Sean Broom

Oh hell yes.

Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m Dropping at select colleges today. [Embedded image of a billboard ad:] A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West. Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why. We did. We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate. Join us. [signed by the Palantir founder]

You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.

But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

Not really sure what is the deal with Gen X but I will say that those folks seem to be the most likely among folks I know to be anti-vaxy

From my Atlanta home, to yours:

Happy Confederate Surrender Day to all who celebrate— and doubly to all those who don’t.

Perish all compromises with tyranny!

Crashing the economy on some dumb shit is more or less exactly what I expected out of the guy

Feeling very vindicated on my “I really just like stability and order from government” position.

can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now

by and large, the people who fetishize the return to factories and manual labor are people who've never done that. my dad delivered beer and his back was so shot by age 35 that when he finished work, he'd come home and lay flat on his back until supper because it hurt too much to stand.

This man is dumb.

you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead

The Democratic Party is now the party of free trade, national security, economic growth, and fiscal responsibility.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

this shit sucks so much, most of us have lived through at least 3 other recessions now im just so sick of this shit they just keep stealing our future from us

If only they paid the consequences for their actions.

I just...in the first hundred days, he destroyed American soft power, collapsed the administrative state, and incinerated the economy.

Didn’t have to wait for 8pm.

The Wreck of the Edmund Schlitzgerald

it's our destiny to die going down to the bottom of Lake Erie pushing a thousand pallets of Labatt's past customs

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough." - @booker.senate.gov 😭😭😭

I feel this part of Senator Booker's speech in my gut.

It's just BONKERS that there is no good reason for this, and it is largely driven by the hegemon driving itself off a cliff by electing a completely unstable leader who is actively destabilizing the global order, being belligerent toward long-time allies, and engaging in destructive trade policy.

They’re going to blow up the filibuster.

4/4 So it becomes easy to treat waste/inefficiency as the norm, because, hey, I don't really see what government is doing to make my life better.

But once it stops doing those things, you'll see what you've lost.

2/ When illness from contaminated food is quite rare, we forget why food inspectors are so important. When air traffic is stunningly safe, we forget why the FAA is so important. When checks always go out on time, we forget why the SSA is so important.

1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.

3/ And then we see the very occasional example of government waste/inefficiency, and that *does* seem salient.

The closing argument by Jared Harris is so compelling and Skarsgaard is just scene chewing throughout.