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DIE is the deliberate elevation of mediocrity by fearful incompetents


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2023 Mar 13, 10:35pm   2,241 views  52 comments

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https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-glorification-of-sub-mediocrity


the glorification of sub-mediocrity
why woke, ESG, and DEI are so seductive to weak leaders

one of the most ineffacable truisms of organizational structure is this:

A’s hire A’s and B’s hire C’s.

it’s just basic human nature. excellence seeks to surround itself with excellence that it may achieve and mediocrity seeks to surround itself with sub-mediocrity that it may prevent itself from being supplanted.

there is nothing mediocrity fears more than excellence. it’s how you get turfed out of the cushy gig you do not really merit. positions of power are slippery and when you have one that consciously or merely instinctively you know that you do not deserve and are not truly qualified for, the last thing you want is some high caliber competitor coming up behind you, showing you up, and taking your chair.

A’s don’t sweat this because competing is what they do. but B’s live in terror of it. and this is why the B’s and C’s love “woke”, ESG, and DEI:

these alleged philosophies of inclusion are, in fact, ideologies of exclusion.

and what they seek to exclude is excellence and meritocracy.

it’s the literal point of the practice and it’s the reason that so many weakling leaders gravitate to them: it’s job security for the unqualified wrapped up in a neat little philosophy that makes self-serving nepotism and plunder look like virtue. ...

the whole point of DEI (diversity equity inclusion) is to place and sustain in positions of power those who could not otherwise attain them and to glorify this practice through the cultivation of some sort of grievance entitlement ...

the whole point of ESG (environmental, social, governance) is to allocate resources away from “best uses as determined by market” and into “hobbyhorses determined by cronies and capture.” it’s just another way to avoid competing while claiming to serve some facile “greater good” erected as pretext for plunder.

and this is how the world has become such an intolerable and increasingly dysfunctional mess. it’s rule by rube and ideological invasion and inversion of best practice and sound function.

it’s endlessly seductive to the hopelessly mediocre and it is infesting everything because once you infect the top, the whole rest of the fish rots from the head down. the B’s selected to lead purge the A’s and render what was once excellent the sub-mediocre domain of the C and call it progress.

and this keeps rarifying until you have F’s hiring H’s…

and this is how the center does not hold.

and this is how the world falls apart. ...

what i am saying is that choosing leaders for the color of their skin or their sexual orientation and not the content of their capability set demeans and debases them. it renders their achievements suspect and their positions less trusted for always will a whiff of nepotistic stink accrue to them.

what i am saying is that we’re putting fools in charge, chosen for ideological and identarian criteria that have little or nothing to do with the actual sound performance of the tasks entrusted to them and that to shore up their own power, they are adopting and accelerating the practices of exclusionary wokedom in order to feather their own nests and prevent competition and competence because these ideas threaten them and their positions.

and this is a race to an ever sinking bottom. ...

pretty soon no one in power has any idea what they are doing.

and the stupid games these people increasingly wish to play are bringing home increasingly stupid prizes.

because these people are clowns.

serious, weapons grade, dangerous clowns.



really stop and take this in. dozens of cites fell for this guy and his made up country. no one even googled it. and you’re leaving these people in charge? seriously?

the greatest social need in america today is to wall ourselves off from this.

it’s the antithesis of everything.

this broken philosophy of self-ennoblement and plunder praxis has infected academia root and stem. our universities are putrefying and the folks who run them becoming ever more absurd.

and it’s reaching the breaking point.

longtime gatopal™ emily burns nailed it as “the suicide of the elites.” ...

the suicide was putting a bunch of bloviating B’s in charge.

and their goal is to keep being a B-boss by cultivating a society of C’s and vilifying and silencing anything that looks like actual excellence.

and everything this touches falls apart. ...

the debacle of silicon valley bank is just another object lesson. (quite a good primer HERE for those wanting more info)

SVB was quite probably “america’s wokest bank.”

many had leveled accusations of ponzi, circularity, and self-dealing around it as well esp around the practice of funding “social goods” in circular fashion. SVB was an LP in many VC funds. those VC’s would then pressure portfolio companies to take out venture loans from SVB and SVB would, in turn, require those companies to keep their funds at the bank as part of the lending agreement. ...

