Descent into Darkness?

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Descent into Darkness?

A recording from Daniel Pinchbeck's live video

Daniel Pinchbeck

Feb 13, 2025

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Here I am, venting a bit. I feel a lot of grief and sorrow about what’s happening in the US right now. Everything from RFK to Kash Patel, Trump’s plan for Ukraine, DOGE, and so on. Please watch or listen, as you want. If you are in an awesome mood, please continue with whatever is making you happy right now!

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, and many others for tuning into my live video! I hope you will join me for my next live video in the Substack app.

Some links for subjects I discussed or alluded to in the video:

Amazingly Wonderful or Atrociously Bad?

Daniel Pinchbeck

Feb 12

As we look at the current trajectory in America, we see a rapid shift toward despotism and oligarchy, where a contingent of the wealthiest seek to control the government and media — as well as the planet’s physical resources — for their own benefit, while imposing ideological indoctrination, pauperization, and mass surveillance on the population as a whole. In

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Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/

Trump seeks $4 trillion tax cut for the wealthy: https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-reveal-trump-tax-plan-will-cost-us-45-trillion-2030024

The Seneca Effect

The Collapse of the US Elite

It is the destiny of all elites to be born as saviors and die as parasites. The US elite may be going the same way that the old Soviet Communist Elite went: condemned by its inefficiency and pushed out to make space for another elite. It was expected, although not so soon. The attempt may still fail, but one thing is clear: this is a revolution…

16 days ago · 45 likes · 28 comments · Ugo Bardi

Very extensive dossier on Musk’s background and DOGE: https://america2.news/content/files/2025/02/Musk-NRx-Memo-February-5-2025.pdf

Fantastic analysis of RFK’s lies on Joe Rogan:

JD Vance recent speech at AI Conference in Paris, wants unregulated development of AI: https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1889483982166958413

The New American Revolution

Daniel Pinchbeck

Feb 11

I think it is clear that what we are seeing politically right now is nothing we know: It is neither familiar nor normal. It can’t, in fact, be normalized: This is an actual, honest to God, coup d’etat. Let’s call it what it is: The New American Revolution

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa