People freaked out over this and that was a little gay but the underlying judgment was entirely reasonable
Zohran is not charismatic, what people mistake as charisma in him is anti-charisma and indicative of a deep and profound cultural rot. Finding him charismatic is akin to finding a sex-doll beautiful, it shows you have no sense of a sacred concept once thought to be a universal human experience. A sex doll can be hot, and can even be styled and positioned to make for a gorgeous photo- but it can never be beautiful, as an object or as a person.
True charisma is largely dead and has been replaced with the grotesque anti-charisma Zohran perfectly embodies. We recently saw a great example of genuine charisma in Erling Holland. Holland obviously has a rich and peaceful inner life, respect for something outside of himself, and an unmatched sense of discipline. He oozes virtue despite being extremely humble and low key. He is aspirational lightness, his mere existence inspires awe across the globe.
Zohran is a politician. He is hungry for power, more polished than sincere, constantly forces an exaggerated smile, has a meticulously manicured social media presence and is a pragmatist who says whatever will serve him at a given time then masterfully saves face. He sells himself as The Virtuous Good Guy Ally To All and often tries to overplay his hand. It’s entirely reasonable to say you like him because he is moving the party left and polished enough to be taken seriously in that endeavor, but finding him charismatic is naive or godless behavior. “I think this stripper really likes me” coded.
He is a clever guy and a talented politician, he saw that the left was desperate for an idol who wouldn’t disappoint them and he performs the role well. He brilliantly baits Jews and conservatives to train his fan base into sycophants dismissing all criticism as racism or Zionism/islamophobia. But his primary motivation is very obviously power. He is a talented performer with not an ounce of natural charisma
no one understands this dynamic better than garry tan, which is why, incidentally, yc started allocating a portion of their capital to sponsor abg's and keep the b2b saas/ai founders in sf and applying to yc
the ABG industrial complex knows no bounds
What all the “sf is back” propaganda from yc et al seems to miss, is that they will keep leaking founders to nyc until they first reclaim all the abg egirls that fled to nyc during the pandemic.
Until then, the average b2b saas and gpt wrapper founders will continue picking nyc
Seems unavoidable at some point all these content founder shops like cluely/series will just turn into onlyfans farms
At first it will be just another bit, another growth hack digested by the algorithm, but in reality, at the core these companies are selling the promise of sex masquerading as founder vanity to sexually frustrated founding engineers on X
Onlyfans Founders is the final form
Influencer mansion reality tv show in SoCal? Just an ABG brothel in practice
Do you really think in 10 years you’ll be able to look your son in the eyes and tell him you were a member of ZFellows and raised capital from Pear VC?
Is it worth the humiliation?
Do you want your son to respect you?
What all the “sf is back” propaganda from yc et al seems to miss, is that they will keep leaking founders to nyc until they first reclaim all the abg egirls that fled to nyc during the pandemic.
Until then, the average b2b saas and gpt wrapper founders will continue picking nyc
If there is one thing we can take away from the vittorio poasting crisis, perhaps it’s that even a hard pivot to b2b payroll saas cannot fully protect you from the trap of pseudonymous incels
What all the “sf is back” propaganda from yc et al seems to miss, is that they will keep leaking founders to nyc until they first reclaim all the abg egirls that fled to nyc during the pandemic.
Until then, the average b2b saas and gpt wrapper founders will continue picking nyc
very few understand this, but the safest people in mass tech layoffs are the ABG new grad swes as the only thing keeping a 34 yr old male EM going in his sisyphean career in big tech is role playing sexual dominance with a 24 yr ABG new grad from stanford during standup every day
One of the many reasons why Elon taking over Twitter was a civilization history altering event.
Narratives control our future. Twitter controls our narratives.
This app in 2020: we’re all gonna die, climate change is fucked, having kids is immoral, humanity is a virus
This app 2024: we’re all gonna make it, have unprotected sex, humanity is great, the technocapital machine is unstoppable, let’s conquer the universe
“Test test” he said finally as @lastcontrarian stood behind him, lifting the guillotine and whispering:
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
the most feminine thing a man can do is be a 26 yr old “associate” at a VC firm with a stanford graduation photo as their twitter profile picture and tweet every few days about hosting events “bringing together the best builders in sf”
Few know this, but if you tweet sf is back and the best place to build in AI enough times, Garry Tan will sneak into your house at night and leave a 500k check under your pillow
People seem to massively fetishize the hard pivot.
At best, rapid pivots tend to find local optimums in b2b saas, at worst they lead to a long, undirected flailing of likely talented people who could be more productive working with an early team that has a clear 0 to 1 vision.
Mass scale, coordinated illegal immigration is a form of decentralized colonization.
Ironically, it is coordinated by all the NGOs that lecture us relentlessly on the importance of “de-colonizing”.
The pipeline of work in tech -> start shitpoasting on twitter -> develop trad values -> start going to church is an under investigated phenomenon