Emile Strunz

Here’s me in today’s Guardian, reminiscing the fuck out of things theguardian.com/music/2024/dec…

@ZiaYusufUK Who elected you? Pipe the fuck down

Friendly note to Labour MPs ahead of the vote tomorrow to decide if Starmer should face an ethics probe: If you vote against it, Reform will carpet bomb your constituency to ensure all your constituents know you voted to save the most unpopular PM of all time. Vote wisely.

@dailybritainonx @campbellclaret FASCIST!!!!

He is funded by a Thailand-based crypto billionaire and a man pardoned by Trump for financial crimes. He declared £384,000 in earnings up to 120 days late. His deputy has two tax scandals. He says he speaks for ordinary working people. One word. Drop it in the comments.

@IntuitiveLulu @tomburgis What is it with blue ticks and piss weasels?

@tomburgis The Guardian? Investigating? More like paid by Soros ... you've zero credibility.🥴 All sides of the aisle, they're rotten ... that you prop up one side makes you not a journalist but a propaganda paid tool.

A mystery moneyman's donations could carry Nigel Farage to power. He lives in Thailand and is “intensely private”. I’ve spent months investigating who he is, what he wants and his crypto fortune. Here, for the first time, is the story of Chris Harborne theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@ZiaYusufUK Too much gak on a Friday afternoon lad? You need a lie down with a nice cup of camomile tea

The whole “unite the right” BS many Tories push is a deliberate psyop. Politics is no longer about right vs left. It’s establishment vs anti-establishment. The establishment must be smashed.

Look how scared he is when it isn’t staged.

@ZiaYusufUK @LeeAndersonMP_ And you’re an unelected spiv so pipe the fuck down

Most MPs are totally out of touch with the British public. So much so that @LeeAndersonMP_ daring to tell the truth results him being kicked out of the House of Commons. Starmer is a disgrace.

@PalantirTech Is this from Starship Troopers? I know you fucking freaks have circle jerk parties whilst watching Lord of the Rings and all that, but cut back on the ketamine and coke whilst having them yeah?

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

Palantir vient de publier son manifeste. Lisez-le. Pas pour ce qu'il dit sur la tech. Pour ce qu'il dit sur le politique. Sur l'idéologie de Karp et Thiel. Sur la guerre. Sur vous. Quand une entreprise privée se donne pour mission de définir qui doit être surveillé, ciblé, prédit, neutralisé, et qu'elle publie simultanément un texte expliquant pourquoi contester cela serait de la faiblesse civilisationnelle, on n'est plus dans la stratégie d'entreprise. On est dans la privatisation du souverain. Le droit de décider de l'ennemi, qui fut toujours le geste politique fondateur des États, est en train d'être racheté par une entreprise cotée au Nasdaq. Ce manifeste repose sur un seul tour de passe-passe, répété sous vingt formes différentes : rendre l'inévitable ce qui est en réalité un choix. Les armes à IA ? Elles seront construites de toute façon, alors autant que ce soit nous. La surveillance algorithmique ? La réalité géopolitique l'exige. Le réarmement de l'Occident, la hiérarchie des cultures, la disqualification du pluralisme comme naïveté dangereuse ? Simple lucidité face au monde tel qu'il est. C'est le geste idéologique par excellence : ne pas interdire la question, mais la rendre indécente. Ce que Palantir appelle réalisme est en fait une décision philosophique radicale : le conflit est la vérité permanente du monde, la délibération démocratique est une fragilité que l'adversaire exploitera, et une élite technologique privée est mieux placée qu'un peuple pour tirer les conséquences de cette vérité. C'est du schmittisme en hoodie. C'est littéralement la structure de leur pensée. Le danger n'est pas qu'ils soient fous. Le danger est qu'ils soient riches, cohérents, et déjà à l'intérieur des États. Palantir ne frappe pas à la porte des gouvernements pour vendre un outil. Elle arrive avec une cosmologie complète : voici comment fonctionne le monde, voici vos ennemis, voici pourquoi vous ne pouvez pas vous permettre de débattre, et voici notre contrat. Palantir est l'ennemie des peuples et de la démocratie. Ce qu'ils construisent, c'est un pouvoir technocratique que personne n'a élu et que personne ne pourra destituer.

SO IT GOES with Tony Wilson [1977] Watch Sweep the Punk doing an extremely avant garde version of Boredom. #TonyWilson #SootyandSweep #Buzzcocks

@Dburke603 @Audorin @stellarman22 Burke by name, berk by nature…

@Audorin @stellarman22 Until Russia becomes our ally and you woke fags in Europe are fucked, better bring in even more suicide bombers!

🚨 B-52s are departing RAF Fairford! Local video shows a loaded B-52 taking off. ~7 hour combat flight time to Iran puts them in striking range by 8pm

@mcpyntos Yeah. Really missing it. There’s stuff happening imminently (those NO and JD box sets) and nowhere to chat!!

@EmileStrunz Oh hello Emile, thanks for the "like" earlier. You missing the NOOL forum? I (Debaser) haven't migrated anywhere else. HBU?

Ah, my first New Order gig. The sound was atrocious, I needed binoculars to see the stage, the support band looked like drug dealers, but…what a beautiful day. The merch that day was 🔥🔥🔥

@TheExtremeMusi1 @JDNOPICS Best track is obviously Vanishing Point, their great lost vanished single. Not sure there’s a worst track. Fine Time is an anomaly to the rest of the album but I still love it. What a time to be 17 year old. 1989 was just amazing for great music.

Technique by New Order — thoughts? Best track? Worst track? Rating out of 10? And is it their best album?

@TheExtremeMusi1 It wasn’t really a fresh start. More like a half way house in which to grieve and lick their wounds. The fresh start was ‘Power, Corruption, and Lies’

The end or a fresh start? Which album do you choose?

@elonmusk That’s before you revealed yourself as a ket-addled tech Nazi

True

@GeneralMCNews Breaking News ‼️ ⛔️In Tel Aviv: Police violently dispersed 1500 people protesting against the war and the government❗️ An uprising has begun in Israel demanding the resignation of the Netanyahu government.

@metroadlib @mehdirhasan

In my LIFETIME, I have NEVER heard ANYONE admit anything even CLOSE to this out loud. Oh. my. God.

@warrior_ke86190 @JonathanPieNews What is it with THICK BASTARDS and blue ticks?

@JonathanPieNews Farage will be your next Prime Minister. Suck it up. It’s called democracy.

Bloody hell, he’s being serious. I thought this was a parody post at first glance. Jesus.

@theclearthinke1 @amanpour @RNicholasBurns It’s always the thick cunts with the blue ticks…

@amanpour @RNicholasBurns When did Britain last have such a reviled and pathetic PM?

"I've never seen an American president, not just in our lifetime, in the last two centuries of American history, be that critical of a British prime minister." @RNicholasBurns tells me "a fundamental mistake is: disparage your allies, make life difficult for them at home, you really can't expect them to be with you in a fight that they didn't start

@Nigel_Farage @JohnCleese Fuck off you treacherous toad

What we witnessed in London at the historic Trafalgar Square, in a country built on Judeo-Christian values, was a group of people attempting dominance over our capital city and our culture. We are not going to surrender everything that was built over centuries and defended at great cost in two world wars for us to be a free, independent nation. The British people will not put up with this any longer — simple as.