@TwiHusband 💯 . If you're rich, you can buy smart people to help protect your wealth & advance your policy preferences.
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Channels of Rage
On the vile and corrosive replacement myth, those who push it and why they do, and what it really replaces.
@yadayadayada Look, this is no time to talk about my car's warranty--I'm lost!
@Lulz4l1f3 while at the same time, preemptively declaring the Senate border deal "dead on arrival" because cheeto jesus would rather keep the border problem so he can beat Biden over the head with it.
It's the most cartoonish stupid shit imaginable.
@TwiHusband LOL--feels like there's a rich vein of Elon humor here. "If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?", "thank you for conclusively proving that being rich does not confer genius wisdom on people" etc.
The vast majority of wealthy people, and virtually all of the mega-rich, either inherit it and or marry it. None of them actually earn it. The "self-made man" is a myth...created by wealthy men. #TaxTheRich https://getpocket.com/explore/item/if-you-re-so-smart-why-aren-t-you-rich-turns-out-it-s-just-chance
@Bix not my donnie!
MY DONNIE WOULDN'T DO THAT!
@realJanet yes--it needs heat for the lava to flow, so there's an incandescent bulb in the base
@lfrum note to self: "Big Egg" has gotten to Larry.
@nursefrombirth just off the top of my head--windmills, the IRS, Pro Publica...
@A4NY14 ayup
How Fringe Anti-Science Views Infiltrated Mainstream Politics — And What It Means in 2024 https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/anti-science-vaccines-politics-polarization-partisanship-2024-elections/
@th3j35t3r WTAF
Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024. Why is that?
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/28/1227326215/nearly-25-000-tech-workers-laid-off-in-the-first-weeks-of-2024-whats-going-on
@evistre oh snap--does OR even have an nfl team?
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It's a pet peeve of mine when ppl share youtube videos to convey news stories, b/c you can't tell from the URL whether it's from a reputable source or what.
This is from the BBC & it's fascinating.
What happened to Russia’s elite ‘Black Berets’ in Ukraine?
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