Scott Alexander argues that hiring Black people and women was “decimating state capacity and purging high IQ” employees, which is like “looting and eating the seed corn,” and that makes DEI equivalent to DOGE’s widespread firings and attacks on science.
Really captures what this crowd believes.
Really captures what this crowd believes.
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there is a long stream of mealy mouthed bullshit where the OP starts in the direction of taking a stance but predictably bothsides it and makes fun of people accurately pointing out musk and trump’s depravity
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the Dem's 100% have clean hands here, they believe in govt and in helping citizens. They would never decimate science, harm veterans, undermine safety or education, etc.
We should instead be saying public sector jobs are for more civic minded (less mercenary) people who, in exchange>
Absurd but telling comparison
See fascism as a corrective, whether enthusiastically or “forced by the dire threat.”
Startups to some degree benefit from ignorance of the difficulties.
They really are detached from reality, really think themselves victims entitled to drastic retaliation, and are governing by conspiracy theory.
They really do want a form of segregation, and tell themselves it’s rational, just IQ.
https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/s/fmvcqOKcrm
2 years ago they told us AI was an existential threat, now they are intent on releasing it to control our institutions.
The right wing Tech oligarchs are an existential threat to the republic.
No one in the US became a millionaire/billionaire on their own. They utilized the infrastructure, policies, and money of taxpayers to get to their lofty position.
But I the bootstraps mythos persists
Things from the tribe can’t be bad on their own, they can only be similar to hated things from the other tribe, and that identifies them as bad, but makes sure to asserts that the other tribe is the worst.