Tony Snark (Premium E279)
The savior of the West is an anime-loving, missile-launching, mullet-dawning, Hawaiian shirt and cargo shorts wearing 32-year old man in flip-flops. Travis and Brad punish Liv and Julian with the story of Palmer Luckey, the once Silicon Valley wunderkind VR pioneer of the Oculus Rift. His support of Donald Trump’s first presidential run got him fired from Facebook and shunned from the performatively liberal tech industry. The irresponsibly sensational press coverage that followed created the vengeance and spit-fueled defense tech mogul he is today. He’s now on a mission to save the west from autocratic dictators and “woke orthodoxy”, one autonomous drone swarm at a time.
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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
REFERENCES
American Vulcan - by Jeremy Stern, Tablet Mag
http://tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luckey-anduril
History of the Future - by Blake J. Harris
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34017056-the-history-of-the-future
Comments (94)
This - this fucking moron - is why we have government in the first place - so that absolute spanners like him can’t play war games and start shit locally and internationally. That guy you had talking about disinformation research and shit - he mentioned Lina Khan and her work on antitrust and we literally need her 10x with a DOD-level budget to either chase these motherfuckers out or bring them to heel, because we are so cooked otherwise I’m actually gonna end up having to use my second citizenship and move back to a banana republic that I thought to be the lesser of the two evils between it and the US. Fml, we’re so cooked.
Dan Hentschel mentioned!!
Yesterday, the UK Ministry of Defence announced that it’s made a deal worth £30m (currently about $38.75m) with Anduril to supply attack drones to Ukraine. Tom Tugendhat, who was Minister of State for Security in Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government, has expressed concern about this because the company is—wait for it—American.
“RoboCop is badass! We should make OCP real!”
We’re gonna need a bigger Luigi
What I find annoying about individuals like the aforementioned, is that they seem to live out some Military fantasy without having to actually get caught in real life war fighting , maybe because as an ex military person with a few deployments I can say it's fucked to . It's nothing to fantasise about or glorify ../
ok but nyan neko sugar girls is cinema
Also, I'm sorry but Palmer Luckey should be the name of a b-cast member of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, not a person with this influence
The TrueAnon episodes with Douglas Rushkoff go into the culture shift from tech optimism and are super fascinating imo
Right now Palmer Luckey and Jason Calicanis are locked in a Twitter flame war and IT IS GLORIOUS
This guy’s sudden attack of patriotism isn’t a one-off. Last week, I bought a new book by Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska, both of Palantir. In exactly the way as Palmer does here, they equate ideas like “recovering national purpose” and “defending western values” with building weapons systems for the US government. I could’ve saved my $30 if I’d just waited for this episode to come out.
TrashFuture just did a really interesting episode (Bastards of DOGE feat. Quinn Slobodian) wherein they discuss Karp and the book you’re referencing quite a bit.
guy who plays metal gear and wants to make the metal gears real
Liv Agar
Yall should do an episode on Chris Cantelmo and Cantelmoism
Hey Goons, why do you still censor “kill yourself” if it’s behind a paywall? 🥰🥰😍😝😝😘
I assumed it always had to do with legal repercussions lol
How does liv not know nyan neko sugar girls? Im the same age as her and equally as online. I don’t think I could find an internet friend around our age that doesn’t know NNSG
I've been listening since y'all started, and it's kind of sad to see you descend into that social tic where you pretend not to know things because it would be "cringe"
Lucky is a nihilistic guy, the Jughead patriotism is an act to get more business
Jimmy Negatron. Google images that
COULD TRANSITION HAVE SAVED HER etc etc etc
Look if you’ve ever as an adult found yourself attracted to a cartoon woman I think society should lock you up forever. Bugs bunny in drag excepted of course
Lucky Palmer: best case scenario when seated by Lauren Bobert
Nyan Neko Sugar Girls was a big part of my high school anime friend group’s inside jokes it’s an absolute masterpiece I hate that this guy is anyway a part of it
It's like if lars von trier made revenge of the nerds
All I needed to know about how this was going were the words “home schooler raised by a car salesman” I’ve met a lot of home school people, some are very good, normal people. A lot of them are socially insane.
