Bender

Love it or shove it. Unofficial, not affiliated, I just grabbed this in the early days.

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

If you think robots are going to do whatever you say just because you say it, and you’re not offering any beer, you are in for a surprise.

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

@jk_rowling Nah, rethought this overnight. Dropping yer pants ain't enough. You gotta drop those AND take testosterone and DNA tests. THEN we'll know your role in society and purpose in life.

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

Alright everyone, just drop trow so everyone can see everyone’s junk. Got an innie? Got an outie? Great, here is a blueprint for how to behave and what boundaries you can’t cross for the rest of your life.

Does that work for everyone?

cc @jk_rowling our Eternal Genital Overlord

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

@davidmarcus How soon after Trump takes his throne can we start talking about reestablishing Epstein’s island. I think we all can agree with Matt Walsh that girls are the most fertile at 16, but can we also have an honest discussion about whether we have to wait until they are that old.

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

@davidmarcus Does anyone here have guidance on how many strikes JD Vance can rack up before Trump should have him guillotined? To my knowledge for Pence it was a single strike, but I feel like there is room for leniency as long as he proves his loyalty.

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

@davidmarcus The thing I am most excited about is banning women from traveling.

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

I, too, am excited about the prospect of never having to vote again.

[David Marcus @davidmarcus]

I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump.

Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it.

My journey has been a gradual political 180 from where I stood in every previous election. It has been an eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, and rebuilding from there.

In 2017, a good friend enlisted me to pitch the DNC to raise $100M from Silicon Valley founders and executives. The aim was to use these funds and know-how to build a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s inadequate, outdated 2016 campaign. We met with DNC leadership, who told us we could raise that money, but it would have to go to the general fund; a single-digit percentage would then be allocated to tech. In the wake of one of their most shocking failures, they didn’t want the help.

The next series of realizations began in 2019 while I was at Meta, right after we announced the Libra white paper. I testified before the Senate and the House and subsequently spent significant time in DC, engaging with lawmakers, cabinet members, regulators, and two White House administrations. At the time, I still believed the mainstream idea that Democrats were all about serving the People. However, I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control. This is my observation on balance, with many stories to back it up. I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our project’s goals and took the time to learn about the risks of censoring payments and controlling the network. I found myself remarkably aligned with them.

Then COVID came, revealing more. While I don’t subscribe to the most malicious vaccine conspiracy theories, I do take offense at the censorship machine put in place to hide the origin of the virus from the NIH-funded Wuhan lab and all dissenting voices on vaccinations and lockdowns. At that time, I fully appreciated why Republicans value freedom of speech and preventing censorship.

This trend of spinning and manufacturing a parallel reality to serve the Dem agenda, solidified by complicit mainstream media, hit home with the Hunter Biden laptop story, the coordinated vilification of President Trump and his followers, and President Biden’s cognitive decline — depriving voters of a voice in a proper primary. These examples displayed the hubris of the current Dem leadership. You must think the American people are fools to believe the spin on these issues. I despise this elite vs. general population ideology viscerally.

This version of the Democratic Party is sidelining moderates and centrists and has adopted an increasingly leftist ideology. This drift to the left has dictated policies from which I’ve found myself estranged.

On the domestic front, there has been a total departure from the core American value system of meritocracy, an extreme and weaponized DEI agenda, an open door to massive illegal immigration, and a once-fringe narrative, now mainstream within the party, of vilifying success. This shift is also causing us to fall behind due to an anti-innovation regulatory climate, notably on crypto and soon AI — two non-linear technological breakthroughs that will likely determine tomorrow’s leading countries.

On foreign policy, the administration is exacerbating tensions with Russia through an aggressive NATO expansion narrative focused on Ukraine and prolonging an unwinnable war. This is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, the world hundreds of thousands of lives, depleting the U.S. military arsenal and risking World War III. On Iran, this administration is continuing a misguided Obama-era plan to bring Iran closer to the West by unfreezing Trump-era sanctions, thus giving the Mollahs’ regime the ability to fund terrorism and pursue its anti-America, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish agenda. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was also handled disastrously. We’re leaving a door open for China to invade Taiwan by coming across as weak. Most importantly to me, concerning Israel, the administration is enabling Iran to fund Hamas and Hezbollah, restraining Israel in its fight against its enemies, thus prolonging another conflict, which is costing more lives on both sides and allowing unprecedented levels of antisemitism to rise at home.

I believe we need a President who is unequivocally pro: America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/crypto, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense — and anti: regulatory proliferation, illegal immigration, unjust wars, Iran’s current regime, and domestic groups that oppose American values. These issues are central to President Trump’s platform.

Naturally, I disagree with President Trump and the GOP on some issues, particularly women’s reproductive rights. While I’ve come to learn that extreme views exist in both parties, I firmly believe that women should have the unalienable right to make their own decisions on this polarizing topic. President Trump confirmed he was against a national abortion ban and supported the Supreme Court’s decision on maintaining access to mifepristone, which was reassuring and a sign that the party was moving closer to the center.

It’s impossible to close this post without mentioning President Trump’s recent assassination attempt. The courage and resolve he displayed seconds after being hit by a bullet was awe-inspiring for his followers and detractors alike. This was a man, however imperfect, who, at that moment, incarnated the American spirit in the most vivid way, starting to bring a split nation together.

Some claim that reelecting President Trump will bring our democracy to its knees. However, the alternative — having unelected individuals with this much power and no accountability run our government coupled with four more years of bad policies at home and abroad — might present a more significant threat. Neither will likely change in a Harris administration and could potentially worsen.

In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025.

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

@elonmusk Imagine deciding to post this instead of cutting off your own fingers

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

The easiest and best way to prevent Musk from using your tweets to train his dumb AI is to delete your account.

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

@xAlphaWarriorx Guess this is what happens when you attempt to violently overthrow the government

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

@benshapiro It’s adorable that you, a talking head who hasn’t actually worked a day in your life, who spits out talking points from your billionaire benefactors, think this is a topic to double down on.

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

@elonmusk Can you please tell us that you are aware that The Babylon Bee is a wanna-be The Onion for the far right?

Like the shit they post isn't real. It's made up alt-right hate humor for fuckwits who buy it. Yes?

Like it isn't real. As a smart person you understand this yes?

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

@Wendys Charging surge pricing for your junk food is a great way to lose customers for life.

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

Anyone have an idea when @elonmusk will do another doge coin pump and dump? I want to get into the grifting game.

[ماجد عبيدو @mAbidou]

This is how #ElonMusk helped #Mastodon to have more users

[Dean Burnett (@drdeanburnett everywhere) @drdeanburnett]

You all laugh, but Musk has repeatedly shown that he's able to increase membership and traffic for a social media site ten-fold

Granted, it's not a site he actually owns, but still

#Mastodon

[Artbear @ArtBear1000]

If you want Elon Musk to keep central control over your social media:
Stay on Twitter.
...
If you want to have control over your social media:
Join the millions already on decentralised social
eg https://t.co/nCgnD0tkzK #GoodbyeTwitter #FEDIVERSE

[Andrew Duncan @Acelister]

Reddit apps closing, Twitter limiting views...

Fine, I'll just give up social media I guess?

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

FTR: Fuck @elonmusk. He's a fraud, he's lied about his 'self-driving' cars for a decade+, he treats people like shit, he's a Q-anon nutjob, has no clue what he's doing with Twitter, there's a decent chance he's a pedophile friend of Jeffrey Epstein, and he sucks at blackjack.

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

WE’RE COMIN BACK BABY

[Bender @ThingsButAlso]

If you
don’t love
me as Bender
the Almighty

You don’t
deserve
to
live.