jafnhar.bsky.social
Card-carrying member of the midwestern elite. Doing NLP research, have a job in tech and I do some teaching.
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I mean, it ain't wrong to call it the Alternative to Democracy. Just thought it was funny
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I noticed you called the German AfD "Alternative from Democracy" not "for Deutschland". Just curious if that was an intentional slight
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And they'll blame the air traffic controllers when there's inevitably another accident. I'm skeptical of a general strike, but if these people don't feel they can do the job safely, maybe they should walk off the job
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Yeah, I can't get a hold of Johnson. It goes to voicemail and the inbox is full
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But it could be sabotage too
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Well, Musk now has access to contacts and payments made between the US government and AWS, among many others. Musk is more or less the king of money and tech right now. So not really sabotage as intelligence gathering
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If there's an idea I'd like to inject into the discourse it's that we're heading towards an economic Stalingrad. There's not much in the way of internal politics that can hinder. It's going to be a major defeat that breaks Trump and the economic power of the US too
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"Fail early and often" is an interesting and sometimes effective ethos in the world Musk inhabits. But it's synonymous with "fuck around and find out". The problem is that failure is great when the consequences aren't that high; Musk has no appreciation for consequences here
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Given that he was promising to free the "hostages" throughout the campaign, no, I'm not surprised. Voters saw the worst-case scenario and voted for it
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Yeah, "skeptical" may be the wrong word. These are weird motherfuckers. Nonetheless, I'll wait to hear more before forming solid ideas of what motivated this guy
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Granted, this guy is almost by definition deranged, but that's a lame/weird reason to off yourself so I'm skeptical.
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There's a weird symmetry between the hummer craze of twenty years ago and cybertrucks today
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I was in Germany the summer before last and my god... the endless complaining. I remember driving around in a fucking Mercedes luxury SUV, while this dude complained about how awful the country is. Just bizarre
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Oh yeah, the link: roddreher.substack.com/p/vienna-new...
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Then he writes: "He seemed … resigned. Utterly resigned. It was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen." Bruh... did you not notice that this guy is doing amazing shit? We all have reasons to be sad. Lighten the fuck up and please stop the endless complaining. Jesus!
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Then the guy goes into the standard shit Germans like to complain about (all we talk about is nazism, not allowed to take pride in Germany, etc). Sure, whatever... also the economy isn't doing so great at the moment
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He describes a young German man he meets on a train underway to Budapest. This guy is off to establish an outpost for his business in China. Which sounds amazing! I don't know him, of course but it sounds like he's killing
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Chile should be spicy!
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A lot depends on the relative strength of variables. The biggest success of Trump is a generational split in the various levels of the working classes. The best old school MAGA can do against Republicans is stay home. Strasser was never going to over to the communists
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Are there not plenty of alternative platforms? The criticism that Musk is stifling free speech counter to branding (obviously true) seems effective. If you can't be Laura Loomer on X, what's it good for now?
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Hmm, interesting. I'm accustomed to thinking of the MAGA people as being so whipped they can't tie their shoes without permission and a smile. But you're probably right about their incentives
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Is a Night of Long Knives necessary with this crowd? It could be that the original MAGA types decide that the big man has spoken, we take the L, and that's that. Musk calls them morons and they fall in line.
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Well, I can see Musk getting sidelined in the short term (e.g. a Trump falling out), but he and his ilk will win eventually
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What puzzles me here is that this seems out of alignment with his rants again MAGA. The AFD is the contemptible fools of German politics. The FDP are Elon's types. So why not back the FDP?
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It's really astonishing. Did you not notice the past decade?
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Vivek is not an immigrant and Oppenheimer was not an immigrant. if Elon is an immigrant, why wouldn't Einstein be allowed in?
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The whole point of MAGA is that you get to be mediocre and still have all the nice things. But I don't understand why Ramaswamy is calling them out on this.
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That Trump would do something beneficial about inflation was always fantasy. But despite what Republicans want, what if they don't cut benefits (in an obvious way)? What's the argument then?
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Commenting on this here: jabberwocking.com/a-look-at-th...
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So first you go after educational and scientific funding. There's not a lot of juice there. So maybe just directly raise taxes on the middle class? Could it somehow be targeted at blue states?