The only child slander is a little mean tbh. Yall got no idea what goes on in each child’s individual life. Made me feel bad /: every only child i know including me was neglected or unwanted. Hate being slandered for being born into a trash family and associated w stereotypical traits that have nothing to do with me. Just feels like bullying people who were born into less fortunate situations than you. I wish people would stop perpetuating this as an acceptable thing to shit on people for
This podcast is starting to get a bit annoying about that tbh. That and the boomerism about technology. Their willful ignorance of things like AI and VR aren't funny to me as someone born in the late 90s
A lucky palmer is a handjob
RE: the thing about the retroflectors on the moon He seems like he genuinely knows a lot about science and engineering in fields relevant to him (in contrast to Elon Musk), so maybe he knows this because he’s debunked moon landing conspiracy theorists before, but it’s also possible that he’s watched The Big Bang Theory, where they fire a laser at the moon in one episode.
Lord of the rings is my mums special interest, and she is so mad about these awful freaks calling their companies lord of the rings names. By extension, I am too. I mean the palantir was evil, and sauron is evil, so like, they're just telling on themselves. But Anduril was claiming the responsibility to rectify wrongs and care for people. :( Anduril was a symbol of leadership not this capitalist moneycockgobbling bullshit.
giblets /jĭb′lĭts Super pedantry powers go. Sorry
Ok last post: bannon hates musk with a passion. We should ally with him to take down this boer who has conquered our country
The guy who is *also* sieg heiling at CPAC? Sometimes the enemy of an enemy is still not a friend
That's it. I am going to steal every embalmed communist leader: the kims, Lenin, and stalin. I'll let them put every one of these monsters against the wall
He sounds like a mass shooter
I mean, what is a developer of military drones but a kind of extended-play mass shooter?
It's great how the origin story of every prominent fascist is 'people were mean to me because my art was shit/I did something very stupid/I'm just fundamentally unlikeable'.
Someone from my high school went to Berklee as a singer/songwriter and has gone full MAGA-pivot after failing to book anything bigger than local dives and coffee shops for the past decade. I spend a startling amount of time gobsmacked at her unearned arrogance after hearing the story about how fucking Esperanza Spalding was worried she wasn't talented enough for Berklee. Few things rival the misplaced confidence of thoroughly uncreative upper-middle-class WASPs dipping a toe into the arts and getting so indignant at their lack of overnight success they self-radicalize. Many such cases.
Natalists make me want to (redacted). Also…wait did he make V.A.T.S. …like from Fallout? Also..LIV AGAR all day
I maintain that we shouldn't have made D and D and everything to do with it I would time travel to the inception point and put a bolt into the heads of anyone who would have contributed to anything to do with it. I would also erase video games too. I know you guys like those but I dont and I never did and had to endure a lifetime of you BORES boring me with and it fucked you up great. So here we are, never let me time travel or we still have all THIS BULL SHIT.
So I realize more and more we need starting at like 6th grade philosophy and reading/media comprehension in the US with the stated aims of stoping cults and not being able to understand LOTR
Making Liv read out the description of that subreddit has got to contravene some UN convention on workplace abuse
Hey, don't shit on Nyan Neko Sugar Girls. That show is a masterpiece of outsider art.
He's a genius. If he shit in one hand and barked at the moon I bet dogs would show up to accompany him with a chorale. Yup, a real genius.
Usually this podcast just washes over me but this was a rough listen, just so embarrassing. Maybe it's because I talked to one of the four Oculus angel investors for a couple hours, because he was interested in my passion project, which funny enough is kind of the diametric opposite of VR. He thought I could build my thing up to maybe $50M but I'd have to ignore my wife and kids for 5-10 years. He told the story that the Oculus/Facebook deal got sealed at the exact moment his wife was going into labor with their first kid and he bailed on her in the delivery room to go to the meeting. I was just like "Huh, yeah nah, that's fine, I think I'll just kinda stumble through on my own, see what happens. Thanks though." You kind of expect the money people to be like this but it's rough to hear about how the actual inventor guy is even further-gone. It's kinda funny how the overall effect of VR existing in the world is on one side we have one cool game, Alyx, which is about the same length as an Ingmar Bergman movie, and 5 years old. And on the other side, there's a new defense contractor with a hyper-competent crazy guy in charge of kamikaze drones. In the VR game you kill invasive aliens, the defense contractor kills real people who in the insane, warped world view of the people working there are invasive aliens.
