Right wing nuts thread (1 Viewer)

[DaveXA]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.

 

[bird]

That's funny. I personally would have gone with Disturbed's Down with the Sickness, but that was really funny.

What I never could understand is why the holy ghost never speaks the same language twice. What's the point of speaking through people if no one can ever understand what you're trying to say to them?

Basically, because in one of the letters to the Corinthians attributed to Paul says that some will have the gift of speaking in tongues and some interpreting tongues.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

Basically, because in one of the letters to the Corinthians attributed to Paul says that some will have the gift of speaking in tongues and some interpreting tongues.

Seems odd to me.

 

[DaveXA]

Seems odd to me.

Not really all that different from different people speaking different languages.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

Not really all that different from different people speaking different languages.

I hadn't consider it in those practical terms. It makes more sense if "tongues" is an actual consistent language. What little I've heard of people speaking tongues sounds like made up gibberish. Though I will say that the Portuguese that my friends from Brazil speak often sounds like gibberish too.

 

[DaveXA]

I hadn't consider it in those practical terms. It makes more sense if "tongues" is an actual consistent language. What little I've heard of people speaking tongues sounds like made up gibberish. Though I will say that the Portuguese that my friends from Brazil speak often sounds like gibberish too.

Oh, no doubt most of it is gibberish. I would also say there are definitely some cases where I believe it’s legitimate. Just not as commonplace as some would like us to think.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

Oh, no doubt most of it is gibberish. I would also say there are definitely some cases where I believe it’s legitimate. Just not as commonplace as some would like us to think.

Are you talking about speaking in tongues or in Brazilian Portuguese? Just kidding.

 

[Booker]

Like Bird says, it comes from 1 Corinthians 14, which also states that if there isn’t a prophet that can interpret it then it effectively is just gibberish. To me it just comes off as overstimulated zealots engaging in a kind of personal baby talk.

 

[Optimus Prime]

MAGA spirals into ugly Islamophobia after Mamdani’s win, warns of ‘9/11 2.0’

‘24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11,’ Charlie Kirk tweeted on Tuesday night. ‘Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[bird]

MAGA spirals into ugly Islamophobia after Mamdani’s win, warns of ‘9/11 2.0’

‘24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11,’ Charlie Kirk tweeted on Tuesday night. ‘Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City’

www.independent.co.uk

Wow. Charlie Kirk is stunningly stupid.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

Wow. Charlie Kirk is stunningly stupid.

What are you going to tell us next, that hot is hot and cold is cold?

 

[bird]

What are you going to tell us next, that hot is hot and cold is cold?

Don’t forget…water is wet.

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

Don’t forget…water is wet.

I was trying not be cliched in my use of cliche.

 

[bird]

I was trying not be cliched in my use of cliche.

Good by me.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Guess this can go here

From Robert Reich
==============

Draw a circle around all the assets in the US now devoted to artificial intelligence.

Draw a second circle around all the assets devoted to the US military.

A third around all assets being devoted to helping the Trump regime collect and compile personal information on millions of Americans.

And a fourth circle around the parts of Silicon Valley dedicated to turning the US away from a democracy into a dictatorship led by tech bros.

Where do the four circles intersect?

At a corporation called Palantir Technologies and a man named Peter Thiel.

In JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, a “palantír” is a seeing stone that can be used to distort truth and present selective visions of reality. During the War of the Ring, a palantír falls under the control of Sauron, who uses it to manipulate and deceive.

Palantir Technologies bears a striking similarity. It sells an AI-based platform that allows its users – among them, military and law enforcement agencies – to analyze personal data, including social media profiles, personal information and physical characteristics. These are used to identify and surveil individuals.

In March, Trump signed an executive order requiring all agencies and departments of the federal government to share data on Americans. To get the job done, Trump chose Palantir Technologies.

Palantir is now poised to combine data gleaned from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service.

Meanwhile, the administration wants access to citizens’ and others’ bank account numbers and medical claims.

Will the Trump regime use an emerging super-database to advance Trump’s political agenda, find and detain immigrants, and punish critics?

