The coalitions propping Trump are already fracturing. Authoritarian regimes don't exist without a strict hierarchy. The ideologues and Evangelicals will lose out to Vance backed by technocrats Thiel and Musk IMO.
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aug 31, 2025, 8:29 pm • 1 0 • view
But Thiel and Elon hate each other from back in the PayPal days. I HATE how easily Elon can slot into the enemy-of-my-enemy position on this
aug 31, 2025, 7:33 pm • 15 1 • view
I don't think that's true. In a recent interview Thiel talked about talking to Elon over dinner. I think it was reported that Thiel forced Elon out of Paypal, that doesn't mean they are enemies to this day. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
sep 1, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 0 • view
Good point. My question is, will they be strange bedfellows or rivals in the techno-feudal future they both envision?
aug 31, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 7:46 pm • 1 0 • view
That said, I'm really trying to live with radical empathy and intersectionality, and as a cis*het* autistic white dude, I CAN hold space to MAYBE find a way where I could dialogue with Elon and try to crack him out of his entropic nihilism in a way that can at least let him rest slightly softer
aug 31, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
He's supervillain level evil right now, but I can see how you give a nerdy autistic kid in apartheid south africa literal infinite money, an evil emerald baron father, and no diagnosis or support structures, sure, he comes out like he did.
aug 31, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
There's an AU verison of that dude who just got to treat heading to iD software like going to Disneyland and came out making little dorky sci fi space plane shooter games who ended up kinda dope, y'know? But he got dealt the Turbonihilist With A Blank Cheque hand, and, *gestures existentially*
aug 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
We need AOC out there going full Fred Hampton rainbow coalition mode ASAP. Hoenstly? Chuck Hunter in there too he's been real real good on the Channel 5 interviews.
aug 31, 2025, 7:35 pm • 19 1 • view