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Who exactly is an elite? I knew people who definitely weren't a decade ago, got rich in tech, and act like the people we used to rant about in private. It feel
by dontbenebby 4y ago
Who exactly is an elite? I knew people who definitely weren't a decade ago, got rich in tech, and act like the people we used to rant about in private.
It feels very cyclical, and ten years is not as long as you'd think, on a cosmic scale.
- willcipriano 4y agoAt some point this weekend, in a backyard in DC. Politicians of all stripes will gather with business owners, celebrities and foreign dignitaries, eat hot dogs and discuss how the country will be ran. The elites are everyone who is invited to the cookout.
- dontbenebby 4y agoOr they'll get a matar paneer then parkour home because they were banned from the coffee shop. (Not every American eats pork.)
- willcipriano 4y agoWhy do people like to suck all the color out of language? I don't feel that statement would have been improved by listing every dietary preference possible.
- nxm 4y agoFor me it’s the condescending left wing of a lot of tech companies who want to control what information is being shared because of belief that only they know what’s truly right and wrong. See Project Veritas and the Twitter exec. Most frustrating is the irony that they became wealthy and successful due to the systems (capitalism, police/law and order, low taxes) they now claim to hate.
- The_Stone 4y agoAre you saying you believe Project Veritas is left-wing? They're explicitly a far-right group, funded by conservative donors
- LatteLazy 4y agoIt's simultaneously a small clique of billionaire pedophiles AND anyone with a degree or an income over 30k USD per annum.
- exabrial 4y agoIt would seem the Democrats and to a lesser extent the Republicans are the new thought police, much like various religious groups in the 1900s who codified their opinion of "christianity" into law. Each side trying to force whatever on the populace for their personal gain. Democrats are pronouns, forced vaccination, forced slavery via taxes, and Republicans are unchecked police power, civil forfeiture, and 'trust the courts' which almost always rule with the powers that be.
- teilo 4y agoAn elite is anyone with enough money and/or societal and political influence, to get invited to events like Davos, Bilderberg, etc., to discuss their plans for shaping world policy. They essentially act like unelected oligarchs. The policies they elect to implement via their various subordinate organizations may or may not actually succeed, however. But they can try.