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An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

This thought has been lingering in my head for a while but this tweet prompted me to write it out.

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joocifer@joocifer.bsky.social

.. they are consuming different sources of information than you. Remember that fact, internalize it, and use it. They have not sat down, watched CNN for 6 hours, and then said "I like the fascism and grift! He's my guy!" They watched Fox, where he's simply not a fascist or a grifter.

Americans continue to benefit from rape of resources from Africa, often the result of having overthrown elected governments in the region. Climate change, caused by rich countries, hurts poor countries more than the perpetrators. The tax system should be altered so that rich Americans pay the price.

"Left wing billionaires" is an oxymoron. The overwhelming majority of billionaires are sociopathic right-wingers. That's why the right-wing attacks Soros so much, because he's one of the very few who actually contribute to Democrats and progressive causes, and they want to stop that.

"Anyone who believes this obviously true thing is true, so freaking obvious it might as well be "2+2=4" or "grass is green", is too stupid to function" is gaslighting to a degree never attempted before. These people are mentally ill. Brains utterly broken.

Scott Adams. Another sad excuse for a celebrity in Trump world. He is the textbook example of someone who has found a way to revel in his moral failings by being a cult cheerleader.

This gives me an idea actually: What if we called the billionaire's tax a 10% to tithe that will help the community? I bet you $100 there will be conservatives excited about the idea even though it's literally just a rebranding of taxes.

The disgusting framing of where the money is going aside, the point of taxing people is precisely because we need people to contribute money they otherwise wouldn’t feel compelled to. Even “left wing billionaires” are selfish and will hoard lots of money so the state forces them to spend it!

It really does give away the whole game that he couldn’t resist the “funding Africa’s population growth” line, though. It used to just be about cutting unnecessary spending, now they talk about aid programs with such racist vitriol.

Isn’t Scott adams dying or something? I guess he’s making good use of his last days by sharing racist and moronic tweets from one of the most odious “personalities” of this cursed era. So many names I don’t want to see again ever, unless it is in the context of a tour in which they beg forgiveness.

That's actually a hugely revealing slip, suggesting that reversing the relative decline of the white population was a motive for the USAID cuts.

Right. A traditional, isolationist conservative could make an argument that it’s not the US taxpayer’s job to pay for aid programs in Africa, but that’s not what he’s saying.

Anyone believing that Jews were killed in concentration camps is too stupid to function. If it were true why didn’t the Jews from the other countries join together to kill all the Nazis? That’s how stupid Cernovich sounds.

Dickless there doesn't bother to think that the United States established and funded USAID because we believed that it served American interests at least as well as it served those of the nations to which we sent help.

USAID wasn't just "feel good about feeding starving kids" It was that 1st scene from The Godfather. It's how all of a sudden we had special forces and armed drone air strips in places so remote they didn't even have names. Just grid coordinates. USAID bought us cooperation.

sure sign of "just throw money at it" brain in action USAID wasn't just a funding source, but an organization. they fired the aid workers, sent home the logisticians, burned supplies that had already been paid for.

Even if we restored the funding for these programs tomorrow the number of preventable deaths from USAID cuts will almost certainly be in the millions if it isn't there already. This is going to be our generation's version of German civilians denying the reality of the holocaust in the late 1940s.

Though if you boil this thought down to "why don't billionaires pay a fair amount to support social services?", you can find a nut of insight there that's just barely eluding their grasp (not that these particular people are intellectually honest).

1. “Funding population growth” is now the same as “preventing death and suffering”? 2. The “left wing” billionaire most famously filling the shortfall? These guys accused him of putting microchips in vaccines. 3. These are the same guys that burned $10M of contraceptives, right?

Knowledge is power & with a lack of access to that form of power (capital) People seek power where they have easy access to it. maga used "own the algorithms" to "own the Libs" & essentially manipulate & abuse vulnerable adults, while their actions hide behind powerful I.P. addresses & Congress=lame

Agree except for the 'greatest gen' part. Most older folks around me (Florida) are repub voters...truly idiotic in many respects. No knowledge of fascism, America's history or World history. Cowards too..."don't want to talk about it" & head-in-the-sand cowardice. I am epically disappointed.