Chuck Beretz

Dad (x4!), husband, Californian, cofounder @Cloudforia. WSET 2 🍷 I sometimes write at #fttb

[Chuck Beretz @ChuckBeretz]

There is no red
There is no blue
There is the state
And there is you

[Chuck Beretz @ChuckBeretz]

@jamesxlawrence @Austen Step 1: Use AI to configure Salesforce
Step 2: Create lots of technical debt
Step 3: Attrit because "Salesforce didn't work for us"

A wave of this is coming in 2027. More here:
https://t.co/HwgXLhDqYh

[Chuck Beretz @ChuckBeretz]

@IngridBoatright @Austen No. https://t.co/PtQvzwa6hH

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@jamesxlawrence @Austen No. https://t.co/PtQvzwa6hH

[Chuck Beretz @ChuckBeretz]

@Austen As the co-founder of one such successful company, this is true for a reason: Salesforce talent comes at many levels of expertise and expense. Our clients find it better to pay to get the system aligned to their business processes then hand it to someone to maintain

[signüll @signulll]

if you read the nytimes under the guise that every article is pretty much written by a (former) theater kid who often lacks a basic understanding of economics & what actually drives a functioning thriving society/economy then all of the pieces become insanely fun to read.

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https://t.co/3f6GfUCVQP

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Your mortgage rate, your taxes, and the dollars in your payment apps are all downstream of one fact: the foreign creditors who financed America for 50 years are leaving, and Congress just invented a replacement by law. New essay on the dollar's conscripted creditor.

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I imagine most Xitter posts now begin with the poster exasperated that 90% of posts are written by AI but thinking NO MY POSTS WRITTEN BY AI WILL HIT DIFFERENT 🤦

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@allie__voss Weren’t mobile homes rebranded as “tiny homes”?

[Orcbrand's Kojimaic Matters @kojimaicmatters]

Believing that "people wouldn't do crimes if their basic needs were met" while also believing that "greedy rich people are stealing from everyone" never registers to the people who say this shit as inherently contradictory.

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@Noahpinion Poland was inoculated against socialism

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@GrulkeLamonte 2B > 1A

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

Classical Marxism failed because the working class refused to revolt. So the left did something far more effective - they abandoned the working class entirely.

One of the most significant developments in modern leftist thought was the shift from traditional Marxism to Critical Studies - an approach built explicitly around group identity and the demand for active political struggle. It is the dominant intellectual framework in much of today’s academia, media and corporate culture.

At its core, it is an extension and radicalisation of the Critical Theory developed by the Frankfurt School in the 1930s. Critical Theory argued that Western society maintains its power not primarily through economics, but through culture, ideas, language and institutions that shape how people think. Since the spontaneous revolution Marx expected didn’t arrive, it would have to be actively forced through the systematic critique and dismantling of these “oppressive structures”. Revolution, in other words, became something that must be consciously engineered.

This approach exploded in the 1970s and 80s with the rise of Critical Legal Studies. Scholars argued that law was not neutral but an instrument of power used by the dominant class to maintain control. That opened the floodgates. Soon came Critical Race Theory, Critical Gender Studies, Critical Pedagogy. All of them share the same core project: identifying hidden systems of oppression based on race, gender, class and sexuality, and demanding active intervention to achieve “equity” (equality of outcome) rather than mere equality of rights. We now call this "woke".

That the revolution must be forced to happen is why modern critical theory is so explicitly activist. As Ibram X. Kendi put it: “It is not enough to not be racist; we must be actively anti-racist.” Passivity is seen as complicity. Neutrality is impossible. Education, under Critical Pedagogy, is no longer about teaching knowledge but about turning students into political activists who view society through the lens of power and oppression.

Critical Studies’ deeply anti-individual core replaces the idea of the sovereign individual with group identity and collective guilt. It rejects objective truth, merit and colour-blind liberalism in favour of power analysis and enforced equity. What began as a marginal academic project has become a powerful ideological machine that now dominates government policy, corporate hiring and education systems across the West.

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@KINGGGE_

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@Uvalajnr

[Sage Steele @sagesteele]

THIS!!!!!!!!

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@Nii_Ahene 🎯

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

They don’t care for the poor.

They just envy the rich.

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@james_xond My marriage

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@aarondfrancis It’s only a loop if it comes from Le Loop region in France. Otherwise it’s just a cron job in a fancy hat