General Discussion

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I read on Salon that Biden’s labor friendly moves really angered the Si Valley power brokers-Reid Hoffman etc..

Lina Khan-the one person who actually got something done-really angered the ruling class.

They don’t mind pointless performative exercises like Occupy WallSt as much:

I found a good summary here of this movement:
https://www.dailygrail.com/2025/02/the-bizarre-2014-petition-that-seems-to-have-predicted-america-in-2025/

I deleted these from my journal earlier this year, but they are worth a read:

https://www.theawl.com/2015/09/the-darkness-before-the-right/

This sadly cannot be found elsewhere. These creeps are fascinating. They really are like nothing else:

https://readthis.wtf/writing/nick-land-an-experiment-in-inhumanism/

(My posts are a mess because I use my DU journal to mark time and save stuff I will want to inspect later)

Land seems to be moving in a different direction of crazy now:
https://aexo13research.substack.com/p/nick-land-from-materialist-emergentism
(Substack has the worst rubbish anywhere in the world. The internet is largely a giant pustule by now).

These are the stupidest people anywhere. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d actually kick in a buck to send this entire lot to Mars as they seem to want to. Only it should be a one way trip. No returning to earth. They can stay on Mars.

Anyway I have to go work. I can’t keep feeling smarter by avoiding work and looking at these creeps and going “Well okay. At least I am not that stupid..” The main reason I surf the web a handful of sites like DU/current affairs etc aside.

With the exception of a few non-work sites, it isn’t to educate myself or change the world, but to stare at trainwrecks and go “well okay these people are definitely stupider than I am.” And it’s usually these tech creeps.

I never understood that “the internet will change the world stuff”. I thought the point of the internet was some work, some activism and mostly staring at trainwrecks. People should be honest about stuff like that.

It’s a indictment of this lousy economic model that so many decent and intelligent humans have to use this foul beast (the net) to make a living as these brainless creeps lay everything else to waste. They are straining everyone to the hilt and except those IDW etc grifters who embrace it, it’s a shit deal for everyone else.