ashton johnson

Mehdi gives the impression that 1) it is only the right-wing who spew venom against, and 2) it is the first time Hindus/Indians have faced this in the US. But in reality, it is the academic and political left-wing that has mainstreamed anti-Hindu hate both inside the classrooms, and in popular discourse in media. Had the leftwing not pushed the Hindus against wall, they would have remained a loyal foot soldier of the Democrats.

Thought I was losing my mind at the nypl today

Alex Karp was born in New York City in 1967, son of a Jewish father and an African American mother, raised in Philadelphia. He describes himself as a socialist and a progressive. He did a PhD in neoclassical social theory at Goethe University in Frankfurt - his thesis explored how language and aggression shape culture. He studied at the Frankfurt School, the intellectual home of critical theory, Adorno, Habermas. That’s about as left-academic as it gets. So this is a self-described socialist who runs a surveillance company that got its early funding from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture arm , advocated for Palantir’s controversial ICE contract , and is now writing manifestos about how tech companies have a duty to build AI weapons. In 2024 he was the highest-paid CEO of a publicly traded US company, with compensation of almost $6.8 billion. That’s not a typo. Billion. Karp is the progressive intellectual who built a surveillance empire and now writes philosophy justifying it. He knows the critical theory that should make him question exactly what he’s doing.

1) Pod Save America gives Hasan Piker softball opportunity to say he can't actually *mean* it when he says Hamas is "1,000x better" than Israel 2) Piker declines opportunity: "I mean it" 3) Headline of Ezra Klein's NYT op-ed, "Hasan Piker Is Not the Enemy," mysteriously changes