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jeff... bezos....?!

MAGAs are the dumbest Americans alive lol

Americans continue to benefit from rape of resources from Africa, often the result of having overthrown elected governments in the region. Climate change, caused by rich countries, hurts poor countries more than the perpetrators. The tax system should be altered so that rich Americans pay the price.

And baked ham is just posting this shit now???

"Left wing billionaires" is an oxymoron. The overwhelming majority of billionaires are sociopathic right-wingers. That's why the right-wing attacks Soros so much, because he's one of the very few who actually contribute to Democrats and progressive causes, and they want to stop that.

The racism contained in “We need more babies!” alongside “Africa's concerning population boom”…

Left wing billionaires lolololol

"Anyone who believes this obviously true thing is true, so freaking obvious it might as well be "2+2=4" or "grass is green", is too stupid to function" is gaslighting to a degree never attempted before. These people are mentally ill. Brains utterly broken.

Scott Adams. Another sad excuse for a celebrity in Trump world. He is the textbook example of someone who has found a way to revel in his moral failings by being a cult cheerleader.

Racist Much? - Mike Cernovich & clowns

This gives me an idea actually: What if we called the billionaire's tax a 10% to tithe that will help the community? I bet you $100 there will be conservatives excited about the idea even though it's literally just a rebranding of taxes.

Soft power is cheaper and easier to maintain than war, but doesn’t result in the same kind of profits

They didn't fund it because their taxes are too low. In that way he's got a point, though wrapped in wet trash.

The left wing billionaires

Just ripping the heart right out of Christ, this one is...

I hadn’t thought about this but I think you’re right. Virtue in ignorance. God help us.

lol with the Scott Adams repost🤌

It really does give away the whole game that he couldn’t resist the “funding Africa’s population growth” line, though. It used to just be about cutting unnecessary spending, now they talk about aid programs with such racist vitriol.

That's horrific, so of course trump did it. He is a heartless monster.

Isn’t Scott adams dying or something? I guess he’s making good use of his last days by sharing racist and moronic tweets from one of the most odious “personalities” of this cursed era. So many names I don’t want to see again ever, unless it is in the context of a tour in which they beg forgiveness.

I don’t know that guy, but I genuinely hope he gets diagnosed with stage iv rectal cancer.

Taxes, right?

Hah a Scott Adams endorsement is amazing.

Cernovich is a gutter sack of shit a reasonable nation would have ejected into the sun by now, but were America, the last refuge for assholes.

Left-wing billionaires!? Lolz!!! Goddamn. Reactionaries are walking, talking illogical paradox makers.

Because we were supposed to be the good guys……

The maxim “every conservative accusation is a confession” remains undefeated

Right. A traditional, isolationist conservative could make an argument that it’s not the US taxpayer’s job to pay for aid programs in Africa, but that’s not what he’s saying.

These guys allegedly throw babies overboard from yachts for fun. They don't GAF about anyone.👹👹👹

"Left wing billionaires"

Anyone believing that Jews were killed in concentration camps is too stupid to function. If it were true why didn’t the Jews from the other countries join together to kill all the Nazis? That’s how stupid Cernovich sounds.

Thernovich

I didn't murder my wife. And even if I did,

If I were Scott Adams, I would literally only be retweeting cute dogs. I would be looking to accumulate as many points as possible.

These idiots believe that soft power = weakness.

Well that's a fucking stupid claim. Every single social program in the usa is from Dems. Everyone with an IQ north of 70 knows that.

Even accepting the premise, mere money couldn’t replace the infrastructure and relationships of USAID overnight. It takes time to build things.

Even if left wing billionaires are much of a thing at all, they would need the delivery infrastructure to fill the shortfall. And they don't have it and aren't going to. Among other things.

That's a whole lot of word garbage just for him to say he's a white supremist, lmao.

And it's a Scott Adams re-tweet, too.

To be fair to the example, I don’t remember a time where either of these two felt any kind of ashamed to be stupid

USAID wasn't just "feel good about feeding starving kids" It was that 1st scene from The Godfather. It's how all of a sudden we had special forces and armed drone air strips in places so remote they didn't even have names. Just grid coordinates. USAID bought us cooperation.

I hope so and also understand that most philanthropists that are on the left do things discreetly, seems rather Trumpian to do otherwise.

"Scott Adams reposted" The guy who wants special treatment from the president to interfere with the FDA so he can get his hands on experimental drugs.

... and genocidal.

So NOW they want to tax the rich?

Let me look around. I have a post-it note with the complete list of left-wing billionaires around here somewhere…

Population growth in Africa was expected to outstrip that of the rest of the world, and cutting USAID was intended to put a stop to that

I’ll bet this idiot either claims to follow Jesus Christ or supports politicians who do 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

And there's an entire media ecosystem reinforcing and profiting from said ignorance.

sure sign of "just throw money at it" brain in action USAID wasn't just a funding source, but an organization. they fired the aid workers, sent home the logisticians, burned supplies that had already been paid for.

