When Musk bought Twitter, I thought it was some Boomer-tier longing for "free speech" and expected Twitter to fail soon afterwards. Boy I was wrong. Elon's little obsession with free speech cut through my cynical and blackpilled heart, and now we are in a much better timeline than before. I will take a "New Right" civnat Straussian Twitter over the progressive hugbox it was before, any day any time. The only bad effect has been for blessed outposts like Gab.
My one and only Yarvin memory is from Hazony's first event where Yarvin was explaining to people he was Moldbug. He clearly assumed everyone knew of that character, but no one had any idea what he was referring to and politely treated him like a lunatic.
Yeah, it is good Musk is calling out leftardism on a pretty regular basis. It’s been sorely needed and he’s one White guy who can pull it off with zero F’s to give. Merry Christmas to Z and all the commenters here and on the website.
What's especially stupid about their crowing about Biden getting one more judicial appointment than Trump is that Trump is going to have a second term that Biden will never have. He'll retake the lead in the first six months or less and end up with more than twice as many appointments than Biden had.
Most importantly, Trump will likely get 2 or more SCOTUS appointments. Now, the bloom is of the rose for some of us on his appointments from the first term, but they're all better than we would have gotten under Hillary. The Democrats continuing their war on Thomas is really stupid at this point as he's likely to retire anyway now. They ought to be kissing his ass now and hoping he'd hang on and do a Ginsburg after 2028 when they might have a Dem president.
Thomas retires, Alito retires, Roberts has another stroke and retires, and The Wise Latina finally succumbs to the diabetes. At least one or two of those things will happen between now and 2028, possibly all four.
I appreciate your point about the Federal employee retirement, but a small quibble. Fed employees receive a percentage of their high average three years upon retirement, not the full amount. From the OPM website, up to age 62 (or 62+ with less than 20 years of service), it is 1% of their average high 3 years, times the numbers of years of service; at 62+, it is 1.1% (or 1% if less than 20 years of service). So, as an example, if a retiring employee's average high 3 years salary is $100,000, and has 20 years of service, then his/her pension could be either $100,000 * (20 * .01) = $20,000; or $100,000 * (20 * .011) = $22,000.
You may be thinking of the old system (before 1987) where the calculation was 2% of the high 3 average, so someone retiring at 20 years with a $100,000 high 3 would receive $100,00 * (20 * .02) = $40,000.
The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP, govt "401K") is a matching deduction from the monthly pay (up to $23,500 from an employee's pay in 2025), which is, of course deposited into the Wall Street casino in the form of various mutual funds managed by BlackRock. I'm sure Larry Fink (now isn't that a name for a CEO!?) has the best interests of Federal employees at heart...
When Musk bought Twitter, I thought it was some Boomer-tier longing for "free speech" and expected Twitter to fail soon afterwards. Boy I was wrong. Elon's little obsession with free speech cut through my cynical and blackpilled heart, and now we are in a much better timeline than before. I will take a "New Right" civnat Straussian Twitter over the progressive hugbox it was before, any day any time. The only bad effect has been for blessed outposts like Gab.
I don't think I have ever seen a picture of Yarvin before but he looks just as I would have expected.
My one and only Yarvin memory is from Hazony's first event where Yarvin was explaining to people he was Moldbug. He clearly assumed everyone knew of that character, but no one had any idea what he was referring to and politely treated him like a lunatic.
Yeah, it is good Musk is calling out leftardism on a pretty regular basis. It’s been sorely needed and he’s one White guy who can pull it off with zero F’s to give. Merry Christmas to Z and all the commenters here and on the website.
Reminds me of the common weasel words. "Some say..." Oh, really? How many, and who?
A nice white pill before the new year. Have a very merry Christmas Z.
What's especially stupid about their crowing about Biden getting one more judicial appointment than Trump is that Trump is going to have a second term that Biden will never have. He'll retake the lead in the first six months or less and end up with more than twice as many appointments than Biden had.
Most importantly, Trump will likely get 2 or more SCOTUS appointments. Now, the bloom is of the rose for some of us on his appointments from the first term, but they're all better than we would have gotten under Hillary. The Democrats continuing their war on Thomas is really stupid at this point as he's likely to retire anyway now. They ought to be kissing his ass now and hoping he'd hang on and do a Ginsburg after 2028 when they might have a Dem president.
Thomas retires, Alito retires, Roberts has another stroke and retires, and The Wise Latina finally succumbs to the diabetes. At least one or two of those things will happen between now and 2028, possibly all four.
I appreciate your point about the Federal employee retirement, but a small quibble. Fed employees receive a percentage of their high average three years upon retirement, not the full amount. From the OPM website, up to age 62 (or 62+ with less than 20 years of service), it is 1% of their average high 3 years, times the numbers of years of service; at 62+, it is 1.1% (or 1% if less than 20 years of service). So, as an example, if a retiring employee's average high 3 years salary is $100,000, and has 20 years of service, then his/her pension could be either $100,000 * (20 * .01) = $20,000; or $100,000 * (20 * .011) = $22,000.
You may be thinking of the old system (before 1987) where the calculation was 2% of the high 3 average, so someone retiring at 20 years with a $100,000 high 3 would receive $100,00 * (20 * .02) = $40,000.
The Thrift Savings Plan (TSP, govt "401K") is a matching deduction from the monthly pay (up to $23,500 from an employee's pay in 2025), which is, of course deposited into the Wall Street casino in the form of various mutual funds managed by BlackRock. I'm sure Larry Fink (now isn't that a name for a CEO!?) has the best interests of Federal employees at heart...