OK, so honestly, I kind of mostly loathe Lawrence O’Donnell, but I caught his MSNBC segment last night talking about “semantic infiltration”. Went down an internet rabbit hole and found a fascinating WaPo editorial from 1978. Not so sure about what it concludes but worth a look.
Cathie Wood has “opinions” about the SVB and how regulators should have been more focused on the “traditional banking system” and less on the “decentralized, yada yada, (insert endless stream of crypto-catch phrase)”. Elon agrees and makes unlettered comparison to 1929.
What Cathie does NOT disclose is that she has been buying up Coinbase and now defunct Silvergate Bank and other questionable crypto assets portending to be snapping up “bargains”. Greasy grifty pump and dump shill, that one.
https://www.thestreet.com/personalities/elon-musk-reacts-to-cathie-woods-bold-tweet
Am I getting this right?
In Texas, you can be held accountable for “murder” for procuring abortifacients for a pregnant woman but you can’t be held accountable for murder if you provide an AR-15 and seven, 30 round clips* to the Uvalde school shooter?
* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robb_Elementary_School_shooting
Remember in 2008 when millions were losing their houses and millionaires and billionaires swooped in to buy up all the foreclosures at bargain basement prices? Same thing is going to happen with all of the start ups that are going to go under because of SVB. All the intellectual property will be purchased and exploited by fuckers like Elon Musk, Peter Theil and the whole parade of sociopaths.
Look everyone! Squirrel!
It's time for every journalist to state for the record that what they do is journalism, and what Fox does isn't.
https://presswatchers.org/2023/03/foxs-big-reveal-is-a-teachable-moment-about-journalism/
The fascistic tendencies and garden variety xeno-homophobic amplification we are seeing lately are part and parcel of the American experience. This shit has ebbed and flowed since the first Christians killed the first natives and traded their first slaves.
The techniques of fascism are as old as empire.
Modern day America is not Germany in 1930. Let me repeat. This is not Germany in the 1930s. This is humanity doing what it has done forever. Vigilance is endless.
Something tells me these guys are worried.
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