I starting to think that Trump winning the election has fried the brains of liberals and leftists in America. Like after 9/11 when all of America was in shock and no one really knew what had happened or how they should react to it, it was perhaps inevitable that the country would act rashly and enter a hugely destructive war. Obviously Trump is not comparable to 9/11, but I think for a lot of liberals the election was nevertheless a kind of tragedy which shattered certain ideals and fictions they had about their country which they held dear. And they simply do not seem to understand what happened or how they should respond to it.
Maybe I'm romanticizing the past, but before Trump it seems like the kind of rhetoric you see in the video directed at Shkreli -- the whole idea that the problem with unregulated markets is not that they're unregulated but that the actors within them are greedy, immoral, etc.; in short that the market ought to go unregulated and business executives ought to learn or be shamed into regulating themselves -- it seems like before Trump that kind of thinking would have gotten you laughed out of most any leftists circles. That argument used to be the sole province of disingenuous centrists and right wingers who were against market regulation and who thought they could cynically blame the excesses of their system on something they knew would never change. And yet here we are, 2017, and over-educated kids at America's most prestigious university are trying to change the world by yelling "racist" at a pharmaceutical executive.
Honestly I'm not even mad anymore. Just disappointed.
Tbh leftists are getting their shit together right now, the DSA for example has seen record growth and activism, it's mostly just liberals who are having meltdowns on Twitter and university campuses.
The problem is that liberals learned the wrong lesson from Trump. They think he's vindicated their belief that whitey is out to get you, instead of realizing that whitey is tired of being belittled.
I'm not from the US, but I thought Harvard was supposed to be one of the absolute top schools. Someone explains to me, how these libtards get in there. Affirmative action?
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n/a SnapshillBot 2017-02-18
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n/a charlesgrodinfan 2017-02-18
Some great shade being thrown
n/a darth_stroyer 2017-02-18
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n/a charlesgrodinfan 2017-02-18
After the protest nonsense in the first third of the talk, I was pretty interested in the pharma research & investing bits. Great talk.
n/a miragefountain 2017-02-18
Fake news for a hit on him, now Trump will punish them for all those lives they ruined.
n/a ChateauJack 2017-02-18
11:15 : a crowd of women suffering from vocal fry chanting "Pharma greed kills".
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Did he pay comedians or what ?
n/a StopTalkingOK 2017-02-18
Histrionics.
n/a Boris_the_Giant 2017-02-18
I'm pretty sure that's not why he got called a murderer and a racist, but whatever.
n/a DistortedLines 2017-02-18
He got called that because college students are autistic.
n/a Wordshark 2017-02-18
Why'd he get called a racist?
n/a Ylajali_2002 2017-02-18
I starting to think that Trump winning the election has fried the brains of liberals and leftists in America. Like after 9/11 when all of America was in shock and no one really knew what had happened or how they should react to it, it was perhaps inevitable that the country would act rashly and enter a hugely destructive war. Obviously Trump is not comparable to 9/11, but I think for a lot of liberals the election was nevertheless a kind of tragedy which shattered certain ideals and fictions they had about their country which they held dear. And they simply do not seem to understand what happened or how they should respond to it.
Maybe I'm romanticizing the past, but before Trump it seems like the kind of rhetoric you see in the video directed at Shkreli -- the whole idea that the problem with unregulated markets is not that they're unregulated but that the actors within them are greedy, immoral, etc.; in short that the market ought to go unregulated and business executives ought to learn or be shamed into regulating themselves -- it seems like before Trump that kind of thinking would have gotten you laughed out of most any leftists circles. That argument used to be the sole province of disingenuous centrists and right wingers who were against market regulation and who thought they could cynically blame the excesses of their system on something they knew would never change. And yet here we are, 2017, and over-educated kids at America's most prestigious university are trying to change the world by yelling "racist" at a pharmaceutical executive.
Honestly I'm not even mad anymore. Just disappointed.
n/a JohnTheOrc 2017-02-18
Are you in the wrong sub?
n/a Ylajali_2002 2017-02-18
Probably. The video made me too depressed to shitpost.
n/a JohnTheOrc 2017-02-18
Fucking effortposters
n/a LedinToke 2017-02-18
i got nothing else to do while walking to class sue me dawg
n/a serialflamingo 2017-02-18
This is a genuinely really good comment, what's it doing here?
n/a dj_ilo 2017-02-18
Tbh leftists are getting their shit together right now, the DSA for example has seen record growth and activism, it's mostly just liberals who are having meltdowns on Twitter and university campuses.
n/a Tar-mairon 2017-02-18
The problem is that liberals learned the wrong lesson from Trump. They think he's vindicated their belief that whitey is out to get you, instead of realizing that whitey is tired of being belittled.
n/a silwr 2017-02-18
I'm not from the US, but I thought Harvard was supposed to be one of the absolute top schools. Someone explains to me, how these libtards get in there. Affirmative action?
n/a ChipChippersonAMA 2017-02-18
Shkreli 2024