Going into Supreme Court arguments over President Donald Trumpās tariffs on Wednesday, it was genuinely difficult to guess how the justices would rule. Within minutes, that suspense vanished. The hearing was a bloodbath for the Trump administration: Six justices lined up to bash the Justice Departmentās defense of the tariffs, barely disguising their annoyance with the governmentās barrage of blustery nonsense. At the halfway point, it wouldāve saved everyone time had the court just huddled, announced its decision from the bench, and recessed early for lunch. Trumpās signature trade policyāwhich he expected to raise trillions of dollars for him to use as he wishedālooks dead on arrival at SCOTUS. We have spent 10 months waiting to see if, and when, this court would set a limit on Trumpās power. Perhaps we shouldāve guessed that its extraordinary deference to this president could be outweighed only by its hatred of taxes.
It seems that āJDā āVanceā is there to rep the Thiel/Andreesen/Musk types. And as fucking weird as Donbald is on so many levels, the kinds of things that influence that bunch is next-level weird, and thatās saying a LOT when we are contrasting with Donbald. Donbald is weird and racist and incredibly selfish; these others have a very weird ideology.
I strongly recommend everyone read The Sovereign Individual to see what Iām talking about. The absolute seething disregard for what they keep talking about as unskilled labor and how they get/got paid too much during the Industrial Revolution. How they look forward with glee at the notion that the information age will unleash the worthy from taxes and any sort of social responsibility to other humans, basically.
I have not finished it yet, but so far, itās a repackaging of Ayn Rand and her Galtās Gulch horseshit, but instead of being presented in really shitty sci-fi lit, itās presented as a nearly-sure outcome.
I havenāt read anything by Curtis Yarvin, but interviews with him are justā¦bonkers. Not sure if there is anything people would recommend reading about/by him that would give more insight into his cult.
If you want to see one example of the dreck these idiots are following regarding disabled or āunskilledā people, check this wack shit out:
Yarvin follows with a ājust kiddingā, but is he??? Why is every other part of that shitty manifesto stated seriously, but this one thing is a joke???
Lesson from history: first come for the Nazis. And, among the Nazis, first come for the propagandists.
That way we wonāt be subjected to even further Niemƶller copypasta. And weāll be rid of some Nazis too.