Date: May 28, 2021
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“Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the Biden administration’s growing interest in the “lab leak theory” and the media’s coverage of it.”
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Date: May 28, 2021
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“Citation:
https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1395405768455856132
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mattberman/tulsi-gabbard-impeach-trump-present“
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Date: May 28, 2021
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Date: May 28, 2021
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Date: May 28, 2021
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“Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke has issued a statement that the company is FOR PROFIT and should be APOLITICAL. This after Coinbase and Basecamp issued similar statements. After years of pandering to Twitter, will tech companies finally get a clue, or will anti-capitalist activists actively try to burn these companies down from within?
Here’s what he said…
“We are trying to create a world class product that gives superpowers to the merchants that we are obsessed over,” Lütke wrote. “Everything Shopify does is to accomplish this, and everyone at Shopify should be able to describe how their job, through a series of direct or indirect steps, furthers this mission.”
“Shopify, like any other for-profit company, is not a family,” he continued. “The very idea is preposterous. You are born into a family. You never choose it, and they can’t un-family you. The dangers of ‘family thinking’ are that it becomes incredibly hard to let poor performers go. Shopify is a team, not a family.”
“We cannot solve every societal problem here,” Lütke warns. “Shopify’s worldview is well documented—we believe in liberal values and equality of opportunity. Sometimes we see opportunities to help nudge these causes forward. We do this because this directly helps our business and our merchants and not because of some moralistic overreach.”
The CEO reiterated his commitment to a meritocracy-based employment system, driven by efficiency, not politics.
“We will always have compassion for team members in truly difficult situations… [but] we need to remind everyone that like any other competitive (sports) team, it matters how you show up every day and contribute to the team’s success,” he wrote. “Beyond straight performance output, everyone that engages in endless Slack trolling, victimhood thinking, us-vs-them divisiveness, and zero sum thinking must be seen for the threat they are: they break teams.”
“We want to build one of the best companies in the world,” Lütke concluded. “We want everyone to have a shot at bettering their lot through entrepreneurship… when we succeed in our mission, millions of merchants do better. Millions of people find employment. We have the opportunity to make that tens and even hundreds of millions in the future.”
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Date: May 28, 2021
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“‘Rich Thanks To Racism’ a new book exposes Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Koch Brothers, all secretly funding organizations to uphold and fortify systemic racism. John Iadarola and Jim Freeman break it down on The Damage Report.
“More people than ever are recognizing the destructive impact of systemic racism and the urgent need to dismantle it. In a groundbreaking examination of “strategic racism,” Rich Thanks to Racism (Cornell University Press) explains what and who stand in the way.
Jim Freeman details how the driving force behind the public policies that continue to devastate communities of color across the United States are Corporate America and Wall Street executives who profit mightily from racial inequities. He dissects the cruel and deeply harmful policies within the education, criminal justice, and immigration systems to discover their origins, why they persist, and the hidden strategy behind them. Freeman uncovers billions of dollars in aligned investments by Bill Gates, Charles Koch, Mark Zuckerberg, and a handful of other billionaires that are dismantling public school systems across the United States. He exposes how the greed of prominent US corporations and big banks was instrumental in creating the world’s largest prison population and our many anti-immigrant policies. Freeman also demonstrates how “racism profiteers” defend these injustices by pitting white communities against communities of color, obscuring the fact that the struggles they face are deeply interconnected.”
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Date: May 28, 2021
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“Greg Walters explains how a 149-year-old Black church could bankrupt the Proud Boys.”
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Date: May 28, 2021
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Date: May 28, 2021
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“A viral video shows a Kentucky father begging his daughter — and offering her cash — to avoid the coronavirus vaccine.
The video was posted on TikTok by a woman named Brianna, who said her father offered to pay her $2,000 if she wouldn’t get the vaccine, and shows him sobbing and lamenting that she and her mother, who had already been vaccinated, would be dead from the side effects by this year’s flu season.
“It is not a vaccine,” he says. “It is a human trial, it is genetic therapy. It’s not a vaccine, it doesn’t fall under the category of a vaccine. It’s not FDA approved.”
Citation:
https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/vaccine-2653125503/“
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Date: May 28, 2021
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“Team Rising reacts to research that reveals QAnon chatter has decreased on social media platforms.”
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