• Jackcooper@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    That’s cool but like Mike Honda is 84 years old so why is he part of this conversation

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      6 hours ago

      Lmao this is the dumbest fucking take I’ve ever read

      Btw here is “crotchety old” Mike Honda back in 2016 explaining who has always controlled “progressive” Ro Kahnna

      Why is Mike Honda relevant to this conversation? Bc while Ro Kahnna was praising Thiel for doing what we all just saw reluctant “liberal” Bari Weiss repeat in 2025, Mike Honda was trying to warn us that Peter Thiel is ghost writing “progressive” policy and manipulating the press to ensure the window drifts even further to the right and locks us all into inescapable authoritarianism.

      Conservatives so drunk on power they’re literally just saying the quiet part out loud now without fear of consequence: Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race. Oh and by the way, we’re pretty clearly staging a coup to install our own Senate leader within the Democratic party.

      You: Pssh, Mike Honda? He old.

      • Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        Because being a good person does not make him fit for office. He’s 15-20 years past what any reasonable retirement age should be.

        That doesn’t mean kahanna or whatever isn’t a bought shit bag either.