PLUS: Crypto Bro Placed Atop Military, Path Cleared To Assault Protestors. Meanwhile mainstream media refuses to say the name Curtis Yarvin, the 'philosopher' behind Thiel and Musk's fraud.
What other great pieces of contextualizing information can we share in the comments, gang? Let's help everyone access the healthiest, fact-based information possible. Every day.
Yes, Steve, but predictable only to people who have the information and haven’t succumbed to messaging efforts to destroy their faith in fact-based news.
Just a reminder that in the Lord of the Rings series, the palantir were objects of immense power and potential to corrupt the user. So much so that only those pure of heart and string of character were ever able to use them. Even
the innocent hobbits were sucked into their evil. Since there are no accidents in the Universe, and great big waving danger signals and flags that have been ignored everywhere, I have no clue why people didn’t realize the potential for evil just from the name Thiel and companychose for their business.
And people who were raised in harmony with the ethos and justification of apartheid South Africa are unlikely to see multiethnic, multinational democracy as a laudable goal. They want to create their homeland conditions here, and are importing tens of thousands of Afrikaaners to do just that. Yeah, we don’t want any.
It is my understanding that in 2020 Barre Seid's transfed his election security company Tripp Lite, to far-right predatory billionaire Leonard Leo. Nearly ALL election machines in this country are certified to be used specifically with Tripp Lite products - surge protectors for all ES&S DS450 and DS850 tabulators, and Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) units for all Dominion servers.
In 2021, Leo sold Tripp Lite to a company by the name of Eaton Corp.
Then one week after Musk created his "America PAC" for Trump, Eaton Corp. announced a partnership with Palantir, owned by Peter Thiel.
Also of note, Peter Thiel also has ownership in Polymarket, another company with ties to the outcome of the U.S. election. Polymarket had eerily accurate predictions of a Trump victory, and was raided shortly after the Nov 5 election.
These predatory billionaires have purchased companies responsible for the security of our elections.
For what it's worth, aside from this random Twitter account, I cannot find any assertion anywhere that Tripp Lite is an election security company. https://unrollnow.com/status/1884704600479129709
Marilyn, do you have any reporting on the things you are saying? Besides the reporting on the massive transfer of wealth from Barre Seid to Leonard Leo, which has been reported?
Brian, Tripp Lite has definitely been under the radar. What harm could there be in making surge protectors and connecting devices for computers? Perhaps that was the beauty of it; it went unnoticed. Here is an in depth article by someone who researched the potential threat to voting machines:
When I was sitting on my couch, looking at the map during the election results reporting, I felt that the numbers were not tracking in the swing states and was very suspicious. Later, I started doing some searching and found an article about a white hacker convention in Las Vegas, Hacker con, in which a three page document listing back door of vulnerabilities in voting systems in counties across the US. The director of the event was quoted as saying that "if you don't think that the Russians haven't had a room full of people like this doing this 24 seven for a decade, you are confused." lately I've seen several statuses coming out and saying that they have run a lot of numbers and there are inconsistencies and things that do not add up and there are Dem voters who have tried to find the record of their vote and have been unable to do so, especially with early voters. I mean, people were literally arrested and tried and found guilty for trying to change boats. And yet Democrat spent months naval gazing instead of actually looking at the situation and dealing with it. I'm no statistician just had a feeling in my gut and then found some information about that hacker con and started to poke around. I feel like democratic strategist and people who are paid to know about these things should have been paying more attention. I feel like they really dropped the ball. That information was reported in USA today and several other sources if you can still find it. I probably have it saved somewhere.
I appreciate the thoughts and ideas of both you and Marilyn. My philosophy is one of living in the moment. And in this moment such narratives about election irregularities only keep people mired in cynicism and distracted from the harms being perpetrated against our democracy and our people every day. Again, not attacking you or Marilyn, but these narratives keep people from focusing on the damage being done right now. We all need to be mobilizing against what is currently happening to our government and of all the information we can share we should be sharing verified, fact-based information that aligns with our values. We are in an information war with foreign adversaries like Putin and home grown ones like Steve Bannon. We have to flood the zone with facts at all times. Thank you for your energy and your thoughts.
