Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Agreed on ETA point. But as an experiment, talk about Bernie with some upper middle class decently educated folks you know. There's a sharp recoiling. They'll argue he just isn't realistic, or he can't win. This translates to, "I'm all for forced social change, but not the kind that will impact me."

The same people we all know who will talk up these "efforts at equity" are the same people who'll ask you to write a letter to help their kid get into a school. "You know a guy on the alumni board, right?" The same people who hire SAT tutors for their kids. The same folks who pull up all the ladders behind them, but excuse all of that by observing the catechism of "equity policies."

And their MAGA opponents are almost identically similar. Singing you an endless song about the forgotten rural "left-behinds." Hillbilly Elegy fans. But then ask them, "Where were you folks for the last hundred years while poverty raged in the inner cities?"

It's all the same song: "Equity forced on thee, but not upon me."

You have figured that many people can be selfish.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

You have figured that many people can be selfish.

No, I have cited that people who are selfish use/co-opt benign or even laudable sounding notions to protect their own selfish interests.

Which is expected. People suck.

But it's important to note that these people are full of shit. To undermine the credibility of these people. That's where free expression becomes centrally important to the function of any properly operating society or state.