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The incident that may have outraged Elon Musk into trying to buy Twitter may have been Twitter’s banning of the satirical Christian website The Babylon Bee for joking about the Biden Administration’s Admiral Levine after the ex-high school linebacker was named Woman of the Year by some completely non-satirical publication:
Some things are too sacred to be joked about, so Twitter banned The Bee until they deleted their unholy tweet. They refused and now … here we are.
A remarkably big problem for our culture is that practically every huge tech firm employs a few spergy programmers or other men with strong technical skills, high IQs, and aggressive, nasty personalities who also turn out to have autogynephilia fetishes, which they are now encouraged to bully the rest of the world into validating the reality of their sex fantasies: what I call Ex-Men for the sci-fi comic book overtones.
Keep in mind that a lot of these guys are quite to extremely good at their jobs in the most predominantly male sectors of the firm, such as programming.
Big corporations are held hostage by the complicated needs of this virtually unknown minority. You aren’t supposed to ever mention the truth about them because the truth makes them very angry and you don’t want a high-IQ, self-righteous ex-man angry at you.
The ladies in HR and Marketing love these guys, at least in theory (not being able to code, they don’t deal with them much on the job). The socially acceptable theory believed in by the nice ladies is that the Babylon Bee is punching down at White House public health supremo Admiral Levine, who is, by definition, a poor trembling victim of the bullies at the Bee. So, rather than be laughed off as comical weirdos, the ex-men can now rally large numbers of women employees to their cause.
And if you are a male executive, you don’t want women employees mad at you because the definition of Me, Too-able offenses has gotten awfully broad.
If anybody in business has a good understanding of this problem, Musk might be the one. But it’s not clear what can legally be done about it.
The first step toward a solution is to articulate the problem, which is almost never done.
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I for one don’t see what the problem is.
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d026bdeb8e033200c-pi
“And if you are a male executive, you don’t want women employees mad at you because the definition of Me, Too-able offenses has gotten awfully broad.”
Lol! Well played.
Apologies if that was what you were LOL’ing about.
You think that these companies are going woke just to placate those few weirdos, who are good at their jobs? For every one of them, there are a thousand non-weird (well, as much as geeks can be) software guys that can do the job well too.
No, I think Big Biz companies are scared of the whole Establishment coming down on them if they don’t keep up with the newest woke narratives. If it weren’t for that, these companies would fire every last one of these weirdos and put more armed guards at the doors and make an effort to not hire anyone suspected to be one. Well, first you fire the whole HR Department and start over.
He has no idea what it's like out there.Replies: @Polistra, @Reg Cæsar
I have known or worked with a large number of very bright STEM guys -- ranging from Nobel laureates to the inventors of the Lange coupler and TTL logic to top guys in string theory (Polchinski, Schwarz, Susskind) to guys who were simply very good engineers working on cutting-edge tech, earning patents, etc.
Overwhelmingly normal heterosexuals, indeed rather enthusiastic (if sometimes desperate!) heterosexuals -- I cannot think of even one gay fellow among the top people I've known, and certainly no one who was transgender.
I think Sailer may be misled by having known Martin(e) Rothblatt and by the story of the Wachowski sibs -- none of whom were really STEM guys.
And the HR ladies don't care that much about the engineers one way or another.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dr. DoomNGloom, @AnotherDad, @LP5
You've absolutely nailed this particular class of perverts. But the problem is not that some perverts exist. (And honestly they are trivial in tech and do not matter.)
The problem is minoritarianism. The idea that the normal majority must been over to accomodate non-compliant minorities be they blacks, Jews, immigrants, homosexuals, or these mentally ill perverts.
The women thing in contrast.. basically extreme female compliance--and desire to signal compliacne--to the social approved narrative, plus misplaced "nurturing" towards supposed "victims" are a *big* problem.
Basically the presence of women, the feminization of our culture and "conversation", has constrained the effective feedback of guys saying "that's bullshit" to the latest minoritarian whine.
But the problem remains this toxic minoritarian ideology. Nations/civilizations must be organized and run to maintain and reproduce their normal productive core population--or they die.Replies: @Alden, @Alden, @Curle
Who reviews tweets which purportedly violate twitter's "trust and safety" standards? These are not highly technically skilled people - reviewing tweets in a cue does not require a high degree of technical skill - and therefore they are easily replaceable. They're almost certainly the rainbow haired weirdos with bespoke genders churned out by the American University with degrees and concentrations in the subjects of left wing activism. And there are more of them than there are of the technically skilled programming Ex-men. That said, just like the Ex-men the bulk of them probably have some kind of identity status within the current identity status hierarchy which means that they're hard to discipline or fire, and they can engage in destructive passive-aggression towards anyone at the bottom of the identity status hierarchy (i.e., white or Asian male heterosexual programmers) to keep them in line. James Damore was a hanged admiral left in view for the others.
If Musk would be successful, a necessary step would be to move Twitter's operations out of California and to Texas or Florida or some other jurisdiction in which the legal regime is not so wholly stacked against his project. Of course, remaining in the U.S. would mean dealing with the United States government no matter the State or locale - and the "conservative" Supreme Court recently extended special employment status to trannies of its own volition. And at least half of the time the federal government will be in the hands of your sworn enemies, and the other half the elected government will be hospitable but the regulatory agencies will be in the hands of your sworn enemies.
No, I think Big Biz companies are scared of the whole Establishment coming down on them if they don't keep up with the newest woke narratives. If it weren't for that, these companies would fire every last one of these weirdos and put more armed guards at the doors and make an effort to not hire anyone suspected to be one. Well, first you fire the whole HR Department and start over.Replies: @Whereismyhandle, @PhysicistDave, @Rich, @James N. Kennett, @AnotherDad, @Erik L, @Alec Leamas (hard at work), @Barnard
Steve hasn’t had a job in decades.
He has no idea what it’s like out there.
When I look at photos of Rachel Levine I see Art Buchwald in drag. Rachel just needs the big fat cigar.
https://loomisdeanphotography.com/index.php/work/paris/writer-art-buchwald-portrait-s-398.html
The late Alistair Cooke (of "Omnibus" and "Masterpiece Theatre" fame) once wrote that, in his opinion, elevating what was heretofore freakish to the level of respectability is a sign of a society in freefall--deviancy as "The New Norm." He should have only seen Rachel Levine.
Hoarders, though ....that happens way too often, and is almost as unpleasant as old former high school football players in sun-dresses (not to mention young women who think they would be charming young men like those Japanese guys in Korean bands, or something like that, if they took testosterone ---- that happens way too often)Replies: @bomag
“… the Tyranny of the Ex-Men.”
‘Tranny Tyranny’ is snappier.
No, I think Big Biz companies are scared of the whole Establishment coming down on them if they don't keep up with the newest woke narratives. If it weren't for that, these companies would fire every last one of these weirdos and put more armed guards at the doors and make an effort to not hire anyone suspected to be one. Well, first you fire the whole HR Department and start over.Replies: @Whereismyhandle, @PhysicistDave, @Rich, @James N. Kennett, @AnotherDad, @Erik L, @Alec Leamas (hard at work), @Barnard
Achmed E. Newman wrote:
Yeah.
I have known or worked with a large number of very bright STEM guys — ranging from Nobel laureates to the inventors of the Lange coupler and TTL logic to top guys in string theory (Polchinski, Schwarz, Susskind) to guys who were simply very good engineers working on cutting-edge tech, earning patents, etc.
Overwhelmingly normal heterosexuals, indeed rather enthusiastic (if sometimes desperate!) heterosexuals — I cannot think of even one gay fellow among the top people I’ve known, and certainly no one who was transgender.
I think Sailer may be misled by having known Martin(e) Rothblatt and by the story of the Wachowski sibs — none of whom were really STEM guys.
And the HR ladies don’t care that much about the engineers one way or another.
In my current workplace, several levels below that of Nobel Laureate, the incidence is very low. However they are a strident minority that pounce on any perceived slight. HR, the office of Diversity, and even the CEO kowtow to this group. The internal website now lists a person's pronouns. Posting one's pronouns is explicitly regarded as virtuous and accepting. Nonetheless, 99+% of the pronouns could be guessed without any more information than name and picture.
Despite the rarity, normative rules of behavior develop around them. The younger seem to have been socialized by university, but the older are wrangled by the heavy hand of bureaucracy. Women managers are the worst true believers. Male managers seem to fear some form of MeToo backlash. At my workplace, this became very pronounced after a senior manager was legitimately MeToo'ed. The idiot got drunk during work hours and hit on a senior female government oversight official. After that, both the CTO and COO became comically woke in public.
I didn't work with as elite a crew as you did--i dropped out of the physics biz--but i worked with a lot of very sharp guys in tech. The top guys who actually made it happen--overwhelmingly white, a decent tranche of them Jewish, some of Indian Brahmins--all heterosexual, most married.
I knew a few homosexuals--they were complete non-entities.
This is the reality. Basically, all the critical actual *work* that keeps modern industrial/technological society going--and especially moving forward technologically--is done by normal white men--with more Asians involved now.
Women are, of course, absolute critical as well, but doing something completely different.
As PhysicistDave writes:Those HR ladies often have some specialized men handling the IT department needs, from recruiting to, uh, social matters. They may be brought in on the latter, but typically leave the nerds to themselves because they don't know or care about what those guys, and they are typically well over 90% guys, are doing.
I have known or worked with a large number of very bright STEM guys -- ranging from Nobel laureates to the inventors of the Lange coupler and TTL logic to top guys in string theory (Polchinski, Schwarz, Susskind) to guys who were simply very good engineers working on cutting-edge tech, earning patents, etc.
Overwhelmingly normal heterosexuals, indeed rather enthusiastic (if sometimes desperate!) heterosexuals -- I cannot think of even one gay fellow among the top people I've known, and certainly no one who was transgender.
I think Sailer may be misled by having known Martin(e) Rothblatt and by the story of the Wachowski sibs -- none of whom were really STEM guys.
And the HR ladies don't care that much about the engineers one way or another.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dr. DoomNGloom, @AnotherDad, @LP5
BTW, I say “as much as geeks can be” in a most friendly way. Technical people are often derided for not being “people people” (in SOME ways), but that’s only because we don’t WANT to be. Who’s got time to smooze and kiss ass when there’s cool stuff to learn and do?
