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Vin LoPresti's avatar

You smashed me, rocked me, hit my most vulnerable spot with that painting of the detested pumped-up oligarch Musk -- with perfect arrogant expression! My vitriol for the man is exceeded by that for no one else, not even US feckless pols. For me, Musk symbolizes the stupidity of the everyday American jerkwater fool, who wants to idolize the power of "free-enterprise". Problematically, these folks are educated by atherosclerotic professors who cling to academic models of "achievement" that include absurd metrics, which put the critical education of their students' minds at a low priority, metrics that often elevate really good scientists, but just as often uplift charlatans like Tony Fauci. Until educators detach themselves from such traditional BS models and truly tease open some original student thinking that's un-enslaved to such metrics, the "stunted millionaire" delusionals in America and elsewhere will jump through hoops for these sociopaths.

And we see what that has brought us.

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Feral Finster's avatar

The problem is not capitalism (although capitalism has its own problems).

The problem is power.

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