Jerry Murphy

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

America is so rich that nobody feels rich. We got billionaire out here thinking only Elon can afford to do anything. It’s really wild what living in a country like the 🇺🇸 does to people’s minds.

[Orli Peter @orlipeter]

It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that what we’re watching is a modern social media auto-da-fé. This time, the town square is digital, the crowd is global, and the ritual unfolds in real time before millions. Scott Wiener is simply the latest prominent target.

Unlike the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, we are no longer limited to describing the spectacle. We now have decades of research on how the brain forms beliefs, adopts identities, conforms to groups, and makes moral judgments. Add to that nearly four decades of psychotherapy, including patients from across Los Angeles’s political spectrum, and I think we’re finally in a position to understand the psychology of the crowd that embraces them.

We’re making a mistake if we think propaganda is only an information problem. Especially within the emotional incentive structure of social media, it is also an intense psychological state.

Moral intoxication is the culmination of the psychological model I’m developing to explain how propaganda takes hold in the brain. I’ll be presenting the complete model at the Contemporary Antisemitism Conference at the University of Haifa in July. The emergence of this psychological state helps explain why repeating certain narratives becomes psychologically rewarding and self-reinforcing, why moral certainty eclipses moral consistency, and why public rituals of denunciation become so resistant to evidence.

A social media auto-da-fé is not necessarily fueled by cruelty. It is fueled by the psychological rewards of feeling moral. The ritual itself becomes rewarding. For some, it produces the exhilaration of moral superiority. For others, it offers moral absolution. Either way, participating becomes proof that they are among the righteous.

From that state, increasingly extreme behaviors can begin to feel not only justified, but morally necessary. Public shaming, ostracism, discrimination, and even violence can become expressions of moral intoxication. We saw the same psychology in the online celebration of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Different target. Same moral-intoxicated reward structure.

Social media has become the modern mechanism for accelerating the auto-da-fé.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Nothing screams TRUE SOCIALIST like:

-A millionaire who owns 3 homes
-Arriving in a huge SUV
-To his private jet
-To fly out and give a paid speech
-On the evils of capitalism and fossil fuels

Am I right?

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

This is how the United States assimilated waves of immigrants throughout its history:

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Homeless, yachtless Elon Musk, who actually builds rockets, EVs, and neural tech trying to benefit humanity, should apparently cough up $50 billion in taxes on unrealized gains.

Meanwhile, Laurene Powell Jobs ($15B inherited), Nancy Walton ($20B inherited), and MacKenzie Scott ($40B divorce) never built shit, never risked shit, and never shipped a single product that changed the world.

But they get the praise and zero scrutiny. Because they have the right politics.

(BTW ~25% of Walmart employees are on government benefits.)

[Jerry Murphy @jmyfd784]

@therealamy86 Is that the drinking hand in a brace?

[Jerry Murphy @jmyfd784]

@JTLonsdale @chamath Quince is great. Quality product, easy ordering, easy returns if there is an issue. Have ordered quite a few items from them.

[Jerry Murphy @jmyfd784]

@weatherchannel It was once an interesting Channel, I am not even sure what number it is on my dial. Has become obsolete. Guess they did this for clicks.

[Matt Kilby @MattKilby23]

After taking some time to reflect on the last week, wanted to share my SpaceX story.

In the last four years my family has:

1. Lost our firstborn daughter 38 hours after birth due to a rare genetic condition
2. Navigated another rare condition with our second born, who required a 10-hour surgery when she was 3 months old and was in the ER every 4-6 weeks for her first 18 months of life
3. Lost the dog who got us through the above 2 bullets unexpectedly at 6 years old

Amidst all of that, I took a risk (at the time) to pick up my family’s life to join SpaceX in Florida. The past week was the most incredible of my career and man it feels good to get back in the win column. SpaceX has changed my life.

For those going through the valley, stay the course. Sometimes the highest peaks are just on the other side.

[Jerry Murphy @jmyfd784]

@MikhailaFuller 🙏

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

America is such a rich country that “mere” half-billionaires like Ro Khanna (wife’s inherited family fortune) and Dan Goldman (Levi Strauss heir), and “down and out” decamillionaires like Liz Warren accuse OTHER PEOPLE of being too rich!

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Elon Musk did not become a different person when he landed in America.

In South Africa, he may still have been brilliant, restless, and ambitious, but the environment would not have given him the same room to build SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and everything else.

Talent matters. The country you build in decides how much of that talent can become real.

[Jerry Murphy @jmyfd784]

@ewarren You are a 🤡.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Each one of these beautiful young people were slaughtered by leftist policies designed to kill western civilization.

Their deaths must not be in vain…

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

A liberal reporter felt sorry for the prisoners in Bukele’s super prison CECOT in El Salvador so they made him watch a video of what the prisoners dis to end up there.

He quickly changed his mind…

[Jerry Murphy @jmyfd784]

@Cernovich Tradesman here. My wife & I followed a similar path. It has worked out great. At times we had our doubts. Looking back now, if was a great time and certainly worth it. Bought a multi-family, moved from apartment to apartment as we fixed up/rented out. Then on to our own house.

[Jerry Murphy @jmyfd784]

@PLeonardNYDN @YouTubeCreators @YouTube Grown man answer?

[Jerry Murphy @jmyfd784]

@realDailyWire Sure, he’s a guy we should listen to…🤡

[Jerry Murphy @jmyfd784]

@martinamcbride You are weak.

[Jerry Murphy @jmyfd784]

@JohnCornyn @RichardGrenell No you didn’t.