Will it make it easier for Trump to spy on and target his ever-growing list of enemies and other Americans? We’ll soon find out.

Thirteen former Palantir employees signed a letterthis month urging the corporation to stop its work with Trump.

Linda Xia, who was a Palantir engineer until last year, said the problem was not with the company’s technology but with how the Trump administration intended to use it.

“Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse,” she told the New York Times.

Even some Republicans are concerned. Representative Warren Davidson, a Republican of Ohio, told Semafor such work could be “dangerous”: “When you start combining all those data points on an individual into one database, it really essentially creates a digital ID. And it’s a power that history says will eventually be abused.”……….

The CEO of Palantir is Alex Karp, who said on an earnings call earlier this year that the company wants “to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them”.

Palantir recently disclosed that Karp received $6.8bn in “compensation actually paid” in 2024 (you read that right) – making him the highest-paid chief executive of a publicly traded company in the United States.

A former generation of wealthy US conservatives backed candidates like Barry Goldwater because they wanted to conserve American institutions.

But this group – Thiel, Musk, Sacks, Karp and Vance, among others – doesn’t seem to want to conserve much of anything, at least not anything that occurred after the 1920s, including social security, civil rights and even women’s right to vote.

As Thiel has written:

The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women – two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians – have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.

Hello?

If “capitalist democracy” is becoming an oxymoron, it’s not because of public assistance or because women got the right to vote. It’s because billionaire capitalists like Musk and Thiel are intent on killing democracy.…………

Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans | Robert Reich

Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the president’s opponents

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

People who call themselves libertarians have exposed themselves. They want to control all facets of our lives. The only liberty they want is for the billionaires themselves.

 

[bird]

Guess this can go here

From Robert Reich
==============

Draw a circle around all the assets in the US now devoted to artificial intelligence.

Draw a second circle around all the assets devoted to the US military.

A third around all assets being devoted to helping the Trump regime collect and compile personal information on millions of Americans.

And a fourth circle around the parts of Silicon Valley dedicated to turning the US away from a democracy into a dictatorship led by tech bros.

Where do the four circles intersect?

At a corporation called Palantir Technologies and a man named Peter Thiel.

In JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, a “palantír” is a seeing stone that can be used to distort truth and present selective visions of reality. During the War of the Ring, a palantír falls under the control of Sauron, who uses it to manipulate and deceive.

Palantir Technologies bears a striking similarity. It sells an AI-based platform that allows its users – among them, military and law enforcement agencies – to analyze personal data, including social media profiles, personal information and physical characteristics. These are used to identify and surveil individuals.

In March, Trump signed an executive order requiring all agencies and departments of the federal government to share data on Americans. To get the job done, Trump chose Palantir Technologies.

Palantir is now poised to combine data gleaned from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service.

Meanwhile, the administration wants access to citizens’ and others’ bank account numbers and medical claims.

Will the Trump regime use an emerging super-database to advance Trump’s political agenda, find and detain immigrants, and punish critics?

Will it make it easier for Trump to spy on and target his ever-growing list of enemies and other Americans? We’ll soon find out.

Thirteen former Palantir employees signed a letterthis month urging the corporation to stop its work with Trump.

Linda Xia, who was a Palantir engineer until last year, said the problem was not with the company’s technology but with how the Trump administration intended to use it.

“Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse,” she told the New York Times.

Even some Republicans are concerned. Representative Warren Davidson, a Republican of Ohio, told Semafor such work could be “dangerous”: “When you start combining all those data points on an individual into one database, it really essentially creates a digital ID. And it’s a power that history says will eventually be abused.”……….

The CEO of Palantir is Alex Karp, who said on an earnings call earlier this year that the company wants “to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them”.

Palantir recently disclosed that Karp received $6.8bn in “compensation actually paid” in 2024 (you read that right) – making him the highest-paid chief executive of a publicly traded company in the United States.

A former generation of wealthy US conservatives backed candidates like Barry Goldwater because they wanted to conserve American institutions.