A techie is walking through the forest when he hears a voice calling "Please, kind sir! Save me!" He looks ... and the speaker is a frog sitting on a log!
The frog continues, "I am in truth a beautiful princess who has been enchanted by an evil sorcerer. Kiss me to break the spell, and I shall spend the night with you." The guy just stares at the frog, who becomes more agitated and somewhat desperate. "Please, sir! Kiss me, and ... and I will be yours forever!"
With a thoughtful expression on his face, the guy continues to stare at the frog. Then he reaches over, picks up the frog, and puts her in his pocket. "Why?!" shouts the frog. "Why would you spurn the love of a beautiful princess?
"I work at Apple," the guy explains. [Or Google, Microsoft, Intel, wherever.] "I don't have time for a girlfriend. But a talking frog is cool!"
The Babylon Bee should have named Levine Woman of the Year – it’s a satirical website.
I’d say the bigger problem and influence has been the rise of importance of social media for social and political discussion. Social media is dominated by powerusers who are mostly young women and adolescent girls. Needless to say plugging girls into a giant online multiplayer game where they are also prone to to be influenced and conform to whatever is the moral parameter produces massive moral panics and virtue-signalling spirals. See Tumblr and TikTok.
Teenage girls being politicised, indoctrinated and going on histrionic moral crusades (Without ever developing any interest in external political themes of economics, labor or geopolitics) has been a clear theme since the rise of real name social media and Tumblr and Twitter where what you write is no longer seen by just a few friends and under a screen name.
I’ve posted these before but these scenes from the Floyd protests in Stockholm (Yes, during the height of the pandemic even as these protests would not be noticed in the US at all) show, this is a moment of intense politicisation and power for a group hitherto the least politically engaged and knowledgeable, young women. (Though they vote more often than men of the same age, few could say prior to around 2014 that they were more politically vocal or radical than men)
‘Wokeness’ is essentially a product of Tumblr and what people on Tumblr (Mostly young women with BPD) find interesting or engaging.
MtFs would die on the vine politically if not for the ocean of young women on social media who provide, willingly, empathy and support.
Years ago the joke was that there were no girls on the internet, today the most prolific power users of social media are young women and social media is taken for the new political commons. And like the MtF who insist others allow them to dress as a woman around them, these girls are highly emotional, obsessed with interpersonal drama beyond that of normal women and often have BPD. Those are the ones who control the message of the others.
The perverted unhealthy obsession with teen age girls by the MEN OF UNZ continues. Blaming teen age girls on twitter for the latest prominent powerful men claiming to be women is by far the most ridiculous comment I’ve ever read on UNZ.
You don’t know any teenage girls do you? Except the ones you lust after leaving school At 3PM daily. If you knew any teen age girls you would know almost nine have ever heard of Richard Levine Governor Pritzker or Bruce Jenner. It was teen boys who were fans of Bruce Jenner about 50 years ago.
The main theme of the sex pervert MEN OF UNZ is “ East Coast struck by the worst hurricane in a century. Teen age girls responsible” “ “ Russia invaded Ukraine. Teen age girls responsible”
It’s obvious to the world that your perverted hatred of teen age girls comes from your complete lack of a normal sex life with women. Or any relationship with a women.
Blaming the ex men in power fashion on teen girls who weren’t even born when the ex men achieved power and had their operations on teen girls who weren’t even born when the ex men had their operations is the most asinine ridiculous thing anti women nonsense I’ve ever read on this site.
Defending Epstein Maxwell because you yourself lust after 14 year olds is one thing. But blaming teen girls for the ex men in power phenomenon is just plain insane. If you only know how teen girls react with horror at the weirdo perv sex approached of creeps like you.
Or maybe so many girls have laughed at you as they reject you is why you need to post your weird obsession with teen girls here on UNZ.
I think you need to take some hormone injections to tone down your perv obsession with teen age girls. Some claim internet porn prevents rape because pervs like you enjoy porn more than rape . Which takes time to hunt for the victim, trapping her, overpowering her and actually raping her.
I truly hope you don’t have access to teen girls.
‘remarkably big problem for our culture is that practically every huge tech firm employs a few spergy programmers or other men with strong technical skills, high IQs, and aggressive, nasty personalities who also turn out to have autogynephilia fetishes…’
I’m skeptical. Theories about Jews are much more plausible — and much more easily documented.
Yet we’re hearing about this instead. I can appreciate that you don’t want to commit suicide, but…spare me the contorted improbabilities.
Call a spade a spade — or just shut up and take it.
Hey Steve, this gentleman, did the absolutely BEST job of melding the US Black and White cultures I have ever seen…
https://worldstar.com/videos/wshh35S6f0F133jz5dLD/quotyou-get-no-puyquot-student-claiming-to-be-a-lsquomathematician-and-physicistrsquo-gets-into-a-gender-debate-with-ben-shapiro
“Rachel” Levine looks like an utter creep, and if I saw him walking near a middle school in my town I would probably call the cops.
Or, says Abigail Shrier, since the Salem witch business.
I don’t use tw, except for when someone around here posts video of a violent altercation. For the price that EM is offering, he could build 5,000 competitive services from scratch.
Analogously, a big problem with more mainstream firms dependent upon fashion– and I don’t mean just clothes– is the presence of a cadre of fey designers in-house who could erupt at any moment.
Target apologizes for donation to MN Forward
Target stores bull’s-eye for liberal backlash
Just up Nicollet Avenue from Target HQ, I would lunch with a group one of which was a techie for the regional branch of one of the top accounting firms in the country, which at the time was aggressively downsizing. Several of those in his department were let go.
My friend then realized that he was the company’s last man in the city who knew the legacy software. Thus his job was as safe as anybody’s anywhere. A sinecure.
I think there’s a great many moderators of websites who throw right-wing speech off the internet because these moderators are getting bribed by complete outsiders to do it.
To give you an example, it has long been a custom for the CIA or various foreign countries to bribe a host of American journalists to make sure the policies they want to promote get pushed in the news media. They all have ‘their guys’ safely in their pocket.
The shutdown of right-wing speech is very likely coming from bribes provided by a combination of the US government agencies, the CIA, various foreign governments, and the Democratic Party.
The Democratic party is a primary culprit, because every time they can shut down a right wing voice, they think it will result in more Democratic politicians getting elected. Foreign governments whose economy is dependent on remittances sent home by immigrants want to shut down the right because the American right is anti-immigrant.
There are an awful lot of organizations both inside this country and out who think their power and/or finances will increase dramatically if they can make all right-wing speech in the United States disappear. Right-wing speech works against the economic interests of the elites and in favor of the little guy.
I think the main reason why Twitter’s employees are melting down is because they’re afraid the gravy train of bribes is going to end.
Job one in a Twitter takeover should be a Truth and Reconciliation Committe to air out all the nefarious secret dirt of past censorship at Twitter. Then Elon can move the HQ to Texas and hire MAGA-hat wearing good ol' boys to moderate the site in place of the Bay Area employees with blue hair and nose rings. Personnel is policy, as they say.Replies: @Polistra
In the long run, won’t testosterone suppression degrade their programming skills and anger issues?
The skills are still there. But the personalities get very weird. Which leads to Prozac and other mood smoothers to tone down the volatility and irritability. For every Richard Levine there are about 5,000 tranny sex workers freaking out, getting beaten up, arrested, on 72 hour holds. If wanting to be a person if the opposite sex is insane. The drugs they take to achieve the change makes them crazier.
The entire thing is a cash cow for the pharmaceutical industry, surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists, analysts, consultants, counselors, and coordinators and the rest of the helping industry. As always Follow the Money.Replies: @Mike Tre
Jeez all Elon has to do is handle a few spergy programmers. Should not be too difficult.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-aspergers-saturday-night-live/
Conservative backlashes are never publicized but they occur.
Tucker led with the Elon story tonight, saying that it is impossible to overstate what a big deal this is for Democracy, because it could mean ending the censorship and propaganda that the left relies upon; and if Twitter falls, other MSMs will fall; and watch out Elon, because the justice department and other agencies are already mobilizing to oppose you, by using governmental powers to destroy your business interests.
A few years ago I read a few blogs that were speculating on which people from our era will still be remembered in the distant future – – 100 or 500 or 1,000 years from now. The comments contained mainly the names you would expect…Einstein, Freud, Darwin, Shakespeare, Beethoven. A few comments named Elon Musk and I thought that was crazy. But if Musk pulls this off, that is, restores free speech, I will retract my opinion. In fact, I should retract it now, because he is trying, apparently completely altruistically, and at great risk, and as Tucker said, it is a big deal.
https://youtu.be/x3d7pY1uh2Q
‘…But if Musk pulls this off, that is, restores free speech, I will retract my opinion. In fact, I should retract it now, because he is trying, apparently completely altruistically, and at great risk, and as Tucker said, it is a big deal.’
We’ll see.
It is evil things that Elon Musk is fighting — but it does not follow from that that he is good.
However, we can hope.
One thing: if they do crush him, the scales will fall from a few more pairs of eyes. Fewer and fewer people are buying into the programme.
Unfortunately, none of those people will be named Romney, McMullen, Ryan or McConnell.
Bravo to Elon!
I’ve fussed here in the past about why our many new oligarchs or multi-billionaires are not engaged in countering Woke communism.
It takes no genius to recognize the evils of that. Yet the billionaires have been mostly on the wrong side, caving into virtue signaling. Or funding BLM, et. al. Mainly tech oligarchs.
Musk is hard to define but his trajectory from business-only guy to a political culture maverick is a testament to his common sense observations. Also, he seems to hate government regulatory overreach and the speech police. Whether from the SEC or Social Media Soviets.
So now he’s done the unimaginable. Rejected their insincere offer of a board membership after his almost 10% buy, that coming with many internal and external controls. So he just offered to double the current price and buy out the whole lot.
The Twitter board will find it very difficult to ignore their fiduciary duty here, which is quite legalistically enforceable.
WaPo owned by Jeff Bezos, formerly the richest guy — now not — published some stooge-written op-ed warning of the dangers of mass media being owned by billionaires. Ha! You can’t make this stuff up.
Of course the Woke oligarchs have zero shame. Hypocrisy isn’t a word in their lexicon.
It’s going to be fun watching Musk and Twitter. Just like Trump in the old days!
Let them defend Sleepy Joe and Giggles.
