it's more like influence it's not a monolithic thing it's like individual lobbying at the level of individual policies not like how people imagine it it is indeed effective at the level of tax codes it is indeed effective at the level of destroying greentech investment
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Replying to @DanielleFong
But that takes a massive concentration of money. Rich people.
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Replying to @culteyes
the error that people are making is in assuming that rich people are monolithic, they're not, the 0.001% is totally different from the 1%, they don't talk with each other that much, and they're not much in control: e.g. bill gates can't even get the cdc to do good testing
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Replying to @DanielleFong
Of course bill gates can’t just roll into an agency paid for by tax payers and tell them what to do. Even if the CDC has been run by dimwits and cronies of government officials funded by rich people, that kind of direct, transparent access would be too revealing to people.
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Replying to @culteyes
it's like, there's this giant organization, they have the testing, they have the data, they're making the point that not only all there all of these simple methods to avoid the bottleneck but the 8 day delay is going to spread the disease & the CDC just sits on it it's different
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Replying to @DanielleFong
That giant organization has been hijacked by ultra right evangelists who don’t even believe in science. This is the “deal” Trump made it get elected. And the devil in the details of this deal (ie people like dr Redfield) is now killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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Replying to @culteyes @DanielleFong
There is a LOT of money behind these appointments (no senate approval required), and its a pyramid scheme of fundraising from poor and middle class devout (zealot) Christians by fully cynical wealthy a-holes to push those medieval agendas and make massive $$$$ in the process.
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Replying to @DanielleFong
No, this is a crazy cancer, it can & must be removed. One way is just to connect dots. Forensics. Another is to organize. And a third way, to never give up. Supermen like Elon are great as solvers of specifics. Its delusional of them & us to try apply those superpowers generally
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Replying to @culteyes
my unusual career brought me into orbit of a lot of super-billionaires *trying to do stuff* especially with the government and failing yes to that system is broken no to the rich are in control i reiterate, nobody is in control. it was an illusion in the first place, worse now
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the charge against the elite is primarily one of negligence, not malice
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Replying to @DanielleFong
I can’t imagine people of that caliber being indifferent or neglectful about anything. There’s just no incentive to change a system that they succeeded in, that they found a way to make work for themselves. That’s why it’s rare to find champions of systemic change among them.
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Replying to @culteyes @DanielleFong
So maybe that isn’t malice from their POV, it’s just not their job, not their role in the big scheme, to be asked to make those systemic changes. They maybe want to, out of a sense of heroism, but it’s a contradiction to both solve bottom line and societal issues.
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