You are not wrong; however a number of people feel very confused about a radical fringe majority being a dominant force in America. Believing that election was accurate and legitimate, bolsters the lie that aware, free-thinking, democracy-loving citizens are a minority and that is suppressive and also depressing for many people. It is never wrong to seek, try to know and understand the truth when you are being lied to and gas-lighted en masse. I do think it changes some of the energy of the moment even if the original outcome is not one that can be easily changed.
I totally agree. I believe in living in the moment too, but that also in the long run, the truth will set you free. Our country realizing that the current regime is truly an illegal coup that was NOT voted into power by the people is huge, both psychologically to us and the rest of the world. The rest of the world is vulnerable to the same attack if it is not understood how it happened.
The bottom line is obviously an insane amount of money and years of planning successfully got the far right where we are today. I don't think there is any doubt that with the combination of knowledge and money, hacking the election was possible. They seemed very confident of the results of the election. Dedicated people are scrambling to figure out how it was done, and then prove it.
This is a must watch video this morning. The money Election Truth Alliance needs for attorneys to sue for audits is pennies in comparison to the money spent.
Im a Swedish, seasoned IT guy. From the web revolution. I worked at the Scandinavian browser maker Opera Software.
And I hereby assure you that every time anybody mentions the clever idea to computerize elections in Sweden, every single mf one of us go :.NOOOO YOU DONT! :P
As much as we love automation, you can NEVER get legiticy in a system thats too complicated for the least intelligent and informed person in the country to understand the components of.
And that simply rules out anything but a manual, open, checkable system with error correction mechasims. <3 That is actually IT too, and the by far best IT solution for THIS very unique application. It costs and take time - so be it! As long as it it demonstratratably effective impossible to rig in any way that actually matters, without getting caught.
So please. Do the world a favor and copy us. Its worth it.
It sounds so reasonable; that the goal of political parties would be to ensure we have fair elections. Unfortunately, the right wing has done everything possible to ensure elections are NOT fair. Gerrymandering, Jim Crow laws in the red south TO THIS DAY due to a right wing Supreme Court. It is estimated that 3 1/2 million blacks were illegally and unknowingly challenged from voting in 2024. And now voting machines and tabulators that can be manipulated. The ugly truth is we are still fighting the civil war. Until that core problem is fixed, elections will purposely be unfair.
And, elect a separate body of independent people invested in handling the election process fairly. Let them even out the bloody gerrymandering so its exactly in between what the parties wound want - or suggest to rewrite the whole thing to something better? Controlling this is too much responsibility for your parties to handle, it seems.
Yes, right now there is so much to fix it is feeling quite overwhelming. Perhaps in the bigger picture the system needed to be torn apart so we rebuild from the foundation up. For all the progress that was made, there have been these underlying problems that keep rearing their ugly head. The Scandinavian countries got so much so right! Bernie Sanders has been preaching that for many years - he came close in 2016, but the DNC was afraid to upset the corporate world, so backed the corporate friendly candidate. Bernie at 83 is still out there drawing big crowds, bless him! Perhaps the people will finally understand that the corporate world is about profit, not the well-being of the people. The oligarchs are so emboldened now, they think they can rule the world. Not happy Trump is messing with Denmark and Greenland. No idea how far he will take it...it is a dangerous situation. God help us all!
Yeah, i know - American competitiveness is threatening to eat itself quite often.
But the larger the reason to not allow any unnecessary attack vectors for manipulation. So just throw out the machines, copy our system - Its manipulation safe and its explainable why to literally anyone.
