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  • The best Thiel money can buy…

    A charisma-less Vice President JD Vance was met Friday with humiliating silence when he tried to transform a memorial event into a political stump speech. https://newrepublic.com/post/210542/jd-vance-crowd-stays-silent-speech The billionaire class are way over their skis… and it’s starting to show

  • Billionaires a just full of shit

    Left or right, billionaires are full of shit…

  • No more billionaires, none

  • Roundup: Elon Musk is a terrible person

    I’ve been a critic of Musk since long before it was popular for people in media. It was obvious long before his acquisition of Twitter that Musk was a bad person who mistreated his partners, his workers, and was selling a false persona to the public. But far too few people would call it out…

  • Yesterday was a good day: US billionaire Peter Thiel ‘abandons’ Lake Wānaka lodge build

    The reviled NZ citizen, Peter Thiel, has a bit of a set back… but I’m taking the wins where I can. US tech billionaire Peter Thiel appears to have abandoned his plans to build a 330m-long luxury lodge overlooking Lake Wānaka. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523397/us-billionaire-peter-thiel-abandons-lake-wanaka-lodge-build Now our utterly tone deaf PM will berate NZ for being so backward…

  • Peter Thiel sucks at politics

    Watching JD Vance unravel has given me lots to think about. Reflecting on the weird men that Thiel seems to boost, I’ve come to a conclusion on why he’s so bad at politics. Money and Misanthropy Based on image by Androidmarsexpress – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93026655 Thiel uses money has a cudgel. He…

  • Edge Lord Musk Enters “Find Out” Phase

    Tesla posted its second-quarter earnings Thursday evening, revealing that its net income fell an astonishing 45 percent compared to a year ago, the second consecutive quarterly decline. That massive pay bump… sure looks liek a good investment. https://futurism.com/tesla-sales-tank-elon-musk-endorses-far-right

  • Pluralistic: The super-rich got that way through monopolies (17 Jan 2024)

    We are living in the age of the monopoly. In the 1930s, the top 0.1% of US companies accounted for less than half of America’s GDP. Today, it’s 90%. And it’s accelerating, with global mergers climbing from 2,676 in 1985 to 62,000 in 2021. Monopoly’s cheerleaders claim that these numbers vindicate them. Monopolies are so efficient that everyone…

  • Dame Anne Salmond: How to split a society

    In forming the new Government, the National Party forged alliances with smaller, more extreme parties intent on amplifying their power, entering dangerous territory.  With its immoderate attacks on the media, te reo, women and the environment, New Zealand First plays upon ethnic, gender and rural-urban polarities to increase its influence far beyond its 6 percent…

  • Pluralistic: Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s “A City On Mars” (09 Jan 2024)

    the Weinersmiths aren’t anti-space. They aren’t even anti-space-settlement. Rather, they argue that the path to space-based scientific breakthroughs, exploration of our solar system, and a deeper understanding of our moral standing in a vast universe cannot start with space settlements. Landing people on the Moon or Mars any time soon is a stunt – a…