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One great way to see how the far right is built out of the modern choose-your-own-reality media environment is how MAGA types will argue with Grok for hours about basic facts trying to produce some thin excuse to keep believing what they’re already predisposed to believe
July 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
One great way to see how the far right is built out of the modern choose-your-own-reality media environment is how MAGA types will argue with Grok for hours about basic facts trying to produce some thin excuse to keep believing what they’re already predisposed to believe
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What may be most telling is the idea that extreme libertarians think that we don't need liberty because? It's this kind of dissonance that makes them and the TRESCREAL movement so scary. How do you even have a rational conversation with such a mindset?
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What may be most telling is the idea that extreme libertarians think that we don't need liberty because? It's this kind of dissonance that makes them and the TRESCREAL movement so scary. How do you even have a rational conversation with such a mindset?
Peter Thiel Doesn’t Want You to See This Clip
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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June 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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What may be most telling is the idea that extreme libertarians think that we don't need liberty because? It's this kind of dissonance that makes them and the TRESCREAL movement so scary. How do you even have a rational conversation with such a mindset?
Watch!
What may be most telling is the idea that extreme libertarians think that we don't need liberty because? It's this kind of dissonance that makes them and the TRESCREAL movement so scary. How do you even have a rational conversation with such a mindset?
Worth watching youtu.be/LvmwGwnJf7c?... to better understand the appeal of the Trump/Musk fascism.
Why the Right Hates Atheists but Loves Elon Musk
YouTube video by Genetically Modified Skeptic
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March 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Worth watching youtu.be/LvmwGwnJf7c?... to better understand the appeal of the Trump/Musk fascism.
Musk doesn't understand the concept of "human" so fires and rehires as if he's just changing parts in a machine.
March 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Musk doesn't understand the concept of "human" so fires and rehires as if he's just changing parts in a machine.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...
My longer comments on FB www.facebook.com/bob.franksto...
My longer comments on FB www.facebook.com/bob.franksto...
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (Gift Article)
The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.
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March 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...
My longer comments on FB www.facebook.com/bob.franksto...
My longer comments on FB www.facebook.com/bob.franksto...
I’m posting two essays. They are a bit longer than most of my writings because I need to provide sufficient context.
From Access to Connectivity (rmf.vc/fromaccessto...)
The Opportunity of Ambient Connectivity™ (rmf.vc/theopportuni...)
From Access to Connectivity (rmf.vc/fromaccessto...)
The Opportunity of Ambient Connectivity™ (rmf.vc/theopportuni...)
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February 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I’m posting two essays. They are a bit longer than most of my writings because I need to provide sufficient context.
From Access to Connectivity (rmf.vc/fromaccessto...)
The Opportunity of Ambient Connectivity™ (rmf.vc/theopportuni...)
From Access to Connectivity (rmf.vc/fromaccessto...)
The Opportunity of Ambient Connectivity™ (rmf.vc/theopportuni...)
Bluesky's message limit precludes serious discussions. I posted www.facebook.com/bob.franksto... (and on LI) but I can only post the summary of DOGEan economics being based on pretending displacing costs and reducing synergy is saving when it really just ups the cost to society.
Bob Frankston
I've been mulling the fundamental fallacy of DOGEan economics -- it's ultimately reductionist without the concept of systems. If the government doesn't pay for sewers, then it is treated as a cost...
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February 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Bluesky's message limit precludes serious discussions. I posted www.facebook.com/bob.franksto... (and on LI) but I can only post the summary of DOGEan economics being based on pretending displacing costs and reducing synergy is saving when it really just ups the cost to society.
You don't compute savings without taking into account costs.
You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger.
Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.
Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.
February 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
You don't compute savings without taking into account costs.
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Brave. This is the way.
Last night, Musk's staff were stopped trying to enter USAID's HQ. They threatened to call U.S. Marshals.
@cnn.com: Sources say they wanted access to security systems and personnel files and to access classified information.
Today, the USAID Director of Security and his deputy were put on leave.
@cnn.com: Sources say they wanted access to security systems and personnel files and to access classified information.
Today, the USAID Director of Security and his deputy were put on leave.
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
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February 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Brave. This is the way.
Department of Transportation Releases Memo with "Handmaid's Tale" Mandates Tying State Funding to Birth Rates explainingthelaw.com/department-o...
Department of Transportation Releases Memo with "Handmaid's Tale" Mandates Tying State Funding to Birth Rates - Explaining the Law ⚖️
On January 31, 2025, the Trump administration's Department of Transportation (DOT) released a signed memo tying funding for states to birth rates.
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February 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Department of Transportation Releases Memo with "Handmaid's Tale" Mandates Tying State Funding to Birth Rates explainingthelaw.com/department-o...
Trump Seeks, Without Evidence, to Blame D.E.I. and Democrats for the Crash www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
What happens when you unleash crazy on the world
What happens when you unleash crazy on the world
Trump Seeks, Without Evidence, to Blame D.E.I. and Democrats for the Crash
President Trump’s remarks, suggesting that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his...
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January 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Trump Seeks, Without Evidence, to Blame D.E.I. and Democrats for the Crash www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...
What happens when you unleash crazy on the world
What happens when you unleash crazy on the world
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No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.
January 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.
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The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good.
Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
January 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good.
Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
Apparently, there was an executive order emailed to a million federal employees about returning to the office. It was full of typos and no security and looked like spam.
Do people know more about this? Is it being reported in the news? Incompetence stops being funny very quickly.
Do people know more about this? Is it being reported in the news? Incompetence stops being funny very quickly.
January 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Apparently, there was an executive order emailed to a million federal employees about returning to the office. It was full of typos and no security and looked like spam.
Do people know more about this? Is it being reported in the news? Incompetence stops being funny very quickly.
Do people know more about this? Is it being reported in the news? Incompetence stops being funny very quickly.
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Just so that we're clear, every action Trump has taken thus far has been against LEGAL immigrants.
January 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Just so that we're clear, every action Trump has taken thus far has been against LEGAL immigrants.
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When someone like @davidmaraniss.bsky.social says it, it’s pretty dire.
The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.
January 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
When someone like @davidmaraniss.bsky.social says it, it’s pretty dire.