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Mike Brock 🇺🇸

@brockm.bsky.social
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Former tech guy. Writer. Standing somewhere. A circus, perhaps. From here, this is what I see. Observations here: notesfromthecircus.com

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 1h
"Some of the people I worked with in Bitcoin were convinced that liberals secretly wanted permanent lockdowns. I spoke to one of them at length over drinks. He believed they wanted total control over people’s lives ... And yes, that was very deranged."
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Inside the Deranged Mind of the Right-Winger
On the people who imagine everyone else’s corruption and excuse their own
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2h
Some are now distancing themselves from Trump. Until recently, they preferred to question the mental health of the people who warned them.
notesfromthecircus.com
Inside the Deranged Mind of the Right-Winger
On the people who imagine everyone else’s corruption and excuse their own
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2h
How's Trump's breathing?
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 16h
Wanting to live in a cyperpunk future is strange, all things considered. How cool would it be live like digital sewer rats in the shadows of giant shadowy corporations that control the world? It’s a strange thing to romanticize.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 21h
The Pentagon and US defense industry seems to be really upset the Canada and the EU are trying to move away from US-made defense systems. The plea to the EU parliament by General Grynkewich for Europe to not pursue these policies is HILARIOUS after we threaten war with NATO member over Greenland.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 22h
It really is inaccurate to call the GOP a conservative party. It is a radical revolutionary party. Conservatism is usually — by definition — the opposite of that.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You do have to admit that it’s really something that the Christian right will attack fundamentalist Islam for subjugating women, while encouraging women in America to become tradwives and obey their husbands.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I give at least a 20% chance to Trump trying to rename the United States itself to "The Great United States of America" or something absurd before this is all over.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am in favor of sending tactical retrieval teams — over the screams of the sovereign countries that house them — to bring them back to stand trial for sedition.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The spate of right-wing billionaires beginning to relocate outside the country in recent months tells you everything you need to know about these traitorous fucks.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Someone once asked me if a civil war broke out in America between democratic and anti-democratic factions if I would flee the country? The answer is no: I would grab a gun.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Perhaps you laughed at the clip, and then explained to someone that Huang has a business to protect. Well, yes ... and it leaves us with the question of what else protecting the business will eventually require him to go along with."
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Lost Friendships and The Cost of Understanding
To the Silicon Valley employee who made peace with Trump
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You were terrified Trump would win, and then you found a way to live comfortably inside the thing you feared. I lost nearly every friend and my career refusing that accommodation, and I have something to say to the people who made it.
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Lost Friendships and The Cost of Understanding
To the Silicon Valley employee who made peace with Trump
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
None of my terrible predictions that have come true required some exceptional intellect to make. They just required not lying to myself. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." — Upton Sinclair
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Smith was(n’t) at a Hawks game. Ray Epps was at the Capitol on January 6. BClinton and Loretta Lynch were on a tarmac. To Republicans, these are case-closed moments proving *absolute* guilt. But two Russian assets meeting with Don Jr and Jared in Trump Tower in 2016? “Nothing to see here…”
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How's Trump's breathing, today? I ask not out of concern, but out of anticipation.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cannot be understated what a optics disaster today is for Big Tech. People already hate them. They now hate Trump. And you motherfuckers stood behind him and smiled at the stupid attempt to trick people with a rebranding exercise while Trump calls everyone's concern a "hoax!"
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's really funny at a deep cosmic level that Trump thinks it's just a branding problem and "artificial" is what's throwing people off. It's even more existentially funny that the tech CEOs are going along with it. I feel like we need a modern Zhuangzi text for this.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seriously, what does Tim "The Token Black Guy" Scott from South Carolina think that the entire US refugee program is now only for white South Africans? Why does the press not ask him about this?
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So is OpenAI going to change its name to OpenSI? I need this in my life. The polemic I will write about Altman in particular, if this happens, will be so fun. Oh god, let this happen. It will be even more perfect if they do it to get a bailout from the Trump Administration.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember how the institution of marriage was going to complete collapse if gays and lesbians were allowed to marry? This was an actual argument from the right.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Conservatives spent years asking the press to distinguish their worst elements from their respectable core. How long were we supposed to keep looking for the better conservatism concealed behind the conservatism that governs?
