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People with inherited wealth are treated like they are smart, capable, and credible when billionaire nepo babies are really the worst at everything except sucking and dying.

He hired people to do the work for him.

Nah, he’s definitely running them. Straight into the ground.

Still too big, but I appreciate the visual.

And afraid. They should be full of fear, pain, and loneliness when they go into the dark.

Stupid shit like this does more damage to conservative shitheads than any amount of "intellectual dismantling" of their ideology. This is their level of petty attacks on appearances, this is all they really know.

The left needs to get a lot stupider and a lot more superficial a lot faster if we hope to beat them.

Maybe he was. Maybe Thiel had a conversation with him about drawing more of the wrong kind of attention.

Yah everyone is reading way too much into this man, he's just a mentally unwell incel who figured out how to get money from people. His emotional state is probably a mess but it doesn't mean he's about to cave in. He has more money than God and he isn't going to crash out so easily.

Hot tip: it's a LOT easier to secure huge amounts of funding than you think, it certainly doesn't take intelligence, just good connections and a complete lack of self-awareness, I know from unfortunate experience that you can secure millions in financing simply by sounding sure of yourself and talking in ways that are too convoluted for everyone to understand... I have literally seen million-dollar checks handed over because everyone in the room didn't want to feel stupid.

Has he tried saying nothing? That would probably work.

America has been a brand for the last century or so. A trademark, a copyright.

Nationalists are some of the dimmest people in the world. That said, we really need to take back our flag and our mottos and our dim, stupid, tribal traditions and markers, because most of the world is dim and primitive and despite hating it, we have to play the tribe game to survive. We can work on dissolving borders and all those lofty ideals quietly in the background, but we HAVE to not just squash fascism, we also have to manage the nation full of hateful idiots afterwards, and to do that, we have to appease their need to feel special and good because of where they were born.

There is a fine line you can walk to manage and maintain all of this while making real social progress, but we're nowhere NEAR that line. We keep falling for the same tricks so we don't unify into anything resembling a coalition for real progress.

Mars.

Each of his children is a side quest to him.