David Poe
culthero12.bsky.social
David Poe
@culthero12.bsky.social
Consultant, cat-owner, cook.

Feel like this one needs to be busted out for a while:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity
600,000+ dead at the hands of Musk and this crew.
November 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The polls of people who actually watched the debate showed Biden losing badly... by the exact same margin that Trump lost the Harris debate. But Trump by contrast didn't have weeks of drumbeat, full-court-press news afterwards about his debate failure - media instead dropped the story
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
They have been ignoring how China has been releasing competitive models that focus on efficiency. Less electricity and compute for comparable performance. The data center buildout is an attempted moat and it might already be a bunch of stranded assets. Bubble gonna be bad even if the tech is real.
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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We should have started being one of these serious countries at Appomattox & right afterward, but alas, that's when the foundations of the "total failure of elite accountability" American system started:
Also, the failure of Reconstruction is the through-line of US politics, from 1867-2023, & its roots were unfortunately also planted at Appomattox. We should finish it belatedly now, so we can finally be an actual representative democracy of equal rights for everyone.

From Ron Chernow's "Grant":
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
In general every member of Congress who is going along with this instead of calling for it to end. They can replace the leadership if they aren't doing what needs doing. Congress wants the leadership to be sin eaters for their own cowardice.
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I really, really want to know what they got wind of.
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Periodic reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this any time they wish. They have been running away from all forms of responsibility and accountability since January.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them.”
― Sir Arthur Travers Harris
November 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Referring to what DOGE did as "budget cuts" is evil. They went into the guts of the government and forcibly stopped legally mandated work. They have killed some 600,000+ in the course of breaking the law.

I honestly put him in the same moral category as Pol Pot and similar.
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Unhinged, un-American, and wrong. The words themselves are corrosive, and an executive branch directly opposed to the laws of armed combat and the Constitution's checks and balances is a very serious problem.

But while his desire for authoritarian dominance is bottomless, his capacity isn't close.
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I am very worried about what prompted the announcement from the Democrats. Venezuela, Ukraine, something domestic?
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
They just keep doing the same thing over and over again until they get what they want. Ukraine, Kimmel, 2020 election conspiracies, tariffs. Bullying as national policy. Abuser brain.
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I cannot wrap my brain around how many people do not care about depraved crimes against children.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Musk says that 10-20 years is "long term to me."

A rare admission of the biggest public misunderstanding about him: his brand is that of a long-term futurist, but in reality he's a plate-spinner who rarely thinks farther ahead than the next fundraising round.
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I hate how apt this is. America is getting sicker.
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I find this yearning for martyrdom in service of hate frightening.
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Don't think the Silicon Valley will benefit from painting a target on their own backs.
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Exactly. Eats up time and energy and makes them look incompetent.
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM