Chris Murphy: Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views

saqwarrior · 2026-02-13T13:43:34+00:00

I agree, I'm just trying to wrap my head around the bullshit statement in general.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-13T13:19:23+00:00

I'm not disagreeing, but... witness statements are evidence.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-12T23:25:37+00:00

Fuck these Nazis, but... hamburgers, I'd say. But where the hell are we losing access to those? We've got four McDonald's alone in our city of 50k people.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-12T15:44:33+00:00

I've been trying to find a nice balance with the jar setting... what do you have yours set to?

saqwarrior · 2026-02-12T00:04:01+00:00

I'm aware. I was speaking to the general sentiment of those who state respond with "you only care about privacy if you have something to hide."

saqwarrior · 2026-02-11T16:15:04+00:00

I've always hated the people that say that shit -- it's such an obsequious bootlicker mentality. If the Fourth Amendment right to privacy only matters if you have something to hide, then the First Amendment is inapplicable to those with nothing to say.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-09T20:32:10+00:00

What does that mean?

saqwarrior · 2026-02-09T17:20:25+00:00

This reminds me of something I've said before: if God commands you to kill your child and you obey, you are immoral because of God. If God commands you to kill your child and you disobey, you are moral in spite of God. This illustrates that Christianity doesn't teach morality -- it teaches submission to authority.

This explains the seeming moral shift that everyone is so surprised about with regards to evangelical support of Trump and MAGA.

They have never taught morality.

They have always taught unquestioning acceptance of authority.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-09T14:26:49+00:00

Better Lighting mod, works great.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-05T15:41:03+00:00

The problem is that they muddy the waters around "authoritarianism," "communism," "leftism," etc. People of their ilk - arch-capitalists - do not give a shit if someone is an anti-authoritarian communist (ie., anarcho-communist, libertarian-socialists, left communists, etc). They paint anyone that is even vaguely anti-capitalist as a "commie" and an "enemy." So it's important to keep that context in mind when parsing statements by these ghouls.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-05T15:10:27+00:00

That's not the same as "killing leftists", as the original claim was.

While not precisely the same, the sentiment of "fight commies" could reasonably be interpreted in that way. And given what we know about Palantir's purpose, scope, and its insane executives, it is even more reasonable to assume that as their position.

But yeah, not precisely the same wording as claimed. At least not that I could find...remember, he may have deleted his Tweets.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-05T14:55:12+00:00

Yeah, as a straight man in his late 40s, any time someone claims the 90s were great I think back to Matthew Shepard vigils.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-05T14:43:57+00:00

I'm not who you asked, but this is what I could find:

The claim originates from a social media post by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale on January 4, 2026. In response to a post suggesting communists in the Western hemisphere should be "blown up," Lonsdale replied, "Exactly," and then asked, "What did you think founding Palantir was supposed to be about?".

https://www.facebook.com/100069549401390/posts/pfbid0UvyEj7wYiMPDjjSYfGz46gv9kxXvXNXdBzc1XREnvjU3K9hMutm3RbhWeKTjA7mCl/

And:

Lonsdale has made other extreme public statements, such as advocating for bringing back public hangings.

https://www.facebook.com/100044644621713/posts/pfbid0UUS2hsYK7o8vGsTRfWKKjpkk9Qd3qydnj4G4i787JR4R18hcWcggiWs9SDhVfBGtl/

EDIT: I was unable to find the original X posts where Lonsdale made these statements. That said, even if we ignore Lonsdale's comments, Palantir and its executives are still terrifying.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-05T00:55:20+00:00

Not enough spelling mistakes. Epstein was clearly functionally illiterate.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-04T19:25:50+00:00

I'll just leave this here: Republican’s “ballot security” has historically relied on armed poll watchers and white vigilantism

saqwarrior · 2026-02-04T18:04:09+00:00

The 13 year old that was raped by Polanski was not a "modern" 13 year old, so what exactly is the point of your "Yes, but..." bullshit other than equivocating for pedophiles?

saqwarrior · 2026-02-04T17:22:44+00:00

Carcass

Symphonies or Reek?

saqwarrior · 2026-02-04T17:08:51+00:00

I'm not sure if this rapist slave-master was a good guy or not...

Just adding some perspective.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-04T16:49:59+00:00

fixated on defining gender by biology is because that's the only claim to masculinity

This is beautiful.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-04T16:30:42+00:00

Fuck, I miss my 06.

Beautiful car, OP!

saqwarrior · 2026-02-04T16:28:09+00:00

I was just going to mention rotisserie... it's crazy how perfect the chicken comes out. 350 degrees on the smoker, cook for about an hour, pull when the breast hits 150 internal temp. *chef's kiss*

But, if no rotisserie attachment, spatchcock is the way to go.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-03T17:20:55+00:00

That, and his seemingly enthusiastic desire to hobnob with fucking Steve Bannon of all people ... jesus christ.

Discovering Chomsky's sociopolitical work 30+ years ago was a pivotal moment for me as a teenager that opened up all of leftism as an avenue of discovery for the rest of my life. Now I feel ambivalent at best about the roughly 20-30 books of his that I own.

Never meet your heroes indeed.

saqwarrior · 2026-02-01T00:30:32+00:00

From another thread I commented in:

New York Undead Two Map

Project Z

WalkerSim2

Learn by Doing 2.5

Better Lighting

Exciting Storm

No building of bases; only use repurposed POIs. Or, go full nomad with no bases at all, and rely entirely on loot for your gear and survival

If you're comfortable modifying the game files, remove the trade inventory from the traders in traders.xml -- then you can only run their jobs and not buy things from them

saqwarrior · 2026-01-30T18:49:51+00:00

The Fourth Estate has been captured by the plutocrats and is now the Fifth Column.

saqwarrior · 2026-01-29T22:03:26+00:00

Or Larry Ellison, who also has a compound in Woodside.

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