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rage demons in the replies ngmi twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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@wallstreetbets 🦍🤝💪 is the independent rediscovery of solidarity by an atomized and indentured generation apprehending the rigged nature of the system.
But solidarity *alone* won't win against rule-by-decree. So when they change the rules to rug you: remember it wasn't an accident. Stay mad.
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The billionaire former CEO of Goldman Sachs came out of Twitter retirement specifically to gloat about corporate control of Congress. twitter.com/lloydblankfein…
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I once warned that the architecture of oppression was near.
It has arrived.
washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
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It is my belief that market forces, democratic decline, and a toxic obsession with “national security”—a euphemism for state supremacy—are drawing the US and China to meet in the middle: a common extreme.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevo…
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For a long time now, I’ve wanted to write to you, but found myself unable. Not from illness—although that came and went—but because I refuse to put something in your inbox that I feel isn’t worth your time.
This is worth it.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevo…
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"If you try to understand your country, it’s enough to put you on a collision course with the law."
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevo…
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inflation hits 6.2%—wiping out the raises of those lucky enough to even have a good job—parents are worried about the price of milk for their kids (when the shelves aren't empty) and the establishment is like:
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Worry not about the highest inflation since the collapse of the Soviet Union, fellow citizen. The people in charge know what they're doing, and you can be sure that they will always put your interests first.
wsj.com/articles/us-in…
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If you think this is exciting, just wait until you hear what they have planned for the dollar in your pocket: edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs
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I mean, it's one banana, Michael. How much could it cost? Sixty-five dollars?
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Wait til somebody tells them what's planned for the dollar:
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/cbdcs
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It's a meme, not financial advice. My financial advice is that if you're trying to find trading signals in dog memes, you should probably stop.
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Within a monoculture, there is tremendous pressure to participate in the enforcement of consensus as if it were truth, which alienates members from the possibility that truth can often stand in opposition to consensus.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevo…
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Freedom is not a goal, but a direction.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevo…
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You think you've got willpower, but then you remember Satoshi Nakamoto has left untouched what will probably end up being history's greatest fortune.
cointelegraph.com/news/at-what-b…
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The "trending" column says Bloomberg has cracked the code for offending both Americans and Europeans at the same time.
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PBS tries like three different ways to get a soundbite out of @aiww to support the most oppressive US press-freedoms case in decades, and he is absolutely not having it.
You should read his new book, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, which I reviewed here: edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/culturalrevo… twitter.com/FiringLineShow…
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I understand people feel socially obligated to be like "reeeeeee glenn greenwald REEEEEE" these days because he is a reliably disagreeable obstacle to The Consensus, but few of his peers have been as loud or consistent in opposing the growing campaign against press freedoms. twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
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if 2024 is trump vs biden again you're all getting sent to your room without supper. probably more literally than any of us expect. twitter.com/PollTrackerUSA…
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Is it just me, or have search results become absolute garbage for basically every site? It's nearly impossible to discover useful information these days (outside the ArchWiki).
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Well, that escalated quickly.
cnbc.com/2020/08/27/pow…
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