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I mean, either way, they'll spin it as 'bad'
During the Cold War the anti communist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If Soviets refused to negotiate a point they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off guard. By opposing arms limitations they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armaments treaties it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full this ment the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions) this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system. If they didn’t go on strike it was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated failure of the economic system; and improvement in consumer goods only meant that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communist in the US played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African Americans, women, and others this was only a their guileful way of gathering support among disenfranchised groups and aging power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is an unfalsefiable orthodoxy so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the political spectrum.”
- Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds
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Michael Burry is sounding an alarm on AI stocks that's similar to what Jim Chanos said
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Deaf Tesla employee fired after ‘extreme heat’ in Gigafactory made hearing aids fail
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Deaf Tesla employee fired after ‘extreme heat’ in Gigafactory made hearing aids fail
(www.independent.co.uk)
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“RENT. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO CHARGE YOU SINCE YOU BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD RENT WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE RENT I EXTRACT FROM HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. RENT. RENT.”
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