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Digital Eugenics
@DigitalEugenics
Digital-Eugenics© peers into the engineering of humanity’s obsolescence. Where systems inevitably optimise what complicates them. Humans are complicated.
Katılım Nisan 2026
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@liam_out_loud In an AI-centric world, I call it digital eugenics...
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Here's how the insane take over a society.
It's called negative selection: people of conscience get driven out of institutions, and people with no empathy and no guilt flow in to replace them.
Every totalitarian system has the same structure:
- Psychopaths at the core.
- Schizoid ideologues writing the theory.
- Charismatic spellbinders selling it as compassion.
- True believers enforcing it.
- Conformists who know better and comply anyway.
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@Rothmus True(ish) perhaps, but the US is not the only market for AI models. If the US can sustain it's AI market needs only selling to US customers, that's a different thing. We are already seeing governments around the world turning their backs on US-based products of origin.
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@JonhernandezIA I would be careful about cheering for a UBI. The way I see it, UBI is often framed as compassion, a buffer against displacement, a humane response to automation. I can't escape the possibility that it also functions as a pacifier, substituting human agency with subsistence.
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Yoshua Bengio warns AI could radically reshape the economy while leaving most people behind.
He has joined 16 Nobel laureates calling for democratic decisions on AI.
One proposal: an AI dividend to fund universal basic income.
Who should decide how AI's wealth is distributed?
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@DaveShapi Yup! We're moving from a society that once asked "What kind of person should education help develop?" to "What kind of worker will the future economy require?"
AI is in the early phases of applying a distillation process to the value and worth of all humans...
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Schools systems harm everyone except the middle of the bell curve.
They force underperforming, special needs, and culturally disaffected children to try and pretend to be "normal" instead of how to live a life in accordance with their means, abilities, and inclinations.
They force gifted, exceptional, and motivated students to go at an average pace, and also pretend to be "normal."
But there is no such thing as normal. There's just regression to the mean. Every education system is a Procrustian Bed for children.
Chris Fore@chriscfore
Name an education opinion that’ll have you like this…
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@jimstewartson If you're interested in covert citizen surveillance check this out, and consider whether the US do or do not have the same operating capability... 🙏
youtu.be/HkUA40pknC4?si…
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Peter Thiel, founder of Palantir—which provides tracking, prediction & surveillance to CIA, FBI, DOD, ICE & other law enforcement:
“The slogan of the Antichrist, Peace and Safety… Perhaps we should fear the Antichrist and a one world totalitarian state.”
Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸@jimstewartson
Apartheid ended in 1994, but its germ escaped in the fractured psyche of several boys who hated the world around them almost as much as they hated themselves. I took a deep look at how the PayPal Mafia reanimated apartheid—and what they really want. mind-war.com/p/swart-gevaar…
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@AlexanderKalian Well said! Any insights into the progress IBM's Watson has made in the medical field? The last I heard anything they were definitely the early players in AI-centric medical discovery before AI was a thing, that was 15+ years ago...
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You really can't make this up.
Yesterday, I accused tech circles of overconfidence about AI in biology - e.g. blurting "AI will cure cancer in 5 years!" - without understanding clinical trials or basic pharmacology.
The result? A mass of comments from tech bros downplaying the need for clinical trials!
They basically doubled down on their overconfidence about a field they have not seriously studied or researched.
Well, bad news, guys - biology is not code. It is highly complex, high-noise, high-failure, R&D-heavy for wet labs, and full of painful unknowns and edge cases. Your Python skills and vibe coding don't give you insight into the nuances of drug development.
Thank goodness these people are not in charge of any serious biomedical research programs.
Many of them even advocate going straight from AI discovery to human trial, without the years of slow, expensive preclinical studies on mice.
Well, ~100 million mice die each year, for these studies. Most are euthanised for analysis of their tissues, but a substantial subset directly die as a result of candidate drugs being toxic.
Millions of people would literally perish every year, instead, if these overconfident tech X guys were to be in charge.
Dr Alexander D. Kalian@AlexanderKalian
"AI will cure cancer within 5 years!" Ahem - clinical trials? "AI will reverse ageing within 7 years!" Cool - clinical trials?! "AI will be able to design and immediately synthesise a new drug for you, based on your DNA." Haha sure - clinical trials??! Guess the tech bros have decided that decade-long clinical trials are no longer important to AI drug discovery or wider pharmacology. But it seems to come from a place of ignorance about basic pharmacology. Do they not read up on basic facts, before confidently commenting on other peoples' fields of research?
