@Alan_Konevsky@treesandquiet@roily23@tZERO I don’t remember any effort anywhere along the way to correct that misconception, if it was one. There was just the announcement a few months back about ICE doing something with someone else or even on their on.
@Alan_Konevsky@treesandquiet@roily23@tZERO Not an expert on the space, but respectfully, and maybe not by you, ICE’s investment was presented and discussed in this space for years as something other than a purely financial investor. I’d wager that a majority of the people you interact with assumed they were a strategic.
We were not aware that civilization was a thin and precarious crust erected by the personality and the will of a very few, and only maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and guilefully preserved.
— John Maynard Keynes, 1938
@SantiagoAuFund Respectfully Brent, I take it as “I’m aware of the theory, I see what is happening globally and I’m taking action” to be a strong man. Bitcoin currency bet aside, I think he’s been unequivocally good for his country. My 0.02.
.@DavidSacks explains how the woke mind virus began in universities, where it infected the professional class who are currently at the helm of our institutions:
"It's downstream of the fact that the universities got taken over a couple of generations ago by the far left. The quid pro quo of our civilization is if you want the economic and social advancement that a college degree grants you, you have to go to one of these schools and submit to voluntary reeducation for four years. You're basically indoctrinated in this ideology."
"If you look at polling data on virtually any socio-cultural issue, the biggest divide in the country is not between race or gender. It's actually on the single variable of whether you have a college degree or not... There's a 30-point gap roughly in voting patterns in political affiliation based on whether you are professional class or working class."
"This explains a huge amount of the sense of conflict and division in our society. Two-thirds of the country is working class. Only one-third of the country is professional class. The professional class holds beliefs and values that are at odds with the working class... So you have a democracy in which most of the people don't agree with the agenda that's being foisted on them by their institutions."
"You have to wonder if we had a completely fair and level playing field, if big tech wasn't engaging in censorship on behalf of the elite, and the media wasn't constantly covering for the elite. You'd have to think that maybe these elections go a little differently."
In 1958, psychoanalyst and philosopher Eric Fromm was asked why he believed the United States of 1958 was the best society the world had ever seen. He explains why—and gives a warning for how the US could destroy itself. See if you agree with him on the fatal flaw of modern work
Public trust in media is close to non-existent. This new Gallup poll reveals that only the Dem-controlled Congress (7%) is trusted less by the public than TV news (11%), with newspapers (16%) also very near the bottom.
Almost zero self-critique from journalists about why.
Steve Kerr has no comment on NBA’s China issues. He comments on every Trump tweet and can’t support democracy in China? What a complete and total coward.
"I said, 'You're not getting the billion.' I'm going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: 'I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money,'" - Joe Biden, 2018 https://t.co/gk1XEGCnod
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Wyoming Rancher's summary of the Mueller Report and Democrat's hapless ongoing efforts in one sentence:
"While we recognize that the subject did not actually steal any cattle, he is obviously guilty of trying to resist being hanged for it."
Gender is a social construct but I am woman hear me roar but anyone can be a woman but no uterus no opinion but transwomen are women but I demand women's rights but men are women but men are scum but drag queens are beautiful but appropriation is evil