Unleash Musk and he will shred them…
Elon is bad news. a druggie who is very tied into (retired ) CIA , plus rumors continue to circulate about a multi-billion money laundering operation running Mexican Cartel money through Tesla.
But also, the thing wrong with our best guy is the thing our worthless government indulges in whole hog, but it's our best guy's fault?
That’s not the least bit implausible. The actual censorship decision-making process is kept like a CIA state secret. No one is ever identified as actually exercising his or her discretion to ban or shadow ban particular content. Instead, they all hide behind the transparent lie that some non-human algorithm is the one banning stuff.
Job one in a Twitter takeover should be a Truth and Reconciliation Committe to air out all the nefarious secret dirt of past censorship at Twitter. Then Elon can move the HQ to Texas and hire MAGA-hat wearing good ol’ boys to moderate the site in place of the Bay Area employees with blue hair and nose rings. Personnel is policy, as they say.
The DEMs get off on shoving their dysfunctional degeneracy in our faces. Should a GOP get elected president (non curo), s/he should:
• pardon Terry Nichols.
• nominate Stewart Rhodes to become FBI Director.
• pick a high school dropout for Sec of Ed (I’m under-qualified).
• issue an executive order to allow oil drilling off Malibu.
• recess appoint Ammon Bundy as Sec of Interior.
• reinstate ‘don’t ask/tell’
• etc.
… what?
But also, the thing wrong with our best guy is the thing our worthless government indulges in whole hog, but it’s our best guy’s fault?
Currently on Twitter are many posts decrying the upcoming transfer and saying how good censorship is!
I'm skeptical. Theories about Jews are much more plausible -- and much more easily documented.
Yet we're hearing about this instead. I can appreciate that you don't want to commit suicide, but...spare me the contorted improbabilities.
Call a spade a spade -- or just shut up and take it.Replies: @Joe Walker, @Rosie, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad
The rise of the ex-men today, just like the rise of the gays in the 70s and 80s, seems to have more to do with undermining traditional Christianity than anything else.
Yeah, but the ex-men -- as is true of blacks to a certain extent -- are more tools than anything else. If others didn't have a use for this nonsense, we'd be hearing little or nothing about it.Replies: @Steve Sailer
I'm skeptical. Theories about Jews are much more plausible -- and much more easily documented.
Yet we're hearing about this instead. I can appreciate that you don't want to commit suicide, but...spare me the contorted improbabilities.
Call a spade a spade -- or just shut up and take it.Replies: @Joe Walker, @Rosie, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad
Nobody wants to NTJ. It’s trannies and teenage girls all the way down.
“Steve hasn’t had a job in decades. He has no idea what it’s like out there.”
Provided proudly with 0 insights? I mean hit us with the good stuff. I sometimes lament I didn’t have more jobs just for the education in how people are stupid (real job experience.) Steve paid attention at the jobs he did have, I’m not sure this post is dead-on, but it is trying!
He has no idea what it's like out there.Replies: @Polistra, @Reg Cæsar
OTOH, Steve is clearly able to perceive that the problem at just one company may cost the better part of 100 billion dollars to address.
The other problem is that the wokatons number in the tens of millions and they are so entrenched in the machinery that even a hundred billion dollars won’t fix it. Sort of like an outsider president managing to get elected but finding himself outflanked by the Deep State and millions of bureaucrats…and the MSM.
He’s already done the unimaginable, many times over. Started a super-successful, high-tech auto company from scratch, from a difficult background become the world’s richest man, Boring Co., PayPal, Space-X, personally visited seven planets, and so on.
All of that pales in comparison with the absolute daring in giving an extended interview to the Babylon Bee when it would ruin most anyone else.
Job one in a Twitter takeover should be a Truth and Reconciliation Committe to air out all the nefarious secret dirt of past censorship at Twitter. Then Elon can move the HQ to Texas and hire MAGA-hat wearing good ol' boys to moderate the site in place of the Bay Area employees with blue hair and nose rings. Personnel is policy, as they say.Replies: @Polistra
Not that simple, unfortunately. The Establishment will mobilize Colbert, Kimmel, Ellen, Oprah, and the girls of Reddit and turn Twitter toxic (in a different sense from its current toxicity) and it’ll be like it never even existed.
Elon is walking a fine line here and his backing and filling this past week are proof that he’s learning as he’s going. He’s very smart but is he smart enough?
I suspect Musk has a heads I win tails I win strategy vis a vis the Twitter takeover.
If he fails in his takeover of Twitter, my bet is he’ll dump his stock and tank Twitter’s share price and either start his own platform or take over a much smaller platform and big that up. Perhaps Telegraph.
Meantime he will have garnered muchly free publicity.
So all good.
programmers … with … high IQs
In my experience they claim to have high IQs but have, in my judgement, only moderately high IQs.
I have met some genuinely clever people in my time and I don’t remember a programmer who could compare with them.
I'm skeptical. Theories about Jews are much more plausible -- and much more easily documented.
Yet we're hearing about this instead. I can appreciate that you don't want to commit suicide, but...spare me the contorted improbabilities.
Call a spade a spade -- or just shut up and take it.Replies: @Joe Walker, @Rosie, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad
Yeah, as you (and Rosie) note, is the entire tech world, and everyone downstream of it (i.e. everyone) really being held hostage by a few ex-men? And if so, how did it come to pass that everyone was so vulnerable to this one weird trick?
Still, in Steve’s defense, no matter what the cause is, making society in general and tech firms in particular more resistant to moral hacking is a worthy goal. Steve says,
But at least in the case of Twitter, does top-flight programming matter that much? The basic program framework was already written a long time ago, and was never that complicated. I suspect any 120+ IQ iSteve reader could write (or rewrite) it. The network effect is already captured. To be sure, there are ongoing server capacity, bandwidth maintenance, security, etc. issues, but this is the bread-and-butter stuff IT departments the world over handle routinely without having to rely on deranged sexual lunatics.
If anything, Twitter’s biggest challenge is monetization. So they are not in need of spergy cross-dressing programmers so much as in need of charismatic glad-handing ad salesmen. As for the “need” for HR ladies … it is to laugh.
Of course, there are industries where real top-flight technical skill really is essential, but as testified by PhysicistDave, who’s there, there are no ex-men there.
From testimony like that, plus my own experience, I think it is safe to say that the Silicon Valley-esque notion that crucial talent lies in delusional psychopaths to whom the rest of the company and society must perpetually cater, is an enormous and toxic canard. The sooner we stop entertaining it, the better.
https://worldstar.com/videos/wshh35S6f0F133jz5dLD/quotyou-get-no-puyquot-student-claiming-to-be-a-lsquomathematician-and-physicistrsquo-gets-into-a-gender-debate-with-ben-shapiroReplies: @Almost Missouri, @vinteuil, @bomag
Thanks, that was actually kind of funny. It was even funnier that it was posted on World Star.
It’s even funnier that the URL makes it look like “lsquomathematician” and “physicistrsquo” are the latest Ebonics names for the academically aspirational.
I have known or worked with a large number of very bright STEM guys -- ranging from Nobel laureates to the inventors of the Lange coupler and TTL logic to top guys in string theory (Polchinski, Schwarz, Susskind) to guys who were simply very good engineers working on cutting-edge tech, earning patents, etc.
Overwhelmingly normal heterosexuals, indeed rather enthusiastic (if sometimes desperate!) heterosexuals -- I cannot think of even one gay fellow among the top people I've known, and certainly no one who was transgender.
I think Sailer may be misled by having known Martin(e) Rothblatt and by the story of the Wachowski sibs -- none of whom were really STEM guys.
And the HR ladies don't care that much about the engineers one way or another.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dr. DoomNGloom, @AnotherDad, @LP5
This may be a generational thing, because I can think of several. One is my neighbor. Or perhaps it is more specific to non-physical sciences, or is more common at mid-tier levels, I cannot say with any authority. According to a teacher I know, transgenderism has become common in the schools but the kids appear to be somewhat confused. There is a very strong correlation with attention seeking behavior, dysfunctional families, and bullying. But these are more your future social activists and HR staff than engineers.
In my current workplace, several levels below that of Nobel Laureate, the incidence is very low. However they are a strident minority that pounce on any perceived slight. HR, the office of Diversity, and even the CEO kowtow to this group. The internal website now lists a person’s pronouns. Posting one’s pronouns is explicitly regarded as virtuous and accepting. Nonetheless, 99+% of the pronouns could be guessed without any more information than name and picture.
Despite the rarity, normative rules of behavior develop around them. The younger seem to have been socialized by university, but the older are wrangled by the heavy hand of bureaucracy. Women managers are the worst true believers. Male managers seem to fear some form of MeToo backlash. At my workplace, this became very pronounced after a senior manager was legitimately MeToo’ed. The idiot got drunk during work hours and hit on a senior female government oversight official. After that, both the CTO and COO became comically woke in public.
I don’t think it matters that much. The real issue is that the industry is dominated by the very young who support the agenda. The number of programmers grows substantially every year, thus the demogra0phics skew young. The schools and universities are brainwashing factories and the kids skew woke.
My observation has been we don’t need to worry about the transgendered so much as their “allies”. Whether they are any good or not doesn’t matter, like the robber barons, they occupy the strategic choke point.
I’m not imagining this, we have work training available on how to be an “ally” . The brainwashing is something to see.
I’m not a techie but suspect you are right. That moving forward Twitter will thrive or not based more on business decisions/relationships/regulation, etc., than on technical breakthroughs.
Yeah. Calling Levine a man isn’t a joke at all, it’s straight reporting. But maybe calling him man of the year can be considered satire as his accomplishment hardly rises to any particularly impressive level. What did he do after all? Landed a senior job in the bureaucracy. Big whoop.
But maybe, maybe…ok now I’ve got it: he’s the something of the year because he found a way to raise landing a boring bureaucrat job to “of the year” status: be a tranny. There’s your joke+satire.
That’s my theory and I’m sticking with it.
Or something... it's funny, trust me!