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@Vvikramai Nope! The uncomfortable question is..., who is going to tell Elon that competing against humans with robots displaces those human jobs in the US that will never return.
The real question is, when Americans start reproducing less because they can't feed themselves, what then?
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Elon Musk was asked how America competes with Chinese manufacturing. He didn't reach for tariffs or policy. He gave a blunt concession: on humans, America has already lost.
"We definitely can't win with just humans."
That is the reframe. And it changes what the US-China race is actually about.
The conventional story is that America out-innovates while China out-manufactures, and clever policy keeps the balance. Musk dismantles that with arithmetic.
China has four times the population. He argues the average work ethic is higher, and possibly the productivity per person too.
So at the human level, the US does roughly a quarter of what China does, and the birth rate has been below replacement since 1971. That gap doesn't close with effort.
Then he stacks the base layers. China refines roughly twice as much ore as the rest of the world combined. It's around 98% of gallium refining.
He expects China to hit three times US electricity output this year, and calls electricity a clean proxy for real industrial capacity.
Now here's where it gets interesting. His conclusion isn't "we're doomed." It's that the only variable that breaks the arithmetic is robots.
You can't out-populate China, but you might out-build it, if humanoid robots do the manufacturing and refining that too few Americans will do anyway.
Do the math on that dependency. Reaching a million Optimus units requires the manufacturing capacity that Optimus is supposed to create.
Close that recursive loop with even a small number of robots, and the population disadvantage stops mattering.
He isn't saying China wins. He's saying China wins by default, unless one specific breakthrough lands in time.
The uncomfortable question: if the entire US bet rests on humanoid robots arriving fast enough, what happens to that race if they arrive late ?
Vikram M@Vvikramai
Jensen Huang was asked how China built so many world-class AI companies in ten years. He didn't credit the government. He didn't say they stole it. He pointed at the culture. In China, it's "family first, friends second, and company third." So the whole system is open source by default. That is the reframe. And it flips how the West explains China's speed. The conventional narrative is top-down central planning: a state pouring money into national champions, plus a lot of copied IP. Everyone repeats it. Jensen describes almost the opposite. China isn't one economy; it's provinces and cities with mayors competing against each other like startups. That's why there are dozens of EV companies and dozens of AI companies clawing to survive. What crawls out of that gauntlet is world-class. Now here's where it gets interesting. The second engine is social, not economic. Because friends and schoolmates outrank the employer, engineers share freely across rival companies. What are they protecting, when their brothers work down the street ? So the ecosystem defaults to open, and open source amplifies everyone at once. Half the world's AI researchers are Chinese, most still in China, wired into a culture that spreads every breakthrough at the speed of friendship. Competition sharpens the work. Openness distributes it. That combination compounds. He is not describing a command economy. He is describing the fastest-innovating culture on earth. The uncomfortable question for the West: can a system built to protect IP ever outrun one built to share it ?
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@ProfSteveKeen Q. "The question is why we're having that fight at the state level when the federal government is the one pulling the funding."
A. Because it's easier to target a democrat-centric apparent responsibility than to target your own kind.
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4.5 million views in 9 days. A 30% chance of passing.
And billionaires are spending big to make sure it doesn't.
California's proposed wealth tax has become one of the most watched economic debates in the country right now.
Even the governor has come out against it, siding with the arguments the billionaires themselves are making.
But here's what caught my attention.
The tax exists because of federal healthcare cuts, not because California overspent.
The state is trying to patch a hole that Washington created.
And that's where the economics gets interesting.
Because the entire fight, both sides of it, is built on a misunderstanding of how government debt actually works.
Once you look at the accounting properly, the panic driving this whole debate starts to fall apart.
The question isn't whether billionaires should pay more.
The question is why we're having that fight at the state level when the federal government is the one pulling the funding.
For a more comprehensive understanding, refer to the full video presentation given in the comments.
#SteveKeen #BillionaireTax #CaliforniaTax #FederalDebt
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@randgroup Wow! The most self-centric thing I have seen on social media..., ever.
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🇺🇸 Woke Mindset is Dead: Everyone knew. Nobody said it.
That's how the whole thing survived. Not because people believed, but because each person thought everyone else did. HR believed the executives believed. The executives believed the employees believed. The employees kept their heads down.
An entire ideology running on mutual surveillance.
Then the cost of speaking dropped. One CEO cut the programs and his stock didn't move. His customers didn't leave. Nothing happened.