.... Come to us and see how a civilized country does it? :D
Actually, we cant guarantee that NO voting station is compromized, either - but thats not the point, because that almost never matters, and even IF it should matters, its so near 50% anyway that.... it doesnt matter. It easily could have gone the other way too, since it was so very near.
The important thing is that you CANT orchestrate a campaign against so many stations that it DOES matter, without SOMEONE noticing it. Thats the beauty of it.
;p Show them the damned movie - you CANT use a palantir for good, long run its destroying your view on reality.
And THATS what wrong right now.
Right now is just like right before the French Revolution - people reading books from the new printing press, getting radicalized and polarized JUST like this - the nobility too, they had their own philosophers who gave them rationalisations that everything would be good if they just didnt care about the poor.
This is exactly the same, but with the internet/polarized media - ChatGpt agrees.
So im warning everyone - this GETS as bad as then, if not EVERYONE who CAN starts empathising and actually CARING about the other side. Listening and understanding and forgiving!
Only then can they leave Trump behind.
And they will never do it. They are obviously more afraid of the Dems than of Trump right now.
Hi Suzie, thank you for engaging. Yes, I hear you saying that I lost credibility and I want to respond in kindness and support.
I do not deny that Maddow, the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal covered this issue. But I will remind us all that after Joe Biden's terrible debate performance, journalist Jennifer Schultz counted 192 (!) pieces (news and opinion) about Biden's abilities and health in just one week in just the New York Times. Now, of course there should be lots of coverage if a president proves themselves to be lacking. Now, I ask you, is Donald Trump not the most corrupt president we have ever had? Is it not one of the biggest scandals and stories of our time that a weirdo "house philosopher" to an oligarch is guiding the thought of the tech fascists who are attempt to destroy our country and rule as dictators?
With that frame I want to direct you to the idea of frequency and prominence. Shouldn't it be the case, if journalism is meant to inoculate the public against harms by exposing them and allowing the public to respond, that Curtis Yarvin is covered with such prominence and frequency that he is a household name? Shouldn't all the cable news debate shows and the nightly news programs lead with and intensely and regularly cover the people destroying our country and the "philosophers" who are guiding them to do so?
Journalism is an essential bulwark of democracy and in this time when so many are upset with Musk and Trump, very few of our journalists are informing us with frequency and prominence about who is driving all of this. Thiel and Yarvin are not household names. Journalism must uplift and defend democracy and it is not doing that. That they cover something once does not mean journalism is doing its job, especially when we know that if they want to, they can run 192 stories in a week about a single subject.
Thanks for engaging and perhaps I have helped your concerns about my credibility by addressing the source of your discontent. Have a great day. With love, Brian
In my observation, Yarvin just reflects their libertarian desires. Thiel was libertarian playing the long power game long before Yarvin. He has merely told them what they wanted to hear, green lighted them in a truly postmodern narcissistic way.
Fck thiel. Take fckng vance and drag them both to hell. You know what hell is, right, Vance? You’re supposedly a Catholic. That’s where you’re going, you POS.
Please people! These connections to cryptocurrency and total government control are serious! Pay attention to the details. I am afraid they will do something to wreck the 2026 elections when we have a chance to fire some of them with our votes against them.
I don’t have detailed reading of Yarvin but recent NYT interview left me with a strengthened opinion that tech bros are lame socio-political thinkers. I would call it more: “baffle’em with bullshit.”
Yep. Power and money only need someone to elevate to a philosopher platform to give it a very flimsy rationalisation for its actions, nothing else..
Rawls thought and wrote for his whole life on the subject of fairness. And states who listened to him rutinely at least checked how the worst-off wound fare with every policy change.
Along came the (far too handsome) libertarian Nozick and wrote a little something saying, no thats wrong, the rich deserves to keep every dollar they earn and have no responsibilty. And went back to writing about other stuff.
Guess if Reagan and Thatcher and their strategists took that and ran with it, sponsored by Big..
