people on the tech right conflate capacity and propensity to destroy with human agency.

i'm not for guillotines. but i am for some muscular motherfucking taxes. bsky.app/profile/inte...

oh i hate myself for self-promoting but not enough to stop me. www.interfluidity.com/v2/5117.html

i agree. we've just gone way way way way way way too fucking far one way, and we've got a lot of difficult remedy ahead of us.

people can definitely go too far. full communism — purporting to eliminate all material difference in the name of equality — works out badly. we do need the incentive effects different amenity levels provide. but a range from a floor of say $20K/yr benefits to $100M in the bank is far from too far.

he thinks he is immunizing himself but his words could be equally taken to license an assassin. it's bad enough when they inadvertently fire the stewards of the nation's nuclear weapons. they know not what they do, and that is a big fucking problem.

they are completely without merit. money offers a person nothing other than the ability to persuade and sometimes compel other people. large caches of money are antithetical to human freedom, not a result or expression of freedom.

that's probably too abrupt. but wealth taxes, yes, at levels that make it exceedingly difficult to maintain very high wealth levels for long periods of time.

every centimillionaire is a policy failure.

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the claim was inaccurate, but a much kinder thing to say then many perfectly accurate descriptions.

Once you start thinking about growth, it’s hard to think about anything else, and then your monomaniacal focus on a measure that counts market power as human welfare undermines democracy and becomes handmaiden and apology for fascism.

they think it’s god’s will and i feel like it’s “the omen”.

tech oligarchs have been working obsessively on life extension, death the one obstacle they can’t buy their way out of or around. who knew they found a way?

“i just want you all to know that i take great pride in my humility.”

“we have…some immunity shielding govt officials from liability…to leave them sufficiently free to do their jobs. But…no one in DOGE actually had a job that would have entitled them to do what they have done.” @cathygellis.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/02/14/n... ht @glynmoody.bsky.social

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isn’t the “unitary executive” just respectable Yarvinism? it’s certainly contrary to a Constitution under which Congress structures, funds, and co-hires offices of the Executive Branch.

were they really so ignorant as to not know the Department of Energy’s role? being a nuclear scientist for this administration recalls historical analogies. ht @bananapantz.bsky.social

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