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OT: American Politics



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I don't know who subs to Krugman's newsletter, but he did an interview with the famous but retired shortseller Jim Chanos and Jim has a story about Wirecard's collapse that I think provides a really good lesson about how deep corrupt entities collapse, and how normal everything seems despite knowledge of their deeeep corruption being public, how insane their valuations are being obvious, etc.

I think it's something we have to keep in mind with Tesla, with the rest of the corruption entrenching it around Trump, and the Trump regime itself.
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From the other day. . . #s 8, 9, and 13 in particular resonated for me, especially #13.

"It Feels Sketchy, But It Works": Women Of All Ages Are Sharing The Proactive Health Measures They're Taking Now That RFK Jr. Has Been Confirmed As Health Secretary​

 
“Whoa wait nobody told me these diseases actually exist.”


View: https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3lizz4yfuac22

That death of that WWII generation who actually lived through some shit was the beginning of the end. No one left has seen first hand what these diseases do to your loved ones. Where fascism really leads. The horrors of war. So those of us who are happy to just read a book have to be dragged along for the lesson by idiots who only learn the hard way.

This is a great point. My grandmother is still kicking it. Hardcore righty but thinks the anti Vax stuff is beyond bonkers. “I remember when we all lived in fear of polio. You have no idea how awful that was.”
 
Wife's grandma had a club foot and an enlarged heart from polio. Still lived well into her 70s but had complications her entire life
 
This is a great point. My grandmother is still kicking it. Hardcore righty but thinks the anti Vax stuff is beyond bonkers. “I remember when we all lived in fear of polio. You have no idea how awful that was.”

"So grams you get how 1+1 =2 right?"
 
My mom was given the last rites when she had polio at age 13.
We really have no perception of how difficult life was 2 generations back.

3 of my great grandmothers got on cargo ships when they were ~ 10 years old, alone or with a similarly aged sibling, to move to a foreign county without their parents and no money in their pocket. The brother of one of those great grandmothers died on the ship. Another one got separated from her sibling at the port.

diseases we’ve since eradicated menaced society.

Trade wars led to hot wars in the late 1800s that set the stage for wwi.

pandemics lasted 10 years.

But yeah let’s hearken back to the 1880s and repeal vax mandates. So dumb.
 
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