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Dalentines Vay
“Raising awareness”





Aaron don’t read this

https://www.vox.com/2020/2/14/21136816/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-endorse-amy-klobuchar



Suddenly, Bloomberg

https://twitter.com/katies/status/1225422526261518337

https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1228391041985916928

https://twitter.com/LLW902/status/1227601837550964736


White Nationalists for Bloomberg

https://twitter.com/shane_burley1/status/1228437416790282240


Bloomberg’s Bad, Folks! Real Bad!

https://twitter.com/rubinafillion/status/1228728466822045697


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/bloomberg-flunks-wokeness-test-it-doesnt-matter/606634/


Is the American left about to prioritize virtue signaling over keeping an unqualified monomaniac from a second term as president?



What.











Slumlords As A Service


To squeeze every penny out of these inner-city goldmines, scammers have started outsourcing property management to ill-equipped call centres in the Philippines. The scammers call it “systemising”, a process of grabbing as many apartments as possible, filling them with identikit furniture, taking professional-looking photographs and then using every trick in the book to turn them into lucrative investments. Some of these tricks, though morally dubious, are perfectly legal. But others breach both Airbnb’s policies and local planning laws, while also putting the safety of guests at risk. As Vice found in October 2019, Airbnb is littered with fake and downright dodgy listings. But in London, where Airbnb enforces an annual 90-day limit on all “entire homes” listed on its platform, scammers have made a mockery of lax enforcement both by regulators and Airbnb itself, by turning entire new-build apartment blocks into de facto hotels designed for the short-term rental market.

(I stumbled across a huge Airbnb scam that’s taking over London - WIRED UK)



The Bernard Discourse

The Continuing Narrative of BernieBros

The media and pundits on twitter continue to push the BernieBro narrative, painting Bernie supporters as a bunch of angry white men

This is reductionist, obviously, but also wrong

A lot of pundits are simply annoyed that you dare to contradict them. They have decided that criticism is violence.

https://twitter.com/carlbeijer/status/1228504482264342528

https://twitter.com/carlbeijer/status/1228189067025600512





Weird how all the anti-bernie democratic experts have financial links to conservatives/fascists

James Carville is on the payroll of Palantir

Palantir is a secretive big data and analytics company whose tools make up the infrastructure of police departments and ICE, among other ignoble things
The founder is Peter Thiel



According to interviews and documents obtained by The Verge, Palantir first approached New Orleans in 2012 through a well-known intermediary: James Carville, the Democratic Party power broker and architect of Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign. Carville is a paid adviser of Palantir whose involvement with the data-mining company dates back at least to 2011.

In an interview, Carville told The Verge that he was the impetus for the collaboration between Palantir and New Orleans. “I am the sole driver of that project. It was entirely my idea,” said Carville, adding that he and Palantir CEO Alex Karp flew down to New Orleans to meet with Mayor Landrieu. “To me, it was a case of morality. Young people were shooting each other, and the public wasn’t as involved as they should have been.”

Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology - The Verge




Bad faith criticism of Bernie and/or Socialism


https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/bernie-sanders-flying-first-class

https://twitter.com/i_Biden/status/1227968902849802241

https://twitter.com/organizingpower/status/1226996325214040064



Bernie’s doing bad, actually

https://twitter.com/jwpetersNYT/status/1227442852986335232
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