Dirk von Mullet

Thoughts on culture, tech, & politics.

[Charlie @LAChas77]

I don't know anybody that plays in a softball league. No poker nights. I only know a few people that kinda play an instrument. Nobody bowls. Nobody can sew. Few can cook. Nobody golfs. Nobody tinkering with cars. I know 100 people who'll be on their phone for next 4 hours

[T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams]

Still objectively funny that the most efficient immigration crackdown in recent years was not in Texas or Arizona, but in Martha's Vineyard, where the unexpected arrival of ~50 Venezuelans created a state of emergency. Martha's had them rounded up & shipped out in 48 hrs flat.

[Adam Townsend @adamscrabble]

China gets an exception for dirty coal.
China gets an exception for nuclear plants.
China gets an exception for AI.
China gets an exception for data centers.
China gets an exception for significant military belligerence.
China gets an exception for tightly clamping down on civil protests.
China gets a pass on demanding its society comply with its behavioral regime.
China gets a pass on everything.

We have Bernie sanders. AOC, Elizabeth Sitting Bull Warren, massive crime, so much (illegal) immigration that it has exhausted all social service safety nets and services

And so on

[Will Tanner @Will_Tanner_1]

Brutalism is psychological warfare against the soul, designed as it is to overawe not with insipiring grandeur but by creating feelings of despair, confusion, and helplessness

Rap "music" is psychological warfare against the mind, designed to accustom one to vulgarity mixed with catchy beats and pulses that are the antithesis of the sort of order, structure, and complexity that characterized Western music when we were an ascendant, vitalistic, and glorious civilization on the ascent

The combination of Brutalism and rap has been devastating to the Western mind and soul, pushing us away from refined greatness and to confused despair and reflexive vulgarity

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

Ted Kaczynski was beyond vindicated about the near-complete impossibility of meaningful action in the modern world, where almost all activities are “surrogate activities.” Thankfully he died before seeing a video game where you simulate being a librarian putting books on a shelf.

[☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎ @LuckyMcGee]

She did the meme.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Whatever America is or will be, it’s not the country of 1976, and certainly not of 1776. The patriotic blood has turned from red to green. This land is an economic zone for third worldists to loot while bankers print to fund the fraud while skimming all the way up and down.

[Serf @TheRoyalSerf]

9 of every 10 new American jobs since pre-COVID went to someone born outside the country.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

This is one of the more important videos I’ve made.

Never forget this evil.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

On the surface, it sounds like Boomers hate you. Or like they have the attention span and logical thinking skills of a goldfish.

Neither one of these is true.

Their complete dismissal of any of your concerns, and their total refusal to understand your situation or worldview, is actually quite sensible in light of one key fact about them.

They're not hateful. They're not dumb. They just have an incredibly low emotional pain threshold.

They cannot stand to feel bad about themselves for any reason, even for a moment.

When you create a meme like this, or you tell the story of how you are forty years old and can't afford a house because you trained for three different careers and got rugpulled by work visas and offshoring every time...

... then they don't even think about it as a worldview or a perspective or an experience that you have. They don't think about you at all.

They think only about the effect on their own self-esteem, which must be parried.

You have, you see, told a tale of playing life on hard mode, which implies that they were playing life on easy mode, which implies that they are not wizards of insight and paragons of virtue.

That's why they will immediately respond with these incoherent lines about whining and bootstraps and firm handshakes and avocado toast. Of course they don't make sense. They don't have to make sense. The goal isn't to persuade you of anything or engage with you at all.

The goal is simply to have an excuse to avoid thinking about something which might make them feel bad.

These Boomerisms are magic talismans used to ward off emotional discomfort, in much the same fashion as all the species of plants they smoked their way through when they were your age.

I don't see a solution to this.

I don't know any way to tell Boomers that Hart-Cellar, CRA1964, DEI, open borders, social welfare programs, anti-racism, gay marriage, gun control, the sexual revolution, etc, were massive mistakes and need to be stopped, while hiding the obvious implication they were the ones who made those mistakes.

If we wish to save Western civilization, to make things good enough again that actual Americans can manage to have homes and marriages and children, then we're going to have to find a way to work around the Boomers, because they're never going to get on board.

[Not that Elon. @Eggplant_Elon]

1/ First time I watched Fight Club, I was a teenager. I thought it was the coolest thing ever put on film.

I watched it again recently in my forties. I finally understood what it was actually about. And almost everyone I know who loves it is still watching it the way I did at 17. 🧵👇

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Rotten Tomatoes stared as a simple review site offering a honest "at a glance" understanding of a movie so average people could decide if they want to watch it without needing to fully research some popcorn entertainment on Friday night

Once it became clear that the review score selection was being manipulated to exclude bad reviews and warp perceptions of movies they had to introduce the audience score to restore the idea that there was a way to get the authentic reaction of real people

Audience scores started revealing how fake the critic reviews were so then RT had to start manipulating those as well, so now you have the illusion of choice where you are free to select which score will lie to you in an entirely controlled media environment

This post is not about Rotten Tomatoes

[no more tendies in LA @nomoretendies]

Good day to point out that in the fictional song “Icky Thump” by the White Stripes, the main character is date raped and robbed by a Mexican and Jack White still needed to add a specific line about how white people suck and we need to open the borders

[Mike Binder @MikeBinderjokes]

1/ It's 1985.
I just did stand-up on David Letterman the night before. Five minutes. I'm 27 years old and I think I've made it.
My agent calls me the next day and fires me.

[Marty Bent @MartyBent]

The government has been intentionally weaponizing ticks with debilitating diseases like Lymes and Alpha Gal since the 1960s. @krisnewby found the receipts. We dive into them in this rip.

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

We didn’t have “HR” when building Palantir, for similar reasons - I avoided Ryan’s mistake.

And when we needed some PeopleOps, we hired technical leaders.

Going into the vast majority of companies and firing most of their HR and Marketing departments would tend to create value!

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Good read on H1-b visa abuses. For anyone skeptical that Big Tech works hard to keep wages down, recall that Apple/Google/Intel/others were hit with an Antitrust suit back in 2010 focused on agreements not to poach workers. They didn't want bidding wars for their employees, which drive up wages. The antitrust actions were settled for big $$ in 2014, and since then the use of H1-b visas has gone up quite a lot - perhaps partly in response to Big Tech having to give up on collusion as a wage-reducing mechanism that drives up their share prices.

[Adam Townsend @adamscrabble]

Holy moly

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

The mass liquidation of HR is one of the fix-everything switches.