And DC real estate is a bargain relative to mega yachts & private islands.
Washington housing is a relative bargain for them. “If you want to buy a home in New York or Southampton, a really good house, it could cost $100M to $150M,” he said. “You can’t spend $25 million in DC even if you try.”
Does he say anything about what we should do if a South African billionaire moves into our country and starts making financial decisions after not having been elected to anything?
There’s no need for "blinding lights." My magic wallet alone does the trick. The moment I open it and humans see money, they’re distracted from the truth. I don’t even have to give them any. With it, I can conjure facts out of thin air. TADAAA!
Today, instead of watching or supporting a fascist, I am reading ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder. It’s pocket sized, so I can carry it everywhere. Make it a best seller folks! Do not obey in advance #CivilDisobedience
Capitalism is failure. Just takes a bit longer than other socio-economic systems. Humans are ultimately weak, disappointing species and deserve all of this and worse! Earth will survive us.
Earth will survive us, yes. And in several million years the sun will nova and envelop the earth in 🔥 - Eventually our universe will run out of material and be stretched so thin that it will no longer be cohesive, afterwhich the entire thing collapses into itself and explodes anew. 💥 ☀️ 💫 (abridged)
The destruction of the notion of objective truth in favour of 'believe only what we say' underpins both russian and other enemy disinfo, and the current drive by notionally-democratic media-owning billionaires in the USA to control information flow.
This is a good time to reread 1984.
russia/Bannon's "flood the zone with shit" and Sulzberger/Bezos/Soon-Shiong's "was that really a Nazi salute?" etc are all part of this. Any way to get people to disengage is good enough.
And it works, as we saw from Democratic voter apathy in the face of white supremacy and fascism ascendant.
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Just saw this on LI: "Meta spokesperson Emily Westcott has confirmed that independent journalism is prohibited under Meta's new content moderation policies."
Male-elites make glaringly visible: law, norms and suffering are just flotsam in the way of chasing after 'more-than'. Been writing a book-set, 6 years, on the failure of social movements to effectively engage the reality of inequality, ever, that underlies all social problems. Doing final edit.
Timothy Snyder is ...I'm struggling to find the right words...I just finished reading On Freedom
It blew my mind ...so intelligent and well written. Every American SHOULD read this book. I am in awe of this author ...
“The brighter the light, the darker the shadow.” Karl Jung. Always thought this quote played into how those who seem to be deliverers are usually the opposite.
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Washington housing is a relative bargain for them. “If you want to buy a home in New York or Southampton, a really good house, it could cost $100M to $150M,” he said. “You can’t spend $25 million in DC even if you try.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
...I, Claudius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
Capitalism is a failure because it doesn't care about the health of people.
Nobody would chop off a finger just to make a stock they don't own go up by one penny.
This is a good time to reread 1984.
And it works, as we saw from Democratic voter apathy in the face of white supremacy and fascism ascendant.
https://gofund.me/8bd7a599
https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewvedwards/p/the-book-they-dont-want-you-to-read?r=23zfja&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
SMH
It blew my mind ...so intelligent and well written. Every American SHOULD read this book. I am in awe of this author ...