astonishingly, many of the rubes are still braying about their hilarious delusions instead of learning the real lesson:

that elevating mediocrity is fatal to companies, agencies, and societies alike.

truly, there is just no smartening up these chumps. ...

whole ecosystems of indoctrination and belief have been ingrained here. they have stacked the turtles of sub-adequacy all the way down and purged any who might threaten their retention of power.

did you seriously think that selectors like “if you believe in free speech or biological gender you cannot work here” were some sort of genuine enterprise as opposed to just the seductive self-delusion used in most machiavellian fashion to cull the sane and sound so that the plundering neiman marxists could keep the capable away from challenging their power?

the absurdity is a feature, not a bug.

the entire point of the woke/DEI/ESG alphabet soup multiplex is to orchestrate a war on competence.

and it has become endemic.

you’re being ruled by rubes who have elevated the inability to reason or rotate shapes to a sort of ethical code that worships uncritical incapacity.

it’s the simple and inevitable emergent outcome of putting B’s in charge. they purge the A’s, hire idiots, shore up their power, and gin up a song and dance to not only justify but lionize having done so.

then everyone looks baffled when nothing works any more and the engine of everything starts to sputter.

“go woke go broke” is not just a law of economics.

it’s also one of morality and of sanity.

it bankrupts everything.

and it’s time we knocked this off.

the society we save may be our own.




THIS is the explanation that was in the back of my head but I could never articulate!

We now know the right thing to say when the argument comes up:

"Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity" is merely a justification for elevating the incompetent over the competent.

It has the force of irresistible truth, because it is the truth and they know it in their bones.

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14   HeadSet   2023 Jun 2, 10:46am  

Patrick says

The U.S. has embraced a novel question: what happens when the men who built the complex systems our society relies on cease contributing and are replaced by people who were chosen for reasons other than competency?

We already have 2 examples of what will happen. Look at the results in Rhodesia, and Union of South Africa when the Whites were expelled and took all corporate knowledge with them.
15   Ceffer   2023 Jun 2, 11:46am  

Tavistock Fabians and Royal Institute of International Affairs, along with their MI6 sub cults and apparatchiks like Soros, have chosen Communism as their social psyops infliction to destroy our country.

Having 'social credit scores' for all the captive investment companies, Swiss Octagon deploys BIS and the IMF top down to freeze credit and liquidity by threat for non-compliance, and shows their psychopathic centralized bully pulpit.
16   richwicks   2023 Jun 2, 7:55pm  

HeadSet says

Look at the results in Rhodesia, and Union of South Africa when the Whites were expelled and took all corporate knowledge with them.


It's not corporate knowledge that is missing, it's skilled labor.

Remember the Summer of Love in Seattle, where dipshit kids were planting crops (well supposedly). People that haven't done farming, even people that have only dabbled in gardening, have NO IDEA how to do large scale farming. It's not just putting a seed into the ground and watering every now and then. You have to detect pests, keep out weeks, know what pesticides and herbicides work, you need to know when to harvest, you need to understand the machinery, how to repair it, work with your neighbor to SHARE machinery (that's common), detect with the animals are sick, feed, them, know how to store food, know how to get this to market, handle expenses, you might even have to get into the commodities market, you have to worry about crop failure.

It's fucking hard.

Corporate knowledge is just knowing how to skim all this work and knowledge. I've considered setting up a business that does NOTHING other than pick up food from farms, and setting up a farmer's market, that has no fixed location. Just setup at a park "here's your 10 lbs of onions". Just bypass everything.

Food isn't taxable either.
17   HeadSet   2023 Jun 2, 8:54pm  

richwicks says

It's not corporate knowledge that is missing, it's skilled labor.

"Corporate" as in "body", like in "Body of Knowlege." Not corporate as a legal business entity. Corporate knowledge as in what is learned with long experience in a specific job, learning unique details along the way. When the Whites were kicked out of Rhodesia, they took acquired skills that took years to learn. Even though the Whites had Black underlings, the White managers and White owners had needed skills such that an unexperienced Black person could not just walk into the job.
18   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2023 Jun 2, 9:03pm  

Patrick says






diversity implemented by retards turns out like everything else done by retards… fully retarded
19   Patrick   2023 Sep 8, 12:28pm  

https://4columns.substack.com/p/how-to-hollow-out-an-institution?r=patrick.net


Even Anheuser-Busch seems to think it owes us lectures on “inclusivity” or some other woke nonsense. It is, of course, America’s unwanted, unsupported new religion brought to you by a lot of the same folks who relentlessly sue to get religion out of any public space. So, if you want to destroy an institution, here is a simple list of action steps to help you expedite the process:

First, flood it with women. See higher ed. Fill your ranks to the point where you have a heavy supermajority of women and other docile, emasculated workers governed by lots of rules to protect people from being offended. Bring in as many young, female woke activists as you can who identify as “she/her” in their email signatures.

Second, put women in charge. Give them control of the entire HR/DEI/leadership apparatus. Give them the power to rule over everyone through noxious legal theories and infuse the institutions with feminine values- docility, a healthy work-life balance, getting along with others over doing good work, and “inclusivity” over truth.

Third, let DEI become the unofficial purpose of your institution. This will inevitably happen when you put enough women and feminized men in charge. Accordingly, in my former office, about 1/4 to 1/3 of the emails I received each week pertained to DEI events or initiatives. Another 1/4 pertained to Zoom brown bag sessions on how to care for your aging relatives or how to manage anxiety in the workplace.

Fourth, encourage then require telework. Do everything on Zoom, never meet your coworkers in person again, stay in your pajamas all day!!! Let’s be honest, telework is for mommies. I have nothing against mommies, I just am not one and I don’t think the workplace should cater SOLELY to their needs and interests. In fact, I view telework as a kind of cheating on the job. Being at home takes away your focus, but the mommies and nannies who run our culture won’t admit that.

Once you’ve taken these steps, your institution is well on its way to hollowing itself out and severing any connection to its original purpose. Think about how we handled the pandemic. What might have happened if we hadn’t already become a whining, nagging, hectoring Longhouse of a nation? During the Spanish Flu of 1918, only one city, San Francisco of course, required residents to wear gauze masks in public.

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” ― Eric Hoffer

The CDC probably started out as a noble cause seeking to protect Americans from infectious diseases, but after almost 80 years it has become an appendage of the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries. A perpetual advocate for more medicines, vaccines, and treatments to inflict on the American people.

So it is with countless other institutions and organizations. Once noble causes, now corrupt rackets. I commend Christopher Rufo’s efforts to openly infiltrate and seize control of these deranged environments, but so many places are so far gone that we need to be talking about eliminating and dramatically shrinking useless, meddling bureaucracies. It’s either that or start building a parallel society that actually recognizes that we need MORE boys in STEM, for example. We can’t go on like this.
20   Patrick   2023 Dec 15, 11:02am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/overthrown-friday-december-15-2023


Love him or hate him, in the wake of the revolting testimony of the Ivy League presidents last week, Elon Musk called for the inglorious end of DEI earlier today:



In related news, two days ago Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt issued an executive order yanking every DEI office at every public university.

Activists have already filed Lawsuits against the Governor’s order, arguing it violated the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. But the order remains in effect while legal challenges are pending, and Oklahoma universities are currently undergoing the review process described in the order.

A few months ago in June, Florida passed a similar law, prohibiting the use of state funds for DEI initiatives at public universities. Legal challenges continue, but no court has yet agreed to stay the law. Meanwhile, Florida’s Board of Governors, which oversees the Florida State University System, is considering further restricting DEI programs, potentially mirroring Oklahoma's move, and is said to be considering reviewing and maybe eliminating categories of DEI positions.
21   AD   2024 Jan 21, 9:43pm  

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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/college-student-submits-nearly-500-214835336.html

Open the above link and read about a Univ of Michigan student who is Asian American applying to +450 intern jobs and only getting one offer

I read stats like how people of color make up about 38% of middle ranks within the federal civil service. I think it is under reported and a lot more than 38%, and I think Asian Americans are still under represented along with White Americans.

