Thread by @AustenAllred

Have always been curious about this.

DM me one thing that you would never dare tweet but believe to be true, and I’ll reply to this thread with the messages but without identifying who they’re from (and I promise to always keep it a secret)

First I need to make it crystal clear that I do not endorse any of these opinions in any way whatsoever

“Not everyone should be parents. Better to have (mental) test of some sort to determine if one is suitable to be parents.”

“Sam Altman & thiel control USA foreign policy via BILDERBERG . no one in bay area dares discuss this point.”

“People want stability, but that stability is a tragedy of the commons. It makes society inflexible and fragile. Government should actively try to keep people flexible. For example: by discouraging home ownership.”

“God is merely the collective “old white dudes” that figured out how to build a productive society. The bible is a collection of stories demonstrating why humanity’s animalistic tendencies are maladaptive to a larger society. (1/2)

The “death” of god and lack of a single replacement has led to great unhappiness and strife in the western world because we’ve adopted polytheism- our false idols are our political parties and fractured group identities.” (2/2)

“Mandatory US military / national service of 1 year after high school graduation (Israel, Finland) would be a boon to the youth of America, and therefore, to America.”

“Firing the boards and senior management of large companies, and replacing them with randomly selected junior members of staff would have no impact on company performance, and may even improve things.”

“Netflix, Amazon Studios, and such are actively harming people by providing more entertainment that distracts us from solving real, complex problems threatening lives. Industrial (scaled) entertainment is way past the point of diminishing returns for society.”

“I’m a college teacher, and about half of my students would have a better shot at a happy life if they dropped out immediately.”

“Government must use coercion. All coercion is immoral.”

“The concept of being a lifestyle entrepreneur has always confused me. Life and happiness is entirely anecdotal, it’s crazy how many people shell thousands trying to emulate something that specifically worked for one person.”

“Most companies exist not to produce outcomes for customers/employees/shareholders, but rather to serve the psychological needs/ego of their founder/leaders”

“VC industry needs to have a MeToo movement but instead of women calling out shitty men - it should be companies calling out bad behaviour in VCs. Ppl will be shocked at how much bad behaviour that goes on but not talked publicly.”

“Left and Right are outdated concepts. The new political schism should be this: a) Leaders who account their constituents' vote on an issue and leave out their own opinion b) Leaders who make decisions for their constituents'.”

“I think it's pretty likely that a lot of brain insults could be helped by some kind of fasting because my cerebral palsy suddenly got way, way, way better when I tried a fast I've seen research on.”

“Diversity initiatives do more harm to minorities than good by making us believe that we are disadvantaged/lesser and making others perceive us as less competent.”

“‘Collect experiences, not things’ is a marketing scam that underperforming people gladly walk into, as it hides a lack of grit and a weak character behind a logical fallacy.”

“Corporate HR is there to protect and serve the needs of the employer, not the employee.”

“Justice requires the overthrow of the United States. It is a nation built upon stolen land, gendered violence, and racism, and its constitution enforces those very harms through the Supreme Court.”

“The tech industry is the next “Wall Street”. And as happened with the Street, it will also collapse time to time”

“The extreme salary packages FAANG companies offer have soaked up so much talent at all levels into complacent office jobs that innovation across the industry is stagnant”

"The most vicious type of racism comes from people who sometimes call themselves allies. White privilege sometimes gives blind spot to these people and they end up hurting minorities just as much"

“90% of VCs I've met, even famous ones, are of average intelligence. Half are really dumb. Most VCs got lucky to meet awesome founders who knew not to listen to their advice and just take their money and build something awesome”

“The US arm of PETA is funded by people trying to discredit all forms of activism by making caring seem crazy by association”

“There are, in general and across the population, average differences in the psychological hardwiring of men and women, and these are manifest in lots of ways, including in the lifestyle choices members of each sex make.”

“My boss is an an idiot and makes all the employees work over the holidays!”

“I don’t give a shit that Elon Musk smoked weed on camera. More than likely your favorite CEO smokes weed. I understand how detrimental it has been to us (black people) but we have got to stop linking everything to our struggle.”

“Some of the motivation behind “anyone can code” initiatives is a long-term ploy to drive wages down over the next 10-20 years”

“Most online marketing gurus are all engaged in a digital circle jerk of content.”

“I wish I had done Lambda School instead of the bootcamp that I actually did. It has been.... torture.”

“The parallels between Jesus’s crucifixion & resurrection, and how we send young adult males to war and memorialize them after death are too similar to be a coincidence.”

“pursuing "diversity" as a hiring goal is bigoted and a disservice to employees and shareholders.”

“I find the idea of mandating coverage for people with preexisting conditions to be incompatible with what insurance is supposed to be.”

“We are collectively the worst humans in all of history and future generations will revile us for our impact like we revile slaveowners today”

“Eventually, building an app will be as easy as setting up a website.

Websites used to cost thousands of $ and take weeks to build. Now I can build a mobile-friendly site in 60 seconds.”

“Anyone above college age who spends a lot of time on reddit should not be taken seriously.”

“Fruit snacks should be shelved in the candy aisle and not with the granola bars.”

"Once someone has a record they are best off starting their own business because no one will ever accept them anywhere in the workforce and will forever remain in the system.”

“Religions are neo liberal communist. They take so much more and give back only little. I am sure Vatican can help a lot of poor people if they want to.”

“Most diversity initiatives in tech end up perpetuating colonial thought-regimes that only match with non-white ppl who think like white ppl -- which is really not the play in times such as these.”

“State and National pride naturally create division. Saluting a flag or taking pride in a state tradition forces a spear into global unity. The only way we can truly unite as a globe is to eliminate our natural dividers and begin to see each other as what we truly are. Humans.”

