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Nice job dropping 'given history' in there, you win! History shows that is a fantastic argument and adds significant value to your post.
Next time, though, try to use that big brain of yours to figure out how to address what I said instead of resorting to reddit level dialog and a straw man.
Did you genuinely believe that I was referring to every individual human? That's an awfully Machiavellian take on what I said.
Unfounded assertion: "redheaded humans aren't real"
Illustration counter to assertion (not an argument): "Of course humans have red hair, just google 'natural redhead'"
Society is, and this might be confusing if nobody's taught you this before, filled with people with disproportionate amounts of power, whether social, capital, political, corporate, legal, or other. This might be scary to your sensibilities, but predators are attracted to positions of power. I don't think anyone of consequence disagrees with this.
We obviously agree here, because you based your entire straw man on the fact that they don't represent every single human everywhere.
I would however like to understand how you think we beat 'natural law' and the predators with this mythical society when you also think that they are the richest and most powerful in said society.
Society "beat" predators? I think most people who have been victims of systemic or institutional oppression would disagree here. I know every police victim I have worked with sure would.
Or maybe I'm wrong and they are all just misunderstood when they beat, steal, lie, and kill the underclass while they destroy our planet and laugh about it.
When the silent part is said out loud. "We" didn't beat anything, and "we" certainly aren't gods that managed to counter natural law, despite the current zeitgeist that likes to pretend it is so.
Humans are predators, and to pretend otherwise will be the folly of our species. One need not look any further than the political, corporate, or social elite to see what predators look like in so-called civilized society.
Or did you change positions to at the same time they did? I've noticed a lot of the "big government" "anti police state" (used with maximum sarcasm) folks suddenly start praising the things they spent a decade railing against now that its domestic white religious conservatives instead of foreign brown religious conservatives that are the target.
It might shock you to find out that the lockdowns were a wakeup call to the reality of policing for many of those "quotes" you stereotype.
At least we can take solace in watching our betters jet around the world to dine on real food on TV or whatever social network is in vogue at the time.
I have a couple people in my social circle that were banned from fb for saying he was wrong early on about masks being ineffective. And several others were banned later for pointing out fauci's earlier stance and calling it all propaganda. You are not allowed to think for yourself. Pick up that can.
And my comment specifically referred to the chips act, which has passed [1]. I'm not really sure why you would be distracting from the point by bringing up other legislation that has not yet passed? Like all good corruption, exactly how much money is moving around is obfuscated. I've seen both "$10-$50 billion" and "$52 billion" as numbers for the CHIPS Act. If you have a more accurate number I'd be more than happy to update my post.
So the question is did they get billions from the chips act like the senator that wrote it thinks they did or not? If they did then you're quibbling over exactly how many billions they got, which isn't a good look. That they potentially have more coming in doesn't really change the substance of my comment in the context of the original article at all. So thanks for the heads up on the next few billions they will be getting I guess?
[1] https://www.sinema.senate.gov/congress-approves-sinemas-bipa...
>Sinema’s bipartisan CHIPS For America Act - which is now law - restores America’s leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.
https://www.sinema.senate.gov/fueled-sinemas-chips-act-intel...
1: https://www.sinema.senate.gov/fueled-sinemas-chips-act-intel...