I already knew Thiel was a deeply damaged person, but this is next level

lol wtf

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Leaving Twitter, 10 years of history, & 7000 followers was quite easy in the end.

I knew after the election result that Elon would become unaccountable to the law, and suspected someone would be rifling through my DMs.

So I got my archive, had a few drinks at dinner in NOLA, and nuked my account.

I started getting multiple swastikas in my replies and that was just enough. Nobody needs that in their day.

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

There are no clean hands in a criminal enterprise.

He was like "even the janitors?? That's so totalitarian of you!"

I was like uh yea, you are directly contributing to the joint enterprise even if you aren't directly...say...sticking a dude in the hospital under a fake name to deny him access to counsel.

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Protesters aren’t even fighting them. They’re pleading with them to be human and the response is “no we will not.”

I also saw some of my law school classmates here, so I'm definitely shaking them down in person too 😂

Answer to a question that came up in the DMs: [Yes], donations made to the campaign link are earmarked for Crayons2Calculators

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"Please Mr. Trump, disarm me." Like, what?

Best indication that this is a full culture war issue for liberals is that their opinion is totally unaffected by changing circumstances

People who push for more gun control under Trump truly baffle me

Sorry to say, increasingly unlikely that this will be solvable without doing a lot of things many of you feel very uncomfortable with

Must be some other issue. I don't have my settings set to hide my posts, and I get DMs from Bridgy Fed from masto users who are seeing something

We are living in a very weird time

True story: two ppl by the pool today told me they avoided taking a boat trip off-island because we're near Venezuela and they'd seen the Trump snuff films on X

You weren't even better off being a rich white baby born in 1850 than a black baby born today. Cornelius Vanderbilt II had seven kids. One got sick and died at 5. One died at 21yo from typhoid. One died at 37 aboard the Lusitania. One died at 45 from cirrhosis.

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

Sometimes I think about how I once got pulled over by a cop, with lights and siren, *on my bike*, because I rolled through a stop sign. And yes, he asked for my liscence. I was was riding my bike guys. Anyways.

Pretty worrying that the only solution to a blatant violation of the Appropriations Clause is the political one that will not happen. Everybody goes on about how we can’t have a system based on norms but it’s turning out a critical mass views adherence to the rule of law as a norm.