Basic Glitch @ AcidicBasicGlitch @lemm.ee

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You saw Peter Theil partnering with the Heritage Foundation in 2016? I have to say I'm impressed, fuckface.

Maybe keep in mind the strategy is to overwhelm and traumatize people so they eventually check out/dissociate.

Its not saying everything will be ok, don't worry, it's saying don't let yourself become overwhelmed with the horrors of every battle. It's going to be happening a lot.

Not bad advice really bc total burnout/checking out is the quickest way to lose the war

Somebody offering some words of comfort or encouragement is way less harmful or dangerous than telling people resistance is futile, so they should just give up and curl into a ball...

I think there are plenty of people that give a fuck about the constitution, but we need to really start thinking about what makes a country. Is it the people or an executive cabinet?

I am about 90% sure the heritage foundation has had this planned since the 80s, and used Post Soviet Russia as a test run. Here is more information about why I believe that if you're interested

It's a question of who really wants us to become an officially privatized corporation? Even if we have no say in that, we should ask why we are being treated as consumers of their product?

They seem to have no plans to stop taxing poor people, so either we stop paying federal and state taxes and only invest in our local communities, or we start acting like angry shareholders fed up with how the board is running the company.

Yeah and like any intimidation tools, sometimes you get your desired goal, a lot of times you get false confessions/false positives, and sometimes if the guilty person really knows what they're doing, they get off scot-free.

Then the people you're using the intimidation tool against become even more resentful, distrustful, and skeptical of your leadership capabilities, even if they're scared or intimidated by you.

Not that I would expect anything different from these people, but I guess just goes to show money can't really buy strategic or critical thinking skills.

Bring Phrenology back to our country!

"You have the sloping brow of a common criminal."

Also, if you meet one asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If all day, all you meet are assholes, then you're the asshole.

It's one thing if you got one leak in one department, if you got multiple leaks in multiple departments, maybe the issue isn't the fucking leakers!

Rarely there are also people who don't even have a detectable physiological reaction even if they are guilty.

Best case scenario, you risk framing a bunch of people who didn't do shit, except get nervous bc an authoritarian regime hooked them up to a lie detector test, in order to find the person who tried to place their country above themselves. There's also a chance that person doesn't even get caught with the lie detector test bc it's such a bullshit technology.

Why not just have a psychic come in and start reading tea leaves? Or better yet just put some names on a dart board and blind fold the dart thrower to figure out the leaks? Fucking dumb sacks of shit.

I don't think calling these people spies is the right term anymore, considering who is in the White House right now, and I don't mean Trump.

The Heritage Foundation began influencing U.S. policy starting in the early 80s, which is also around the time political divisions in America started becoming more polarized as standard of living for the middle class began to worsen.

The polarization that began in the 80s has gotten more and more extreme, to the point that now far-right groups are an important part of the current President's voter base. When you look at the destruction and dismantling of the government currently underway by the administration, you have to understand, this is really not an attack on the left/DEI. Their strategy first began decades ago, long before anybody heard of DEI. First it was "multiculturalism," then it was "political correctness," then "wokeness," and now the scapegoat is "DEI."

It's an attack on democracy and individual freedom by people in power with a lot of money, but not a lot of numbers, unless they get a group of people that are divided to fight for them, and keep them divided from "others." Importantly, it's actually very similar to the strategy used by oligarchs in Russia. Russian Nationalists are Putin's biggest supporters, but instead of "DEI," the enemy to Russian Nationalists has long been the influence of Western democracy.

Funny thing is, some of the earliest examples of Russia embracing capitalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union and creating the current government, can be traced to the Heritage Foundation. The first of its kind go between for U.S. and Russia businesses was created by a former Heritage Foundation member, Robert Krieble.

Fellow Heritage Foundation member, Thomas Roe, is quoted as telling Krieble during the mid-1980s, "You capture the Soviet Union, I'm going to capture the States."

According to a 1991 Washington Post article covering a celebration of the official establishment of this business, Russia House, Krieble snuck electronic equipment to dissidents prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The corporation is also privately funded. Officers of its board are Moscow Mayor Gavril Popov; Paul Craig Roberts of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a former treasury assistant secretary; and Dean Booth, an Atlanta lawyer. Businessman Robert Krieble, who donated fax machines, computers and copiers to dissidents in the Soviet Union when "they were illegal," Lozansky said, is one of the financial supporters.

The original founder of the Heritage Foundation was also present at the gathering covered by the Post article.

At the inauguration of Russia House, furnished only with a lectern and radio and television microphones for the ceremony, Paul Weyrich, head of a group called Free Congress, said, "When we first went to the Soviet Union we were considered foolish. But democracy is real. The change is real."

Meanwhile, in the U.S., Roe then went on to create the State Policy Network (SPN), a network of Heritage Foundation affiliate think tanks across all 50 states, to promote Heritage Foundation policy at the state level, but disguise the think tanks as "small government" and "free market" focused.

Now, Putin actually has his own similar think tank for freedom and democracy in Germany While Russian oligarchs have become majority shareholders in Louisiana oil companies, and made donations to House Speaker Mike Johnson's campaign.

It would seem more likely, that rather than Russia playing the long game, Russia joined the Heritage Foundation's long game decades ago, and that modern day Russia under Putin, may actually reflect the Heritage Foundation's test run for the creation of a privatized corporate government.

