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Posts posted by mchookem
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4 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:
Saw this on LI
DARK MAGA*
If you're a little confused about what Musk is trying to achieve with DOGE, here's the breakdown:
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel cofounded a company that became PayPal.
Other executives at PayPal went on to found or lead other huge tech companies including YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, Affirm, and many VC firms.
This group became known as the PayPal mafia because they basically controlled Silicon Valley.
Peter Thiel mentored a young JD Vance and helped him get set up in his first VC firm.
Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia funded JD Vance's successful Senate run. Amazing because he had absolutely zero political experience.
Thiel and Musk all but forced Trump to choose JD Vance as VP in exchange for funding his presidential campaign.
The three of them, plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug.
Yarvin preaches that the media and academia represent "The Cathedral" that secretly controls power and must be dismantled.
He advocates for a corporate run, monarchy, led by a CEO-Dictator.
Says that Democracy is an "outdated software" and openly opposes it and that:
- Government agencies should be dismantled and The U.S. should be broken up into "patchworks" controlled by tech oligarchs.
- That the elite tech billionaires should rule because they have the intelligence to "fix" society
- That the "masses are asses" too dumb to govern themselves.The strategy is to gut the government via R.A.G.E - Retire All Govt Employees to make government incapable of operating.
Then to replace government with private corporations.
To eliminate elections because they are "obsolete"To use distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance.
Trump is their useful tool to be disposed of as soon as they can wrest control.
This is why Elon wears a black MAGA hat. They are not Trump supporters, they are "Dark MAGA"
This isn't a hypothetical. The plan is already in motion:
- Musk, Thiel, and their network are actively dismantling democratic institutions.
- JD Vance, the “MAGA heir,” is being positioned to help implement this transition.
- The public is too distracted to realize what’s happening.
- If successful, democracy in America will be permanently replaced by a corporate-run authoritarian state.
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That's it. Now that you understand that you can see how everything that's happening fits within that lens.Now the only question is what do we do about it?
That's my Dark Ted Talk. Thanks for listening.
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Sources:
Shane Almgren, Author of "The Trumpland Diaries"
https://lnkd.in/eCHvt4Cj
The Financial Times
https://lnkd.in/ed_7Fv8Q
The New Yorker
https://lnkd.in/e7XDZFyV1 hour ago, Mole said:Busy day for killing off what actually makes America great in the name of MAGA. Besides the unhinged “deweaponizing” of the justice department speech, we have a wild attack on academic freedom. Of course, as shocking as it is, it’s never surprising.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.
Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulledover allegations of antisemitism.
Across academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.
President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”
President Donald Trump has been threatening to withhold federal funding from colleges that do not get in line with his agenda, from transgender athletes’ participating in women’s sports to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. On Friday, his administration announced investigations into 52 universities as part of his DEI crackdown.
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But he has held particular fervor for Columbia, the Ivy League campus where a massive pro-Palestinian protest movement began with a tent encampment last spring. Officials continued to ratchet up pressure on the school Friday, with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying the Justice Department is investigating whether it hid students sought by the U.S. over their roles in the demonstrations.
Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, April 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
As light rain falls, New York City police officers take people into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a building taken over by pro-Palestinian protesters earlier in the day was cleared, along with a tent encampment. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
Trump and other officials have accused the protesters as being “pro-Hamas,” referring to the militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The letter also demands that Columbia ban masks on campus meant to conceal the wearer’s identity “or intimidate others,” adopt a new definition of antisemitism, abolish its current process for disciplining students and deliver a plan to ”reform undergraduate admissions, international recruiting, and graduate admissions practices.”
The letter “obliterates the boundary between institutional autonomy and federal control,” said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education.
For generations, the federal government has given colleges space to manage their own affairs, within the constraints of federal law. The Supreme Court has long treated academic freedom as an extension of the First Amendment. Higher education leaders say autonomy is what sets America’s colleges apart and makes them a destination for top international scholars.
Trump has never hidden his contempt for the country’s most prestigious colleges, and he’s aggressively pressing his will. The federal government has almost never used its authority to cut off money from schools and colleges. But along with the initial action at Columbia, a Trump administration letter sent Monday to 60 colleges promised that penalty if they fail to make their campuses safer for Jewish students.
Still, few predicted the Trump administration would pursue the type of control it’s demanding at Columbia.
Putting an academic department under receivership is “beyond the authority of the federal government and would violate academic freedom and the First Amendment,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar and dean of the Berkeley School of Law.
“It is chilling to see the government try to control universities in this way,” he said.
Academic receivership is a rarely used practice that puts an academic department under the oversight of a professor or administrator outside the department. It’s sometimes used to reset a department in financial or political turmoil.
The letter didn’t specify who should take control of the department at Columbia. Scott, of the AAUP, said the department appeared to be singled out because it was viewed as being overly critical of Israel.
“Receivership is a nice way of basically saying get rid of the department,” Scott said.
The Trump administration announced last week it was pulling $400 million in contracts from Columbia and reviewing another $5 billion in grants over complaints of antisemitism. The cuts have already affected research studies at Columbia’s medical center, which has long relied on grants from the National Institutes of Health.
U.S. government agencies said they made the cuts because of the school’s “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” Some Jewish groups and the president’s supporters have argued the government should be free to condition funding to colleges as it does other entities.
