The ruling class has no problem w/ a social credit system.
Their only objection to China's social credit system is that unlike the ESG scam, it's designed to improve the well-being of the general populace at the expense of billionaires.
"Common Prosperity" vs. "Impact Economy"
The CFR's documents, which state the ruling class's foreign policy goals, claim the problem with China's rise is that China loans money without ESG "environmental & social-impact assessments".
These undermine the World Bank's predatory loan goals.
Their “personality is suggestible, submissive, has advanced degrees but is actually extremely uneducated. Washington DC — this entire area — we call it the DMV”
Gives example of Thomas Friedman, who married an heiress, hides in his multiple DC mansions while he writes about how the world works, & gets laughed at by normal people.
“These people culturally are not accountable to any real people. They’re in their own little Elysium bubble”
On Thomas Friedman’s “conversations with taxi drivers”
“That’s the joke about him, because it perfectly encapsulates the parachute mentality of these people. The only real people they meet are those who give them rides”
A black lawyer suggests she has empathy for the “white supremacists” that Talia Levin profiles. Floats constructive ways to engage with them.
Talia Levin freaks out over her “sympathy for the devil” & wants antifa violence against them.
"What are you even advocating for!?"
Talia Levin cannot emotionally handle the idea of engaging with the Americans she profiled, & lashes out at the host.
"If I had known this was going to be an extended conversation about the utility of deradicalization vs. antifascism, I absolutely would not have agreed to be on this podcast"
Takes a literal deep breath bc she's so horrified by the idea of "intimacy" over pure violence.
It’s like that annoying utilitarian trolley diagram in undergrad philosophy class, but even more inane & ignoring how these events were both pretexts for the ruling class to consolidate power & push insane policies that we would never otherwise accept.
Reading old authors, one can’t help but be blown away by their insight.
This total mediocrity giving “trolley argument but even dumber” should not be a leading pundit.