Garry Tan and Paul Graham are both hardcore MAGA supporters. If Musk killed a baby Paul Graham would happily write a lengthy screed about how baby killing is fundamental to entrepreneurship.
Sure! The rule of law is for suckers anyways. Let's do rule by law. It's much better if we have in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
> Musk made the call for Derek Chauvin's release from prison Tuesday on his X social media platform while re-posting a rant from conservative pundit Ben Shapiro.
I listen to a fair amount of center-right/old-school conservative podcasters, some of whom are Jewish (I do not listen to Shapiro with any regularity because I would consider him more of a provocateur than pundit), and I keep wondering if they will ever get squeamish about ascendant American fascism. While they may be focusing their ire at immigrants and muslims now, it seems like they always come back to Jews at some point. I suspect they should take Musk's Nazi salute more seriously.
As long as these dudes are rich, they will never care. They will always be able to leave, or hire significant personal security, and will never be at risk.
They are modern kapos, and they’d have happily sold every other Jew to the Germans in the 30s.
It's funny, I've used that exact term, kapo, for Shapiro for probably a decade now, but I was thinking more of the "Commentary Magazine" crew. They are (as far as I know) not rich and make Jewish identity a stronger part of their brand.
For all those surprised about what's going on with Musk - keep in mind, that he's very isolated, with no real friends, and only his brother & mother. The guy has at least 14 kids with 4 different women, 2 of which recently tried to reach him via Twitter...
His Twitter addiction is there for a reason - he's actually looking for what he thinks are genuine interactions with people. And he tries to please them, maybe unconsciously.
He's become the 'miserable billionaire' that Warren Buffett was talking about. And that, he knows all too well.
Here is the Buffett quote:
"Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
That's the ultimate test of how you have lived your life. The trouble with love is that you can't buy it ... The only way to get love is to be lovable ... The more you give love away, the more you get."
I don't know if what you say about Musk is true, but I want to thank you for sharing that quote by and that video of Warren Buffett. I had seen that quote before, but not the video. Both are insightful. I found the video more powerful.
> "Your birthday was the seventeenth of last month, in point of fact."
> "I missed it anyway, then." He closed the bag and stuffed the uniform far back in his closet. "Not important."
> "It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture."
I think we are finding that way way way more people than anyone expected are actually caught in filter bubbles of their own making, and falling down radicalization rabbit holes from algorithms paperclip-maximizing their way to optimum engagement.
What's more engaged than someone who is so obsessed, so mentally broken, that they pay $44 billion to own the media company itself?
The regressive right sees Floyd as a “degenerate”; and in their eyes, nothing done to such a person (up to and including public execution) can be a crime.
It’s sad It felt like this one started out bipartisan and eventually devolved like everything else into the culture war.
Not to get all conspiracy-y, but it does t feel like there’s a good reason to do this if you’re not trying to inflame tensions / further divide America.
What do you think matters more objectively, the definition from the Oxford Dictionary[1], or whatever definition you came up with in your own head in order to push your narrative?
You also did not answer my second question. You sir are NOT arguing in good faith.
[1] degenerate: having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
(This is a little unfair or at least over-broad, in that there are plenty of movements normally identified as conservative who don’t have this ethos; you wouldn’t catch Merkel indulging in it, say. But it’s not a terrible description of the new/21st century far/right movements.)
That's the best they can come up with? Floyd was already handcuffed.
No matter, I'm sure Chauvin's innocence will be an established fact within the right-wing canon soon enough. Poor, persecuted Saint Chauvin, railroaded just like the late, great Hannibal Lecter.
Why not pardoning all murderers in exchange for them joining the military like in Russia? A win-win-win situation and it will also save a lot of money for the tax payer.
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 28.5 ms ] thread[1]: https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus
https://apnews.com/article/census-bureau-commerce-department...
I listen to a fair amount of center-right/old-school conservative podcasters, some of whom are Jewish (I do not listen to Shapiro with any regularity because I would consider him more of a provocateur than pundit), and I keep wondering if they will ever get squeamish about ascendant American fascism. While they may be focusing their ire at immigrants and muslims now, it seems like they always come back to Jews at some point. I suspect they should take Musk's Nazi salute more seriously.
They are modern kapos, and they’d have happily sold every other Jew to the Germans in the 30s.
His Twitter addiction is there for a reason - he's actually looking for what he thinks are genuine interactions with people. And he tries to please them, maybe unconsciously.
He's become the 'miserable billionaire' that Warren Buffett was talking about. And that, he knows all too well.
Here is the Buffett quote: "Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
That's the ultimate test of how you have lived your life. The trouble with love is that you can't buy it ... The only way to get love is to be lovable ... The more you give love away, the more you get."
And here is his another take: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yossi-farro-656486187_warren-...
Most Buffett speeches are now onlines, and most are extremely good.
> "I missed it anyway, then." He closed the bag and stuffed the uniform far back in his closet. "Not important."
> "It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture."
-- Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
What's more engaged than someone who is so obsessed, so mentally broken, that they pay $44 billion to own the media company itself?
There's an important gap between their overt message and their actual deeds here... but neither are good.
Not to get all conspiracy-y, but it does t feel like there’s a good reason to do this if you’re not trying to inflame tensions / further divide America.
You also did not answer my second question. You sir are NOT arguing in good faith.
[1] degenerate: having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
(This is a little unfair or at least over-broad, in that there are plenty of movements normally identified as conservative who don’t have this ethos; you wouldn’t catch Merkel indulging in it, say. But it’s not a terrible description of the new/21st century far/right movements.)
If anything, their only objection is that the police aren't killing more black people more often.
No matter, I'm sure Chauvin's innocence will be an established fact within the right-wing canon soon enough. Poor, persecuted Saint Chauvin, railroaded just like the late, great Hannibal Lecter.
Not exactly a win for all parties...