I wonder if corporations now are in the same circumstance as far as demographics and demographic reporting.

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22   GNL   2024 Jan 22, 5:39am  

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

Patrick says







diversity implemented by retards turns out like everything else done by retards… fully retarded

I believe this all for the sake of causing chaos.
23   GNL   2024 Jan 22, 5:44am  

ad says

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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/college-student-submits-nearly-500-214835336.html

Open the above link and read about a Univ of Michigan student who is Asian American applying to +450 intern jobs and only getting one offer

I read stats like how people of color make up about 38% of middle ranks within the federal civil service. I think it is under reported and a lot more than 38%, and I think Asian Americans are still under represented along with White Americans.

I wonder if corporations now are in the same circumstance as far as demographics and demographic reporting.

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You've got to wonder why smaller companies aren't running rings around their competitors now. If a company only hires the best, they should be able to totally kick ass.
25   richwicks   2024 Jan 22, 6:10am  

GNL says

You've got to wonder why smaller companies aren't running rings around their competitors now. If a company only hires the best, they should be able to totally kick ass.

Because we don't have a free market economic system.

When a company really fucks up, the government bails them out.

5 trillion dollars was used for corona virus relief. 5 TRILLION. Where did that money go?

Corporations, favored corporations.

We haven't had capitalism in decades.
26   gabbar   2024 Jan 22, 5:11pm  

GNL says





Funny thing is its the white people who are doing this, right?
27   Patrick   2024 Jan 22, 5:17pm  

To a large degree, yes, but not by psychologically healthy white people. All of them nurse some resentment or other:

- AWFL's (affluent white female liberals) who have the usual feminist resentments and insecurities
- Jews, who tend to blame all whites for the holocaust
- gays, who resent normal people
28   Patrick   2024 Jan 22, 5:17pm  

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/thinking-points-january-22-2024


The collapse of higher education

What’s wild about higher education is how completely useless it was in response to Covid. All of the tools of the physical and social sciences were abandoned in favor of fear, bias, panic, irrationality, obedience, and profit. The few academics who followed proper methods were fired. We spent hundreds of years developing the university system as a bulwark against tyranny and primitivism. And in the end it was just a Maginot Line that was overrun by the fascists.
29   GNL   2024 Jan 22, 6:13pm  

gabbar says


GNL says






Funny thing is its the white people who are doing this, right?


That's the most fucked up thing about it. It blows my mind. I've said before that white people, as a group, are the dumbest out there.

Edit: That's the most fucked up thing about it. It blows my mind. I've said before that, in a way, white people, as a group, are the dumbest out there. We are great at building, educating, inventing and organizing. But we lack something. I'd say our achilles heel is allowing others to guilt trip us. The other problem white people have is altruism. Christianity plays a large role in this. IMO
30   REpro   2024 Jan 22, 10:36pm  

I hate to be white.
Look, not anymore:


31   GNL   2024 Jan 22, 10:45pm  

REpro says


I hate to be white.
Look, not anymore:




You Hate being white? You're a perfect example of self hate. Why would you hate being white? That's ridiculous.
32   richwicks   2024 Jan 22, 10:55pm  

gabbar says

GNL says






Funny thing is its the white people who are doing this, right?


It's the billionaire class doing it. I think it's just a way of ending social and economic mobility. It reduces competition for the ruling class, because merit is no longer a factor in advancement, kissing ass is. If you have a moron kissing your ass, well, you're not going to have to worry so much about them superseding you, but if you have a genius underneath you, it's quite possible they will.

You can't do this in a free market, but we're not in a free market.
34   Patrick   2024 Jan 22, 11:29pm  

GNL says

I'd say our achilles heel is allowing others to guilt trip us. The other problem white people have is altruism. Christianity plays a large role in this.


I think that's true.

White people seem more prone to guilt. Maybe it's even genetic and had to do with evolving for tens of thousands of years in a place with hard winters. If you don't help someone through the winter with food etc, that person may die.

