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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.
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Generally fully agreed, he's a scary and horrible person, but is this video a showcase of that? Seemed to me very bourgeois infighting? He's just trying to make clout by talking about obvious shit that Media won't, and he will definitely want to use that clout to build up power to do the fascist shit he wants. But how was that class conscious?
To me, it seems like Tucker is willing to sacrifice certain factions of the bourgeoisie for the sake of rationalizing the system. He's previously had some sharp criticism of landlords and other unproductive rent-seekers, for example. Some over-inflated tech nerd who just wasted a trillion dollars or whatever is exactly the kind of guy he would sacrifice for his greater project. He's willing to break a few eggs while everyone else in power is so easily captured by small factions of capital and niche interests that they're completely unable to solve any structural problems. And it's obviously smart politics as well, everyone fucking hates these parasites. Tucker probably would actually make the trains run on time, by disciplining labor but also capital when needed. I think he's the only prominent figure who both realizes this and seems willing to follow through.
Good thoughts, it reminds me of Losurdo's concept of a representative of a class that doesn't do what the class broadly wants, but instead what it needs to protect it from itself. Tucker does seem aware of protecting the bourgeoisie from their own incompetences and inability to strategically break with their fake ideals when needed.
I noticed that, that man scares me.
I see Tucker as the true heir of MAGA energy while JD and Thiel are looking to hijack it.
Also Tucker is smart enough to see that the AI capex grift is gonna collapse so he’s very intelligently positioned here.
President Tucker is inevitable.
There's another dynamic to this though that most people don't seem aware of.
Tucker has pretty close ties to the PayPal mafia faction of Thiel and Co. He's tight with Palantir and the presumed pick to front Musk's America Party that is supposedly being prepped to fill the vaccuum after Trump.
Less than a month ago, the US military and DHS decided that they were going to start experimenting with using AI services & infrastructure from the Microsoft/OpenAI suite of companies, because there's some concerns over vendor lock-in and vulnerability to giving Palantir a monopoly over government data and infrastructure.
This is a hit job on Microsoft/OpenAI on behalf of Palantir by Tucker. An embarrassment tactic (also likely based on the knowledge that the murder of the whistleblower is indeed true) to try and toxify OpenAI and Altman in a very public way.
Oh I didn't watch more than a minute of the video. Don't like listening to him speak. I was just commenting on him because the danger mentioned in the post body
got it, I actually kinda enjoyed watching it because Sam Altman doesn't know how to be tactical about it, but I don't blame you. Then I agree entirely, he is clearly very conscious of his class position