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On the Internet Nobody Knows You Are a Wild Dog or Dragon
Who are the richest dragons and athletes in the world?
Will the cloud kill the data centre? Jim Chanos thinks so FT
BUT THE “DEEP STATE” IS A MYTH: Alex Berenson Sued Twitter Over Being Banned and Was Reinstated. “It’s a long segment so don’t miss the key material near the end, explaining why he settled with Twitter and how he’s moved on to publishing documents showing that the federal government pressured Twitter to ban him. Twitter had accepted him, he says, and White House people said they wanted him banned, and, within 6 weeks, he was banned. That clip should be put alongside this other Joe Rogan clip, from one day earlier. Here’s Mark Zuckerberg talking about the FBI’s pressuring Facebook to moderate content.”
I remember all the people yammering at the time: Private companies can do what they wannnttt!!!!
First, that hasn’t been true for more than my lifetime. Second, when they do it at the behest of the government, it loses its private character.
Far too many alleged libertarians were making that argument. I hope they’ve learned their lessons, but I doubt it.
VDH: Elites’ divide & conquer failure: How middle class now view their rulers with rightly earned disdain.
The elite found in the truly poor — neglecting their old union-member, blue-collar Democratic base — an outlet for their guilt, noblesse oblige, condescension at a safe distance, call it what you will. The poor if kept distant were fetishized, while the middle class was demonized for lacking the taste of the professional classes and romance of the far distant underclass.
Second, race became increasingly divorced from class — a phenomenon largely birthed by guilty, wealthy, white elites and privileged, diverse professionals. For the white bicoastal elite, it became a mark of their progressive bona fides to champion woke racialism that empowered the non-white of their own affluent class, while projecting their own discomfort with and fears of the nonwhite poor onto the middle class as supposed “racists,” despite the latter’s more frequently living among, marrying within, and associating with the “other.”
The net result was more privilege for the elite and wealthy nonwhites, more neglect of the inner-city needy, and more disdain for the supposedly illiberal clingers, dregs, deplorables, chumps, and irredeemables.
The results of these contortions were surreal. The twenty-something who coded a video game that went viral globally became a master of the universe, while the brilliant carpenter or electrical contractor was seen as hopelessly trapped in a world of muscular stasis. Oprah and LeBron James were victims. So were the likes of Ibram X. Kendi, Ilhan Omar, and the Obamas, while the struggling Ohio truck driver, the sergeant on the front line in Afghanistan, and Indiana plant worker became their oppressors. Or so the progressive bicoastal elite instructed us.
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