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I'm very puzzled why tech-adjacent elites seem hellbent on nurturing a more vengeful and murderous public.

To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.

motherjones.comPete Hegseth's firing squad livestream has fans in the defense industryCo-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending "public and brutal" executions.

competentcuttlefish

@cuttlefish.club

I'm sure the real answer is that they think they're gods and therefore no second-order thinking is required, but I also think there might be some Trump pantomiming going on. As in, they still feel like public support (or at least acceptance) is an important resource to have, and they think

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competentcuttlefish

@cuttlefish.club

appealing to a human being's worst instincts will win them that. The problem for them, IMO, is that most people aren't gleeful bloodthirsty monsters. But they wouldn't know that, since their understanding of the public comes mostly from X The Everything App, home of bloodthirsty monsters.