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Linas Vepstas
@linas.org

"Some capitalists". I know some small business owners that hire disabled people, organize events for low-income classes, and are generally involved in positive community building. They have traditionally voted GOP, staunch republicans, while also performing these obvious "socialist" activities.

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Linas Vepstas
@linas.org

I have no problem with this. Guy wants to drive a fancy sport car and do good works? OK, why not. The problem are the psycho anti-social CEO's. I've gone drinking and socializing with them too. They are (very) evil, in a very classical "mundane" or "banal evil" kind of way.

Linas Vepstas
@linas.org

One guy, CEO of a company of about 3K or 4K people, told me ten years ago: "Buy a gun, they're going to be breaking down your doors and coming in your windows and they will torch this entire city. Austin will be a smoldering wasteland. Business is good, we're hiring, want a job?"

Linas Vepstas
@linas.org

And I'm like "duude, if all the cities of America are gonna get torched, I'm pretty sure that the buyers of your product are gonna vaporize and you'll be filing bankruptcy, so don't tell me 'business is good, there will be civil war'" Well, we were both drunk, and he doubled down on civil war.

Linas Vepstas
@linas.org

The "civil war" bullshit was a meme he picked up on Fox News, BTW. It was a very very popular meme at the time. Everybody who was anybody was talking about it. It was a deeply held conviction. 10-12 years ago. A little older than QAnon. About contemporaneous.

Linas Vepstas@linas.org

The Fairness doctrine was abolished in 1987, after a long GOP campaign. Fox News was incorporated a day later. That is, Fox News was already being constructed and designed, hand-in-glove with the repeal of the Fairness doctrine. This is one of the large propaganda spigots that were opened.

en.wikipedia.orgFairness doctrine - Wikipedia