We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

You would think that the day people get arrested for having ‘nothing better to due’, the Americans who were so concerned about ‘government tyranny’ would stand up for their rights.

I see it more as a way to revitalize certain parts of the country - the ones that just decline even when things are going well. It also makes it easier for people to move.

We need new cities for sure. I hope we get a new set of leaders with the vision to pursue it.

I remember when Republicans swore up and down that Obama was going to use troops to occupy Texas because Texas was throwing a secessionist temper tantrum.

Now we have troops occupying US cities without a legitimate reason, and those Republicans are clapping like trained seals.

if Musk and others want to run social media platforms as instruments of a particular political faction's will, they are turning them into something very different than what US tech companies worked assiduously to protect from regulatory controls

Not all. And that’s what they’re counting on.

What I'm saying is, we're in hell and deserve it.

This made me realize that he’s never tried to hide what he thinks of the sycophants 🤣🤣He really is an enigma.

I can only hope that this moment creates a new creative era that reminds everyone what things could be if we could just go back to caring for humanity. I am really sick of the podcast era.

They are more culturally dominant than they have been in 70 years, and all they have to offer is podcasts and stoking arguments age in twitter.

This was such a great article

Americans rarely evaluate politics by quality of leadership/structure and it ultimately hurts the left more than the right.

2016-2018 was when teenage me first saw how fundamental this belief is to conservatism. The belief that no one could truly want good outcomes for others, so all the things that the left advocates for are just tools for when to control the populace.

while having block lists so long people consider it a badge of honor

AMERICA IS NOT DIVIDED
… PICK A ROPE, FIND A TREE AND END IT

The jokes wrote themselves