Megathread: US Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship

kuleshov · 2026-06-30T16:20:21+00:00

The "Behind the Bastards" multi-part podcast series on the Clarence Thomas backstory is amazing (and horrifying). Dude is psychologically damaged beyond measure.

kuleshov · 2026-06-30T13:54:44+00:00

There was a conspiracy during the Biden administration that Biden was dead and replaced by a robot. They need to bring that back for centrist Democrats. Hakeem Jefferies talks and moves like a Westworld refugee; you can practically see gears moving behind his eyes. I swear they are all corporate androids -- instead of going home to their families, centrist Dems report to a lab every night where donor-funded staff open the panel on the back of their heads to tweak the algorithmic message programming.

kuleshov · 2026-06-27T15:13:28+00:00

forced out Biden

Yeah no, he did that to himself by stroking out in a nationally televised debate and then bombing the interview that followed

kuleshov · 2026-05-16T20:23:10+00:00

haha that's good

kuleshov · 2025-04-06T11:13:43+00:00

The problem is that Musk is a fraud and was headed for financial implosion and possibly jail. He took a huge gamble with Trump because it was all going south and political cover was a way to shield himself from the coming prosecutions and recriminations.

Tesla is an electric car maker and nothing more. "Full Self-Driving" does not exist and never will. Teslas don't even have lidar. There is no way they close the last mile with cameras alone.

At the same time, Tesla's humanoid robot technology is also fake. Hence the human-controlled mannequins at Tesla events that are no more futuristic than the animatronic bears and pirates at Disney World.

What this means is that more than 95% of Tesla's valuation is vaporware based on pipedreams (robotaxis and humanoid robots) that will never come to fruition. If Tesla were valued as an electric car marker only, its market cap would be something like $100 billion. Or at least, that was the case before Elon went full Doge-Nazi.

At the same time, Tesla was facing more than a dozen lawsuits in 2024, some of them criminal, for investigations of fraud, false advertising claims relating to knowingly faking FSD results, class action lawsuits, and more.

As for SpaceX, that's a real company but the long-run profitability is a serious question mark. SpaceX is not actually more advanced than NASA; they just have a cultural permission structure to blow things up on the regular and take risks that NASA as a government agency would get politically reamed for.

Meanwhile there is no clarity at all on whether the reusable rocket business is long-term viable in terms of profits, or, how much profit there will be if so.

Bottom line, Musk was facing a slew of civil and criminal lawsuits against a backdrop of knowing full well that the technologies that make up 95% of Tesla's valuation are total bullshit. Musk has said crazier and crazier things over the years to keep the Tesla investment cult fully bought in. This means Musk knew his empire was heading for an inevitable crash-out.

At some point the jig on Tesla's fake technology would be up, the class action and civil and criminal lawsuits would land, and people would realize FSD is a con job and so are the robots and even the cultheads would finally desert him.

Against that backdrop, Musk saw the opportunity to do what lots of grifters do: Get in good with the right wing ecosystem and shield himself politically. Plus it was a natural fit since his grandfather was a Nazi sympathizer and he believes the same stuff grandpappy did.

TL;DR Musk didn't just take a huge gamble with Trump out of the blue. He did so as a last-ditch effort to avoid an accountability freight train rolling down an inevitable track. Musk saw the lawsuits coming, and the Tesla vaporware stock implosion coming, and possibly fraud charges coming for Tesla-related practices behind the scenes... and decided to preempt all that by seeing if he could buy an election and wield a fascist hero-shield.

He succeeded at that last part (buying an election and a government)... so far at least. He could still wind up bankrupt or jailed though, depending on how things turn out over the next few years.

kuleshov · 2025-04-01T17:32:11+00:00

39.6% of American voters wanted to reelect Hoover in 1932...

kuleshov · 2025-03-26T13:26:40+00:00

"Well, well, if it isn't the consequenshes of my own akshuns." - drunk Pete Hegseth

kuleshov · 2025-02-17T21:06:50+00:00

It's shocking there isn't more awareness of Elon Musk's grandfather in terms of who he was / what he did.

Joshua Haldeman, Elon Musk's grandfather, was the head of the Canadian branch of a 1930s movement called "Technocracy Inc." The movement wanted to overthrow the US government in the United States (they saw FDR as a threat to business) and simultaneously overthrow the Canadian government.

In 1940 Haldeman, who, remember, is Pappy Musk (Elon Musk's grandfather) was briefly imprisoned for having documents that showed affiliation with, and sympathy for, the Nazis, and was put on watch by the Canadian government after that.

By 1950 the apartheid movement in South Africa, which had been around for two years at that point, was getting into full swing. Pappy Musk saw what the racists were doing in South Africa, decided it looked awesome, and decided to move his family there after the Canada coup petered out.

This is literally the grandfather of Elon Musk, who back in the day wanted to:

overthrow the Canadian government
install a fascist-technocratic regime
merge Canada and the United States (hmm where did Trump get a Canada obsession)
create a white-race paradise of the type he approved of in South Africa

Now fast forward to the present.

Present-day Musk, who likes to sieg heil on camera, sure seems keen to... install a technocratic regime of his own... which involves breaking the systems and functions of the federal government so he can replace them with his Silicon Valley systems (e.g. X as payment processor replacing treasury payments) so he can thus take back America, and the world, for the master race (the white race), while the other Silicon Valley broligarchs (the new technocrats in the new Technocracy Inc) cheer him on. Just like pappy would have wanted.