. Money? :p
Nozick later changed his mind in the nineties, after seeing the effects on homelessness and people breaking bad all over (in europe and Russia too for that matter) due to libertarian neoliberalism. And said that redistribution actually WAS needed.
Guess of that was heard? :p
I met these like tech bro young madmen and debated their totally reality estranged theories in the Linköping university computer clubs text based forum LysKOM back in 95 or so... So im feeling kinda weird right now when those arguments come back exactly as insane from the mind of Elon Musk, who had obviously gotten them bullied into him by both school bullies AND his father. "The nicest thing you can do to make people hard by being hard on them!" :p Bullshit. Everybody needs challenges, yes - but they been a lot of unconditional love and unwavering support first. And too!
... Needless to say, had the US kept Rawls around, at least reverted to him after the Soviet Union was killed off by the neoliberalism... They never would have gotten any of the MAGA people to handle. And thus no Trump and the whole other lot. :p
THESE are the real enemies of the state. Trump is just the game show host. Elon is the producer… but these are the writers. Want to understand the narcissism and anger? Check backgrounds.
What other great pieces of contextualizing information can we share in the comments, gang? Let's help everyone access the healthiest, fact-based information possible. Every day.
This was all very predictable before the election. Biden (and particularly Garland) are seemingly complicit in this tyranny
Yes, Steve, but predictable only to people who have the information and haven’t succumbed to messaging efforts to destroy their faith in fact-based news.
Just a reminder that in the Lord of the Rings series, the palantir were objects of immense power and potential to corrupt the user. So much so that only those pure of heart and string of character were ever able to use them. Even
the innocent hobbits were sucked into their evil. Since there are no accidents in the Universe, and great big waving danger signals and flags that have been ignored everywhere, I have no clue why people didn’t realize the potential for evil just from the name Thiel and companychose for their business.
And people who were raised in harmony with the ethos and justification of apartheid South Africa are unlikely to see multiethnic, multinational democracy as a laudable goal. They want to create their homeland conditions here, and are importing tens of thousands of Afrikaaners to do just that. Yeah, we don’t want any.
It is my understanding that in 2020 Barre Seid's transfed his election security company Tripp Lite, to far-right predatory billionaire Leonard Leo. Nearly ALL election machines in this country are certified to be used specifically with Tripp Lite products - surge protectors for all ES&S DS450 and DS850 tabulators, and Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) units for all Dominion servers.
In 2021, Leo sold Tripp Lite to a company by the name of Eaton Corp.
Then one week after Musk created his "America PAC" for Trump, Eaton Corp. announced a partnership with Palantir, owned by Peter Thiel.
Also of note, Peter Thiel also has ownership in Polymarket, another company with ties to the outcome of the U.S. election. Polymarket had eerily accurate predictions of a Trump victory, and was raided shortly after the Nov 5 election.
These predatory billionaires have purchased companies responsible for the security of our elections.
For what it's worth, aside from this random Twitter account, I cannot find any assertion anywhere that Tripp Lite is an election security company. https://unrollnow.com/status/1884704600479129709
Marilyn, do you have any reporting on the things you are saying? Besides the reporting on the massive transfer of wealth from Barre Seid to Leonard Leo, which has been reported?
