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Nice graphic, but also a bit misleading.
Bezos would never be able to immediately realise that amount of assets in to useful cash. So saying no human deserves this amount of wealth is kind of already fulfilled? He may have 2 or 3 billion as cash maybe.
Don't think so.
The side insisting not to take the pandemic at face value has no institutional power, in a sense no ego to lose. With no institutional power, they are always held to account.
The corporate media, pharmaceutical companies, almost all officials, social media companies, universities, police forces all insist people unquestioningly accept their viewpoint. Their "ego" is built on years of solidifying their position of authority. With all institutional power, they are not held to account. If they were to be held to account, their house of cards tumbles.
What have I said that is wrong? Nothing in the rates of people dying or falling ill other than the elderly and those with comorbs indicates there is a dangerous pandemic going on.
"Hmm this information goes against my world view, and might threaten this ego I've built up over time based on finding a way of thinking I'm right about everything. Must be disinformation."
Except those supposed broken clocks have been right more than that
Useful
Lying to the public to maintain power, keeps their hands on the government purse. Loss of trust in institutions. Loss of sense of prestige in the traditional tracks, they make up for it by becoming authoritarian to maintain sense of utility.
Great effort in this article, which will unfortunately be shot down due to the exact biases and awarelessness described in the article.
No, because with mathematical proof you can realistically go through the derivations to approve/refute them. It is a short hand referencing something which can be disproven, therefore not an appeal to authority.
Using "experts" here IS an appeal to authority. Bias is at play here in a way that it is not in mathematical proofs. "Experts" is used here to provide cognitive ease to the reader, as a way of encouraging them not to examine deeper.
Well youtube's algorithm made these hard to find, maybe youtube only promote videos turfed by BigTech bots
Long videos, but as you can see has been watched by many. Bit describing the "pipe burst" starts at 13:50 of the 2nd link. But there is so much more evidence here than just that once instance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjbAFuoQOvo&t=9842s&ab_chann...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e35f4pUIYOg&ab_channel=Right...
It's repotred as debunked by a biased source.
If you actually look at the evidence, you will realise it is not debunked. If youtube hasn't pulled the video, they go through the evidence in a hearing in front of the Georgia State Legislature.
Many of them originally doubt the evidence, believing it to be den=bunked as reported in the media. After seeing the evidence, they are appalled at the deceit of the election officials.
The power structures that be wish to ignore it, but like like Galileo being confident in his findings against a biased establishment Catholic Church, the truth will come out.
If, for example, out of blue they declare there is a water pipe burst and rush everyone out, yet a few people remain and bring in fake/doctored ballots, that should prove that votes weren't being counted properly.
Funny how "experts" are willing to call this a clown show, yet every single 2016/2020 poll was off by miles. Thought they would have learned by now.
One way to show evidence of audit tampering is to watch the live feed and report on any suspicious behaviour:
Nothing to do with Israel's recent creation, many states have been created recently without them being targeted by neighbours for mass destruction and genocide.
What makes it strange is sense of normalcy people (sorry, I mean racists) have about a sense of white / Islamic supremacy over Jews, that makes them think it's ok to say things like 'we will wipe every Jew off the face of the planet' etc.
You can align with her over anti-racism.
Government should not be in the business of religious marriage, LGBT or otherwise.
Leave religious marriage to religious tribes, however they wish to define a religious marriage.
Similarly, Government marriages / civil partnerships / unions whatever should not be interfered with by religious groups.
I used to be a fundamentalist atheist / progressive, as you appear to be.
I then realised I was turning in to the control freak that I used to despise the religious Right for being in the 2000s.
If you work in a city/region with high property prices, it is likely you will be asked to go in to the office frequently.
This primary reason is to maintain property prices.
Please go tell Trump supporter Dr. Alveda King, niece of MLK Jr, that Trump is a racist. I'm sure your opinions on racism are more expert, valid and nuanced than hers.
I mean the Establishment as of 2012-2016. The tribes of people who held major social power / status symbols: have higher average wealth, pride themselves on being educationally credentialed, overrepresented in high paying professional fields.
Boris is Establishment, but went against the Establishment's beliefs by backing Brexit. I'd also argue that Cameron was more Establishment than Boris.
I disagree with the idea that Blair brought in posh = good. To me this feels like a continuation from Thatcher/Major.
Just going on personal experience I feel like 'chavs' had social confidence around the early Blair, and tended to be dismissed late Blair/Brown. By the time Cameron was in office I fell like there was an idea that Eton, private school, investment banking, Mayfair = good, or at least this was stronger under Cameron than Blair. It's all flipped now.
I have noticed that too, which is why I don't trust what's trending on reddit anymore. I have noticed influencers on youtube and elsewhere, who never usually talk about political issues, making out of place comments about various issues. I can't tell if the uncomfortable look on their faces or the awkward way they deliver the message that gives away the fact that they've been paid to take a side.
I imagine these are being manipulated significantly in many places.
I use my RPi 4 quite a bit, but what are the uses of this, and of the RPi Pico?
As much as Trump is a golden toilet billionaire, and made elites richer, I'd argue he did not promote the elite. In that elite definitely felt less safe in their social position.
I think it more than just "poshness" that has taken a hit, trust in experts also has. I would argue that this is why casual podcasts have become a lot more popular recently, whilst the BBC has has become less trusted (an has changed its tone to adapt with the times).
I studied Physics 2011-2014
In the UK after the Conservatives came to power in 2010 electing an Old Etonian, I felt culturally there was a shift towards "posh" is good as a signifier of status and social power.
I feel like in the last 5 years or so it has turned to posh is "uncool".
In the US, I feel like they had something similar. Obama was elected in 2008, but some people did have concerns of electing someone unestablished. To assuage these concerns, Obama promoted and kept safe the interests the elite at the time. Not detracting Obama here - that's the position he was in back in 2008 when some would have considered electing a black man to the Office as unthinkable.
"For example, I found that the students disproportionately came from families where their parents were career academics"
I also found that students disproportionately cam from families who themselves had studied at Oxbridge.
"The relationship with those families having a lot of money was not something I particularly noticed."
When I was there, I noticed students disproportionately came from wealthy families, wealth in the millions rather than billions terms.
Also comp educated and went to Oxford. I feel like in the last 5 years or so it's become "uncool" to be posh. Feel like this has been instigated by (in the West) Brexit and Trump bringing the Establishment down a notch.
"Wealth leads to education". This is how it used to be. The "Liberal" Arts were named so as the sort of people who studied them had freedom from normal labour.
Then came the push in the 80s to 00s to get more working class kids into higher education, so they could have the same opportunities as upper class folk, thinking education leads to wealth. Instead we've just ended up with a bunch of working class kids graduating to become baristas.
Education doesn't lead to real wealth. University educated higher professionals still go back to their middle class home to open a carton of orange juice.
Having started a business recently, I've realised how much I didn't need anything I learned at uni to do this.
Faster than Shakuntala Devi?