KDJohnBrown

Very much similar to the Tuskegee experiment. When your opressors experiment on you in the name of science it is logical to distrust the science of your oppressor.

Would any Jew in 1950 have willingly taken a German vaccine?

This has everything to do with American excetionalism. We have funded four failed coup attempts because the leaders won’t play ball with American ideology. Just like us funding the coup in Iran which let islamist extremisrs overthrough a democracy because they would no longer let us control their oil resources.

If Venezuela and Iran could sell openly on the free market, texans, alaskans and opec oil riches would plummet.

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It’s a diffetent kind of abuse. The concept of climbing the corporate ladder only really exists for executives, not for corporate wage slaves.

As an academic your best career choice is to work your way up in one organization. As an engineer the expected strategy is to hop jobs every 2-4 years.

In (American) business, barring some unions, there is no concept of tenure and it is understood you will be fired the moment you screw up or you will quit once the abuse surpasses your level of tolerance.

Either way, as a worker, expect to be abused by management and peers. As an entrepreneur expect to be abused by creditors, vendors and investors.

The only way to avoid the abuse is to be born wealthy and not work.

LA did this like 20 years ago I believe. I’m surprised this took so long.

Because they wouldn’t do anything, they would just kee the money. During Hurricane Harvey 30,000 people in the vicinity of the billion dollar evangelical mega church iwnes by Joel Olstein were left homeless.

Olstein closed the doors of his church and went on vacation. He got a massive government bailout afterwards.

He also received a massive bailout during the pandemic and stull isnt helping the homeless.

Religion generally does nothing but takes credit. Even mother theresa built a billion dollar “medical” empire while letting patients die of gangrene after breaking bones.

There’s an irony here. The adamantly pro-nuclear crowd tends to be just as vocally anti-regulation. It’s stranfe that proponents of a “trustless society” are willing to put so much faith in corporations and governments ability to do the right thing, plan for the future or even exist in the future.

> That money would be spent 100x better in a church charity or something similar.

Or in the case of an evangelical mega-church to help pay for the tax free mansions and private jets, essentially charging the taxpayers twice.

Manufactured outrage designed by Republicans to cover up their attempt to violently overthrow the government.

To quote Donald Trump Jr, this is a Nothing Burger.

Interesting historical note, this is how Chef was born.

Adam Jacobs of Chef was running a Puppet consulting company (hjksolutions). He ran into a bug (#1010) that he couldn’t solve and used up a ton of Luke’s time. Luke worked hard on it but couldn’t reproduce it and after devoting a week or two on it told Adam that he was the only one with this problem and would need to pay him as a consultant for any further effort.

Adam was (is) an incredibly pushy jerk and demanded that Luke, who wasn’t making a penny off of Puppet, put his life on hold to fix this for Adam’s customers.

Luke basically said “fuck you, pay me” so Adam started Chef (a billion dollar company).

User’s sense of entitlement is powerful.

You are clewrly juwtifying slavery. Wvery single white supremacist uses this rhetoric:

Native Americans enslaved each other so they needed white Europeans to civilize them.

Africans enslaved each other and sold them to us so it was OK to make avaracian fortunes doing the same.

You enslaved Africans so it is only fair play for them to invade your nation, rape your women and enslave your populace.

Welsh, british, scottish, all the same. All three groups were slavers, both of Africans and of the Irish, not to mention countless other Asian cultures.

You rewrite history, white wsshing it to make yourselves out to be the great white saviors despite having participated for many centuries.

“Hey the Africans sold their enemies to us so it must be Ok.”