How Vivek Ramaswamy made his money. I am pretty sure this is accurate.
Vivek Ramaswamy and others owned a company that had a patent for a medicine to
treat Alzheimer’s and they were able to plant a story that their medicine was effective
in treating the disease after which the stock in their company rocketed up. By the time
it came out that the medicine was worthless in treating Alzheimer’s he and his partners
had sold all their stock and walked away with millions of dollars. He will fit right in with
Trump because he is a con man too.
The cleaning up of Ramaswamy’s history and calling him a Biotech Entrepreneur is pure
bullshit. Just like Trump’s sane washing by our media.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143342072
America is so screwed.
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I’m Indian and as embarrassed by this guy as presumably many white/black/jewish dems are respectively by most of the GOP; Candace Owens, Ben Carson etc; Ben Shapiro, Steven Prager etc.
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We didn’t get a biracial president with Indian roots, but we did get this guy pissing off most people…
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Thankfully some 70+% Indians vote dem and at least hopefully a half of that is about liberal values beyond self interest. Not sure what the stats were in this election..was too dejected to look it up. With so many voting against self interest, liberal values (eternally neglected environmental issues, poverty eradication, equality, civil rights for all, regulation of capitalism) are in for a bleak future if a large enough number of people who can afford it don’t pull together in the farther future for values beyond immediate, narrow self interest.
And not performatively (I.e. what conservatives sneer at as virtue signalling), but rather non superficially recognising that science and policy matter. You cannot just get rid of the govt and run a country like a business. You cannot despoil the environment without depleting it and seriously endangering public health. It may not happen overnight, but in the long run the attrition to health and quality of life are significant even if you see no tragedy in the destruction of forests, oceans etc for their own sakes.
This era will also be remembered as the time Si Valley unleashed some truly awful ideas on the world:
https://qz.com/191694/why-an-occupy-activist-turned-googler-thinks-eric-schmidt-should-run-the-us
Mostly, this proposal has been met with mockery. As of this writing, the original petition has only 32 signatures.
It didn’t happen with Eric Schmidt but they sure seem to be trying with the far worse Musk. I cannot believe these fringe fucking ideas by these drugged-out*, brainless, shallow, vapid, si valley bros have gotten enough traction at least BTS to seriously affect the lives of so many humans and other life forms. These guys are idiots-Thiel, Yarvin, Musk, Ramaswamy
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It is time to understand that a lot of Si Valley doesn’t seem that different from the robber barons of the past. EarlG’s post election post mortem too was about how new media is leading to a post truth reality. That is the general take in my small circle re the election. That above all it has become impossible to communicate effectively with algorithms feeding people garbage.
https://newrepublic.com/article/188309/elon-musk-always-like-this-silicon-valley
https://www.newsweek.com/ruthless-overlords-silicon-valley-63639
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/22/elon-musk-pac-spending-facebook
(*: hey I am all for weed legalization, but you are not supposed to actually take the stuff you think of when high seriously. That is what idiots like Musk don’t get. It is called an altered state for a reason. Simulation theories and multiverses etc may be fun speculation but when you seem this disconnected from the realities of all the people whose jobs, healthcare and lives these callous and cavalier tech bros are sneeringly playing with…)
Heh..yeah I have been following these si valley creeps for a while.
The reason I am pointing these next few things out is not that I think these morons will be wildly successful with their drivel. God I hope not anyway! But I do think a lot of the public has no idea that these are not just “successful entrepreneurs” etc. Many of them are seriously nuts.
If people are unhappy with their lives under a govt of actual policy makers, wait till it is a bunch of drugged-out crypto bros with narcissistic delusions who genuinely seem to be incapable of comprehending that anyone other than their own selves is an actual, real human being. Idiots who think everything is a damn meme or alt right joke.
This lunatic who preached about some bullshit called the dark enlightenment is one of their neo reactionary heroes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land
These are their actual “thinkers”: this Nick Land guy; a pretentious moron called Curtis Yarvin. who writes these lame pseudo intellectual things. What is also really sad is that all their insecurities and idiocy are on display in their writings..if they were brighter they would shut up.
Land seems to have been an even more consummate nutcase than Yarvin .
https://readthis.wtf/writing/nick-land-an-experiment-in-inhumanism/
https://medium.com/the-awl/the-darkness-before-the-right-84e97225ac19
(The original magazines those two articles are from no longer exist, but the source articles were respectable enough. I don’t think Park MacDougal is even liberal-he writes for Unherd- but he is not crazy)
I mean I don’t want to give you nightmares. I wouldn’t want to spread fear myself via the net. It’s just stuff to be aware of when they pretend to be thinkers or efficient etc.
They are these drugged-out guys who often still seem stuck in the college frat house grandiosely pontificating wasted about how awesome world would be if only they ran things. Some of these idiots (Yarvin and Tunney at least) actually talk about how awesome monarchy/aristocracy were.
And it is done with that sleazy, grating alt right flair as if it is all just joke. However, they are actually trolling govt employees or really anyone who pays attention to their shallow selves. It is very angering how lightly they take other people’s lives and problems. These are horrible people. Imagine people on SS, SSDI or generally getting by being trolled by these vapid, irresponsible, callous assholes. I see the fear even here in other DUers and it is really angering that these guys can frighten and worry so many people. So damn cavalier.
I hope they will not get away with much more than oodles of grift and breaking of stuff that can be reversed once the public has had enough..yeah merely that.
Didn’t really surprise me but still...
I should check out your posts about Gabbard. I knew she was in some weird cult, but not much more. I am glad she finally jumped ship.
That’s a good idea. Some of these links do tend to break on the scale of years, so sometimes i also extract out the most salient stuff.
I shall keep an eye out for your posts.
Oh well..
Next time..anyway at least now she has chucked the mask..