Within a year, the average company went from four public DEI commitments to barely one. Not gradual persuasion. A dam break.
You are watching what political scientists call a preference cascade. The Soviets knew it. The regime looks eternal right up until the first man in the crowd stops clapping.
Then everyone remembers they never believed.
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@RaoulGMI What is "With AI, knowledge is now infinite" without wisdom? And agree, ultimately what do humans do? What becomes of our value & how do we derive value from a system that no longer values us, or needs us?
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AI is the single greatest innovation in human history.
The only thing that comes close is splitting the atom.
Every economic system we've ever built runs on the scarcity of knowledge. Lawyers, doctors, experts of every kind… they get paid because what they know is scarce.
With AI, knowledge is now infinite. That breaks everything. Our entire economic model, as well as our understanding of what humans do, and what we're for.
This is the Exponential Age. I've been mapping this out for years across @RealVision and GMI, piecing it together as it unfolded. Today I wrote a full breakdown that pulls it all into one place.
Link below.
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@Handre Wait until they double-down on that control switch when they backup the digital Euro with a Universal Basic Income...
I wonder if a civilisation can sustain belief in human dignity once it has engineered a world in which most humans are no longer necessary...?
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The European Central Bank wants to issue you money it can switch off. That is the digital euro in one sentence, and no amount of Frankfurt press-release gloss changes it.
Christine Lagarde and the ECB have spent since October 2023 preparing a central bank digital currency. A digital euro held directly at the central bank. A holding cap floated around 3,000 euros per person, so your commercial bank does not collapse when depositors flee. Programmable, traceable, issued and controlled by the same institution that printed 4.6 trillion euros of new base money during the pandemic years.
Consider what that cap tells you. A currency so attractive that regulators must legally forbid you from holding too much of it🤣. They are nailing the windows shut before the fire drill.
You already have digital euros. They sit in your bank account. The real difference is control. Cash is anonymous, final, and yours. A CBDC settles on the central bank's ledger, which means every transaction becomes visible to the issuer, and every rule the issuer dreams up becomes enforceable at the point of spending. Negative interest rates that actually bite. Expiry dates on stimulus. Restrictions on what you buy, where, and when. Sound money advocates have warned about this for decades, and the technology now makes it trivial.
The public has noticed. The ECB's own 2022 consultation drew responses dominated by privacy fears. A 2023 Bundesbank survey found most Germans uninterested in the thing. Brussels keeps building anyway, because the digital euro was never a response to demand. It answers the wave of private stablecoins and the quiet exit into bitcoin, both of which threaten the monopoly.
Free market thinkers understand money as a good chosen by users, not decreed by committees. When people prefer dollars, gold, or a digital asset with a fixed supply of 21 million, the state does not compete. It legislates.
You do not need permission to hold value. The digital euro exists to remind you that Frankfurt disagrees.
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@BradleyKellard I'd like to see the actual number of people (as a number), so I can divide that $2.1T by and see just how far he spread it...
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Jeff Bezos: "I've created $2.1 trillion of wealth for other people."
"Somebody needs to make a list where they rank people by how much wealth they've created for other people."
While talking about his net worth, he floated an idea that flips the whole concept of a "rich list" on its head.
He did the math live, right there on stage.
"Amazon's market cap is 2.3 trillion today. I own about 200 billion of it."
"So if you take 2.3 trillion and subtract out the piece I kept for myself, then I've created something like $2.1 trillion of wealth for other people."
That's not a typo. Trillion, with a T and it's not even his money.
"That should put me pretty high on some kind of list."
He didn't stop at himself, either. He immediately named who else deserves a spot at the top.
"People like Jensen, Nvidia, he's going to be very high on that list."
"That would be a pretty cool list. Somebody should do that list."
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@Vivek4real_ Another age old analogy: "The more bread you've got, the less sh*t you have to eat." - clearly a theoretical hike Elon will never have to experience...
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ELON MUSK USED A JOKE TO PERFORM AN AUTOPSY ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY.
TWO ECONOMISTS GO FOR A HIKE.
THEY FIND A PILE OF SH*T.
ONE PAYS THE OTHER $100 TO EAT IT.
THEY KEEP WALKING.
FIND ANOTHER PILE.
THE SECOND ECONOMIST PAYS $100 BACK TO EAT THAT ONE.
THEY STOP.
NEITHER MAN GAINED A DOLLAR.
