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"You're attacking the person who's protecting you – idiot. [..] You may hate this, but there's one person protecting your rights to be a conspiracy theorist tha
by gkoberger 7mo ago
"You're attacking the person who's protecting you – idiot. [..] You may hate this, but there's one person protecting your rights to be a conspiracy theorist that actually has a seat at the table, and that person is me. [..] You may not want to hear that truth, but it's fucking true."
The way Alex Karp views himself is scary; he gives himself (and his company) carte blanche when it comes to morality. He's basically become the Jack Nicholson character from A Few Good Men.
Yes, America needs technology to succeed. But it can't be unchecked.
- avazhi 7mo ago[flagged]
- ta9000 7mo agoI choose neither.
- gkoberger 7mo agoSure, me too. But that was the point of his character – the false equivalence that he was the good guy, and those are the two options. He justified ignoring the rules, which lead to the death of someone in his command, due to his own moral arrogance. There's a third option. Someone who understands the weight of the role and holds themselves (or is held) accountable.
- bcrosby95 7mo agoYou're misreading the hesitation about going into places like Iran. It's not because we think the regime is/was good, but rather because of the completely predictable next 10-50 years of shit we're going to experience as a result. Regime change is hard and oftentimes has the opposite effect of what you want. For example, see the current Iran regime.
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- kibibu 7mo ago10-50 is quite conservative. The current situation can be directly traced more-or-less directly to the CIA-instigated Mosaddegh coup in 1953. It's also basically never been about freedom or whatever propaganda people are fed each time.
- sifar 7mo agoIt is not a binary choice. This is the greatest illusion people in power manage to create, there are only two choices - pro or anti.
- throwaway27448 7mo agoKhomeini died almost forty years ago