[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@g_shullenberger](/creator/twitter/g_shullenberger) "In light of the recent Tucker interview I wrote about Nick Land as a religious thinker:" [X Link](https://x.com/g_shullenberger/status/1978431394402480484) [@g_shullenberger](/creator/x/g_shullenberger) 2025-10-15T12:02Z 25K followers, 26.6K engagements "The Zizekian analysis practically writes itself. Obviously we might respond you can still buy a Coke and a Ford Bronco today. So what do you think you need to "return" to But the problem is you can't *enjoy* these things. MAGA functions as ideology by explaining why./1" [X Link](https://x.com/g_shullenberger/status/1980333212435116167) [@g_shullenberger](/creator/x/g_shullenberger) 2025-10-20T18:00Z 25K followers, 31.9K engagements "My main point was that much of the reduction preceded the state of exception and involved methods other than those adopted in 2022 (mass roundups CECOT) but the latter are the only thing anyone knows about. I bring all this up because practically everyone on the right now things the US should take Bukele as a model without having any idea what that would mean. I also think one can give him credit for some major achievements without worshipping him (as he encourages his fans to do)" [X Link](https://x.com/g_shullenberger/status/1980101824917938399) [@g_shullenberger](/creator/x/g_shullenberger) 2025-10-20T02:40Z 25K followers, 5282 engagements "Ive lived through a few local conflicts around this in different NYC neighborhoods one described below the other having to do with a migrant shelter. The attitudes of progressive activists were utterly at odds with most residents" [X Link](https://x.com/g_shullenberger/status/1981101447359221913) [@g_shullenberger](/creator/x/g_shullenberger) 2025-10-22T20:52Z 25K followers, 1410 engagements "Obviously the DHS/USCIS ad link tells us the simplest version of the story explained by Z in Sublime Object: you can't enjoy these things because of the foreign other. The impossibility of enjoyment is attributed to the foreign interloper who enjoys at your expense./3" [X Link](https://x.com/g_shullenberger/status/1980335014454915414) [@g_shullenberger](/creator/x/g_shullenberger) 2025-10-20T18:07Z 25K followers, 3146 engagements "But Coke is interesting here because MAGA contains both Trump who famously drinks *Diet* Coke and RFK who thinks soda is poison (though maybe it's ok with "real" sugar). So: unease about Coke's promise of enjoyment is internal to MAGA but must be disavowed and projected./4" [X Link](https://x.com/g_shullenberger/status/1980335458036134146) [@g_shullenberger](/creator/x/g_shullenberger) 2025-10-20T18:09Z 25K followers, 3108 engagements "Part of the problem is that theres often a symbiosis between marginal populations (homeless addicts recent migrants) and marginal parts of the NGO industrial complex that nonetheless have a direct line to pols like Mamdani and so have outsized influence" [X Link](https://x.com/g_shullenberger/status/1981101974138311109) [@g_shullenberger](/creator/x/g_shullenberger) 2025-10-22T20:54Z 25K followers, XXX engagements "This widely shared chart of El Salvadors declining homicide rate doesnt quite tell the story you think it does. As you can see most of the decline was achieved *before* Bukele became president in 2019 and almost all of it before he declared a state of exception in 2022./1" [X Link](https://x.com/g_shullenberger/status/1980018286193529108) [@g_shullenberger](/creator/x/g_shullenberger) 2025-10-19T21:08Z 25K followers, 276.5K engagements "Rending garments over the fucking East Wing is an utterly cursed sequel to peak #Resistance era melodrama. That stuff was annoying this is just pitiful" [X Link](https://x.com/g_shullenberger/status/1981761765479198894) [@g_shullenberger](/creator/x/g_shullenberger) 2025-10-24T16:36Z 25K followers, 1667 engagements
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"In light of the recent Tucker interview I wrote about Nick Land as a religious thinker:"
X Link @g_shullenberger 2025-10-15T12:02Z 25K followers, 26.6K engagements
"The Zizekian analysis practically writes itself. Obviously we might respond you can still buy a Coke and a Ford Bronco today. So what do you think you need to "return" to But the problem is you can't enjoy these things. MAGA functions as ideology by explaining why./1"
X Link @g_shullenberger 2025-10-20T18:00Z 25K followers, 31.9K engagements
"My main point was that much of the reduction preceded the state of exception and involved methods other than those adopted in 2022 (mass roundups CECOT) but the latter are the only thing anyone knows about. I bring all this up because practically everyone on the right now things the US should take Bukele as a model without having any idea what that would mean. I also think one can give him credit for some major achievements without worshipping him (as he encourages his fans to do)"
X Link @g_shullenberger 2025-10-20T02:40Z 25K followers, 5282 engagements
"Ive lived through a few local conflicts around this in different NYC neighborhoods one described below the other having to do with a migrant shelter. The attitudes of progressive activists were utterly at odds with most residents"
X Link @g_shullenberger 2025-10-22T20:52Z 25K followers, 1410 engagements
"Obviously the DHS/USCIS ad link tells us the simplest version of the story explained by Z in Sublime Object: you can't enjoy these things because of the foreign other. The impossibility of enjoyment is attributed to the foreign interloper who enjoys at your expense./3"
X Link @g_shullenberger 2025-10-20T18:07Z 25K followers, 3146 engagements
"But Coke is interesting here because MAGA contains both Trump who famously drinks Diet Coke and RFK who thinks soda is poison (though maybe it's ok with "real" sugar). So: unease about Coke's promise of enjoyment is internal to MAGA but must be disavowed and projected./4"
X Link @g_shullenberger 2025-10-20T18:09Z 25K followers, 3108 engagements
"Part of the problem is that theres often a symbiosis between marginal populations (homeless addicts recent migrants) and marginal parts of the NGO industrial complex that nonetheless have a direct line to pols like Mamdani and so have outsized influence"
X Link @g_shullenberger 2025-10-22T20:54Z 25K followers, XXX engagements
"This widely shared chart of El Salvadors declining homicide rate doesnt quite tell the story you think it does. As you can see most of the decline was achieved before Bukele became president in 2019 and almost all of it before he declared a state of exception in 2022./1"
X Link @g_shullenberger 2025-10-19T21:08Z 25K followers, 276.5K engagements
"Rending garments over the fucking East Wing is an utterly cursed sequel to peak #Resistance era melodrama. That stuff was annoying this is just pitiful"
X Link @g_shullenberger 2025-10-24T16:36Z 25K followers, 1667 engagements
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