Post ApyDEr344IrdiM2eHo by otfrom@functional.cafe
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(DIR) Post #ApwUZs2ItvSXlPNBdg by interfluidity@zirk.us
2025-01-10T14:55:43Z
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you can burn down the court because you think it’s biased. okay. it may very well have been. but if you then mistake reversion to the justice of the lynch mob as corrective reform, well, then you are kind of an idiot.absent institutions to adjudicate it, there is no authoritative truth, just competing contradictory claims. and that is quite the opposite of a recipe for reconciliation.https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105
(DIR) Post #ApwUzVi4X41g368Tqq by laprice@beige.party
2025-01-10T15:00:21Z
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@interfluidity and there is that whole weird rhetorical trope where he casts himself and his buddies as the true revolutionaries overthrowing the "ancien regime". What are you saying Mr. Thiel? Are you planning a reign of terror? Or just worried about one?
(DIR) Post #ApwVOC0kuO4QC6e0OG by interfluidity@zirk.us
2025-01-10T15:04:50Z
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@laprice who he casts himself as in South Africa’s history is interesting as well.
(DIR) Post #ApwW0lp6D01yGdaTJY by laprice@beige.party
2025-01-10T15:11:49Z
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@interfluidity please tell me that he doesn't try to picture himself as Mandela. I mean, the parallels are obvious; Mandela was arrested and imprisoned for decades and a few people were mean to Peter Thiel online, he can relate.
(DIR) Post #ApwYB3qkF0ViyoOLom by interfluidity@zirk.us
2025-01-10T15:36:06Z
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@phillmv of course it wouldn’t be random. these people pretend like they are innocents seeking truth. their man Trump was, according to Epstein, his best friend for some time during his period of peak activity. Thiel wants to deploy a selective wrecking ball to harm his enemies, and call it transparency and truth. the “twitter files” is the template.
(DIR) Post #ApwYaDhSks0ilm2xvs by interfluidity@zirk.us
2025-01-10T15:40:40Z
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@phillmv how was he harmed? why the grievance? a thing we’ve learned is people who think the world is theirs to rule are remarkably thin-skinned about anything that resists them or withholds the adulation they are quite sure they deserve. Thiel lives under a theory of libertarian utopia, under which he is a world-historical protagonist. only villains would stand in his way. he has been viciously attacked. “reconciliation” is an act of profound generosity from this perspective.
(DIR) Post #ApwzoAFH5rRas6jfyS by light@noc.social
2025-01-10T20:45:37Z
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@interfluidity Truth and reality exist regardless of institutions. You're thinking of consensus.
(DIR) Post #Apx1tPDZ3OGCfEYxI8 by light@noc.social
2025-01-10T21:09:02Z
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@interfluidity >you can burn down the court because you think it’s biased. okay. it may very well have been. but if you then mistake reversion to the justice of the lynch mob as corrective reform, well, then you are kind of an idiot.Where does it say this?
(DIR) Post #ApxPU2kJrbiGd6K4no by interfluidity@zirk.us
2025-01-11T01:33:25Z
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@light it suggests that in the absence of institutions that work to combine and balance information to come up with tentative truths—however flawed and biased those institutions may be (they always are, but degrees do matter)—we'll somehow, naturally converge upon the truth. that is what a lynch mob is, a convergence on "truth" without any sort of institutional structure that would prevent, say, information cascades. that's the institution Thiel implicitly endorses. 1/
(DIR) Post #ApxPpZFeClPbWZEvq4 by interfluidity@zirk.us
2025-01-11T01:37:18Z
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@light if he thought simply tearing down flawed institutions of analysis and consensus lead to the real, true truth, he'd be an idiot. but he's not actually an idiot. his actual project is to build institutions whose conclusions he finds more agreeable, "truer" perhaps from his perspective. 2/
(DIR) Post #ApxPwLg54O73SApyLo by interfluidity@zirk.us
2025-01-11T01:38:30Z
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@light but the thing about truth is its always contested. if Thiel openly said he means to replace "media organisations, bureaucracies, universities and government-funded NGOs" with his own successors, which he does in fact mean, it would invite scrutiny, backlash. So he pretends magically the truth emerges if you just take away these things. He pretends the lynch mob is courtroom enough. /fin
(DIR) Post #ApyDEr344IrdiM2eHo by otfrom@functional.cafe
2025-01-11T10:50:51Z
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@interfluidity when I read that piece it looked like a justification of a disinfo campaign. I didn't think any of it was argued in good faith. It is just a smokescreen.