“Ban women from universities, higher education and most white-collar jobs.”

“Allow people to privately borrow against the taxable part of the future incomes or other economic activities of their children.”

So many execrable takes in one tweet, and that’s only two of them. I’m tempted to think he’s cynically outrage-farming, but then I remember who he is.

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    8 months ago

    Allow people to privately borrow against the taxable part of the future incomes or other economic activities of their children.

    “Sorry Junior, I know you wanted to be an artist but you see back in 2025 I got really really into a gatcha game called Umamusume Pretty Derby and long story short you’re legally obligated to become a doctor.”

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      8 months ago

      ‘I know you’re upset, you have to know that those pixels were very shiny and I would have been sad for 3 minutes until the next distraction took over me’

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      I imagine that not only do you get to borrow against your sons’ future incomes as doctors or prompt engineers, but against the wealth of your daughters’ expected husbands.

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        Imagine how messy divorces now suddenly get. (Dont worry I know how they will fix this, just ban divorce!)

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    Okay but now I need to once again do a brief rant about the framing of that initial post.

    the silicon valley technofascists are the definition of good times breed weak men

    You’re not wrong about these guys being both morally reprehensible and also deeply pathetic. Please don’t take this as any kind of defense on their behalf.

    However, the whole “good times breed weak men” meme is itself fascist propaganda about decadence breeding degeneracy originally written by a mediocre science fiction author and has never been a serious theory of History. It’s rooted in the same kind of masculinity-through-violence-as-primary-virtue that leads to those dreams of conquest. I sympathize with the desire to show how pathetic these people are by their own standards but it’s also critical to not reify the standards themselves in the process.

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    I always find it weird that someone would just announce to the world that they require government intervention to get a girlfriend.