill?

Another $14 billion to Israel

Another $60 billion to Ukraine

This bill was shit and we should be glad it’s dead

War hawks cope and seethe