No, I think Big Biz companies are scared of the whole Establishment coming down on them if they don't keep up with the newest woke narratives. If it weren't for that, these companies would fire every last one of these weirdos and put more armed guards at the doors and make an effort to not hire anyone suspected to be one. Well, first you fire the whole HR Department and start over.Replies: @Whereismyhandle, @PhysicistDave, @Rich, @James N. Kennett, @AnotherDad, @Erik L, @Alec Leamas (hard at work), @Barnard
Exactly. Fire the whole HR department. In my field only the corporate giants have HR depts, all the private companies have the managers of the different depts interview and hire. Seems pretty simple. If you’re afraid of fake resumes, you can hire an online background check company for a pittance. I knew a guy who faked a college degree and became the high six figure head of an HR dept for a large corporate law firm. The only thing that undid him was an underling who wanted his job checked into the fake degree and got him fired. Completely useless dept. Kind of like DHS whose entire mission is already covered by other depts.
Man, face the facts! Neither Space X or Tesla are legitimate businesses but government-funded cut-outs, with Musk as a frontman. He’s basically working as a military contractor.
The joke is that Mr. Levine is Man of the Year for making the courageous effort to become a woman, even with the pressing demands of being a top US Government bureaucrat.
Or something… it’s funny, trust me!
Richard Levine , Governor Pritzker and the rest of the prominent es-men became ex men before any teen age girls were even born. 20, 30 years ago.
The perverted unhealthy obsession with teen age girls by the MEN OF UNZ continues. Blaming teen age girls on twitter for the latest prominent powerful men claiming to be women is by far the most ridiculous comment I’ve ever read on UNZ.
You don’t know any teenage girls do you? Except the ones you lust after leaving school At 3PM daily. If you knew any teen age girls you would know almost nine have ever heard of Richard Levine Governor Pritzker or Bruce Jenner. It was teen boys who were fans of Bruce Jenner about 50 years ago.
The main theme of the sex pervert MEN OF UNZ is “ East Coast struck by the worst hurricane in a century. Teen age girls responsible” “ “ Russia invaded Ukraine. Teen age girls responsible”
It’s obvious to the world that your perverted hatred of teen age girls comes from your complete lack of a normal sex life with women. Or any relationship with a women.
Blaming the ex men in power fashion on teen girls who weren’t even born when the ex men achieved power and had their operations on teen girls who weren’t even born when the ex men had their operations is the most asinine ridiculous thing anti women nonsense I’ve ever read on this site.
Defending Epstein Maxwell because you yourself lust after 14 year olds is one thing. But blaming teen girls for the ex men in power phenomenon is just plain insane. If you only know how teen girls react with horror at the weirdo perv sex approached of creeps like you.
Or maybe so many girls have laughed at you as they reject you is why you need to post your weird obsession with teen girls here on UNZ.
Most tech guys are more like James Damore than Rachel Levine. They don’t want to get fired like Damore did, though, so they keep quiet. Their silence causes people to underestimate how many people in that industry engage in politically incorrect thinking.
Woke politics is coming from young women on social media. They admire figures like Greta Thunberg, AOC and pop music star Billie Eilish. The typical male reader of unz.com doesn’t know what pop stars the typical young female listens to and are only probably vaguely aware who Eilish is, but she is a textbook example of a young conformist female who jumps on every woke bandwagon: environmentalism, pro-choice abortion politics, gay rights, BLM marches, promotion of Covid vaccines, support for Ukraine and so on. The Democrats are aware how influential she is among these young women. They invited her to sing at their presidential nominating convention, where she also gave an anti-Trump speech, and Biden invited her to the White House when she had a concert in Washington D.C.
And people who like to learn and do cool stuff look down on ass kissers and bureaucrats.
And if you’ve ever been in an organization where a crucial part of the software relies on some cowboy coder who is always late but rides to the rescue at the last moment, you know you should go get another more boring job. I’d rather have 5 b+ guys than 1 A+ cowboy.
No, I think Big Biz companies are scared of the whole Establishment coming down on them if they don't keep up with the newest woke narratives. If it weren't for that, these companies would fire every last one of these weirdos and put more armed guards at the doors and make an effort to not hire anyone suspected to be one. Well, first you fire the whole HR Department and start over.Replies: @Whereismyhandle, @PhysicistDave, @Rich, @James N. Kennett, @AnotherDad, @Erik L, @Alec Leamas (hard at work), @Barnard
Unless the techies are the founders, I doubt they have much influence on the “community standards” policy.
One thing that would terrify a company board is that the press, or a group like the SPLC, might start contacting advertisers and corporate partners to demand excommunication of the company. It is easiest to self-censor and comply in advance.
No, I think Big Biz companies are scared of the whole Establishment coming down on them if they don't keep up with the newest woke narratives. If it weren't for that, these companies would fire every last one of these weirdos and put more armed guards at the doors and make an effort to not hire anyone suspected to be one. Well, first you fire the whole HR Department and start over.Replies: @Whereismyhandle, @PhysicistDave, @Rich, @James N. Kennett, @AnotherDad, @Erik L, @Alec Leamas (hard at work), @Barnard
You nailed it Achmed.
Steve this is just wrong.
You’ve absolutely nailed this particular class of perverts. But the problem is not that some perverts exist. (And honestly they are trivial in tech and do not matter.)
The problem is minoritarianism. The idea that the normal majority must been over to accomodate non-compliant minorities be they blacks, Jews, immigrants, homosexuals, or these mentally ill perverts.
The women thing in contrast
.. basically extreme female compliance–and desire to signal compliacne–to the social approved narrative, plus misplaced “nurturing” towards supposed “victims” are a *big* problem.
Basically the presence of women, the feminization of our culture and “conversation”, has constrained the effective feedback of guys saying “that’s bullshit” to the latest minoritarian whine.
But the problem remains this toxic minoritarian ideology. Nations/civilizations must be organized and run to maintain and reproduce their normal productive core population–or they die.
The ex men fashion is strictly a male thing. And it’s ridiculous to blame it on women. It’s mostly a Jewish thing. As was the emergence of gays into the mass media 50 years ago. The way over representation of Jews in the gay movement is easy to explain. Basic liberal grant hustling for well paid easy jobs with the non profit foundations.
But why Jewish men are over represented in taking female hormones and undergoing numerous surgeries and looking like clowns is difficult to understand.Replies: @AnotherDad
As you would know if you ever worked.Replies: @Recently Based
This. Plus female aversion to difficult mental work and preference for an ‘approved’ memorizable right way of doing things that avoids developing problem solving skills and requires relying on some ‘expert’ available by phone.
Elon Musk says he has Asperger’s.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-aspergers-saturday-night-live/
Musk said his \$54.20-per-share offer was his “best and final” offer.
It would be indefensible not to put his offer to a shareholder vote. Yet is is clear the board will reject his offer. The board is creating a poison pill to prevent Musk from increasing his stake in the company significantly and will make any hostile takeover prohibitively expensive. Twitter could announce the poison pill as soon as tomorrow.
They would rather self-immolate than give up their censorship programs. This shows you how deeply committed they are to Orwellian control of the narratives and global discourse. They have banned all contrarian thinkers from the platform. Musk will be prevented from purchasing Twitter because they fear he will allow dissidents to use Twitter.
No, I think Big Biz companies are scared of the whole Establishment coming down on them if they don't keep up with the newest woke narratives. If it weren't for that, these companies would fire every last one of these weirdos and put more armed guards at the doors and make an effort to not hire anyone suspected to be one. Well, first you fire the whole HR Department and start over.Replies: @Whereismyhandle, @PhysicistDave, @Rich, @James N. Kennett, @AnotherDad, @Erik L, @Alec Leamas (hard at work), @Barnard
I agree. I have never had the pleasure of working at a company at which management was afraid to upset the engineers.
It’s funny how undergraduate physics or mathematics students now refer to themselves as “physicists” or “mathematicians”. It would be like freshman pre-med students referring to themselves as “doctors”. The Millennials have confused the name-of-the-thing with the thing.
Also, note the incredibly normal and healthy reactions of the worldstarhiphop commenters.
I will add that at Caltech even undergrads were trusted to do real work on major DOE physics experiments, so in a sense we were "physicists" since we really were "doing physics."
I have known or worked with a large number of very bright STEM guys -- ranging from Nobel laureates to the inventors of the Lange coupler and TTL logic to top guys in string theory (Polchinski, Schwarz, Susskind) to guys who were simply very good engineers working on cutting-edge tech, earning patents, etc.
Overwhelmingly normal heterosexuals, indeed rather enthusiastic (if sometimes desperate!) heterosexuals -- I cannot think of even one gay fellow among the top people I've known, and certainly no one who was transgender.
I think Sailer may be misled by having known Martin(e) Rothblatt and by the story of the Wachowski sibs -- none of whom were really STEM guys.
And the HR ladies don't care that much about the engineers one way or another.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dr. DoomNGloom, @AnotherDad, @LP5
Agree. Well said and spot on.
I didn’t work with as elite a crew as you did–i dropped out of the physics biz–but i worked with a lot of very sharp guys in tech. The top guys who actually made it happen–overwhelmingly white, a decent tranche of them Jewish, some of Indian Brahmins–all heterosexual, most married.
I knew a few homosexuals–they were complete non-entities.
This is the reality. Basically, all the critical actual *work* that keeps modern industrial/technological society going–and especially moving forward technologically–is done by normal white men–with more Asians involved now.
Women are, of course, absolute critical as well, but doing something completely different.
I'm skeptical. Theories about Jews are much more plausible -- and much more easily documented.
Yet we're hearing about this instead. I can appreciate that you don't want to commit suicide, but...spare me the contorted improbabilities.
Call a spade a spade -- or just shut up and take it.Replies: @Joe Walker, @Rosie, @Almost Missouri, @AnotherDad
The minoritarian wrecking that the Jewish guy has done at CalTech is a good example. (My best friend from grad school–Indian guy–sent his daughter their and has been following this guy’s minoritarian clown show.)
The idea that Elon Musk is a friend of free speech is risible. What, exactly, Musk’s current antics signify is a good question, though.
I knew Trump would mever build a wall or do any of the other Big Slogans he ran on. I still assumed he'r be better than Hilary (and he was) but basically supported him as an F-U to the Establishment.
Ditto with Musk.
It's nice yo watch your enemies cry and gnash their teeth. Doesn't mean you should pucker up and unzip the pants of the monster. Just cheer him on as he makes your enemies cry.
Expecting - what did someone say above? that Elin would be remembered by mankind in 1000 years? That's just a sign that either you were born yesterday or you are female or you require tremendous amounts of copium to get through the day.
