I'm sure that both Chara and myself have said, from time to time, that #conservatives have no real principles.

that's not entirely true, although the true principles of such evil men as @MattWalshBlog or @realchrisrufo aren't the principles they *say* they have.

~Mona
by "principle", I mean (roughly) any sort of fixed rule or guideline for behavior and decision-making that's held fast, even during times of crisis.

@realchrisrufo, @elonmusk, &c. are, quite visibly and obviously, people who espouse principles they don't actually follow.

~Mona
"free speech", for example, is meaningless from @elonmusk. it might as well be a slogan to past on bumperstickers, a catchy "viral" #marketing phrase glib in the mouths of @mtaibbi et alii, helpful for selling the gospel of #ElonMusk to outsiders. in reality he's a tyrant.

~Mona
it's fairly clear that *in practice*, whatever protestations to the contrary we get from @elonmusk, @mtaibbi, @bariweiss, and the rest of the #ElonMusk camp, this awful man does not in fact respect the principles of free speech or of liberty. he believes in absolute power.

~Mona
as someone with a firm belief in power and his "innate" or "genetic" or "intrinsic" right to wield that power as he sees fit, Mr. @elonmusk behaves in a chaotic, *arbitrary* fashion. he says things that he probably believes he'll stick to—then he says something different.

~Mona
and I'm sure that Mr. @elonmusk (not to mention his admirers among @mtaibbi, @Timcast, &c.) believes, fully and totally, that all these contradictory and whimsical decisions are equally "principled"—equally solid and trustworthy declarations of intent from the Great Man™.

~Mona
but to be arbitrary and chaotic is not to be *random*.

this is an distinction that seems to escape the "rational" or "scientific" ignoramus apt to tag along in the @elonmusk gravy train—@EricRWeinstein, say, or @michaelshermer.

"chaotic" and "random" aren't the same.

~Mona
@elonmusk is an erratic, *chaotic* person: he's grown up insulated by money (or at least massive amounts of borrowing) and extreme social privilege. he's in an elitist bubble and he gets to bounce around with a degree of license not available to many human beings on Earth.

~Mona
that makes him only *partly* unpredictable, however. @elonmusk and his #ElonMusk clown show still follow some rules, some guidelines—some *principles*, although they're not likely to be principles that anyone talks about TOO openly (e.g. all the rampaging antisemitism.)

~Mona
what #ElonMusk's principles might be is the job of journalists and historians and other professional persons to work out by sifting the public records of Mr. @elonmusk's destructive career on Earth. we must *infer* what they are, because he won't tell us *openly*.

~Mona
#capitalism has wrecked Western #journalism.

ageing boys such as @mtaibbi, @jbarro, and @MattZeitlin (and right-wing aspirants like @Timcast and @mtracey) form the class of "independent" columnists—fun-loving folks, void of ethics, drifting into orbits round the powerful.

~Mona
@mtaibbi and the rest of these people, who maintain an elaborate pretence of "independent" or "heterodox" watchfulness over the power of mainstream press organs like @MSNBC and @CNN, have a habit of allying themselves with political or corporate celebrities upon a whim.

~Mona
there's a lot of reasons why people like @mtaibbi end up in bed with catastrophic celebrities like @elonmusk, but the important thing is what this does to their actual "journalism": because they freely act as press agents to the powerful, they don't do any true reporting.

~Mona
if @elonmusk farts, @mtaibbi and a whole host of other "independent" press liaisons scurry around transcribing the fart into reams of "analysis"—one liter of #ElonMusk's flatulence can surely be transformed into thousands of editorials on Musk's unequalled inventiveness.

~Mona
the last thing @mtaibbi or any of these other "independent" and "moderate" and "centrist" champions of Western #journalism will *ever* do is question whether @elonmusk ought to be taken at his word. they accept he's a "genius", and copy that "genius" into print. job done.

~Mona
as a result it's been rather tough to piece together what @elonmusk *really* wants for humanity and the world, even though most reasonable and perceptive people have a pretty good idea already of what #ElonMusk wants—largely because all #capitalism wants the same thing.

~Mona
@elonmusk is both unique and nobody special—that is one of the fundamental paradoxes. you can be a unique individual, with traits not quite like any other person's on Earth, and yet...still act in a *standard way*. #ElonMusk isn't *very* different from (say) @BillGates.

~Mona
the details differ, but most of the really important principles (like the simple principle of dying with the biggest hoard of wealth, i.e. the principle of *avarice*) are _the same_ among @elonmusk, @JeffBezos, @jack, @pmarca, @BillGates, @melindagates, and all elitists.

~Mona
they've learned their ideas from the same limited source‚ for #capitalism has built a society with few principles and very few permissible dreams.

what those principles and dreams remains for us—all of us—to examine and study. we have been ruled by these awful people...

~Mona
...it's high time that we all figure out what *rules them*.