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The Press Was Too Charitable
On the respectable conservatism we were asked to keep looking for
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For ten years, the conservative movement insisted that a liberal media had grotesquely maligned it. The opposite now seems closer to true: the press was too charitable. They turned out to be worse people than even their alleged enemies imagined.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The AI "safety pause," when the labs coordinate one, will be the arms race negotiating its own ceasefire. Nobody can tell investors the money ran out. Everybody can say the stakes were too high. The pause converts a balance-sheet problem into a moral credential.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is very helpful — all things considered — that the worst, selfish, opportunistic among us have all very publicly aligned themselves to think sinking ship. And even as some jump onto life boats. We still have the passenger manifest.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It always surprised me how many Boomers of my parents generation were somehow convinced that Leave it to Beaver and I Love Lucy represented a lost golden-era of how people used to live. And this was an attitude prevalent in the 90s.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Literally all the GOP has is pointing and screaming "Trans people! Muslims! Communism!" This is their entire electoral platform going into November as the country turns against them. What do they think is going to happen, here?
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Birmingham Indivisible ❌👑💙🔵 @indivisiblebham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mike Brock on the resistance - It is Always Darkest Before the Dawn open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc... #Resist
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It is Always Darkest Before the Dawn
On discovering there is more of us than them
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How's Trump doing? Hearing he's not doing too well.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have a couple of tech CEOs — from smaller companies, none of the big ones — write me to tell me the appreciate what I'm doing, and agree with my diagnose from the inside. So that's nice.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have encountered a novel defense from a former Trump supporter. That I was only accidentally right about Trump being this crazy. Because he wasn't this crazy in November 2024, so TDS was the correct diagnosis. But Trump has CHANGED since then. Wow. So much rationalization.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should pass a law where women are just legally allowed one swift punch to the face of any man who says they should "smile more".
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The reason why I expect the polls to worsen even more between now and November, is that since the whole Graham Platner thing, the GOP has had NO narrative control over this electoral cycle. The Dems and online left are dog-walking them.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My lack of concern for his health is palpable. I feel the warm glow of deliverance in our future.
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BOMBSHELL RUMOR: Trump STRUGGLING TO BREATH, wearing LEG BRACE
YouTube video by David Pakman Show
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is who the Bernie-Trump-Biden-Trump voter is.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What centrist politicians really do not understand about populism and why everyone hates them is nobody believes they're on the side of regular people. It has nothing to do with policy, actually. All people hear from the center are workshopped talking points and hand-wavy rhetoric.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you’re going to tell me that AI will do to humanity what humanity did to gorillas, explain how you got from a software benchmark to that conclusion. Show your fucking work.
notesfromthecircus.com
The Gorilla Is Not an Argument
On the leap from better software to a successor species
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How's Trump's heart doing?
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Karl Rove coming out and saying the GOP has become a Nazi party was not on my bingo card.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A lot of people on the left seem to think Trump et. al. have a reasonably high chance of turning America into a permanent dictatorship. As bad as everything is right now, I’m willing to bet people BIG MONEY against that outcome.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MAHA is literally a neo-vitalist movement. Did you know that vitalism was part of Nazism?
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are literally on the verge of completely curing cancer. We are now successfully gene-sequencing tumors and creating custom vaccines for individual patients. And these treatments are working.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Knowing things are wrong can leave us feeling helpless; discovering how many others are prepared to act can change what we believe is possible. I believe that recognition is spreading, and that renewal has already begun.
notesfromthecircus.com
It is Always Darkest Before the Dawn
On discovering there is more of us than them
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What an endorsement.
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Peter Thiel praises Bari Weiss
YouTube video by Nimrod Kamer
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This rant from @TheOmniLiberal on immigration and Elon is based and cathartic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRWJ...
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Alex O'Connor Confronts Destiny on Immigration
YouTube video by More Alex O'Connor
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is it bad that I smile to myself knowing some academic philosophers take umbrage at the fact I call myself a philosopher absent a degree from the Academy. That it draws this reaction, intensifies my commitment to the self-labeling.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It doesn't matter if you privately disagree with Trump while accommodating him in public. It actually makes it worse. Because it proves you KNOW what you're doing is wrong. Nobody will get credit for their private misgivings in the years to come.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I know the US is head for Bastille Day-level event in the near-future.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Watching Russia intentionally inflict civilian casualties has me wishing for cancer among Russia apologists.
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