Perhaps. But it's reached the point where a loose cannon is better than nothing.
If I could make Musk President of the United States, I would. Better to wonder what is going to happen than to be able to see what is going to happen.Replies: @Bill
Are the trannies behind the banning of Trump ? Did the transsexuals ban the NY Post for reporting on Hunter ? Did the trannies ban Dr. Robert Malone from Twitter ? Twitter banned anyone who questions the efficacy of masks , lock-downs and vaccines. Scot Atlas, the scientific adivser to Trump, was banned for stating that masks do not work to stop the spread. All the scientific evidence supports this assertion , even the CDC finally admitted that masks do nothing to prevent the spread of coronovirus….Yet the mandates continue in NYC, which still forces toddlers to wear masks.
The “American right” has traditionally been in favor of virtually uncontrolled immigration, partly because of cheap labor. More to the point, it’s put this preference into policy at nearly every turn.
The “left” has had its own reasons for championing uncontrolled immigration, and should probably be respected more because lefties could at least see that they weren’t dooming themselves to electoral irrelevance in the process.
Even so-called “dissident right” types aren’t so much anti-immigrant as they are in favor of controlling immigration with an eye toward what’s good for the country as opposed to what’s good for people in other countries who might want to come here.
They are not in favor of more “best and brightest” HB1 visa applicants taking their jobs and replacing them demographically, and culturally. They want the immigration madness to stop.
Full stop!
You've absolutely nailed this particular class of perverts. But the problem is not that some perverts exist. (And honestly they are trivial in tech and do not matter.)
The problem is minoritarianism. The idea that the normal majority must been over to accomodate non-compliant minorities be they blacks, Jews, immigrants, homosexuals, or these mentally ill perverts.
The women thing in contrast.. basically extreme female compliance--and desire to signal compliacne--to the social approved narrative, plus misplaced "nurturing" towards supposed "victims" are a *big* problem.
Basically the presence of women, the feminization of our culture and "conversation", has constrained the effective feedback of guys saying "that's bullshit" to the latest minoritarian whine.
But the problem remains this toxic minoritarian ideology. Nations/civilizations must be organized and run to maintain and reproduce their normal productive core population--or they die.Replies: @Alden, @Alden, @Curle
Women did not cause the surge of ex men rushing for hormones and surgery to become what they call women. Your name another dad is ridiculous. No one who hates women as you do ever came close enough to any woman to have kids.
The ex men fashion is strictly a male thing. And it’s ridiculous to blame it on women. It’s mostly a Jewish thing. As was the emergence of gays into the mass media 50 years ago. The way over representation of Jews in the gay movement is easy to explain. Basic liberal grant hustling for well paid easy jobs with the non profit foundations.
But why Jewish men are over represented in taking female hormones and undergoing numerous surgeries and looking like clowns is difficult to understand.
Lol! Well played.Replies: @Escher
The definition of a broad has also gotten very broad.
Apologies if that was what you were LOL’ing about.
You've absolutely nailed this particular class of perverts. But the problem is not that some perverts exist. (And honestly they are trivial in tech and do not matter.)
The problem is minoritarianism. The idea that the normal majority must been over to accomodate non-compliant minorities be they blacks, Jews, immigrants, homosexuals, or these mentally ill perverts.
The women thing in contrast.. basically extreme female compliance--and desire to signal compliacne--to the social approved narrative, plus misplaced "nurturing" towards supposed "victims" are a *big* problem.
Basically the presence of women, the feminization of our culture and "conversation", has constrained the effective feedback of guys saying "that's bullshit" to the latest minoritarian whine.
But the problem remains this toxic minoritarian ideology. Nations/civilizations must be organized and run to maintain and reproduce their normal productive core population--or they die.Replies: @Alden, @Alden, @Curle
Marketing and tech are seldom in the same building and are often miles from each other. Only time HR and the tech people get together is when the upper echelon heterosexual MEN order the HR women to organize meetings to brainwash everyone on the latest woke insanity. The HR women don’t create the propaganda. They just print out what is sent to them by the upper echelon MEN.
As you would know if you ever worked.
Senior HR people have a huge influence on priorities and content of corporate training programs, hiring, evaluation / promotion processes and so on. I've seen good HR heads hold back a lot of the insanity, and I've seen bad ones become the people pushing these agendas forward at every opportunity, when nobody else has the time to micro-manage every decision: which firm gets selected to do the training program?, what are the line items for the SE II performance review?, and on and on.
No, I think Big Biz companies are scared of the whole Establishment coming down on them if they don't keep up with the newest woke narratives. If it weren't for that, these companies would fire every last one of these weirdos and put more armed guards at the doors and make an effort to not hire anyone suspected to be one. Well, first you fire the whole HR Department and start over.Replies: @Whereismyhandle, @PhysicistDave, @Rich, @James N. Kennett, @AnotherDad, @Erik L, @Alec Leamas (hard at work), @Barnard
The Ex-Men are likely necessary but not sufficient to the current tech culture.
Who reviews tweets which purportedly violate twitter’s “trust and safety” standards? These are not highly technically skilled people – reviewing tweets in a cue does not require a high degree of technical skill – and therefore they are easily replaceable. They’re almost certainly the rainbow haired weirdos with bespoke genders churned out by the American University with degrees and concentrations in the subjects of left wing activism. And there are more of them than there are of the technically skilled programming Ex-men. That said, just like the Ex-men the bulk of them probably have some kind of identity status within the current identity status hierarchy which means that they’re hard to discipline or fire, and they can engage in destructive passive-aggression towards anyone at the bottom of the identity status hierarchy (i.e., white or Asian male heterosexual programmers) to keep them in line. James Damore was a hanged admiral left in view for the others.
If Musk would be successful, a necessary step would be to move Twitter’s operations out of California and to Texas or Florida or some other jurisdiction in which the legal regime is not so wholly stacked against his project. Of course, remaining in the U.S. would mean dealing with the United States government no matter the State or locale – and the “conservative” Supreme Court recently extended special employment status to trannies of its own volition. And at least half of the time the federal government will be in the hands of your sworn enemies, and the other half the elected government will be hospitable but the regulatory agencies will be in the hands of your sworn enemies.
Most Swedish jurisdictions require cadets to be 21 years old at time of graduation. A few departments take cadets as young as 18 into the academy. That woman in the picture is not a teenager. She’s a grown woman. May or may not be a police officer.
I think you need to take some hormone injections to tone down your perv obsession with teen age girls. Some claim internet porn prevents rape because pervs like you enjoy porn more than rape . Which takes time to hunt for the victim, trapping her, overpowering her and actually raping her.
I truly hope you don’t have access to teen girls.
shoot me–I love Rachel Levine. That is 1 unique face. Paging John Waters
Twitter only has 7500 employees. Facebook has 60,000.
Why?
Twitter and other social media are pretty classic monopolies/oligopolies due to network effects. It’s not trivial to build a successful competing platform. And that’s before you get into the Parler scenario where even if there is some success the new platform itself will be de-listed at app stores which control access to it for the vast majority of people.
Thank you for making me physically ill with those videos from Sweden.
He has no idea what it's like out there.Replies: @Polistra, @Reg Cæsar
Dollars to doughnuts he’s more productive than you.
Steve's job is to study and aggregate the themes and memes that drive the Narrative.
I have known or worked with a large number of very bright STEM guys -- ranging from Nobel laureates to the inventors of the Lange coupler and TTL logic to top guys in string theory (Polchinski, Schwarz, Susskind) to guys who were simply very good engineers working on cutting-edge tech, earning patents, etc.
Overwhelmingly normal heterosexuals, indeed rather enthusiastic (if sometimes desperate!) heterosexuals -- I cannot think of even one gay fellow among the top people I've known, and certainly no one who was transgender.
I think Sailer may be misled by having known Martin(e) Rothblatt and by the story of the Wachowski sibs -- none of whom were really STEM guys.
And the HR ladies don't care that much about the engineers one way or another.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dr. DoomNGloom, @AnotherDad, @LP5
CIOs have really interesting roles. They must herd the IT cats and keep the networks safe and stable, while dealing with or placating the internal customers and the board. That herding requires being able to communicate with their staff in technical terms that they all understand and generally accept.
As PhysicistDave writes:
Those HR ladies often have some specialized men handling the IT department needs, from recruiting to, uh, social matters. They may be brought in on the latter, but typically leave the nerds to themselves because they don’t know or care about what those guys, and they are typically well over 90% guys, are doing.
So … he’s the billionaire South African expat equivalent of Hunter Biden, then?
What I like most about Musk is that he dates Grimes. I hope he gets Twitter too.
BTW, always weird to see--sound off to spare my brain cells--these lame efforts for these "artists" to be ... well whatever it is they think they are being.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
Mass-market pop-music used to be pretty good. It used to be music, at least. Now it is this garbage.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
SARCASM ALERT
WARNING: Content of following Tweet contains SARCASM unsuitable for regular people other than sarcasm aficionados such as Steve Sailer.
I say:
I blame John Irving and John Lithgow for all this Tranny stuff percolating through the globalizer-controlled corporate propaganda apparatus. John Irving wrote a character in a book which became a movie that humorously poked some fun at the peculiarities of cranky New Englanders and their extra crispy cranky type predilections and then Lithgow the Scottish scoundrel used his cold and calculating Scottish ways to absolutely knock the character out of the park with a dead pan dramatic performance for the ages. John Lithgow started all this Tranny stuff just like that Watt Scottish guy used his Scottish type brain to fully and completely utilize steam power more efficiently.
Dialogue From John Irving’s The World According To Garp:
You like football?
Oh yeah, I used to watch it quite a bit!
Well, you might have seen me, I was a tight end with the Philadelphia Eagles. Number 90, Robert Muldoon.
From what I can tell, John Irving's books are filled with this sort of genital-centric, freak show stuff: abortionist dwarfs, lesbian death cults, etc. The ladies gobble this stuff up like candy.Replies: @additionalMike
An old, old tech industry joke:
A techie is walking through the forest when he hears a voice calling “Please, kind sir! Save me!” He looks … and the speaker is a frog sitting on a log!
The frog continues, “I am in truth a beautiful princess who has been enchanted by an evil sorcerer. Kiss me to break the spell, and I shall spend the night with you.” The guy just stares at the frog, who becomes more agitated and somewhat desperate. “Please, sir! Kiss me, and … and I will be yours forever!”