But this group – Thiel, Musk, Sacks, Karp and Vance, among others – doesn’t seem to want to conserve much of anything, at least not anything that occurred after the 1920s, including social security, civil rights and even women’s right to vote.

As Thiel has written:


Hello?

If “capitalist democracy” is becoming an oxymoron, it’s not because of public assistance or because women got the right to vote. It’s because billionaire capitalists like Musk and Thiel are intent on killing democracy.…………

Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans | Robert Reich

Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the president’s opponents

www.theguardian.com

1920’s were the last decade to feel genuinely optimistic about politics? Does that forking idiot actually know what the 1920’s were? Does he know what followed them?

 

[bird]

People who call themselves libertarians have exposed themselves. They want to control all facets of our lives. The only liberty they want is for the billionaires themselves.

Libertarians are spoiled 4 year olds.

 

[RobF]

Guess this can go here

From Robert Reich
==============

Draw a circle around all the assets in the US now devoted to artificial intelligence.

Draw a second circle around all the assets devoted to the US military.

A third around all assets being devoted to helping the Trump regime collect and compile personal information on millions of Americans.

And a fourth circle around the parts of Silicon Valley dedicated to turning the US away from a democracy into a dictatorship led by tech bros.

Where do the four circles intersect?

At a corporation called Palantir Technologies and a man named Peter Thiel.

In JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, a “palantír” is a seeing stone that can be used to distort truth and present selective visions of reality. During the War of the Ring, a palantír falls under the control of Sauron, who uses it to manipulate and deceive.

Palantir Technologies bears a striking similarity. It sells an AI-based platform that allows its users – among them, military and law enforcement agencies – to analyze personal data, including social media profiles, personal information and physical characteristics. These are used to identify and surveil individuals.

In March, Trump signed an executive order requiring all agencies and departments of the federal government to share data on Americans. To get the job done, Trump chose Palantir Technologies.

Palantir is now poised to combine data gleaned from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service.

Meanwhile, the administration wants access to citizens’ and others’ bank account numbers and medical claims.

Will the Trump regime use an emerging super-database to advance Trump’s political agenda, find and detain immigrants, and punish critics?

Will it make it easier for Trump to spy on and target his ever-growing list of enemies and other Americans? We’ll soon find out.

Thirteen former Palantir employees signed a letterthis month urging the corporation to stop its work with Trump.

Linda Xia, who was a Palantir engineer until last year, said the problem was not with the company’s technology but with how the Trump administration intended to use it.

“Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse,” she told the New York Times.

Even some Republicans are concerned. Representative Warren Davidson, a Republican of Ohio, told Semafor such work could be “dangerous”: “When you start combining all those data points on an individual into one database, it really essentially creates a digital ID. And it’s a power that history says will eventually be abused.”……….

The CEO of Palantir is Alex Karp, who said on an earnings call earlier this year that the company wants “to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them”.

Palantir recently disclosed that Karp received $6.8bn in “compensation actually paid” in 2024 (you read that right) – making him the highest-paid chief executive of a publicly traded company in the United States.

A former generation of wealthy US conservatives backed candidates like Barry Goldwater because they wanted to conserve American institutions.

But this group – Thiel, Musk, Sacks, Karp and Vance, among others – doesn’t seem to want to conserve much of anything, at least not anything that occurred after the 1920s, including social security, civil rights and even women’s right to vote.

As Thiel has written:


Hello?

If “capitalist democracy” is becoming an oxymoron, it’s not because of public assistance or because women got the right to vote. It’s because billionaire capitalists like Musk and Thiel are intent on killing democracy.…………

Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans | Robert Reich

Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the president’s opponents

www.theguardian.com

I think you can sum up one aspect of Palantir with this (real - I checked) image they posted of ads they were running in colleges in April:

Apart from the weird phrasing (I feel like if you asked people to name "locations where someone may want to dominate", "operating room" would not be up there), the rhetoric is "fallen nation, only we can save it" - classic fascist tones promising revival of alleged historical greatness, delusions of grandeur, nationalist drivel.

And this was their advertising pitch for students.