Christianity is about guilt and forgiveness too. So it's part of European culture.
35   gabbar   2024 Jan 23, 1:24am  

You all have good points. I feel that politics is also a part of it because governments (even Saudi Arabia is experimenting but China isn't so far) are driving this one world/one people agenda utilizing media.
36   gabbar   2024 Jan 23, 1:27am  

Patrick says

White people seem more prone to guilt. Maybe it's even genetic and had to do with evolving for tens of thousands of years in a place with hard winters. If you don't help someone through the winter with food etc, that person may die.

Christianity is about guilt and forgiveness too. So it's part of European culture.

This shouldn't be viewed as liability/weakness but as strength/noble value?
37   gabbar   2024 Jan 23, 1:36am  

Patrick says

Love him or hate him, in the wake of the revolting testimony of the Ivy League presidents last week, Elon Musk called for the inglorious end of DEI earlier today:

I love him. His twitter account is one example. He has spoken up in interviews, he doesn't sugar coat. Man went and smoked pot on Joe Rogan's show (most billionaires don't dare going on Rogan's show) in a t shirt. You see stuff on Twitter than is not allowed on any other media. Space X, Tesla.....He might start a charity foundation in the future, what should one expect more from him? Contrast him with other billionaire.....Bill Gates, Larry Fink, George Soros.....There is no other billionaire who is loved more than Elon.
38   gabbar   2024 Jan 23, 1:38am  

GNL says

white people, as a group, are the dumbest out there.

No. More like, white politicians are the greediest out there.
39   GNL   2024 Jan 23, 5:20am  

gabbar says


Patrick says


White people seem more prone to guilt. Maybe it's even genetic and had to do with evolving for tens of thousands of years in a place with hard winters. If you don't help someone through the winter with food etc, that person may die.

Christianity is about guilt and forgiveness too. So it's part of European culture.

This shouldn't be viewed as liability/weakness but as strength/noble value?


Not if you're losing. IMO
40   WookieMan   2024 Jan 23, 6:31am  

gabbar says

I love him. His twitter account is one example. He has spoken up in interviews, he doesn't sugar coat. Man went and smoked pot on Joe Rogan's show (most billionaires don't dare going on Rogan's show) in a t shirt. You see stuff on Twitter than is not allowed on any other media. Space X, Tesla.....He might start a charity foundation in the future, what should one expect more from him? Contrast him with other billionaire.....Bill Gates, Larry Fink, George Soros.....There is no other billionaire who is loved more than Elon.

Understand he's trying to sell cars. Although Space X is getting decent internet to weird/rural places. Just expensive as usual with a good 20-30% subsidized by actual taxpayers. I hope the Starlink users are enjoying the rockets we mostly pay for. Most don't.

He likes the attention. Helps him sell Teslas. He doesn't have to pay for marketing when he goes on the biggest podcasts. He knows he's getting softball questions. He has an awkward personality, but I'd say a Bill Gates type is exponentially more annoying and weird. Who wakes up and wants to make vaccines. Maybe cure cancer? Nah. Maybe heart disease without damaging other parts of the body? Nah. Let's make vaccines for a generally healthy population for things that don't kill people. Ding, that's the winner....
41   WookieMan   2024 Jan 23, 6:31am  

REpro says





Not gonna lie dude, this is a touch creepy.
43   Patrick   2024 Apr 4, 10:53am  

https://notthebee.com/article/mckinsey-studies-used-to-justify-and-promote-dei-in-the-workplace-as-a-positive-for-business-were-just-shown-to-be-unreliable-yeah-the-results-show-dei-is-bad-for-businesses


Over the past few years, McKinsey has released at least 4 studies claiming a positive relationship between DEI and firm performance.

A new paper published today in Econ Journal Watch finds these results can't be replicated.

"Our inability to [replicate] their results suggests that ... they should not be relied on to support the view that US publicly traded firms can expect to deliver improved financial performance if they increase the racial/ethnic diversity of their executives.''
44   Patrick   2024 Apr 17, 11:47am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/radio-free-america-wednesday-april


Intellectual, anticommunist, and conservative commenter James Lindsay persuasively argues that DEI, which like sewer water has now seeped into every nook and crevice of our public and private institutions, is actually a long-term socio-political military strategy by our enemies, principally China, to destabilize the United States. DEI is rendering impotent our military, our government, our universities, and even our strategically-critical corporations staffed by graduates of those undermined universities (think Boeing). If James is right, and I think he is, China’s destruction-by-DEI plan is working perfectly.