Brian, Tripp Lite has definitely been under the radar. What harm could there be in making surge protectors and connecting devices for computers? Perhaps that was the beauty of it; it went unnoticed. Here is an in depth article by someone who researched the potential threat to voting machines:
https://www.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1h62vxs/updated_post_far_right_components_used_in/
The secretive way the transfer was handled, donating Tripp Lite to a conservative trust before finding the "right" buyer is interesting. Leonard Leo:
https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid
When I was sitting on my couch, looking at the map during the election results reporting, I felt that the numbers were not tracking in the swing states and was very suspicious. Later, I started doing some searching and found an article about a white hacker convention in Las Vegas, Hacker con, in which a three page document listing back door of vulnerabilities in voting systems in counties across the US. The director of the event was quoted as saying that "if you don't think that the Russians haven't had a room full of people like this doing this 24 seven for a decade, you are confused." lately I've seen several statuses coming out and saying that they have run a lot of numbers and there are inconsistencies and things that do not add up and there are Dem voters who have tried to find the record of their vote and have been unable to do so, especially with early voters. I mean, people were literally arrested and tried and found guilty for trying to change boats. And yet Democrat spent months naval gazing instead of actually looking at the situation and dealing with it. I'm no statistician just had a feeling in my gut and then found some information about that hacker con and started to poke around. I feel like democratic strategist and people who are paid to know about these things should have been paying more attention. I feel like they really dropped the ball. That information was reported in USA today and several other sources if you can still find it. I probably have it saved somewhere.
I appreciate the thoughts and ideas of both you and Marilyn. My philosophy is one of living in the moment. And in this moment such narratives about election irregularities only keep people mired in cynicism and distracted from the harms being perpetrated against our democracy and our people every day. Again, not attacking you or Marilyn, but these narratives keep people from focusing on the damage being done right now. We all need to be mobilizing against what is currently happening to our government and of all the information we can share we should be sharing verified, fact-based information that aligns with our values. We are in an information war with foreign adversaries like Putin and home grown ones like Steve Bannon. We have to flood the zone with facts at all times. Thank you for your energy and your thoughts.
You are not wrong; however a number of people feel very confused about a radical fringe majority being a dominant force in America. Believing that election was accurate and legitimate, bolsters the lie that aware, free-thinking, democracy-loving citizens are a minority and that is suppressive and also depressing for many people. It is never wrong to seek, try to know and understand the truth when you are being lied to and gas-lighted en masse. I do think it changes some of the energy of the moment even if the original outcome is not one that can be easily changed.
I totally agree. I believe in living in the moment too, but that also in the long run, the truth will set you free. Our country realizing that the current regime is truly an illegal coup that was NOT voted into power by the people is huge, both psychologically to us and the rest of the world. The rest of the world is vulnerable to the same attack if it is not understood how it happened.
The bottom line is obviously an insane amount of money and years of planning successfully got the far right where we are today. I don't think there is any doubt that with the combination of knowledge and money, hacking the election was possible. They seemed very confident of the results of the election. Dedicated people are scrambling to figure out how it was done, and then prove it.
This is a must watch video this morning. The money Election Truth Alliance needs for attorneys to sue for audits is pennies in comparison to the money spent.
https://youtu.be/xyFj3pU7WI0?si=uCVlwhtx33gTKf4l
This is easier - here is a link to the post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1h62vxs/updated_post_far_right_components_used_in/
Info on Leonard Leo and the trust Tripp Lite was donated to:
https://www.ft.com/content/0b38aaed-ec58-40cd-9047-0c7b7b83164a
Im a Swedish, seasoned IT guy. From the web revolution. I worked at the Scandinavian browser maker Opera Software.
And I hereby assure you that every time anybody mentions the clever idea to computerize elections in Sweden, every single mf one of us go :.NOOOO YOU DONT! :P
As much as we love automation, you can NEVER get legiticy in a system thats too complicated for the least intelligent and informed person in the country to understand the components of.
And that simply rules out anything but a manual, open, checkable system with error correction mechasims. <3 That is actually IT too, and the by far best IT solution for THIS very unique application. It costs and take time - so be it! As long as it it demonstratratably effective impossible to rig in any way that actually matters, without getting caught.
So please. Do the world a favor and copy us. Its worth it.
It sounds so reasonable; that the goal of political parties would be to ensure we have fair elections. Unfortunately, the right wing has done everything possible to ensure elections are NOT fair. Gerrymandering, Jim Crow laws in the red south TO THIS DAY due to a right wing Supreme Court. It is estimated that 3 1/2 million blacks were illegally and unknowingly challenged from voting in 2024. And now voting machines and tabulators that can be manipulated. The ugly truth is we are still fighting the civil war. Until that core problem is fixed, elections will purposely be unfair.
