techpeach

“You need people like me who are sick in that way and who don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence in order to preserve freedom,” Luckey said in an appearance last year at Pepperdine University.

I’m not saying that this interview was conducted at gunpoint, but I might make a connection between Wilmore’s views on Trump and Musk? And who has control of Wilmore’s entire future at the moment.

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 will the impacts of this be, or I guess it says first quarter? Which is 2/3rds over? Are we seeing the impacts of this?

I suspect that Social Security is not long for this world and the results will be tragic. Anyone think we’ll manage to maintain it in this age of low societal cohesion?

Just thinking about writing this makes me think about how messy this stuff is.

But like, is there some long-term goal that there is world peace? And in that long term goal of world peace, is there some kind of international governing body?

And yeah, I guess in theory I think what you say is true, in practice, part of what makes a culture a culture are the sort of “decided questions” and one may not want to join a government that tries to enforce a different set of “decided questions” or undecided certain questions.

I’m sure some of the messaging would be to “liberate Canadians from their oppressive national healthcare system”

Something I find odd about pluralism - and maybe this isn’t strictly left/right but issue dependent.

Is it seems like the left is more sensitive to the paradox of tolerance. Like, well broadly speaking try to include everyone, but at your core, you also have to respect everyone else / abide by certain values.

Whereas as in this case, on the right, you get both a condemnation and a glorification of the nanny state in the same administration.

Maybe it was just sort of professionally coming of age for the rise of Silicon Valley in the early 2000’s

Observing my own brain for a second, it seems like one of the risks of reading a lot of history is you can get the impression that we’re much more wise about how to deal with geopolitics than we are, because you are necessarily reading something that benefits from hindsight. I think people try and get at, what were people thinking at the time (there’s a whole exhibit in the world war 2 museum about the decision to enter the war) but that feels emotionally obfuscated by the fact that most of what you’re reading is post-hoc analysis.

But like 50 years from now, everything that’s going on will seem really clear.