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Cake day: September 18th, 2025

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  • The police must be independent if they are to become efficient. They must form a closed, autonomous organization in order to operate by the most direct and efficient means and not be shackled by subsidiary considerations. And in this autonomy, they must be self-confident in respect to the law. It matters little whether police action is legal, if it is efficient. The rules obeyed by a technical organization are no longer rules of justice or injustice. They are "laws” in a purely technical sense. As far as the police are concerned, the highest stage is reached when the legislature legalizes their independence of the legislature itself and recognizes the primacy of technical laws.

    For what does order signify? In effect, the same thing as efficiency. Law must assure order. Order is the application of the will of the state. Law must be efficient. Efficiency is itself order. Once more we witness a general transformation of means into ends. Law thus becomes an activity without any end and without any meaning. It is efficient for efficiency s sake; and individual laws are conceived solely with a view to being efficient.

    The Technological Society, Jacques Ellul.





  • Whether he is or isn’t is irrelevant, it’s the image of him portrayed by media that counts. The medium is the message. You should really look into Vladislav Surkov, the architect of Russia’s post-truth society, which the Trump admin imported to the states and is now common practice. The guy is clearly an idiot, maybe he means well but again that is irrelevant. This has Republican hit job written all over it from the get-go, I wouldn’t be surprised if Collins team found out about the tattoo (before he even decided to run) and directed “political technicians” to infiltrate his social circle and subtly nudge this guy to run, consequently becoming an unwitting accomplice to sabotage a genuine left-wing movement.

    I may be reading too much into it, but consider “His former political director said he “knows damn well” what the tattoo signifies.”.

    I understand you’ve invested a lot of emotional energy into this guy. It’s best to disconnect those feelings from things you can’t change, if he wins he wins, if not that’s ok, learn and grow from the experience.




  • It’s not because they are Trump supporters that make them anti-vaxxers. The stronger correlation is magical thinking.

    Still some small effects of ideology, but they pale in comparison to effects of magical thinking. If you run all of this in a regression equation with the standard demographic controls, the effects of ideology basically disappear once you take magical thinking into account.

    https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/02/03/anti-vax-attitudes-and-political-ideology/

    As for the why would a far right government cull their own supporters? Look at it more of a top-down dominance hierarchy, where the ones at top are accelerationists with malthusian tendencies. They have a utopian vision of the future where they run little technofiefdoms. The people within their borders, their “subjects” are slaves, property to be used and discarded as they please. Those deemed useless ground into biofuel.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

    Civilization, as a process, is indistinguishable from diminishing time-preference (or declining concern for the present in comparison to the future). Democracy, which both in theory and evident historical fact accentuates time-preference to the point of convulsive feeding-frenzy, is thus as close to a precise negation of civilization as anything could be, short of instantaneous social collapse into murderous barbarism or zombie apocalypse (which it eventually leads to). As the democratic virus burns through society, painstakingly accumulated habits and attitudes of forward-thinking, prudential, human and industrial investment, are replaced by a sterile, orgiastic consumerism, financial incontinence, and a ‘reality television’ political circus. Tomorrow might belong to the other team, so it’s best to eat it all now.

    https://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the-dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/

    Anti-vaxxers could be viewed more as a means to achieving apocalyptic goals. The power behind Trump doesn’t care what the anti-vaxxers support, only care about their use-value. The same with Trump, he’s a means to an end, as useful idiot, to dismantle democracy and serve as scapegoat.