BTW, if you were curious who this RW venture capitalist guy throwing money at 'left' people like Glem (who vehemently, angrily insists he is NOT being paid by Peter Thiel), well surprise, it's another Peter Thiel ally, who co-wrote an anti-diversity book with him.
But how dare you say he's paid by Peter Thiel or any other RW billionaire types. It's just a coincidence that he funds this platform...and What a smear.
Also completely a coincidence that I prop up all the faux-populists he's funding for Senate.
I'm sorry but this is all so fcking funny to me.
Glem: You are a paid shill beholden to XYZ donor who gave $500 to your non-profit
Also, Glem: Actually, Mr. Thiel is a benevolent and wise investor who just wants to maximize his profit. He has no bearing on my work.
I AM ACTUALLY LAUGHING. It's so ridiculous to even think this, I can't stop rolling on the floor "lmao'ing." Wow, these people are crazy for this one.
(BTW please do not notice that I did not answer the question).
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So my one goal was to figure out how to get to this biosphere place. Of course no one could tell me where to get the bus. I went to the tourist information place & of course it was shuttered. Asked a young security guy at the building next door and he was like "she left already."
Basically I needed to find the collectivo (unofficial) bus stop and either no one knew or no one could communicate it to me.
I'm determined to figure this out. Just walking all throughout the city And what do I see: Escuela de Ingles.
So I'm like, if anyone can tell me...
So I knock on the door and this lady comes out and I'm like "hablas Ingles" and she says "a little." Well, that was a lie. She was the receptionist. But she did her best to try to explain to me in Spanish. But it wasn't landing.
If you follow Nate, you'll notice how in the rare times he comments on anything Trump does, it's done completely dispassionately; 'yes, Donald Trump seems to be covering up a report implicating himself with a notorious pedophile, but I doubt this will matter much."
Whereas with Biden, every time there was a sniff of a story or he flubbed a word, Nate was on it in minutes with something like, "Jesus Christ. Get this fucking dementia patient off stage. The Democrats will never be able to live this shame down!"
People ask, 'how could voters believe Dems have positions that they don't actually believe?' Well it's because the GOP bombarded them with lies about Dems and there's just not a great answer for such weaponized shamelessness. Truth just does not work.
The GOP (and its wealthy financial backers) have basically weaponized disinformation/lies to a completely unprecedent degree. And with the rise of technology are able to pump it out completely unchallenged (especially since social media outlets have completely given up).
So the NYT politics guys did a Reddit AMA several days ago. This was the top upvoted post. And then the extremely predictable (point proving) response.
And the predictably smug/condescending follow-up
Needless to say, they were heavily down-voted and deluged with (acurate) negative comments like these