Even if we restored the funding for these programs tomorrow the number of preventable deaths from USAID cuts will almost certainly be in the millions if it isn't there already. This is going to be our generation's version of German civilians denying the reality of the holocaust in the late 1940s.

America was better when the morons couldn’t find each other so easily.

It's the moral duty of working Americans to pay import taxes to offset tax cuts for Jeff Bezos

Every MAGA is a bad person.

Hell ‘gon be hot

Though if you boil this thought down to "why don't billionaires pay a fair amount to support social services?", you can find a nut of insight there that's just barely eluding their grasp (not that these particular people are intellectually honest).

“Scott Adams reposted” *chef’s kiss*

1. “Funding population growth” is now the same as “preventing death and suffering”? 2. The “left wing” billionaire most famously filling the shortfall? These guys accused him of putting microchips in vaccines. 3. These are the same guys that burned $10M of contraceptives, right?

We have direct clear data USAID specifically provided significantly relevant National Security for #USA! Somehow ignoring that, all together, is unifying...?

Scott Adams reposting drivel yet again … Whooweee smdh

Right? They had to wait until greatest generation died off \ brain rotted tech babies grew up.🙃

I guess these geniuses don't understand how representative democracy works?

On the plus side, the guy who reposted this will be gone soon too.

They got permission to not only stop trying to be correct, but to revel in being wrong.

It's the original sin of the internet. Previously, people with these viewpoints would be met with 'What the fuck is wrong with you?' in the real world now find themselves in online spaces with other idiots going 'Hell yeah bro' It's a critical mass of arrogant ignorance, like a nuke but stupid.

It's the old "the Internet brought all the village idiots together."

Ignorance as an indicator of trust goes hard

Using "tribal" as an insult is terribly racist against Indigenous Peoples.

Literally heard "Canada has been ripping us off for years" when talking about tariffs. "How so?" I asked in good faith. "It's complicated." Ok. Gotcha.

Exactly. And with this group, the ignorance fails to trigger the “I need some respected expertise to help me” next step.

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You might say it's a shibboleth amongst them. I'll see myself out

It’s also payback against the smart kids who made them feel stupid at school. A LOT of that.

Common sense is now a dog whistle of the cult of ignorance. It’s this idea that the world is self-evident and science has nothing to teach us, that it ‘complicates things’.

Few decades-plus. Started when Reagan and his minions courted the then-silent majority Jesus freaks. They are now loud, proud, and entitled. Still fcking vacuous idiots into which the monied class has poured their "bootstraps" theology - but silent no more.

Stupid-chic

This is the most succinct and accurate description of the madness of our times that I have seen anywhere.

The Trump effect. Make a club (maga), invite really dumb, mean people and tell them they're the ones who are right. Tell them to lash out publicly at everyone else. Even support them doing it (j6). Maga is dying & this behavior won't be tolerated. Educate yourself. Be kind, respectful and truthful

Well, Mr. Republican, since I'm a citizen of a liberal country (Canada) where the educational standard is higher than in your country, I think what you are missing is that conservative governments underfund the public education system. That has produced the dire education results in the US.

"Creme rises" unintended symbolism. James Bowman aka JD Vance comes out and tells his audience of white people that they don't have to apologize for being white anymore. The entire anti-DEI nonsense is nothing short of a "justification" for white people to remain in control of as much as possible.

Yes, except ignorant people don't think they are ignorant.

This is excellent.

At least Das Kapital was somewhat idealistic, it wasn’t about killing people per se.

This is a key component of how epistemic capture and disinformation works... The disinformation agents placate the morons and builds a trusted in group, where only the in group can see the truth behind conspiracy... The in group now feels superior and self reinforces ignorance with shared disinfo

it seems this validation is the source of a lot of our issues

On the nose!!!! This is a trend that has been bubbling below the surface, lo these many years, just waiting for the perfect storm when fascism, racism, anti-intellectualism and social media all all came together and allowed it to erupt fully-formed.

Sad, but true…

Ignorance matched only by irrational arrogance.

The internet united all of the weirdos at the end of the bar nobody wants to talks to

this is all a decades long plan of the Plutocracy to play the Mediocracy against the Meritocracy so that both are destroyed and nothing makes sense.

You’re correct, but also this is the political project of the Washington Post (among many other entities that you didn’t work for, of course). Don’t you think Bezos benefits from ignorant scattered workers that can’t collectivize behind an ideologically coherent political project?

You also have to factor in their ability to be/become the victim in any circumstance. Somehow they convince themselves they've been wronged by the powers that be rather than they're not seeking new information in any respect. Information is to be brought to them, not sought out

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Oof. If you live in Boston, this hits.