“Monarchy works if it's based on competency. We haven't seen enough to declare that Democracy is the best way to govern.”

“Our data is better off in the hands of Google / Facebook / etc than ourselves or government. Better off in terms of individual welfare and aggregate social welfare.”

“‘Grit’ is a marketing initiative designed to extract the maximum of labour for the minimum of reward.”

“Large-scale cyber attacks on banks do not happen just because the perceived security posture ("it's a bank, it must be ultra secure!") is way higher than the actual security posture.”

“Please stop seeing Depression as illness or an enemy. Depression is like a friend, taking your hand and telling you when to stop and take a break because something in your life is just too much right now.”

“I would never put anything political or controversial on Twitter. I’m scared of saying something wrong and it costing me a job in 10 years.”

“The best marketing/growth people never share their tactics publicly because the more commonly they're used, the less effective they'll be.”

“The minimum wage would never have taken off if it'd been a UK or US lefty idea instead of an oddball New Zealand experiment.”

“With automation, low roi for consumer investments and a severe lack of savings, everyone will work forever unless they make 10X monster moves in their 20s/30s”

“Millions of poor people will die from climate change over the next decades. It would be more fair if millions of rich westerners driving climate change died instead.”

“Some of the takes on here that were sent you make me want to kill myself.”

“If our society described pensioners with the rhetoric they used for migrants and vice versa, it would be a healthier political discourse.”

“Okrs at any level are flawed. No company will ever be connected enough to not self serve and will never be joined up enough to benefit from okrs.”

“The Constitution is at the core of what’s wrong with American politics.”

“The 2009 financial crisis was the fault of S&P for giving mortgage backed bonds too high of ratings, not Hedge Funds for trading in them.”

“Cities should no longer build parking decks/lots, forcing people to use public transit or live close enough to the city center to bike/walk to work. Too many cities are too reliant on automobiles that are dirty and inefficient for mass transit.”

“TWA flight 800 was brought down by a missile, no question”

“Abortion is a great evil, and to the extent it encourages us to prioritize individual expression and fulfillment above all, our entire society is complicit”

“Extreme hard work is absolutely essential to achieve outsized success. Those saying you only need to work 40 hour weeks are lying to themselves to justify their own desired lifestyle.”

"Bitcoin is the greatest pump and dump scheme in history ...the early "hodlers" mostly have liquidated or taken plenty off the table ...the goal now is to suck in as much dumb retail and institutional $ as possible for the sharks to continue to feed."

“The Western way of mediation 'Controlled breathing, chanting mantras and counting' isn't real Yoga or mediation. That's middle step of many. People jump on it without going through basics. So they get stuck there for life. Yoga can be very harmful without supportive lifestyle.”

“We should also allow men to terminate pregnancies”

“Yelp is a bullying platform where fake reviews+ employees slandering their bosses is more common than what ppl think"

“Most companies would be better off firing their entire security department and investing in world-class infrastructure engineers.”

"As someone who comes from a Muslim family and have lived in a Muslim majority country, I don't think Islam is a religion of peace and there is pervasive intolerance in Muslim societies.”

“Americans are so bored and so far removed from any struggle of mortal urgency that their feigned outrage over petty offenses has become an embarrassing theater of the absurd, with social media encouraging ever-more ridiculous displays.”

“Mia Farrow doesn’t actually believe Woody Allen is guiltily of anything.”

“How you understand human gender and sexuality is part of your religion. There's no scientific or objective basis for preferring progressive theories of gender and sexuality over, say, the Catholic view.”

“VCs don’t understand how their strategic advice and tactical expectations can damage the viability and potential of their startup investments.”

“I’ve been blackballed by VCs for being loud about diversity concerns”

“Even if it results in significant hardships to older generations, massive cuts to social programs are needed to redistribute resources to my our actual problems. There needs to be consequences to their selfishness and indifference”

“All the motivational crap everyone puts out is more to force (& justify) themselves to do things they hate doing rather than for it is meant for others”

“All public intellectuals and activists are just "tools" used by the powerful for their bidding”

“Big state does not work , get democracy down to the people, (UK based ) most politicians are corrupt, but well intentioned , at least initially.”

“A country afraid of Youtube will never have the strength to become a global hegemon.”

“Silicon Valley is a far left ideological bubble filled with trend followers that do not think for themselves. Peter Thiel and Tim Ferris were right to leave”

“Encouraging career-ism in high potential women leaves women unfulfilled and hurts the economy in the long run by reducing fertility and birth rates among high-achievers”

“I really hate people who support socialism. I truly wish we could deport them.”

“Most startups that claim to be data driven just aren't. They use bad data and misleading charts to justify terrible business decisions on the regular. Leaders don't really understand data, so they are easily taken in by reports and charts that confirm their existing biases”

“cancer is more of a metabolic condition than a genetic condition, there should be more money, effort put into 'fixing' the defective mitochondria of cancer cells than trying to document every single gene mutation in order to 'personalize' the treatment.”

“If you believe abortion is okay I can’t take any other opinion / belief you have seriously. If murdering babies is alright in your eyes there’s no possible way the rest of your beliefs are normal and acceptable for healthy society.”

“World war two was the greatest lucky break America had in its history. We will never again have the social cohesion and shared identity we gleaned from that experience. Every year since has been a progressive decline into post-empire decadence and foolishness.”

“I believe 'the rich and powerful' is a vague group of imaginary scapegoats normal people use to blame for their own personal lack of effort or responsibility in growing their life"

“My parents are morons.”

“50% of primary care docs and 99% of what pharmacists do could easily be automated... but regulatory capture protects them.”

Thanks for playing everyone. I posted all the DMs I received in the first hour. I have received about 500 since then. Will try again some other time!