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defineandredefine's avatar

What's so frustrating to me about this entire shit show -

Loomer isn't wrong about how shitheads like musk are using H1Bs. Part of me wants to scream in her face something to the effect of "this is why capitalism is bad, you pile of foot cream!" But that would having to be in her presence and frankly I have better things to do.

And Ramaswamy isn't wrong about American culture either, not entirely. I don't think we should all be doing extracurriculars...I'm glad I spent my afternoons vegging or playing drums or video games or whatever. But we do value brawn over brains and bullshit celebrity over substance in this country. And our public education system sucks. The solution to all of that surely isn't importing tech workers to exploit, however.

Anyway, good piece as always. Really appreciate how you break things down.

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S Peter Davis's avatar

Thank you! Yeah, I think one of the necessary but painful steps toward intellectual maturity is recognising that you're allowed to agree some of the time with some of the things that bad people say--while at the same time keeping yourself aware of ulterior motives and the fact that bad people are also trying to propagandize you. They'll pollute their truths with lies, but they'll also pollute their lies with truths.

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defineandredefine's avatar

Yup, totally agree. From Alex Jones to Trump himself...

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Karen Effie's avatar

Shit you are such a good writer

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S Peter Davis's avatar

💗💗

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Peter Jones's avatar

A distraction from division with a foreign policy direction...?... uncanny!!

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Eudoxia's avatar

Thanks Peter - a fascinating insight about tech people wanting to run the country like a start up. What could go wrong? (Looks like Texas failed to get some basic conditions contracted about Musk's continued operations in Texas.... and I'm wondering how women - whether as employees or in the family of an employee - feel about moving to Texas with its very dangerous anti-health legislation

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David Kunin's avatar

You are brave indeed for wading into the waters of distinguishing one type of Nazi from another. It’s a shame so much of the ideology resonates with people who are going to be on the receiving end of their shit stick. I do wish we were more intelligent as a species.

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Te Reagan's avatar

Nazi’s? Who mandated vaccinations? Who championed Trump’s Warp Speed vaccines? Who called those of us that refused Trump’s Warp Speed bioweapon the pandemic of the unvaccinated? Antivaxers?

Who among you went along with ze plan?

Why did y’all mask up and run amuck in the streets during a pandemic for a two bit thug in the name of social justice?

Cancel culture? What was that all about?

Nazi’s? Biden? Who gave a Hitler like speech with a fire red background flanked by marines with his fist pumping up in the air just like Hitler? It wasn’t DJT.

Y’all ever think?

Y’all ever think this is all a show?

Cause chaos. Order out of chaos?

What if both sides are being played? Y’all ever think about that?

What Trump was installed to bring the hammer down?

NWO, Great Reset all in the name of bring order to the streets.

We literally just watch the democrat party Join up with the fbi, cia, big corporations, big tech, and the very wealthy.

Fascism! Stakeholder capitalism!

Private Public partnerships! That’s fascism! Yet, y’all keep talking about Nazi’s?

I don’t think y’all know a thing about Nazism. The corporations and the Nazi government partnered up. Much like the democrats partnered up with Big Tech, Major corporations, the government, and the education centers.

And after four years of Joe Biden y’all still want some more.

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