He looks like a genuine American Psycho
Joe Lonsdale. He’s emblematic of the problems of the rich: he’s a billionaire, he’s an entitled dumbass, he despises education, and he wants to kill people less privileged than he is. He has a name for students who seek accommodations for disabilities.
Loser generation. At Stanford, it’s a hack for housing, though and at some point, I get it, even if it’s not my personal ethics. Terrible leadership from the university.
College is only for rich, healthy people who want to join a frat. He also disparages university education.
Claiming your child has a disability to give them a leg up became an obvious dominant game theoretic strategy for parents without honour in the 2010s. Great signal to avoid a family / not do business with parents who act this way.
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No great companies are interested in the BS games played by universities.
What great companies? Lonsdale was a member of the PayPal Mafia, and he made his fortune at Palantir — not a great company by any means, but a damned evil one. He got a BS degree in computer science from Stanford, one of those elite colleges that the rich pollute with their bogus aspirations. Who needs an education when any dumbass can get filthy rich by gouging government contracts and being buddies with other amoral billionaires.
Remember, this guy was a cofounder of the University of Austin — he’s undermining his own scam by scorning universities, which tells you he’s not very bright.
Now he’s also defending turning murder into spectacle.
Joe Lonsdale defended open-air executions in a series of posts on X, saying their reintroduction would be an example of the “masculine leadership” the country is sorely lacking.
“If I’m in charge later,
Wait. Hold it right there. He has hopes of being in charge
? Dear god no.
we won’t just have a three strikes law. We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes. And yes, we will do it in public to deter others,” he wrote. “Our society needs balance. It’s time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable.”
Biggest sign of an entitled asshole: he throws around the word “masculine” as if it is a flawless great good, and treats “feminine” as a weakness. I want leaders who are human and humane, and don’t think more than half the population are unsuited for learning or leading because of their biology.
Acquit Luigi Mangione. His job isn’t done.
Put this asshole first in line for the public executions he says he wants. What a waste of air.
Give him a small water flask and parachute him into a semi-desert without a map. As an alpha male he will have no problems keeping alive.
Unrelated. The recent murder of a film director- who had previously criticised Trump – gave Trump yet another opportunity to prove he is a complete utter swine.
There’s no end to the rich, entitled, talentless assholes crawling out of the woodwork. These seem to be the only thing America manufactures these days.
Take him out by whatever means necessary
His picture brings to mind the German word “backpfeifengesicht.”
@christoph, I see that loosely translates to “punchable face” :)
This dude is seconds away from calling us all “useless eaters”. Which is really worrying given the ongoing COIVD-19 epidemic disabling people
BS as in bullshit or BS as in Bachelor of Science?
Joe Lonsdale is an utter POS anyhow.
The Assassination Bureau would take the contract on him pro bono.
Why yes, if the last few days have taught us anything, it’s that the world needs more vigilante gunmen.
(If you hear a sonic boom, that’s just the seismic shock from me facepalming at PZ’s idea of “humane”.)
Take him camping in Alaska.
“We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes. And yes, we will do it in public to deter others”
The reason the Britain ended public executions was because they didn’t act as a deterrent; instead, people turned them into spectacles with parties and picnics happening right in front of the gallows. But then I guess this guy isn’t very good at history, either.
Joe Lonsdale. He’s emblematic of the problems of the rich: he’s a billionaire, he’s an entitled dumbass, he despises education, and he wants to kill people less privileged than he is
These guys who are emblematic of the dictum that “most CEOs are sociopaths” – it’s just capitalism. The whole structure is designed to allow easy blame-deflected social abuse.
birgerjohansson @3: Pigs are intelligent animals with developed senses of empathy. They don’t deserve to be compared to Trump.
Yes, yes, he’s a jerkwad asshole, I get it. I just don’t think it’s appropriate, even in a roundabout way, to call for him to be hanged or be the target of a vigilante. Ruined? Sure. Shamed? Absolutely. Killed? That’s a step too far.
He wants public executions to deter violent crime? If I remember my history properly, a third conviction for picking pockets was a hanging offense in Restoration England. The best place to get you pocket picked was at a public hanging for pick pockets.
This asswad needs to learn real fuckin’ quick that the disabled is the one minority that anyone can “join”…
@18
he may be “athletic” but he already qualifies, he is disabled clearly lacking some normal emotional responses.and understanding as well as being disabled by having too much money.
Whenever I see someone spout off about the deterrent value of executions, it makes me wonder what an absolute rock-bottom world-beating hellhole Texas and Florida must be. I mean really, if execution is a deterrent, Texas alone, though lagging a bit this year, must be. In the past 50 years Texas has performed about a third of the US’s total executions. Imagine how many murderers would be walking around there if they weren’t so deterred! I’m surprised Texans and Floridians dare to set foot outside the door.
@20 Matthew Currie
Perhaps the allure of killing Texans is simply too strong to be deterred?
I admit to hoping the assassin of Brian Whatisname would not be caught, but individual assassination is really not an effective method of bringing about social progress: it tends to generate sympathy for the victim and does not deter others from following their example, and its longer-term outcome is unpredictable. The less intelligent anarchists of the late 1800s tried it out, and all it produced in the longer term was a caricature of anarchists as bomb-throwing madmen, which probably hasn’t advanced their cause.
Mind you, I must admit two highly effective assassinations:
1) That of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914. This was organised by Dragutin Dimitrijević, better known as Apis, head of Serbian military intelligence and also of the terrorist group Ujedinjenje ili smrt (Unification or Death), better known as the Black Hand. Extreme Serbian nationalists such as Dimitrijević knew that they could bring about the destruction of Austria-Hungary (which ruled Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina which they wanted amalgamated with Serbia) only in the context of a general European war, and Dimitrijević intended the assassination to precipitate this, which it did. OK, Serbia was occupied and devastated by Austrian forces and some 20 million people died premature deaths (including Dimitrijević, who ended up being executed by the Serbian authorities), but hey, as Lenin pointed out, you can’t make an omlette without committing mass murder, and the war ended with a Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia as Dimitrijević intended, so his legacy still persists…
Or rather, doesn’t.
2) That of Admiral Carrero Blanco, Franco’s intended successor as dictator of Spain. ETA blew his car over a 5-storey building (with him in it), and may well have thus spared Spain years more dictatorship, so in that sense it was effective – but it didn’t achieve ETA’s aim of an independent Euskadi.