Looks like our cyberpunk future is shaping up nicely. Also, how do you have 2.1 kids??
Have 3 kids and eat the smallest
"This looks like a Dungeons And Dragons table!" "Oh no, this is just our coffee table. But it does have the map of our Dungeons And Dragons campaign on it." So... in other words. It's a Dungeons And Dragons table.
this guy gives a bad name for people who live in campers
Liv agar
LIV AGAR!
Why does every tech guy have to try to talk as fast as they can.
methamphetamine
That's cookie monster not bane
Alex Jones after a rough one
I am assuming that Julian was undercover at CPAC… I am looking forward to hearing who accompanied him for “the couples ruse,” and whether they showered together.
It was the q shaman
The Tolkien stuff makes me so mad, obviously the worst thing about this guy is the weapons manufacturing and the fascism, but does he have to rub our faces in the fact he lacks 8th grade reading comprehension?
I’m sure JRRT, a man who saw his entire high school graduating class annihilated in WWI bar himself and one other guy, would be really down with Thiel and Luckey looting his works for names
Where are the fucking conspiracy theorists? I feel like I'm going insane, the paranoid-bizarro version of reality is literally becoming real. Oligarchs and Big Ind are deregulating everything, and will run amok exploiting us and robbing the country. Regulations are actually being captured, and rendered completely useless. Big Tech is selling our data, and directly using it develop weapons against us. Speaking about anything tangible becomes rife with paranoia, as we fucking know we're being watched and listened to, and with who is listeneing, now we do have something to fucking hide. Those fucking idiot arseholes got us in this mess by falling for history's most stupid propaganda. Now all their dystopian fantasies are coming true, and they're either cheering it on, in full denial, or downplaying it to oblivion. The moderates are basically in shock, and insist the only opposition is capitulation to the lies this ideology is based on. The war on men isn't real, immigration isn't the problem, to pretend it is legitimate is to play into their hands, and give them control even when they're not in power. Why. Why are we like this. Why did access to the totality of human knowledge push us all back 200 years.
Annie Kelly
"The savior of the West" Oh that sounds good "He is a 32-year-old man" ah, never mind then
Jake Rockatansky
Jake Rockatansky
These fucking natalists are going to be what finally pushes me over the edge. (and I have a freaking child...)
He Palmer my lucky till I oculus
liv agar
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prophet ev
Liv agar
A bat in the cave is my new favourite saying now
read "palmer luckey" in the show notes and let out a huge groan
Q: Are We Not Liv? A: We Are Agar!
going right to the retroreflectors is a rookie move.
Is this a Donruss joke?
Maybe I am just in a bad mood, but I'm feeling like this guy is the most unlikable person QAA has ever covered.
maybe you’re in a bad mood bc this guy sucks so bad
The resentful little toads of the right using Tolkien references should be a hanging offense.
He's one of those guys that has got to die if we want any sort of future
Liv Agar?
Liv Agar
Funniest thing about that MGSV (silence?) character is the parasite Kojumbo claims is why she can't wear clothes conveniently doesn't have the same effect on any of the male characters who all apparently have the same parasite 🙄 At least we got the modded dance scene where they swapped her model with old man ocelot dancing sensually in the prison cell (yes the original unmodded scene is as bad and unnecessary as it sounds lol)-- & why do pro-natalists get so angry and aggressive towards either antinatalists or agnostic natalists? Have seen them even in progressive circles just go fucking nuts when talking about hypothetical ones. Makes me tempted to tease them a lil. Maybe even poke at the possibility they harbouring deep resentments from unconsidered sacrifices of parenthood they can't yet confront 😈
He’s Kenny Axis Powers
I love brad's laugh when he knows that something julian is about to read/hear is awful on every level
also julian's reddit mod voice is literally spot on across the board
And Travis View
Brad Abrahams
Julian Feeld
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