With a thoughtful expression on his face, the guy continues to stare at the frog. Then he reaches over, picks up the frog, and puts her in his pocket. “Why?!” shouts the frog. “Why would you spurn the love of a beautiful princess?
“I work at Apple,” the guy explains. [Or Google, Microsoft, Intel, wherever.] “I don’t have time for a girlfriend. But a talking frog is cool!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADHFwabVJecReplies: @Buzz Mohawk, @AnotherDad, @Mr. Anon
For anyone who doesn’t know, that is Grimes’s song about Musk. According to her, he is a “Player of Games.” I hope he wins this one with Twitter.
Hmm, game playing. Sounds pretty heteronormative to me. Might be problematic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADHFwabVJecReplies: @Buzz Mohawk, @AnotherDad, @Mr. Anon
Maybe the dumbest thing about the guy.
BTW, always weird to see–sound off to spare my brain cells–these lame efforts for these “artists” to be … well whatever it is they think they are being.
https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5ecbecd33020048a55dc4ce9/1:1/w_954,h_954,c_limit/grimes-elon-musk.jpg
No, I think Big Biz companies are scared of the whole Establishment coming down on them if they don't keep up with the newest woke narratives. If it weren't for that, these companies would fire every last one of these weirdos and put more armed guards at the doors and make an effort to not hire anyone suspected to be one. Well, first you fire the whole HR Department and start over.Replies: @Whereismyhandle, @PhysicistDave, @Rich, @James N. Kennett, @AnotherDad, @Erik L, @Alec Leamas (hard at work), @Barnard
This is not just a small subset of employees. A significant number of tech employees are insane and all in on woke stuff. It is more a coalition of the fringes issue, another article said they are concerned about racism once Musk takes over because of racism at Tesla. You are right about the establishment being scared of these people if they don’t keep up with the latest fads. Once someone with power in the establishment breaks ranks will the rest of the herd follow and we can return to some level of sanity?
IRONIC SARCASM WARNING
I wonder if irony or sarcasm are middle class things. I think someone said that English Anglo-Norman Aristocrats and regular English people love to use swear words and foul language, while middle class English people frown upon the fun of salty language.
Who knows? I don’t.
Pedro Gonzalez got 13 thousand hearts for this Tweet, though:
I’m not a fan of these trans creeps but dare I say this is Steve not wanting to face up to the fact that the CEO class are enemies of the people.
https://worldstar.com/videos/wshh35S6f0F133jz5dLD/quotyou-get-no-puyquot-student-claiming-to-be-a-lsquomathematician-and-physicistrsquo-gets-into-a-gender-debate-with-ben-shapiroReplies: @Almost Missouri, @vinteuil, @bomag
LOL. Jewish faggotry vs. Black faggotry.
Same reactions, including the url thing.
Also, note the incredibly normal and healthy reactions of the worldstarhiphop commenters.
Musk has seven children with three different women. I think he may have a dim view of the transexual crap.
Grimes dating Chelsea Manning after their break up may have pissed Elon off. Steve talks about not wanting to get these high IQ fetish types angry. They’re nothing compared to wealthy and powerful high IQ straight guys who get angry. They’re great to have as friends and very, very bad to have as enemies. Revenge is dish best eaten cold.
As you would know if you ever worked.Replies: @Recently Based
That’s not true, in my experience.
Senior HR people have a huge influence on priorities and content of corporate training programs, hiring, evaluation / promotion processes and so on. I’ve seen good HR heads hold back a lot of the insanity, and I’ve seen bad ones become the people pushing these agendas forward at every opportunity, when nobody else has the time to micro-manage every decision: which firm gets selected to do the training program?, what are the line items for the SE II performance review?, and on and on.
If you got this excited about Trump and are getting this excited again, you need someone to sit you down and tell you the truth that Santa Claus is a lie we tell to sad children but that any male adult (are you female?) who falls for it twice is cringe.
I don’t know about risible. It’s just that online doofuses never learn.
I knew Trump would mever build a wall or do any of the other Big Slogans he ran on. I still assumed he’r be better than Hilary (and he was) but basically supported him as an F-U to the Establishment.
Ditto with Musk.
It’s nice yo watch your enemies cry and gnash their teeth. Doesn’t mean you should pucker up and unzip the pants of the monster. Just cheer him on as he makes your enemies cry.
Expecting – what did someone say above? that Elin would be remembered by mankind in 1000 years? That’s just a sign that either you were born yesterday or you are female or you require tremendous amounts of copium to get through the day.
‘The rise of the ex-men today, just like the rise of the gays in the 70s and 80s, seems to have more to do with undermining traditional Christianity than anything else.’
Yeah, but the ex-men — as is true of blacks to a certain extent — are more tools than anything else. If others didn’t have a use for this nonsense, we’d be hearing little or nothing about it.
‘The idea that Elon Musk is a friend of free speech is risible. What, exactly, Musk’s current antics signify is a good question, though.’
Perhaps. But it’s reached the point where a loose cannon is better than nothing.
If I could make Musk President of the United States, I would. Better to wonder what is going to happen than to be able to see what is going to happen.
Mr. Alden, your 14 y/o purple-haired daughter figured out your computer password and is on here again. I would suggest more special characters.
And if you think the ex men thing was created by teen age girls on Twitter; you’re a complete fool. Teen girls aren’t the CEOs of the pharmaceutical companies, surgeons psychologists psychiatrists and the rest creating an entire new industry from which they will profit immensely. Teen girls aren’t the MEN who run the publishing and media industry who put these freaks on magazine covers and all over the internet.
Changing men into women is a while new industry. Think stage coaches, then railroads, then the federal highways and passenger planes. Think of the money made during the last 150 years installing plumbing and electricity and central gas heating into every building in America.
The sex change advocates are doing the same thing the electrical industry is doing to force a switch from gas heating to electric heating a switch from gas stoves to electric stoves a switch from gas fueled cars and trucks to vastly more expensive and unreliable electric cars.
That’s all it is.
Go back to your internet port sites that claim the girls are 14 when in reality they are 25. Much too old for you to enjoy in your fantasies.
The MEN Of UNZ who are too stupid and naive the sex change industry exists for just one thing. To make money.
Stay away from teen and other girls you perv. And if you old codgers only knew what teen girls think of you creeps.Replies: @Truth, @Achmed E. Newman, @Mike Tre
Testosterone suppression and the cocktail of female hormones doesn’t affect skills. But the toxic mix of natural testosterone production and unnatural testosterone suppression plus female hormones causes what Drs and psychiatrists call volatility, irritability , depression , mood swings and general insanity. Similar to uncontrolled diabetics, drunks druggies always starting fights.
The skills are still there. But the personalities get very weird. Which leads to Prozac and other mood smoothers to tone down the volatility and irritability. For every Richard Levine there are about 5,000 tranny sex workers freaking out, getting beaten up, arrested, on 72 hour holds. If wanting to be a person if the opposite sex is insane. The drugs they take to achieve the change makes them crazier.
The entire thing is a cash cow for the pharmaceutical industry, surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists, analysts, consultants, counselors, and coordinators and the rest of the helping industry. As always Follow the Money.
This is, of course, an absurd lie. There is nothing toxic about natural T production, but you are an extremely toxic misandrist hag.
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I say:
I blame John Irving and John Lithgow for all this Tranny stuff percolating through the globalizer-controlled corporate propaganda apparatus. John Irving wrote a character in a book which became a movie that humorously poked some fun at the peculiarities of cranky New Englanders and their extra crispy cranky type predilections and then Lithgow the Scottish scoundrel used his cold and calculating Scottish ways to absolutely knock the character out of the park with a dead pan dramatic performance for the ages. John Lithgow started all this Tranny stuff just like that Watt Scottish guy used his Scottish type brain to fully and completely utilize steam power more efficiently.
Dialogue From John Irving’s The World According To Garp:
You like football?
Oh yeah, I used to watch it quite a bit!
Well, you might have seen me, I was a tight end with the Philadelphia Eagles. Number 90, Robert Muldoon.
https://youtu.be/XlZUBUSKbFkReplies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Cagey Beast, @Mr. Anon
Wow. Thanks, Charles. I read this book in the 1980s and then saw the movie. In all this iSteve talk about the weirdos, how come none of you people remembered it either? Steve?
It would be indefensible not to put his offer to a shareholder vote. Yet is is clear the board will reject his offer. The board is creating a poison pill to prevent Musk from increasing his stake in the company significantly and will make any hostile takeover prohibitively expensive. Twitter could announce the poison pill as soon as tomorrow.
They would rather self-immolate than give up their censorship programs. This shows you how deeply committed they are to Orwellian control of the narratives and global discourse. They have banned all contrarian thinkers from the platform. Musk will be prevented from purchasing Twitter because they fear he will allow dissidents to use Twitter.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @res
Some people in England are suggesting that if Elon Musk has more money than he knows what to do with, he ought to buy the slumping Manchester United Football Club from the hated Glazer family.
In the USA, soccer enthusiasts are usually Leftists.* Not something Musk would or should do. British people sometimes don't understand American heartland folk culture.
Buying an American football team and firing any players with anti-American sentiments, that would be OK.
* Soccer is an appropriate game for women, girls, small boys, and foreigners.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Anon
I don’t have a 14 year old purple haired daughter. I do have a brown haired grand daughter just accepted into the engineering program at University of Pennsylvania. . A girl, sister cousins and friends who are radically different from the teen girls you and the MEN OF UNZ find on the internet.
And if you think the ex men thing was created by teen age girls on Twitter; you’re a complete fool. Teen girls aren’t the CEOs of the pharmaceutical companies, surgeons psychologists psychiatrists and the rest creating an entire new industry from which they will profit immensely. Teen girls aren’t the MEN who run the publishing and media industry who put these freaks on magazine covers and all over the internet.
Changing men into women is a while new industry. Think stage coaches, then railroads, then the federal highways and passenger planes. Think of the money made during the last 150 years installing plumbing and electricity and central gas heating into every building in America.
The sex change advocates are doing the same thing the electrical industry is doing to force a switch from gas heating to electric heating a switch from gas stoves to electric stoves a switch from gas fueled cars and trucks to vastly more expensive and unreliable electric cars.
That’s all it is.
Go back to your internet port sites that claim the girls are 14 when in reality they are 25. Much too old for you to enjoy in your fantasies.
The MEN Of UNZ who are too stupid and naive the sex change industry exists for just one thing. To make money.
Stay away from teen and other girls you perv. And if you old codgers only knew what teen girls think of you creeps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ro8eaplsV8
Hopefully she doesn't come to you for dating advice. She'll be purple haired in no time.
Yeah, but the ex-men -- as is true of blacks to a certain extent -- are more tools than anything else. If others didn't have a use for this nonsense, we'd be hearing little or nothing about it.Replies: @Steve Sailer
In any case, I find your 'ex-man' theory less than convincing. These people aren't the cause of anything. They're a symptom.
And if you think the ex men thing was created by teen age girls on Twitter; you’re a complete fool. Teen girls aren’t the CEOs of the pharmaceutical companies, surgeons psychologists psychiatrists and the rest creating an entire new industry from which they will profit immensely. Teen girls aren’t the MEN who run the publishing and media industry who put these freaks on magazine covers and all over the internet.
Changing men into women is a while new industry. Think stage coaches, then railroads, then the federal highways and passenger planes. Think of the money made during the last 150 years installing plumbing and electricity and central gas heating into every building in America.
The sex change advocates are doing the same thing the electrical industry is doing to force a switch from gas heating to electric heating a switch from gas stoves to electric stoves a switch from gas fueled cars and trucks to vastly more expensive and unreliable electric cars.
That’s all it is.
Go back to your internet port sites that claim the girls are 14 when in reality they are 25. Much too old for you to enjoy in your fantasies.
The MEN Of UNZ who are too stupid and naive the sex change industry exists for just one thing. To make money.
Stay away from teen and other girls you perv. And if you old codgers only knew what teen girls think of you creeps.Replies: @Truth, @Achmed E. Newman, @Mike Tre
Tell ’em Aldey, you ain’t one ta triffle wit’!
And if you think the ex men thing was created by teen age girls on Twitter; you’re a complete fool. Teen girls aren’t the CEOs of the pharmaceutical companies, surgeons psychologists psychiatrists and the rest creating an entire new industry from which they will profit immensely. Teen girls aren’t the MEN who run the publishing and media industry who put these freaks on magazine covers and all over the internet.
Changing men into women is a while new industry. Think stage coaches, then railroads, then the federal highways and passenger planes. Think of the money made during the last 150 years installing plumbing and electricity and central gas heating into every building in America.
The sex change advocates are doing the same thing the electrical industry is doing to force a switch from gas heating to electric heating a switch from gas stoves to electric stoves a switch from gas fueled cars and trucks to vastly more expensive and unreliable electric cars.
That’s all it is.
Go back to your internet port sites that claim the girls are 14 when in reality they are 25. Much too old for you to enjoy in your fantasies.
The MEN Of UNZ who are too stupid and naive the sex change industry exists for just one thing. To make money.
Stay away from teen and other girls you perv. And if you old codgers only knew what teen girls think of you creeps.Replies: @Truth, @Achmed E. Newman, @Mike Tre
I hope your Daddy comes on here soon, young lady. He will most certainly NOT be happy with your using his computer, especially past your bedtime. I will convince him to punish you next time this happens by cutting down your screen time to 9 hours per day. You will have to, like, go outside and stuff!
Social media, as a whole, is terrible for society. We need to consider severely restricting it.
Grimes dating Chelsea Manning after their break up may have pissed Elon off. Steve talks about not wanting to get these high IQ fetish types angry. They're nothing compared to wealthy and powerful high IQ straight guys who get angry. They're great to have as friends and very, very bad to have as enemies. Revenge is dish best eaten cold.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Unladen Swallow
I wouldn’t want to have Elon Musk for an enemy.
The ex men fashion is strictly a male thing. And it’s ridiculous to blame it on women. It’s mostly a Jewish thing. As was the emergence of gays into the mass media 50 years ago. The way over representation of Jews in the gay movement is easy to explain. Basic liberal grant hustling for well paid easy jobs with the non profit foundations.
But why Jewish men are over represented in taking female hormones and undergoing numerous surgeries and looking like clowns is difficult to understand.Replies: @AnotherDad
You’re precious Alden. This obsession with my sex life is definitely weird–some sort of “everything’s personal” girl thing that yes, “I wouldn’t understand”–but now comfortably reliable. It’s now sort of like the sun coming up in the East each morning.
Everyone above, that I wrote about, will face military tribunals. Child trafficking is the Pandemic.
Many people you knew and respected have done terrible things (we have it all on film and type (cell phones) – their photos are intermingled with their family photos which is what makes all of this so much more repugnant. If you defend this shit, Steve, then we know what you are. Extract yourself now, when you have the chance.
The spiel at the golf games (Master’s was abysmal) was just so mediocre. They so wanted to say bad things (Mean Girls movie) about Tiger, but realized that they would be crucified by both left and right thinkers. But, shit (on their faces) a Christian guy, who espoused his belief in Christ for winning, wins!!!!!!!!!
Irony: Godly, goodly guy wins.None of the networks knew about him! hahhahahahhahahhaaaaaaaa
BTW, always weird to see--sound off to spare my brain cells--these lame efforts for these "artists" to be ... well whatever it is they think they are being.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
She cast a spell on him.
It would be indefensible not to put his offer to a shareholder vote. Yet is is clear the board will reject his offer. The board is creating a poison pill to prevent Musk from increasing his stake in the company significantly and will make any hostile takeover prohibitively expensive. Twitter could announce the poison pill as soon as tomorrow.
They would rather self-immolate than give up their censorship programs. This shows you how deeply committed they are to Orwellian control of the narratives and global discourse. They have banned all contrarian thinkers from the platform. Musk will be prevented from purchasing Twitter because they fear he will allow dissidents to use Twitter.Replies: @Jonathan Mason, @res
Right. Where is this willingness to go against maximizing shareholder value when it comes to issues that matter?
he would never be your enemy because of you, Steve, very much alone on the K Coast, and many average deplorables both latino poor and white poor, believe that you, you all smart guys, are the warriors for the Truth.
Stay strong – don’t accept the money from the DS and Wall Street banksters. Be for the People. We only have one life.
In my experience they claim to have high IQs but have, in my judgement, only moderately high IQs.
I have met some genuinely clever people in my time and I don't remember a programmer who could compare with them.Replies: @Negrolphin Pool
Successful software development in particular and tech development in general might be calibrated into the perfect IQ test: the application of a near-unity G-loaded task to solve real-world problems.
To offer an anectdote, how does our host Mr. Unz compare?
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I say:
I blame John Irving and John Lithgow for all this Tranny stuff percolating through the globalizer-controlled corporate propaganda apparatus. John Irving wrote a character in a book which became a movie that humorously poked some fun at the peculiarities of cranky New Englanders and their extra crispy cranky type predilections and then Lithgow the Scottish scoundrel used his cold and calculating Scottish ways to absolutely knock the character out of the park with a dead pan dramatic performance for the ages. John Lithgow started all this Tranny stuff just like that Watt Scottish guy used his Scottish type brain to fully and completely utilize steam power more efficiently.
Dialogue From John Irving’s The World According To Garp:
You like football?
Oh yeah, I used to watch it quite a bit!
Well, you might have seen me, I was a tight end with the Philadelphia Eagles. Number 90, Robert Muldoon.
https://youtu.be/XlZUBUSKbFkReplies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Cagey Beast, @Mr. Anon
Thanks for reminding us of Irving’s The World According To Garp. We’ve been circling this drain for a while, in an ever tightening death spiral.
From what I can tell, John Irving’s books are filled with this sort of genital-centric, freak show stuff: abortionist dwarfs, lesbian death cults, etc. The ladies gobble this stuff up like candy.
you are right, Irving's books were a real freak show.
Bingo! Excellent piece, Steve…and one of your best IMHO.
https://loomisdeanphotography.com/index.php/work/paris/writer-art-buchwald-portrait-s-398.htmlReplies: @Prester John, @middle-aged vet
I look at the picture and see the name…and I don’t know whether to laugh out loud, puke, or do both!
The late Alistair Cooke (of “Omnibus” and “Masterpiece Theatre” fame) once wrote that, in his opinion, elevating what was heretofore freakish to the level of respectability is a sign of a society in freefall–deviancy as “The New Norm.” He should have only seen Rachel Levine.
Some people in England are suggesting that if Elon Musk has more money than he knows what to do with, he ought to buy the slumping Manchester United Football Club from the hated Glazer family.
In the USA, soccer enthusiasts are usually Leftists.* Not something Musk would or should do. British people sometimes don’t understand American heartland folk culture.
Buying an American football team and firing any players with anti-American sentiments, that would be OK.
* Soccer is an appropriate game for women, girls, small boys, and foreigners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADHFwabVJecReplies: @Buzz Mohawk, @AnotherDad, @Mr. Anon
A homely, no-talent, autotuned pop-tart.
Mass-market pop-music used to be pretty good. It used to be music, at least. Now it is this garbage.
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I say:
I blame John Irving and John Lithgow for all this Tranny stuff percolating through the globalizer-controlled corporate propaganda apparatus. John Irving wrote a character in a book which became a movie that humorously poked some fun at the peculiarities of cranky New Englanders and their extra crispy cranky type predilections and then Lithgow the Scottish scoundrel used his cold and calculating Scottish ways to absolutely knock the character out of the park with a dead pan dramatic performance for the ages. John Lithgow started all this Tranny stuff just like that Watt Scottish guy used his Scottish type brain to fully and completely utilize steam power more efficiently.
Dialogue From John Irving’s The World According To Garp:
You like football?
Oh yeah, I used to watch it quite a bit!
Well, you might have seen me, I was a tight end with the Philadelphia Eagles. Number 90, Robert Muldoon.
https://youtu.be/XlZUBUSKbFkReplies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Cagey Beast, @Mr. Anon
I never read anything by John Irving. I always just counted him as one of those modern novelists who just wrote a bunch of degenerate crap of no redeeming value. A quick reading of his Wiki page and the synopsis for The World According to Garp does not dispel that view. Perhaps he would have benefitted by having a father in the household he grew up in.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/msnbc-blast-past-its-our-job-control-how-people-think-not-elon-musks
Mass-market pop-music used to be pretty good. It used to be music, at least. Now it is this garbage.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk
Indeed, but a sexy, petite and thoughtful girl who is interested in the future and who has born two children to a man who somehow manages to purvey electric cars that would only make any sense at all if we had nuclear power plants to generate all that electricity.