And, elect a separate body of independent people invested in handling the election process fairly. Let them even out the bloody gerrymandering so its exactly in between what the parties wound want - or suggest to rewrite the whole thing to something better? Controlling this is too much responsibility for your parties to handle, it seems.
Yes, right now there is so much to fix it is feeling quite overwhelming. Perhaps in the bigger picture the system needed to be torn apart so we rebuild from the foundation up. For all the progress that was made, there have been these underlying problems that keep rearing their ugly head. The Scandinavian countries got so much so right! Bernie Sanders has been preaching that for many years - he came close in 2016, but the DNC was afraid to upset the corporate world, so backed the corporate friendly candidate. Bernie at 83 is still out there drawing big crowds, bless him! Perhaps the people will finally understand that the corporate world is about profit, not the well-being of the people. The oligarchs are so emboldened now, they think they can rule the world. Not happy Trump is messing with Denmark and Greenland. No idea how far he will take it...it is a dangerous situation. God help us all!
Yeah, i know - American competitiveness is threatening to eat itself quite often.
But the larger the reason to not allow any unnecessary attack vectors for manipulation. So just throw out the machines, copy our system - Its manipulation safe and its explainable why to literally anyone.
i worked both early voting and election day at the polls. there is so much room for tomfoolery.
.... Come to us and see how a civilized country does it? :D
Actually, we cant guarantee that NO voting station is compromized, either - but thats not the point, because that almost never matters, and even IF it should matters, its so near 50% anyway that.... it doesnt matter. It easily could have gone the other way too, since it was so very near.
The important thing is that you CANT orchestrate a campaign against so many stations that it DOES matter, without SOMEONE noticing it. Thats the beauty of it.
;p Show them the damned movie - you CANT use a palantir for good, long run its destroying your view on reality.
And THATS what wrong right now.
Right now is just like right before the French Revolution - people reading books from the new printing press, getting radicalized and polarized JUST like this - the nobility too, they had their own philosophers who gave them rationalisations that everything would be good if they just didnt care about the poor.
This is exactly the same, but with the internet/polarized media - ChatGpt agrees.
So im warning everyone - this GETS as bad as then, if not EVERYONE who CAN starts empathising and actually CARING about the other side. Listening and understanding and forgiving!
Only then can they leave Trump behind.
And they will never do it. They are obviously more afraid of the Dems than of Trump right now.
Horrible
Ugh
Quinn Slobodian and Doug Henwood on Jacobin Radio talk musk, yarvin, thiel, etc.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacobin-radio/id791564318?i=1000695830133
Thanks!
Trash Future also recently interviewed Slobodian. Great discussion. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trashfuture/id1261944206?i=1000695916067
I’ve seen Yarvin reporting in on Maddow, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. You lost credibility in the introduction alone
Hi Suzie, thank you for engaging. Yes, I hear you saying that I lost credibility and I want to respond in kindness and support.
I do not deny that Maddow, the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal covered this issue. But I will remind us all that after Joe Biden's terrible debate performance, journalist Jennifer Schultz counted 192 (!) pieces (news and opinion) about Biden's abilities and health in just one week in just the New York Times. Now, of course there should be lots of coverage if a president proves themselves to be lacking. Now, I ask you, is Donald Trump not the most corrupt president we have ever had? Is it not one of the biggest scandals and stories of our time that a weirdo "house philosopher" to an oligarch is guiding the thought of the tech fascists who are attempt to destroy our country and rule as dictators?
With that frame I want to direct you to the idea of frequency and prominence. Shouldn't it be the case, if journalism is meant to inoculate the public against harms by exposing them and allowing the public to respond, that Curtis Yarvin is covered with such prominence and frequency that he is a household name? Shouldn't all the cable news debate shows and the nightly news programs lead with and intensely and regularly cover the people destroying our country and the "philosophers" who are guiding them to do so?
