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There’s a familiar American cycle since the Gilded Age. Elites encourage mass migration to lower worker wages, then harness ethnopopulist anti-migrant anger as a distraction to enact pro-corporate policy. The left today fails to see former and the right fails to see the latter.
Fauci aide allegedly boasted about ability to ‘make emails disappear’ including ‘smoking guns’. Via @emilyakopp @USRightToKnow
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/fauci-aide-make-emails-disappear-including-smoking-guns/
The whole journo "doxxing" issue is perplexing. America is shrouded in secrecy—billions of $$$ in tax shelters, shell companies, and various political front groups conceal who pulls the strings in society. Yet many reporters focus entirely on anonymous social media accounts.
Find people you can admire and respect who totally disagree with you about issues you care deeply about and make yourself as worthy of their respect as you can. This is what being an American is all about. So grateful to @lhfang & @lwoodhouse for their friendship.
Beyond the suffering, mass murder and the danger of provoking a new world war, the Israel-Palestine debate is exporting a form of tribalism that is unusually beneath us. People who should know better are adopting a religious & ethnic lens that is alien to the average American.
Those who lack allegiance to a group identity— be it religion, political party, or another type—are free to pursue the truth. By contrast, those whose priority it is to protect their group at all costs are bound to end up obscuring the truth in the process.
Exponentially worse than any silly chant at an American college campus protest.
Nancy Pelosi did not like what I had to say...
Populism is not a threat to democracy.
Democrat elites like her are.
Watch my full Oxford Union speech from the debate with her:
What’s fun to do in Santa Barbara?