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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"Elsewhere in the podcast with Anton, Yarvin talked of the need to mobilise the base of the party – its ordinary supporters – in the service of the cause. Yarvin postulated this could be done with an app that supporters would download and take instructions from when opponents were identified." - X?
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Read about Curtis Yarvin and connect the dots www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration
Key figures in the incoming administration follow Curtis Yarvin, who’s pushing for an autocratic takeover of the US
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
[sarcasm] Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch - warriors of the working class... [/sarcasm]
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
theguardian.com
He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration
Key figures in the incoming administration follow Curtis Yarvin, who’s pushing for an autocratic takeover of the US
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"Yarvin admires Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping for his pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism, and the city-state of Singapore as an example of a successful authoritarian regime. He sees the US as soft on crime, dominated by economic and democratic delusions." Brought to you by the tech bros
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"...democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful - should be replaced with sovereign joint-stock corps whose "shareholders" elect an executive with total power, but who must serve at their pleasure, unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, could rule efficiently much like a CEO-monarch.
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I'm all for free speech and discussion of radical ideas - but this is a quiet coup with a charismatic leader figurehead being manipulated to cause as much distraction as possible to allow the real actions to materialize under everyone's nose.
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
He has a who's who of tech bros who are adherents and allies in his quest for an American oligarchical monarchy much like the autocratic city-state of Singapore... Anti-university and anti free press - who he says are in cohoots pushing for ultra left policies
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_... Read it and weep - the irony of a guy raised by ultra liberal parents in the best alternative schools and excelling in his field to have swung to the opposite extreme in political beliefs...
en.wikipedia.org
Curtis Yarvin - Wikipedia
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"He advocates an American 'monarch' dissolving elite academic institutions and media outlets within the first few months of their reign.[33]" Sound familiar? It should, since this is the basis of how the first 100 days were defined in Project 2025
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Ever heard of Curtis Yarvin? Turns out he's a modern day Karl Marx, except for the other side... He's the political guru for what's going on right now - J.D.Vance cites him as a major influence on his views. I'll post the wiki about him and a key tenet of his in the comments below...
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Agreed - which is why I pointed out a charismatic leader who has total control of their party. Trying to be bipartisan over your own best interests and instincts just foments failure
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Because of how rushed this is, and very poor choices of cabinet positions, much of the efforts will fail to stick, and infighting will render the next 18-24 months ineffectual. Trumpers will Trump in 2026, but a big blue wave will hit Congress and the following 2 years will be another waste of time.
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
IMHO he's trying to implement the details of what is defined in Project 2025 as quickly as possible - even before the first 100 days defined in the document - so that he can just get down to grifting, golfing, gathering adulation at rallies and abdicating governing responsibilities...
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Correction - money costs of handling increase the more levels it goes through. If money goes up to the top and then trickles down being distributed to the states and then local entities, leakage occurs for many reasons (corruption included). Reverse the flow and it's more likely the money won't leak
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Treated more fairly across the board. Each local district would have its own individual standard deduction based on the economics of the locality, ensuring fair treatment. Usury (sales) tax need would be minimized, doing away with a regressive tax hitting the poor harder, and revenues normalized
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Money increases the more levels it goes through. If tax rate thresholds were set according to cost of living at the local level, and percentages then allocated and sent up to state and federal agencies without the need for complex regulations, the cost savings would be great, and people would be...
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Transform the IRS from a federally administrated workforce into a locally driven workforce. There are multiple layers of tax administration - municipal, county, state and federal. Plus mini HOA districts. Money should only flow one direction and it doesn't at the moment. The cost of handling...
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Bring back higher taxes on the rich, find legal ways to tax the loans taken using investment equity as collateral, impose foreign employment taxes on companies using overseas labor to save money and increase profits, stock trade transactional taxes, eliminate many loopholes in the tax code, and...
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
To return to the booming economy of the 1950s will require a harsh plan like the one Project 2025 has laid out. And an administration with the power and fealty of a charismatic leader like Trump but who is not there exclusively to grift the country. Radical tax law transformation is needed
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This has been happening since Reagan - and has been made very public showing how wages for the middle and working classes have stagnated while corporate profits and elite wages have soared. No coincidence that the seeding of SCOTUS with hardcore conservatives started happening around the same time
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
And as you plainly see today, the oligarchy will march in lock-step behind these figurehead leaders and usher in a modern feudalism - the middle class will shrink and disappear, with those who manage to stay will gain modestly in wealth while the rest will be in sustainment mode never getting ahead
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
And with the US falling into isolationism and fascism it would encourage the EU public to follow. Putin couldn't have drawn up a better plan to break up global alliances and mutual defense agreements. Chinese leadership will be able to subjugate Taiwan without any threat of the US stepping in
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
They're also counting on the very short memories of the people - we would get used to what had happened and those who historically voted GOP would continue regardless of the pain inflicted. State controlled media would repeat the lies of a better state of society just like in Hungary and DPRK
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The logic of doing such wide and deep sweeping changes was that once the midterms came these changes would already have had their effects and would be very difficult to reverse. Decades of seeding the SCOTUS with hand picked justices would ensure that no challenges would prevail
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Look online for the replacement chip for the fcb - it improves and increases the programmability and flexibility of the unit. I upgraded mine a long long time ago, I've even forgotten about the original limitations. I'll need to relearn but I remember it being much more powerful as a result
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
We were warned in the print of Project 2025 that this was all going to happen, purposefully written & now being executed - the first 100 days had been essentially mapped out with all of the President's actions listed in detail with the accompanying monologue. Those who voted for this will hurt most
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
With all the midi controllable devices on the board, I could go totally crazy and bring out my behringer fcb1010 and set everything up for two separate simultaneous stereo signal chains. It would have a lot of potential for soundscape gigs with loops on loops and a solo stereo signal to play on top
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It's a flyrig - Tech21 sansamp RK5 mark ii - it's the fallback modeler when nothing on the other two will meet the challenge
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I'm starting to assemble pieces of music for a project I'm calling "Contents under Pressure" I'm still doing "Perchance to Dream" but due to technical & fiscal difficulties that will take longer to finish - issues with SSD holding the files are the cause, and repair is very costly. Updates coming
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I've assembled a guitar FX pedalboard - this is ostensibly to play live shows with a band. It's a bit overkill right now as I have three "modelers" vying for supremacy. My trusty Tech21 RK5 mk2, the IK Tonex & a Nux Trident - they all have sweet tones, so I mounted them. Finished off by the H90
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I used to own a Roland JX-8P back 20 years ago. I owned it for 10 years and selling it was a mistake. Fast forward to now - Roland Boutique releases the JX-08 - it's like two JX-8Ps in a tiny little unit. I have one and a JD-08 in a little desktop rack I built myself. On top is a CraftSynth 2.
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I (dont) drink, and I build guitars www.facebook.com/share/v/14o4...
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Rookie City Det. Sergeant @rookiecitycop.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Release the Gaetz report. Pass it on.
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amigoboomer.bsky.social @amigoboomer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Freshly immgrated to Bluesky from Twitter (although I haven't been active at all) - here's hoping we continue to see this as a "free speech" zone for a long long time. Ideally, Bluesky could be a conduit for real information. Not tainted by political motivations and personal glory hounds
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