I find all of this unreal — unreal that Musk is the richest man on the planet now — and further evidence that the world you and I inhabit is insane and not real at all. But I totally understand why he has been schtupping with her.
The skills are still there. But the personalities get very weird. Which leads to Prozac and other mood smoothers to tone down the volatility and irritability. For every Richard Levine there are about 5,000 tranny sex workers freaking out, getting beaten up, arrested, on 72 hour holds. If wanting to be a person if the opposite sex is insane. The drugs they take to achieve the change makes them crazier.
The entire thing is a cash cow for the pharmaceutical industry, surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists, analysts, consultants, counselors, and coordinators and the rest of the helping industry. As always Follow the Money.Replies: @Mike Tre
“But the toxic mix of natural testosterone ”
This is, of course, an absurd lie. There is nothing toxic about natural T production, but you are an extremely toxic misandrist hag.
And if you think the ex men thing was created by teen age girls on Twitter; you’re a complete fool. Teen girls aren’t the CEOs of the pharmaceutical companies, surgeons psychologists psychiatrists and the rest creating an entire new industry from which they will profit immensely. Teen girls aren’t the MEN who run the publishing and media industry who put these freaks on magazine covers and all over the internet.
Changing men into women is a while new industry. Think stage coaches, then railroads, then the federal highways and passenger planes. Think of the money made during the last 150 years installing plumbing and electricity and central gas heating into every building in America.
The sex change advocates are doing the same thing the electrical industry is doing to force a switch from gas heating to electric heating a switch from gas stoves to electric stoves a switch from gas fueled cars and trucks to vastly more expensive and unreliable electric cars.
That’s all it is.
Go back to your internet port sites that claim the girls are 14 when in reality they are 25. Much too old for you to enjoy in your fantasies.
The MEN Of UNZ who are too stupid and naive the sex change industry exists for just one thing. To make money.
Stay away from teen and other girls you perv. And if you old codgers only knew what teen girls think of you creeps.Replies: @Truth, @Achmed E. Newman, @Mike Tre
“I do have a brown haired grand daughter ”
Hopefully she doesn’t come to you for dating advice. She’ll be purple haired in no time.
In the USA, soccer enthusiasts are usually Leftists.* Not something Musk would or should do. British people sometimes don't understand American heartland folk culture.
Buying an American football team and firing any players with anti-American sentiments, that would be OK.
* Soccer is an appropriate game for women, girls, small boys, and foreigners.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Anon
Thank you, Dave. It’s not like the guy hasn’t lived here 20 or 30 years. Maybe after 10 years in Ecuador, he’ll realize what America is about.
I Read the Bee, not impressed, don’t use Twitter, also not impressed. I still read about Musk, though. This business about being ‘an influencer’ instead of inventor/innovator/creator, not sure I follow
The meaning of that is obscure but possibly insulting.
In any case, I find your ‘ex-man’ theory less than convincing. These people aren’t the cause of anything. They’re a symptom.
https://loomisdeanphotography.com/index.php/work/paris/writer-art-buchwald-portrait-s-398.htmlReplies: @Prester John, @middle-aged vet
I never got the Art Buchwald thing. He was not funny and his drawing was pathetic and dull. That being said, I appreciate the fact that he liked cigars. That says something good about him.
Anyway it is useful to think of this phenomenon by way of analogy to hoarders.
Guys who are dating a woman think it is cute if a woman has a collection of a few hundred tea cups, or if she has a copy of every Poirot novel. It starts getting not cute after they are married, when the woman refuses to let the husband throw out old newspapers, or plastic bags (we might need them sone day!) and it gets worse from there.
There is nothing you can do, unless you a supremely gifted therapist, or someone with power of attorney who can force the hoarder out of the house and into a small apartment, about a hoarder who does not see the need to change, yet.
One out of 100 Americans who own a home are hoarders – or close to that, although the worst cases are closer to one in 5,000.
In real life, I see maybe five thousand people a year, and I see less than one of these poor elderly men in dresses every two years. And I have tracked baseball statistics for 50 years and as far as I know not a singe native-born MLB player ( thousands are in the data base) has gone the Jenner route. (Ditto for NFL players, and with one or two exceptions, ditto for NBA players). So fortunately, as unsightly as they are, the Levines and Jenners of the world are not, as far as I can tell, a problem when it comes to numbers.
Hoarders, though ….that happens way too often, and is almost as unpleasant as old former high school football players in sun-dresses (not to mention young women who think they would be charming young men like those Japanese guys in Korean bands, or something like that, if they took testosterone —- that happens way too often)
I gather he was exceptional in person, so he was pushed forward on the assumption it would come through in print and screen.
We'll see.
It is evil things that Elon Musk is fighting -- but it does not follow from that that he is good.
However, we can hope.
One thing: if they do crush him, the scales will fall from a few more pairs of eyes. Fewer and fewer people are buying into the programme.Replies: @Curle
“One thing: if they do crush him, the scales will fall from a few more pairs of eyes.”
Unfortunately, none of those people will be named Romney, McMullen, Ryan or McConnell.
You obviously don’t frequent dissident right forums, or talk to many in person.
They are not in favor of more “best and brightest” HB1 visa applicants taking their jobs and replacing them demographically, and culturally. They want the immigration madness to stop.
Full stop!
Mr. Anon wrote to Almost Missouri:
In my experience, that has been the case for at least fifty years. It’s probably partly aspirational (i.e., I will someday be a physicist) and partly laziness — “physicist” has fewer syllables than “physics major”!
I will add that at Caltech even undergrads were trusted to do real work on major DOE physics experiments, so in a sense we were “physicists” since we really were “doing physics.”
Agree.
Steve’s job is to study and aggregate the themes and memes that drive the Narrative.
Hoarders, though ....that happens way too often, and is almost as unpleasant as old former high school football players in sun-dresses (not to mention young women who think they would be charming young men like those Japanese guys in Korean bands, or something like that, if they took testosterone ---- that happens way too often)Replies: @bomag
I know what you’re saying.
I gather he was exceptional in person, so he was pushed forward on the assumption it would come through in print and screen.
https://worldstar.com/videos/wshh35S6f0F133jz5dLD/quotyou-get-no-puyquot-student-claiming-to-be-a-lsquomathematician-and-physicistrsquo-gets-into-a-gender-debate-with-ben-shapiroReplies: @Almost Missouri, @vinteuil, @bomag
The melding of some of the worst aspects: credentialism; rudeness; and word salad.
You've absolutely nailed this particular class of perverts. But the problem is not that some perverts exist. (And honestly they are trivial in tech and do not matter.)
The problem is minoritarianism. The idea that the normal majority must been over to accomodate non-compliant minorities be they blacks, Jews, immigrants, homosexuals, or these mentally ill perverts.
The women thing in contrast.. basically extreme female compliance--and desire to signal compliacne--to the social approved narrative, plus misplaced "nurturing" towards supposed "victims" are a *big* problem.
Basically the presence of women, the feminization of our culture and "conversation", has constrained the effective feedback of guys saying "that's bullshit" to the latest minoritarian whine.
But the problem remains this toxic minoritarian ideology. Nations/civilizations must be organized and run to maintain and reproduce their normal productive core population--or they die.Replies: @Alden, @Alden, @Curle
“basically extreme female compliance–and desire to signal compliacne–to the social approved narrative, plus misplaced “nurturing” towards supposed “victims” are a *big* problem.”
This. Plus female aversion to difficult mental work and preference for an ‘approved’ memorizable right way of doing things that avoids developing problem solving skills and requires relying on some ‘expert’ available by phone.
Grimes dating Chelsea Manning after their break up may have pissed Elon off. Steve talks about not wanting to get these high IQ fetish types angry. They're nothing compared to wealthy and powerful high IQ straight guys who get angry. They're great to have as friends and very, very bad to have as enemies. Revenge is dish best eaten cold.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Unladen Swallow
Two women, his first wife, Justine had the first five and then Grimes with last two. He didn’t have any with Talulah Riley.
> aggressive, nasty personalities
This is not really true anymore. The prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders amongst SV engineers is probably considerably lower than it was 20 years ago. The jobs were too lucrative, especially after the GFC of 2008-09, and so “normies,” who normally would have shunned this kind of work, took to it, and eventually started crowding out the aspies. If Linus Torvalds were 30 years younger and just starting out, he would probably be unemployable today, given his irascible aspy personality.
I actually wonder to what degree the takeover of software development by neurotypical types explains the perceived overall decline in software quality.
That was Ellen Pao, former CEO of Reddit, railing against Musk in the pages of… the Washington Post! A newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos complaining about rich people controlling “channels of communication” just might be the never-released punchline of Monty Python’s classic “Funniest Joke in the World” skit.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/04/no_author/twitters-chickens-come-home-to-roost/
From what I can tell, John Irving's books are filled with this sort of genital-centric, freak show stuff: abortionist dwarfs, lesbian death cults, etc. The ladies gobble this stuff up like candy.Replies: @additionalMike
Don’t forget the lad who got his wazoo bitten off in a car by a woman administering a Lewinsky, and who then decided to become a gal.
you are right, Irving’s books were a real freak show.
You can’t build first mover network effect.
In the USA, soccer enthusiasts are usually Leftists.* Not something Musk would or should do. British people sometimes don't understand American heartland folk culture.
Buying an American football team and firing any players with anti-American sentiments, that would be OK.
* Soccer is an appropriate game for women, girls, small boys, and foreigners.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Anon
Communist Kickball
Perhaps. But it's reached the point where a loose cannon is better than nothing.
If I could make Musk President of the United States, I would. Better to wonder what is going to happen than to be able to see what is going to happen.Replies: @Bill
The problem with the loose canon theory is that he keeps not going to jail, and Tesla keeps not incurring regulatory penalties. Clearly, someone powerful in DC has his back.
Thank you! The great Ann Coulter had different reasons for dissing Communist Kickball than mine. For me, it’s all about us having been given 2 arms and 2 hands, and we aren’t even allowed to throw or catch the damn ball. The game is against the laws of nature, hence something only a Commie would come up with.
They only prosecute regime protesters these days.