Journalism is an essential bulwark of democracy and in this time when so many are upset with Musk and Trump, very few of our journalists are informing us with frequency and prominence about who is driving all of this. Thiel and Yarvin are not household names. Journalism must uplift and defend democracy and it is not doing that. That they cover something once does not mean journalism is doing its job, especially when we know that if they want to, they can run 192 stories in a week about a single subject.
Instead, so much of mainstream coverage completely normalizes what is happening. Case in point: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/19/grok-3-elon-musk-xai-edgy-based-chatgpt
Thanks for engaging and perhaps I have helped your concerns about my credibility by addressing the source of your discontent. Have a great day. With love, Brian
In my observation, Yarvin just reflects their libertarian desires. Thiel was libertarian playing the long power game long before Yarvin. He has merely told them what they wanted to hear, green lighted them in a truly postmodern narcissistic way.
Whenever I see Peter Theil, I always think to myself, “Ya know, that guy would look GREAT in a Nazi Officer’s uniform.”
It’s not a complement.
Of course, we know that many big-ticket Nazi’s, some of the worst, were in fact gay like Theil, although none were out and proud like him.
He may be out but he ain't proud...
I'm sure he has one for ze role play, ya?
With a little riding quip.
Off with their heads! Every single one of them!
Fck thiel. Take fckng vance and drag them both to hell. You know what hell is, right, Vance? You’re supposedly a Catholic. That’s where you’re going, you POS.
Please people! These connections to cryptocurrency and total government control are serious! Pay attention to the details. I am afraid they will do something to wreck the 2026 elections when we have a chance to fire some of them with our votes against them.
I don’t have detailed reading of Yarvin but recent NYT interview left me with a strengthened opinion that tech bros are lame socio-political thinkers. I would call it more: “baffle’em with bullshit.”
Lame, perhaps, but also with all the money and power to achieve their anti-human agenda.
Yep. Power and money only need someone to elevate to a philosopher platform to give it a very flimsy rationalisation for its actions, nothing else..
Rawls thought and wrote for his whole life on the subject of fairness. And states who listened to him rutinely at least checked how the worst-off wound fare with every policy change.
Along came the (far too handsome) libertarian Nozick and wrote a little something saying, no thats wrong, the rich deserves to keep every dollar they earn and have no responsibilty. And went back to writing about other stuff.
Guess if Reagan and Thatcher and their strategists took that and ran with it, sponsored by Big..
. Money? :p
Nozick later changed his mind in the nineties, after seeing the effects on homelessness and people breaking bad all over (in europe and Russia too for that matter) due to libertarian neoliberalism. And said that redistribution actually WAS needed.
Guess of that was heard? :p
I met these like tech bro young madmen and debated their totally reality estranged theories in the Linköping university computer clubs text based forum LysKOM back in 95 or so... So im feeling kinda weird right now when those arguments come back exactly as insane from the mind of Elon Musk, who had obviously gotten them bullied into him by both school bullies AND his father. "The nicest thing you can do to make people hard by being hard on them!" :p Bullshit. Everybody needs challenges, yes - but they been a lot of unconditional love and unwavering support first. And too!
... Needless to say, had the US kept Rawls around, at least reverted to him after the Soviet Union was killed off by the neoliberalism... They never would have gotten any of the MAGA people to handle. And thus no Trump and the whole other lot. :p
And the church which is wealthier than all the corporations hence why it’s project 2025.
THESE are the real enemies of the state. Trump is just the game show host. Elon is the producer… but these are the writers. Want to understand the narcissism and anger? Check backgrounds.
Okay folks. Since so many of you did not recognize what a deviant Trump is years ago, look at this picture and see what a Nazi looks like!