BOTH ATE SH*T FOR NOTHING.
BUT ON PAPER...
THEY JUST GENERATED $200 IN GDP.
MUSK:
“THAT BASICALLY WOULD COUNT AS A JOB.
THIS IS TO ILLUSTRATE THE ABSURDITY OF ECONOMICS.”
THAT IS NOT A PUNCHLINE.
THAT IS THE OPERATING SYSTEM OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
EVERY TIME A POLITICIAN CELEBRATES “RECORD JOB CREATION”...
THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE DESCRIBING.
NOT OUTPUT.
NOT VALUE.
NOT PROGRESS.
MOTION.
THE ENTIRE BUREAUCRATIC MACHINE EXISTS TO MANUFACTURE FRICTION...
AND THEN INVOICE FOR IT.
COMPLIANCE LAYERS BUILT TO JUSTIFY THE NEXT COMPLIANCE LAYER.
OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES THAT PRODUCE NOTHING BUT THE NEED FOR MORE OVERSIGHT.
CONSULTING FIRMS HIRED TO AUDIT THE WORK OF OTHER CONSULTING FIRMS.
TRILLIONS CIRCULATING THROUGH SYSTEMS THAT HAVE NEVER PRODUCED A SINGLE THING YOU CAN HOLD IN YOUR HANDS.
BUT THE GDP NUMBER TICKS UP.
SO EVERYONE APPLAUDS.
THE SH*T GETS EATEN.
THE SCOREBOARD MOVES.
NOBODY ASKS WHAT ACTUALLY GOT BUILT.
THIS IS WHY WASHINGTON TREATS AI LIKE A FIVE-ALARM FIRE.
AI DOES NOT PLAY THE FRICTION GAME.
IT DOES NOT FORM A COMMITTEE.
IT DOES NOT SCHEDULE A REVIEW.
IT DOES NOT FILE 400 PAGES OF PAPERWORK NO ONE WILL EVER READ.
IT JUST SOLVES THE PROBLEM.
AND THAT IS THE ONE THING THE MACHINE CANNOT SURVIVE.
THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT TAX RESULTS.
IT TAXES THE PROCESS.
THE LONGER THE PROCESS...
THE DEEPER THE CUT.
AI COMPRESSES A TEN-DAY WORKFLOW INTO SECONDS.
THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO BILL.
NOTHING LEFT TO TAX.
NOTHING LEFT TO SKIM.
SO THEY WILL SPEND THE NEXT DECADE WARNING YOU THAT AI THREATENS THE ECONOMY.
WHAT THEY WILL NEVER SAY IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY THREATENS.
THE ILLUSION THAT ACTIVITY EQUALS PROGRESS.
THE $200 ECONOMY WHERE BOTH MEN ATE SH*T AND CALLED IT A JOB.
THE MACHINES ARE NOT COMING FOR YOUR PURPOSE.
THEY ARE COMING TO PROVE THAT HALF THE ECONOMY NEVER HAD ONE.
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@jaynitx It's already a failed argument. Tell that to the nearly 5,000 people that lost jobs at Microsoft, and an estimated 126,000 in 2025 in the US alone, and AI is barely a pup, barely up & running.
AI is designed for opimisation, its the human workforce it is designed to optimise.
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Robin Hanson on the retirees thought experiment he says explains exactly why AI won't kill humanity:
"The initial AI doomer arguments tended to focus on this one AI that suddenly popped up as the superpower God, who could do anything at once, and wasn't constrained by any sort of society"
"But that's pretty implausible in the sense that we are now a society of 8 billion humans, and we're making many AIs, and those many AIs will need to coordinate with each other"
"An example is today, there are retirees in the world, and you might say, why don't we just kill all the retirees and take their stuff? They're not contributing to the world"
"One of the reasons we don't is because that would be threatening the social structure we all share with them. As soon as we approved of killing all the retirees and taking their stuff, we had created this precedent that, okay, that sort of thing could happen. Other people wonder who's next?"
"If AIs tried to kill the humans and take their stuff, that would threaten their coordination with each other"
"They would then wonder, well, then who's next among us?"
@robinhanson @MTSlive
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@LuizaJarovsky Animated movies already exist, just sayin', AI could make them better? Some 'today' examples:
- Moana
- Avatar
As for books & podcasts, maybe, depending on content. Is an AI read book created by a human different?
Also, would you watch the news if presented by a digital avatar?
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Would you still read a book if you discovered it was AI-generated?
