ok, correct, Elon Musk actually does has space lasers (just the kind used to transmit stupid slop propaganda, not the kind used to zap people into ash from spaaaacccccceeeeee).
September 23, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Tbh it doesn’t exactly require a rocket surgeon to figure out why Americans don’t trust big tech companies very much.
September 25, 2026 at 9:44 PM
The thing about people demanding I produce examples of leftist arguments about the perfidy of USAID is that 1. I have learned no evidence is good enough, so I don’t bother and 2. If I do provide evidence, it will be claimed that I’m Doing Cyberbullying.
Anyway, hit dogs holler.
Anyway, hit dogs holler.
I’m going to need people to point me to posts by people over the age of 25 that aren’t Glenn Greenwald who are making this argument. Otherwise this feels like making up a guy to be mad at.
June 23, 2026 at 8:18 PM
“wait, we helped destroy a lot of people’s meaningful and socially-beneficial careers, in cahoots with Trump 2.0 and DOGE, and now those people have lots of free time to hate on us with? how could this happen?”
aren’t you dorks supposed to be smart?
aren’t you dorks supposed to be smart?
Dear Silicon Valley cultists: no, I’m not getting paid by a shadowy they/them cabal to be mean to you.
I’m being mean to you because your sicko culture has helped destroy mainstream international aid funding (which is killing people), usher in Trump 2.0, and pervert technology and innovation.
I’m being mean to you because your sicko culture has helped destroy mainstream international aid funding (which is killing people), usher in Trump 2.0, and pervert technology and innovation.
September 18, 2026 at 3:35 PM
I don’t particularly enjoy punching left, but it really does fill me with white-hot rage to see people I otherwise largely agree with on the left provide free air-support for Elon Musk’s genocidal USAID-destroying rampage.
June 23, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Big names in AI and Silicon Valley tech announced yesterday that they're launching a boarding academy for 16 to 22 year olds.
(Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors?)
theacademysf.com
(Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors?)
theacademysf.com
September 23, 2026 at 3:11 PM
And another: bsky.app/profile/fain...
Great piece illustrating how sick, sad, and depraved the "effective altruist" movement - which is extremely intermeshed with the massively powerful U.S. AI industry - has become.
The sad decline of effective altruism
A once wholesome and inspiring movement has become entangled with cults and has lost years chasing dead-end ideas
strangecosmos.substack.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:55 PM
And another: bsky.app/profile/fain...
So-called “effective altruism” actually just cuts the global poor out of the conversation entirely. Great piece:
dear-humanity.org/effective-al...
dear-humanity.org/effective-al...
EA is worse than traditional philanthropy in the way it excludes we the poor.
Effective altruism is worse than traditional philanthropy in the way it excludes the extreme poor in the global south. By Anthony Kalulu @KaluluAnthony | December 3, 2022: —- I have spent the v...
dear-humanity.org
September 17, 2026 at 1:55 PM
And yeah the irony is that I know tons of people who worked for USAID or were funded by USAID who had incredibly brutal critiques of the entire US foreign aid enterprise - albeit from a place of actual knowledge that doesn’t track well to stupid-ass discourse for Stalin PFP havers
June 23, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Over 3 million people saw it, and Elon Musk blatantly lied about this - but these are apparently silly little details not worthy of mention to the New York Times.
June 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I have a theory about how Eric Zhu was getting into AI group house parties at the age of 13, per the recent New York Times piece: he says he was in a Discord group chat with Sam Altman (and others) at that age.
techcrunch.com/2024/07/22/1...
techcrunch.com/2024/07/22/1...
September 23, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Say it, Shawn Fain! Say it loud!
May 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Say it, Shawn Fain! Say it loud!
for months, I've been spending my days building a database of murderous global attacks on civilians with small drones, which makes me think about how before the total destruction of USAID, it would have been a whole lot easier to find funding to DO something about this.
makes me a little cranky!
makes me a little cranky!
Whenever I hear someone claiming that USAID was evil from a leftist perspective, I hear someone saying “yes, millions ARE dying because Musk and Trump killed USAID, but at least they’ll die free of American imperialism.”
Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.
Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.
June 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM
hi @uaw.org, do you confirm or deny that Shawn Fain called Lutnick and glazed Trump?
Lutnick: "UAW is on side. Shawn Fain, who runs the UAW, he actually called me and said, 'I can't believe I'm calling a Republican secretary of commerce to say thank God for you guys. You guys care about the American worker.'"
January 21, 2026 at 1:15 PM
hi @uaw.org, do you confirm or deny that Shawn Fain called Lutnick and glazed Trump?
no, i'm not going to give you links to Kirkslop, this is a journey into the spirit of human imagination that you need to take on your own
(just go on TikTok and search "Charlie Kirk")
(just go on TikTok and search "Charlie Kirk")
like if you’re only on this website, I don’t think you’re emotionally prepared for the tsunami of “Charlie Kirk as an e-girl/furry/piss-fetishist/esoteric Nazi alien” Content that is on the social media platforms young people actually use
January 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM
for example: we just watched Joyce Carol Oates break Elon Musk’s psyche into 20,000 wriggling maggot-like pieces, and she said nothing anyone could ever construe as a bannable threat in the process
also the self-censorship people on here just sound Iike naive children to me
you can in fact viciously and highly effective criticize evil people without giving them needless points of vulnerability to get you back with
you can in fact viciously and highly effective criticize evil people without giving them needless points of vulnerability to get you back with
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Most every time I post about politics nowadays, I get a number of replies from people saying stuff along the lines of “we’re all doomed and you’re a naive idiot if you aren’t cowering in a hole waiting for death.”
Even if you feel utterly doomed, why are you trying to spread it to others?
Even if you feel utterly doomed, why are you trying to spread it to others?
I am trying to be patient because I 100% get that people are terrified but I am really struggling with all this knee-jerk public defeatism from other liberals and leftists right now
November 26, 2024 at 1:14 PM
another key reason I feel this way is because Black voters are smarter than me and I tend to believe I should follow their general historical philosophy on voting
the thing about vocally refusing to vote all the time is that politicians will, entirely logically, write you off as “those people who refuse to ever vote”
September 10, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I believe Nazi Baby Jake Lang’s Wild Ride in Minneapolis perfectly illustrates this: that greasy little chode *genuinely believed* that the people of Minneapolis were on his side, or at least, wouldn’t stop him from having a Nazi parade on their turf.
He guessed incredibly wrong.
He guessed incredibly wrong.
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 19, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Shawn Fain, congrats
From @reuters.com: STELLANTIS SAYS WILL TEMPORARILY LAY OFF 900 U.S. WORKERS IN MICHIGAN AND INDIANA DUE TO IDLING PLANTS IN MEXICO, CANADA
April 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Shawn Fain, congrats
Let's recall that apparently Sam Altman was in a Discord with a 13 year old in 2020
bsky.app/profile/fain...
bsky.app/profile/fain...
I have a theory about how Eric Zhu was getting into AI group house parties at the age of 13, per the recent New York Times piece: he says he was in a Discord group chat with Sam Altman (and others) at that age.
techcrunch.com/2024/07/22/1...
techcrunch.com/2024/07/22/1...
September 23, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Let's recall that apparently Sam Altman was in a Discord with a 13 year old in 2020
bsky.app/profile/fain...
bsky.app/profile/fain...
Everybody is entitled to feel the way they feel, but I think it’s simply wrong to actively attempt to make everyone else feel totally despondent along with you.
November 26, 2024 at 1:14 PM
I spent most of the past decade so unfathomably angry about the rise of US fascism that I could barely function. Existed in a constant state of rage and anxiety.
I’m still angrier than I can express in words, but it’s shifted to a cold, rational hatred of my enemy.
I’m still angrier than I can express in words, but it’s shifted to a cold, rational hatred of my enemy.
I agree. Anger is clean. Dread paralyzes.
March 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I dare not call them fools; but this I think,
When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.
When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.
September 25, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I dare not call them fools; but this I think,
When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.
When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.