this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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That's it, that's the tweet.

Almost feel bad posting because there's a good chance it's engagement bait, but even then there's a good chance he unironically believes this.

He has a startup by the way, check his pinned tweet.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Love the reply saying "eh, I disagree -- LA's not that important, it's really just SF and DC"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Unless their will is to tie blocks of concrete to their feet and get in the sea, I can't see how.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If anything them and their shagging private planes are driving down the chance of human civilization surviving as they will forestall effective climate action. If you successfully defeat AI/wokeism/California democrats but fail to deal with rising global temperatures, you'll have done nothing but rearrange the deckchairs on the titanic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just like really don't want to click that link.

Can you screenshot or give more context?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's no more context - title is the entire tweet. But here's a screenshot of a short conversation under the tweet:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

we can only hope that nothing continues to happen everywhere else. our only hope is to contain the infection to SF, LA, and DC before it's too late

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I reflexively downvoted this post because that tweet/reply is so appalling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Peak narcissism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Another of the great unweathered

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago