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BlueSky has not taken off because its the far left version of Twitter. If you stray even to the center you are doxxed and banned. They banned the sitting vice-p

BlueSky has not taken off because its the far left version of Twitter. If you stray even to the center you are doxxed and banned. They banned the sitting vice-president within a couple of hours of him joining.

HDThoreaun 1y ago
The sitting vice president is a monarchist, not just a little right of center
- AnimalMuppet 1y ago
  Is he? I'm not so sure. Yes, he endorses Yarvin. And that could be real. He could really believe it, and really want to follow it. But it seems to me that Vance has been, shall we say, rather mobile on his positions. I wonder if we have ever seen what he really thinks. (You decide whether that would make him less dangerous, or more.)
- dinkumthinkum 1y ago
  A monarchist? Can you explain what a monarchist is? I would think having the position of Vice President would largely imply one is particularly not a monarchist.
  - mapt 1y ago
    JD Vance is/was the personal assistant to Peter Thiel, a tech billionaire who believes we need to get beyond the weaknesses of democracy & egalitarianism in order to preserve the sort of freedom that billionaires need to have. Thiel and Musk are also the financial & political patrons of Mencius Moldbug / Curtis Yarvin, who AFAICT is the person to reintroduce the idea of non-electoral monarchy/autocracy as a credible goal to politics, out loud. > In his blog Unqualified Reservations, which he wrote from 2007 to 2014, and in his later newsletter Gray Mirror, which he started in 2020, he argues that American democracy is a failed experiment[10] that should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations.[11] Thiel runs Palantir, whose specialization (again: competing with Musk) is making the authoritarian, panopticon dystopias of science fiction more physically feasible with AI analysis of large volumes of arbitrary data. A system like West Berlin where every third person is informing on their neighbors to a human Stasi officer is horrendously inefficient firehose of data, almost impossible to administrate effectively, and Palantir aims to fix that. Palantir was responding to a market demand from the resurgent US intelligence agencies for this sort of administration for COIN / counterterrorism / occupied territory in Iraq & Afghanistan. https://zeteo.com/p/peter-thiel-jd-vance-trump-maga-broligarch https://zeteo.com/p/peter-thiel-jd-vance-trump-maga-broligar... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-... Thiel in his VC hat has also been deeply involved with ycombinator.
gammarator 1y ago
JD Vance is not banned, he’s just widely blocked, which is something BlueSky users are free to do.

HDThoreaun 1y ago

The sitting vice president is a monarchist, not just a little right of center

AnimalMuppet 1y ago
Is he? I'm not so sure. Yes, he endorses Yarvin. And that could be real. He could really believe it, and really want to follow it. But it seems to me that Vance has been, shall we say, rather mobile on his positions. I wonder if we have ever seen what he really thinks. (You decide whether that would make him less dangerous, or more.)
dinkumthinkum 1y ago
A monarchist? Can you explain what a monarchist is? I would think having the position of Vice President would largely imply one is particularly not a monarchist.
- mapt 1y ago
  JD Vance is/was the personal assistant to Peter Thiel, a tech billionaire who believes we need to get beyond the weaknesses of democracy & egalitarianism in order to preserve the sort of freedom that billionaires need to have. Thiel and Musk are also the financial & political patrons of Mencius Moldbug / Curtis Yarvin, who AFAICT is the person to reintroduce the idea of non-electoral monarchy/autocracy as a credible goal to politics, out loud. > In his blog Unqualified Reservations, which he wrote from 2007 to 2014, and in his later newsletter Gray Mirror, which he started in 2020, he argues that American democracy is a failed experiment[10] that should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations.[11] Thiel runs Palantir, whose specialization (again: competing with Musk) is making the authoritarian, panopticon dystopias of science fiction more physically feasible with AI analysis of large volumes of arbitrary data. A system like West Berlin where every third person is informing on their neighbors to a human Stasi officer is horrendously inefficient firehose of data, almost impossible to administrate effectively, and Palantir aims to fix that. Palantir was responding to a market demand from the resurgent US intelligence agencies for this sort of administration for COIN / counterterrorism / occupied territory in Iraq & Afghanistan. https://zeteo.com/p/peter-thiel-jd-vance-trump-maga-broligarch https://zeteo.com/p/peter-thiel-jd-vance-trump-maga-broligar... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-... Thiel in his VC hat has also been deeply involved with ycombinator.

gammarator 1y ago

JD Vance is not banned, he’s just widely blocked, which is something BlueSky users are free to do.