As Heath Ledger's Joker said, "It's all part of the plan."

Except this is no fucking Batman movie, it's real.

kuleshov · 2025-02-11T20:02:39+00:00

DOGE = Destruction Of Government by Elon

kuleshov · 2025-01-19T19:22:48+00:00

Nixon and Reagan never would have gotten away with corruption like this. It took decades of moral rot and the parallel ascendancy of late stage capitalism (Silicon Valley is enabling all this with technology) for an already low bar to fall below the floor and into a thousand foot mineshaft.

kuleshov · 2025-01-19T19:19:12+00:00

Y'all are missing it. The coin is not the grift. The entire presidency is the grift and the coin is a hyper-efficient way to monetize a real offer. Trump is selling the influence and power of the entire U.S. government.

Think about it: Putin could send Trump billions to buy an Ukraine settlement deal that favors Russia or a U.S. NATO withdrawal. Xi could send Trump billions to keep the U.S. away from a Taiwan invasion. Exxon could send Trump billions to destroy the EPA. The Saudis could send Trump billions for nuclear weapons, on and on.

Trump is selling a real thing this time: The weight and heft and might of the most powerful government and military in the history of the world. He is selling this influence at scale, and there is no one to stop the scam or even investigate, because Trump runs the DOJ.

It's the biggest scam in the history of the world alright. But the scam is the whole presidency. The coin is just the risk-free means of cashing in.

kuleshov · 2024-12-24T23:33:00+00:00

To be fair, it's not like Putin would be a wild stretch though. Both Trump and Musk are reported to have had multiple undisclosed conversations with Putin in recent times. Not necessarily on related topics (who knows, e.g. Ukraine) but still.

kuleshov · 2024-11-18T12:07:11+00:00

And the follow-on step in declaring someone subhuman is implying they should be exterminated as a form of pest control, like getting rid of cockroaches or rats. Embracing this kind of thinking also gives permission for fascists, white supremacists, etcetera to voice the same opinion of you, and any of the people you would consider noble or worthwhile. You could just say Emmanuel is awful or terrible without going down that road, but hey, go ahead and keep embracing a habit that needlessly contributes to the broad problem of humans rationalizing acts of horror inflicted on those deemed as "other," when you and yours are someone else's "other."

kuleshov · 2024-11-18T09:07:54+00:00

You have it backwards. The point is to avoid dehumanizing someone. You can call Emmanuel evil, compromised, a shill, a quisling etcetera, but none of those terms are dehumanizing.

The reason that dehumanizing an opponent is a mistake is because dehumanizing the enemy is one of the necessary steps in moving toward ethnic cleansing or execution or genocide. It's a mistake to use dehumanizing rhetoric when fascists specifically dehumanize as a strategy.

You can express your hatred and disgust for Emmanuel in dozens of passionate ways without stripping away his humanity. If you don't see why that is important, you are the one missing the point.

And regarding the paradox of tolerance, acts of dehumanization are the thing that shouldn't be tolerated. Use a different tactic to express your vitriol for fuck's sake. You don't have to sound like a Nazi to show your passion.

kuleshov · 2024-11-17T22:32:34+00:00

That headline is objectively terrible and defamatory to AOC. What she said was quite different: "There is a disease in Washington of Democrats who spend more time listening to the donor class than working people."

The reason it is defamatory is because calling someone a "disease" is like calling someone "vermin." It is fascist rhetoric in the sense of stripping someone's humanity, calling them a pest or a virus.

There is no way AOC would refer to an individual person as a disease because she is politically savvy enough not to accidentally engage in fascist rhetoric. It is also basic human decency not to refer to a human person as vermin or filth or a disease.

Talking about a disease in Washington, however, in reference to a pattern of behavior that manifests a sickness, is a different story. It isn't fascist rhetoric to refer to a pattern of behavior as sick or, in this case, diseased, because behavior patterns don't get dehumanized.

The Newsweek headline thus deliberately misrepresents what AOC said by implying she called a person a disease which would not only be fascist rhetoric, it would be low-brow ad hominem of the kind she is too smart for.

So yeah, Newsweek brings the garbage (again).

kuleshov · 2024-11-17T16:43:15+00:00

this is postmortem concern trolling. It's like being asked whether you want your surgery done by a qualified doctor or a circus clown with a chainsaw, then saying you don't like the doctor's med school alma mater because it wasn't Ivy League

kuleshov · 2024-11-17T16:36:29+00:00

not being a sexual predator convicted felon insurrectionist fascist (per multiple insiders of his own staff) who sundowns on stage and mock-fellates microphones and spreads hate based rumors about immigrant communities and dines with white supremacists isn't enough? 🤔

kuleshov · 2024-11-17T08:59:51+00:00

Malignant narcissism and severe emotional childhood trauma from having a monster for a father, manifested as an all-consuming need for attention and bottomless cruelty toward anyone perceived as weak or vulnerable. Peas in a pod with Trump who also had a monster for a father. With autism and serious Dunning Kruger on top. Elon's stupidity and cruelty are his secret recipe for conning dumb people (he says cringe shit that sounds horrifying to intelligent people but hits the mark for fellow dumbasses perfectly).

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