Would you still watch a movie if you discovered it was AI-generated?
Would you still listen to a podcast if you discovered it was AI-generated?
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@r0ck3t23 He's full of 💩...! So we're meant to believe the guy that single-handedly destroyed the fabric of social welfare for Americans and those in need around the world is now pitching the idea in support of a Universal Basic Income? You have to be brain-dead to believe his lunacy...
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Elon Musk just described a future where no one is poor, no one works, and no one knows why they’re alive.
Musk: “It wouldn’t be Universal Basic Income, it would be Universal High Income.”
Every material need met for every human on Earth. Not survival. Total abundance.
Then he asked the question no one else will touch.
Musk: “If the AI can do everything that you can do, but better, then what is the point of doing things?”
Everyone else in AI is arguing about jobs. Musk is asking what happens when survival is solved and nothing replaces it.
The machines don’t just take the work. They take the thing that put us to work.
Necessity.
You built because you’d freeze. You fought because you’d die. You provided because the people you loved would starve without you.
Every advance in human history was an attempt to escape that pressure. We’re about to succeed.
You’ve already felt it go. A week with nothing required of you, and by the fourth day something in you starts to come loose.
You call it boredom. It’s you finding out how much of you was made of being needed.
You can simulate the work. You cannot simulate the need.
Rome already ran this experiment. Citizens outsourced war to mercenaries. Labor to slaves. Purpose to spectacle. The empire didn’t collapse from invasion. It dissolved from comfort.
But Rome only automated muscle. AI automates mind.
You don’t fear being replaced. You fear being released.
Not that the machines will take everything from us.
That they’ll give us everything we ever wanted.
And prove the wanting was the point.
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@jimstewartson Someone send him a copy of the book "The Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition." - a great chapter in it dedicated to mere humans overcoming the vagaries of a biological container for infinite life... 🙏
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“Clavicular” and the deadly “looksmaxxing” fad is being subsidized by Peter Thiel who is a huge proponent of transhumanism.
The reason is Peter Thiel was trained in apartheid school to hate gay people like himself. He wants to escape his own body.
“…the Biden thing was crazier than apartheid South Africa”
Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸@jimstewartson
Apartheid ended in 1994, but its germ escaped in the fractured psyche of several boys who hated the world around them almost as much as they hated themselves. I took a deep look at how the PayPal Mafia reanimated apartheid—and what they really want. mind-war.com/p/swart-gevaar…
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@wideawake_media Oh God! Didn't have "wake up this morning and agree with Tucker Carlson" on my bingo card...
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Tucker Carlson argues that advances in technology have enabled a small technocratic elite to impose control over millions through mass surveillance.
He maintains that surveillance is not about safety or reducing crime, but about suppressing dissent and instilling powerlessness among the population.
"The point is not to help you in any way. The point is to control you and make dissent impossible."
"It's to diminish you and remind you of your powerlessness so you don't rebel as they drain the treasury and eliminate... the things that make life worth living."
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@TomBilyeu Yup! And with the onset of AI and this strategy of job replacements the trillionaires still haven't dealt with the questions of what happens when they all end up homeless and on the street? And then b) who's going to buy our products? The easy answer is..., they don't care.
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Propaganda much?
China pulled 800 million people out of poverty by ending communism and turning to the free markets and consulting with the US on banking practices and VC funding models. After starving 45,000,000 to death under communism.
Plus their income inequality is significantly worse than in the US. Look it up.
And the Chinese government incentivized massive over-investment in real estate causing a housing crisis that is in the process of wiping out roughly $20 TRILLION in household wealth.
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist
The Communist Party of China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Meanwhile, in capitalist USA, billionaires are becoming trillionaires while 70% of Americans struggle to afford housing, healthcare, and groceries.
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@jimstewartson Why do you think the Republicans/conservatives are mandating the Ten Commandments in all schools? It's all part of the same sort of strategy... 🙏
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One thing that has always struck me about Thiel, Musk & Sacks is they all seem vaguely alien—like they’re all actually giant acid-spitting arachnids wearing human suits.
I’ve been researching the apartheid education system and how it indoctrinated its youth.
Now it makes sense.
Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸@jimstewartson
The apartheid system was a white supremacist cult that mandated brainwashing children starting in “nursery school.” It ran on two fears beaten into every Afrikaner’s brain: swart gevaar: black danger rooi gevaar: red danger (communism) The PayPal Mafia is an apartheid cult.
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