Vivek’s success DID come at the expense of others. His Alzheimer’s drug failed phase 2 trials, until his mother, Geetha Ramaswamy, conducted a trial that magically showed massive improvement. It entered phase 3, Vivek got rich, then the drug failed and the company lost 99% of value. Remember when he threatened to sue people for talking about it?
It’s telling how people on the left and right claim to be very concerned about authoritarianism even as they live in a regime in which the chief executive officer hasn’t really been in charge of the most powerful agencies of government for decades.
We are already a socialist country.
And you don’t even have to be a citizen to be one of the takers.
Why hasn’t Congress cut federal funding to California?
@JamesSurowiecki James, bless your heart, as I've written before, you are the absolute epitome of midwittery, and we've chased most of the other midwits off this site.
Never change!
Meritocracy is literally illegal in the US
The Civil Rights Act, Disparate Impact, preferential admissions and hiring for minorities
98% of new jobs in August went to women, was that all merit?
It would be comical if it wasn’t such a malicious lie
Meritocracy isn't the problem. It's the solution. And the fact that both parties are now moving toward wholesale rejection of meritocracy spells the end of American innovation, freedom, and strength.
No one I know is rejecting meritocracy.
Nearly everyone I know wants meritocracy amongst Americans, not an endless sea of Indians and Chinese.
America was around 7% foreign born when we won WWII, and 5% when we landed on the moon.
We have enough merit right here at home.
The rancor from some is perplexing. Voters were told Epstein files were a hoax, and not to support Trump if they believed otherwise. The Iran war is popular. And MAHA and libertarian podcasters are irrelevant.
I’m still voting Republican, but people said what they said.
“It’s not the Iran war driving up gas prices it’s Ukraine!”
Okay, we’re funding that war too
“Well then it’s not any of the wars it’s some other random thing you communist Muslim Putin lover!”
I’m so tired of this
If you saw a Japanese man claiming a white English man and a black Nigerian man, who had very recently moved to the country and become Japanese citizens, were in every single way as ethnically Japanese as a random Japanese man, you would rightly assume he was mad.
If he then insisted he literally couldn't even understand the counterargument, and that anyone even daring to make the counterargument - ie, that there's such a thing as Japanese ethnicity - was themselves insane and clearly dangerously racist, you would assume he was not just mad but engaged in some clearly ideologically-motivated form of intense gaslighting.
But in England...
Despite the best efforts of people like Noah whites are still the largest demographic in America
Small gains in the percentage of white votes still dwarfs gains with minorities
When the GOP courts white voters they win, which is why Noah is telling them not to
The GOP had a golden opportunity to become a multiracial majority party and destroy the left for two generations, and instead they turned things over to the Claremont Nazis
Identity is complicated but the simplest heuristic is this:
A heritage American is an American who isn’t allowed to have a ethnic lobby advocate for them explicitly