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Linh Dinh's avatar

Hi everyone,

I just changed "Southeast Asians" in this sentence to "Viet, Laos and Cambodians trash their countryside." Thais, Malaysians and Singaporeans don't litter like those of the former Indochina.

Linh

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What I find utterly obnoxious about this second Trump term is how few remark on the insidious role that Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and other tech oligarchs play in the administration. They're seen by Trump supporters as cleaning house, especially with the advent of the totally useless DOGE (side note: how the fuck do you cut government waste but at the same time vow not to touch "essentials" such as "defense" spending?).

There was a big stink a few days ago about the waste that Musk uncovered at the Fed, where allegedly payments to anyone and everyone were being rubberstamped. The whole narrative was around how wasteful the government is. That narrative leads nowhere. The morally objective perspective is to ask how the fuck a South African billionaire now presumably has oversight of the Fed and the decisions it makes. What's to stop him from giving himself a bailout?

Imagine the furore in MAGA land if you switched out Musk with George Soros in this situation.

There are no good billionaires. There's no way to amass that much wealth without being morally compromised.

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