How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

Musk, Thiel, Sacks, and South African apartheid.
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Kudos for the courage shown by the Romanian Constitutional Court. They are experiencing the same type of foreign interference and social media influence in their national election. The people took to the streets and their highest court called "Foul!" They annulled their election and now start over.

What's the staus on efforts to privately archive scientific databases, libraries and repositories in govt agencies slated for dismantling by the incoming admin? Literally like scrambling to save the treasures of the Louve as the Nazis march into Paris. I fear the massive loss of scientific work.

Research programs will starve too. The elites will access the best medicine in other countries, but medical tourism will not be within reach of ordinary American citizens. Deporting labor and making everyone else too sick to work will help them achieve their stated desire of crashing the economy.

It's not just the broader public health that suffers. Much of the policy set by federal level agencies regarding standards of care determines what kind of medical interventions employer group and private insurance plans will pay for.

Perhaps Bezos and Soon-Shiong are not familiar with this quote:

If you want to know who CONTROLS you, look at who you are NOT ALLOWED TO CRITICIZE.

-Voltaire

Democracy dies in Darkness! Time to open some windows to let the Light in, and push the Oligarchs out.

@julierehmeyer.bsky.social Thanks so much for the invite! So appreciate being able to recreate the community here. I will be donating codes back when they start coming to me.