Speaking through a translator, the Post article also provides an interesting quote from the Mayor of Moscow:

"Russia House is not financed by governments but by private people," Mayor Popov said. "Aid in the form of commercial goods and food should not be the main effort. Aid would be over soon, and all would be as before. We need a free-market economy -- but we don't have people who can run a free market," he said, speaking through a translator. "I told {Treasury} Secretary {Nicholas} Brady that many Americans will sign treaties with ministers -- who then will disappear. Trade should be with private individuals and businesses."

•Military parade to celebrate your greatness as your tariffs absolutely massacre the economy, officially cementing record for the lowest first 100 days in office in 80 years

•Answering "IDK" when asked if you will uphold the constitution

• Your vice president saying "I don't really care that much," when asked about low approval ratings

•Your speaker of the House trying to gaslight the country into believing this is all for our own good as Walmart warns shelves will soon be empty.

•We have yet to roll out a bird flu vaccine, but we are banning some dyes in food and fluoride in drinking water...

Just stating all that to get a sense of where the red line is now? Wondering when/if the Republicans in the House and Senate will be continuing to move it as more "healthy Americans," somehow die from making America so healthy/great or do they stop bothering. Are they hoping we all just die off from disease/fighting each other for the last remaining resources before the midterms?

Definitely, don't get me wrong. Musk was not innocent in any of that. Theil is a Nazi too he just didn't get on stage in front of the whole world and do a fucking salute (twice). They are both pieces of shit, but like yin and Yang pieces of shit. I think Theil knew he would be able to use Musk's inability to keep anything to himself to his advantage.

Just kind of funny/bizarre to think about the possibility that one evil villain piece of shit essentially mean girlsed another evil villain piece of shit, in what seems to be an ongoing feud that has lasted for several decades, but somehow keeps escalating.

Yeah, but he can't do no A.I.

That is such a weird little krewe though. Like honestly can you imagine how fucking awful and just so awkward it would be?

Like Yarvin and Theil I kind of get bc they're both tech bros. Vane is the wildcard. What do they even talk about when they get together and hang out? Just general evil dickhead stuff?

Yeah dude, I feel like since people have known about this for a while, they couldn't have said something? Obviously they're not going to say anything now, but nobody in the whole government could have maybe given us a heads up at some point...?

I don't disagree that this was planned, but I am not so sure Elon was ever really completely in on it the whole time, even if he thought he was.

He's a narcissist, so it seems unlikely he'd be ok with his mental health being questioned and looking like such a failure in the public spotlight.

I've said it before but I'll say it again bc this just seems so obvious.

I really think Peter Theil intentionally fucked him over again and made Musk a scapegoat. Not saying that to get people to feel bad for Elon, just pointing it out bc if true, it's such a weird cruel intentions like mind game he's been playing for years, but now he's raised the stakes to involve so much power and corruption on a world stage.

Idk if it's just bc Theil really hates him or if it's just bc he's really a sociopath like Elon says. It would be odd for him to have it in so much for one person if it was just a sociopath thing though. Like it seems more like a personal vendetta.

When Theil and Musk worked together at PayPal, Thiel took advantage of Musk leaving for his honeymoon for two weeks, and then while he was away, called a board meeting to vote Musk out. Apparently it really changed the way Musk thought about a work life balance, and he never really was the same afterwards.

Flashforward to 2025. For months, starting on January 20th, Musk was constantly being presented by the press as this untouchable god like figure that couldn't be removed from Trump's office.

Looking back now though, it seems like they maybe just got Elon to handle all the dirty work, attach his face and name to some truly despicable shit, made him the most hated man in the country, then gradually everything shifted. The press made him look like an annoying nuisance who was disrespected by all the "adults in the White House," and got everyone to start questioning if his mental health was spiraling,

Once the Senate confirmed Theil's protege as Trump's science advisor in charge of handling all technology and AI policy it was like somebody told Musk his services were no longer necessary. Kinda like they no longer needed Elon to leave his fingerprints on everything.

Meanwhile Thiel has been successfully lurking in the shadows making some very successful deals.

Honestly, who tf knows anymore?

I think this has kind of become Putin's yearly check in to rally Russian Nationalism, and force the Russian people to show how much they adore his leadership.

Given how things are going with the war and news of Russian soldier desertions/imprisonments, I would imagine many Russians like "Fuck do we really have to do this again..."

The US is screaming and holding a hot pan fresh out of the oven, but refusing to just set it down and use the fucking oven mits next time.

Meanwhile, other countries are watching this happen, but somehow having a relatively difficult time deciding if they maybe want to give it a try with their own government.

Or JD Vance could just retweet him to make his own legal arguments

WWMD The wealthy white man defense is a pretty air tight legal argument. Fits in nicely with the narcissist's prayer.

I didn't do it, but if I did it wasn't a big deal. And if it was, you deserved it.

https://archive.is/zGrab

The impression of a constitutional crisis is misleading. That impression was initially created by overreaching district judges selected by plaintiffs, who obtained temporary victories and leveraged those victories in the media. If there is a crisis, it does not arise from the actions of the administration but instead from a slew of highly aggressive judicial decisions that have transgressed traditional legal limits on the relationship between the judiciary and the executive branch — limits the courts respected during the Biden administration. — Adrian Vermeule, professor, Harvard Law School

The administration always talks about ivy league elitists that hate America, but they never mention this guy for some reason.