Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution
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Poverty doesn’t cause instability. Envy does.
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Left and right are no longer meaningful categories in America. The rift is between those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don’t.
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In effect, Facebook’s customers are its product, the commodity it offers for sale. The company’s success is based on how much time it can get users to spend staring at a screen, providing eyeballs for ads and data for the company’s algorithms.
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Facebook] literally changes your relationship with society, with each other,” he said. “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.”
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The more time people spent liking posts or updating their Facebook status, the less happy they felt.
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A 2017 survey by the British Royal Society for Public Health found that Instagram was the most harmful of all the major social networks.
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Hillary Clinton voted in support of a fence on the Mexican border. So did Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, and twenty-three other Senate Democrats.
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If you’re going to run a country for the benefit of a few, it’s dangerous to let people complain about it.
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“When you conscript a man and compel him to go abroad and fight against his will,” the tract argued, “you violate the most sacred right of personal liberty,” as protected by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Only the United States has the guarantee of free expression. Almost every other country prosecutes its citizens for having unpopular views, even peaceful Canada. We don’t. It’s what sets America apart. This isn’t just a free country, it’s the freest.