~Mona Drafter of Pnictogen

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Dec 24
so...here's the interesting thing about @MattWalshBlog's fascɪstic desire to want armed government thugs doing crimes against anyone who doesn't meet up with Walsh's (or @bindelj's) rigorous standards in "biologically correct" clothing and deportment. it's a fascinating thing.
it's this: @MattWalshBlog is an admitted paedophıle. oh, he wouldn't put it to himself in *exactly* such terms, but he's been a stout defender of #Catholic priestly paedophılia, he's defended other known paedophıles like @joshduggar, and he talks eagerly of impregnating children.
@MattWalshBlog KNOWS that he's exactly the sort of person whom he spends his public career making noise about: he's someone who wants to have sex with children.

and he thinks he has an answer to this problem, a *cure*—institute violent government punishment of "perverts".
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@mtaibbi @bariweiss @ShellenbergerMD @lhfang what are *your* relationships to Congress, @mtaibbi? what are @elonmusk's relationships to Congress?

is it even possible to assume that your gang isn't working hand-in-glove with members of the @SenateGOP and @HouseGOP, who hope to profit from @elonmusk's corruption of @Twitter?
@mtaibbi @bariweiss @ShellenbergerMD @lhfang @elonmusk @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @Twitter so @Twitter is EVIL—that seems to be the overall narrative that @elonmusk is pushing, in order to justify his feckless and criminal treatment of the platform—in his addled brain, I suppose it's all right to smash up #Twitter if he can pretend it was an instrument of evil.
@mtaibbi @bariweiss @ShellenbergerMD @lhfang @elonmusk @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @Twitter and so it was: @jack made @Twitter into a vector for racɪsm, neo-fascɪsm, and personally invited fash propagandists back onto #Twitter where they could continue to advertise themselves and sow chaos. but this is the fault of @jack (and now of @elonmusk, who has the same goals.)
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Dec 23
"always two there are. a master and an apprentice."

that sounds like a goofy line from a #StarWars movie. and it is! it's from "The Phantom Menace", which is probably the most entertaining of the Star Wars prequel films, and it refers to Darth Maul, the fallen Sith Lord.

(1/x)
there's one Sith Lord dead, which means he must have a companion—but was Maul the superior member of the team, or was he the sidekick?

this simple form of organization—a pair of persons, one subordinate to the other—is characteristic of relationships devoid of *trust*.

(2/x)
I understand that relationships cemented by mutual *hatreds* are a feature of "Homestuck", whose author correctly intuited that such relations were a sort of logical dual to relationships based upon mutual love and support.

the world is *full* of "toxic relationships".

(3/x)
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Dec 23
@RonaldReagan, the racɪst and profoundly *disgusting* figurehead President, whom the @GOP installed in 1980 through an act of treason intended to humiliate Pres. Carter, taught his nation a lot of very bad habits.

"worst President" sticks fairly firmly to Ronald Reagan.

~Mona
among the worst of the habits which @RonaldReagan taught American politics was the appallingly hypocritical and destructive habit of pretending that "government" was an enemy force—it was always absurd, because Reagan and the @GOP were running the government.

~Mona
but when the @GOP—through their mouthpiece @RonaldReagan, who was a third-rate actor going senile but was still lucid enough to be rehearsed and scripted into delivering speeches full of reactionary diatribe—said "government" they meant something rather specific.

~Mona
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Dec 23
Chara, I may not be able to deliver you @elonmusk's reputation as even a belated 48th birthday present. but perhaps we'll get a lucky break for Christmas.

I feel that we're into the last stages of core collapse...if you take my meaning.

~Mona Drafter
the curious coincidence of two great supernovae occurring closely spaced during the height of the Italian Renaissance is just a coincidence, but it's a fascinating one. there were human beings who were alive for both...and since then there's been no other in our galaxy.

~Mona
supernova SN 1987A was at least in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and therefore close enough to be seen to the unaided eye, but still...after Tycho's Supernova SN 1572 and Kepler's Supernova SN 1604, there's been no other event like them close to Earth.

~Mona
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Dec 23
@Twitter / @TwitterDev's UX is now partly broken for us. do you see that "Save Tweet" dialogue? that's what happens if you try to use the scroll bar to view the bottom of a long tweet. click on the scroll bar and you get that dialogue.

~Mona
one can Tab down to bring the bottom edge of the tweet dialogue box into view, as a workaround. possibly it scrolls properly with a scroll-wheel mouse (we do not use one.) in any case, non-functional UI components (the scroll bar)...@elonmusk's @Twitter is going well. /s

~Mona
everyone knew that @elonmusk was going to do this—everyone not in the #ElonMusk fan club.

this is why #VentureCapital has earned the somber nickname of "Vulture Capital": crooks who make and lose money in this unsound way have learned to profit from *breaking* companies.

~Mona
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