They’re constantly “testing the waters” to see what they can get away with.
Every time they get away with some transgression, they up the ante.
It’s pure risk-taking Machiavellianism. There is no morality or common affinity to appeal to.
Many of these people are financial speculators who reached their position by taking massive risks & beating the market.
Vulture capitalists who gutted companies to accumulate unprecedented wealth.
They’re making leveraged bets on actions that increase their wealth & power.
Telling them they’re wrong is like telling aggressive stock market traders that they’re wrong for getting rich by manipulating the market.
They don’t care. They just want more money & power.
You’ll never win unless someone forces them to, or their position is liquidated.
George Soros wrote a book called “The Alchemy of Finance”. Biden’s donors are all vulture capitalists & Private Equity speculators.
To truly understand the ruling class, you would need to take Adderall & sit in front of a Bloomberg Terminal.
“Wolf of Wall Street” is a portrayal of the ruling class’s mindset.
They want their power line to go up, & yours to go down.
The ruling class gets a dopamine rush from the idea of all Westerners masking themselves & shuffling obediently through QR code controlled smart cities, eating at bug cafeterias & taking mandatory gene injections so they can work at their companies.
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.