I think it was China all along, playing to the bitter incompetents, suggesting that they were unduly deprived of power, when in reality they were deprived of power because they are truly incompetent.

Now all levels of US corporations and government are staffed with comically incompetent woke idiots. China won.
45   richwicks   2024 Apr 17, 12:30pm  

Patrick says


Now all levels of US corporations and government are staffed with comically incompetent woke idiots. China won.

This is like saying Russia hacked our election, but not having any idea how.

DEI is not China, people in top positions of power didn't get there because they were the best, they got there because they are the most ruthless. They aren't competent and they are afraid of more competent people replacing them.

Do you think it's coincidence there's rumors that pedophilia is rampant in positions of power? If you are an intelligence agency and you have two identical and competent people, who would you prefer to be in power? The one you can control.

That's DEI as well. Hire this dumb loyal person that damned well knows they are there is because they are loyal, and that's the ONLY reason they are there. This is why our government is in shambles, everybody in a position of power is compromised. Ethical intelligent people won't play the game, scumbag intelligent people will, but any scumbag will. It will destroy the country, but it could be fixed if people just recognize scumbags are promoted to positions of power, not ethical people.
46   AmericanKulak   2024 Apr 17, 12:36pm  

Adam Smith said: "ENLIGHTENED self-interest" The modifier gets left out.

Meaning, you're at Stage 4 or higher and aware of society, religion, morality, etc. and THEN you balance all that out in your self interest.

You don't say "Deindustrialize the Rust Belt so I can get an extra 1-2% and retire at 45 a multimillionaire. Damn the millions of lost jobs, manufacturing capacity, social effects, fuck those people, I gotta get mine"

That's raw self-interest.

Honestly, the whole "Fuck you all because I gotta be out by 50" is a major factor in the corruption and sell out to the CCP.
47   AmericanKulak   2024 Apr 22, 1:19pm  

UCLA DEI CZAR Natalie Perry is so Lazy, she plagarized 5 pages straight - of her one and only academic paper.

https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1782443053317345688


It's almost not worth showing, because if you redacted all her plagarized portions, there would be nothing to read, like a FOIA on Ukraine Grants
48   Patrick   2024 Apr 23, 10:23am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/no-sheetz-tuesday-april-23-2024-c


On the surface, the Muldrow v. St. Louis decision looks fairly unremarkable. A female St. Louis police sergeant alleged she was transferred to a less prominent job assignment because of her gender. The trouble with her case was her pay and benefits stayed the same, and the city argued she wasn’t harmed. But the Court unanimously agreed that even “small harms” — if tangible — are enough to support a Title VII claim for employment discrimination.

The liberals and conservatives on the Court probably agreed on the case’s conclusion for different reasons.

What has some DEI activists now wringing their hands is that pro-equality conservative lawfare groups hope to use the new decision to push back on Constitutionally repugnant anti-white discrimination. Disadvantaged white employees might now challenge so-called ‘affirmative action’ programs if they advantage minorities over white employees in even minor ways.

Examples might include things like mentoring opportunities open only to minority employees, or a meet-and-greet with executives excluding white folks, both of which may now be actionable under Muldrow’s new “some harms” standard.
50   Ceffer   2024 Apr 23, 10:17pm  

Of course. Absurd and abusive premises inflicted through force are the fertilizer of the Hegelian polarization.Patrick says




51   richwicks   2024 Apr 23, 10:22pm  

Patrick says





That's the point of it.

Divide and conquer. If people knew how corrupt that government was, they'd revolt against it. Instead, they are directed to fight among one another.

Our government has no qualms against lying us into a war, spending a trillion dollars, killing millions, so they can make a little scratch off from the conflict. They don't care if the war is won or lost, or how many people die, how many Americans die. They don't care if Jeffrey Epstein is running a child rape ring, the public doesn't, but they might, if the public wasn't directed to hate one another.

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