The university said it’s reviewing the Trump administration’s letter. “We are committed at all times to advancing our mission, supporting our students, and addressing all forms of discrimination and hatred on our campus,” it said in a statement.
Meanwhile, it’s leaving college leaders across the U.S. on edge. Mitchell, of the American Council on Education, said college presidents he spoke with were aghast at the letter.
“It doesn’t matter whether they’re in red states or blue states or whether they’re religious institutions or sectarian institutions. This is not the government’s role,” he said.
The letter was condemned by some faculty members and free speech groups.
“Half of this stuff you can’t just do and the other half is insane,” said Joseph Howley, a Columbia professor of classics. “If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.”
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called it “a blueprint to supercharge censorship” at colleges.
“Our colleges need to protect free expression and comply with anti-discrimination laws, but important civil rights investigations cannot be resolved by ad hoc directives from the government,” said Tyler Coward, the group’s lead counsel for government affairs. ___
Binkley reported from Washington, D.C.
you know what? fuck all you surly fuckers that are jacking off to this. insanity. you have literally destroyed this country and history will record it as such.
i'm grateful i'm on the downslope of life. this country is going to be...i don't even know. i don't want to know. unrecognizable. i want to be gone. i'm even more grateful i have no children. ancillary children elsewhere in my family are enough of a worry.
i've done my part to help equip them best i can for the future. some may remember...my niece had wanted to be a ranger or some other role with NPS, USFS, BLM, etc, it's what she studied for, and she graduated magna cum laude...in fucking December. 🤣🤣🤣🤬 so tragic it's funny. know what job she got instead? farmer! she's getting tf out of Texas this month and will be starting a job on an independent owner-operated community farm in another state! she's been expecting this bullsht since high school. some of GenZ have been preparing for this, the resilient ones will make it.
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On 3/10/2025 at 3:16 PM, jimmyjazz said:
I just can't even imagine that, but I was very close with my parents, and they were sharp as tacks up until death. An Alzheimer's patient? I'd be calling every day.
might explain some things
Gene Hackman’s Children Not Mentioned in Deceased Actor’s $80M Will
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i, too, hate POTUS...
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4 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:
The mental gymnastics by Trump supporters these last couple of months are quite remarkable.it's just getting started
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absolute losers. i feel no guilt ripping up every mailer without even opening it.
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bit behind, just finished E3 so haven't finished the thread...
one thing they nailed...
when two good female friends spend time together, everything is smooth, they are bff and get along great! when three good female friends spend time together...there is always a 2-1 split. always. 😆 i have lived this experience more times than i can count lol. and yes, it shifts. Mike White has nailed that female dynamic.
Mook has a young Phoebe Cates thing going on, and Chloe looks like Winona Ryder. 😄
i like Chelsea, she's not the cutest but she's legitimately sweet and supportive, i'm rooting for her and Rick (with whatever happens). agree the men are stressful. PP is doing PP and it's great 😜
this one does feel different. but i'm also not really into all the new agey healing stuff either. i always imagine the people that work at these places are just faking it for the $$, to humor rich clients, they don't buy into it either.
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is this already posted in some other thread?
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7 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:
I don’t care why - this is a good thingagreed. it's also funny.
these people are legitimate idiots.
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3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
Also, Greenland voted against annexation or similar by the US.https://www.politico.eu/article/greenlanders-say-no-donald-trump-key-election-independence/
Soooo, JD, you gonna listen to the voters, a majority of the voters? Or is that only for disgusting right-wing minorities in Europe?
QuotePro-business Jens-Frederik Nielsen — who has said Trump’s rhetoric is a “a threat to our political independence” — led the Democrats to victory with nearly 30 percent of the vote
not just no...
QuoteGreenland’s most pro-American party, Qulleq, didn’t gain enough votes for a seat in the parliament.
...but hell no.
lol
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9 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:'sorry grandpa, you can't call anymore... use your Win10 computer that takes 4 minutes to boot up, go to ssa.gov, find the FAQ and hope you can find an answer. you can't? oh, well try the AI chatbot. no, sorry, can't help you, busy fomenting civil unrest and forcing sex changes on middle schoolers. but good luck, love you!' 🤣🤣🤣
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this thread didn't turn out at all like @realgreggym thought it would 😆
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2 hours ago, Celery Man said:
I’ve largely retreated into my own life and have tried to focus on small children and my work and shit like that, so I don’t follow everything great. Why did we choose Canada for our next Cold War?
because Melania and Ivanka both want to fuck Trudeau.
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saw it today. it was very different from what i expected knowing only the basic plot points, and that's always a plus.
the lack of exposition in the story was really interesting, made it feel more like an immersive experience, we're just dropped into her life and go with her from there.
i really liked the ending, very strong.
no issue with her winning... but as a whole it certainly didn't knock my socks off like Dune2. so wasn't the best movie of the year for me for sure, but i did enjoy it.
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oh that looks fantastic! 🤘
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Mike Judge made a documentary about America's future.
Matt Groenig predicted Trump's presidency and countless other developments.
and Trey Parker and Matt Stone foresaw war with Canada.
who knew 21st century life in the USA would be forecast by cartoons 😐
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oh god, troph. i'm so sorry.