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Quote of the Day: Wokie-Wiki-Vandals Eat Their Own
Eli Broad died. He was a Democrat and a billionaire. The two just seem to go together, don’t they? He gave billions to K-12 education, art museums, and similar projects. But that doesn’t stop the Wokies from vandalizing his Wikipedia page. When I checked it out earlier today, I saw this at the beginning of the article:
Eli Broad (/broʊd/ BROHD;[2] June 6, 1933 – April 30, 2021) was an American billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist, and anti-union wealth criminal.
Note the last few words of that first sentence. Broad’s father was a union organizer, by the way. There is nothing in the article that supports that opening statement. Nothing matters to the Wokies other than he accumulated a lot of money, so he must be a criminal. That he made his first fortune helping people buy affordable homes doesn’t matter. How dare he help people own detached housing? They should all be packed into high-rises in cities to not have such a huge footprint. How dare he?!
The Wikipedia page was fixed within less than fifteen minutes. That is a good thing. But it still leaves us seeing the main thing about the Wokies: They eat their own.
Published in Group Writing
What’s a wealth criminal?
Someone with any.
It should be pointed out to the brain-damaged socialist munchkins that the only way for everyone to have as much as everyone else is for no one to have anything.
Like food.
Good question. I thought I’d go to Wikipedia to try to find the answer, but it’s not in there….
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Robespierre has something to say.
They did end up making him equal to all those aristocrats after all.
People like Eli Broad were why “affordable housing” was once prominent in our country. Here’s his WSJ obituary.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/eli-broad-billionaire-entrepreneur-who-reshaped-los-angeles-dies-at-87-11619839868?st=hra5i36dropvhfl&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’ll suppose a “wealth criminal” is analogous to Dylan Thomas’ definition of alcoholics. A wealth criminal is anyone who has more money than you who you don’t like.
That is the best I can figure.
Nobody ever said the Wokies had to make sense.
“I tell you, he’s so rich it’s a crime!“
Make sense? Most of the ones with cashier’s jobs can’t make change.
The bill was $7.88. So I gave him $8.13. So he gave me 12¢ and my 13¢ back.
I thought computers were smarter than that.
The computers are. The people manning the till are not.
He probably worked out the 12¢ out all on his own before he noticed the 13¢. Still, this isn’t white-knuckling the reentry of the Command Module of Apollo XIII.
I don’t care if they have more money than I have or less. What I care about is the money they have that I want for myself.
Wikipedia is a woke source to begin with, so I’m surprise they changed it back. Whenever I go to Wiki for info, I always try to find a secondary source for verification because you just can’t trust Wiki, mainly because it’s so easily changed by users . . .
Agree. I find it laughable that folks use Wikipedia as their original source for important information. I find it incredibly useful. But not incredibly accurate.
As a primary source, it’s suspect. However, they often list secondary sources, and many of them are reliable. Thus, Wikipedia has value as a quick reference, but look at other sources to be sure before you cite “facts” directly from Wiki – and cite the secondary source . . .
Just after he managed to shoot himself in the mouth. Karma a bitch.
I’ve been to his museum, the Broad. Not only is the building ugly as sin, the contents are no better. It was a giant hole in the ground for a long time before the structure was completed and I can honestly say the hole held more interest for me.
For some reason, I’d never connected him with the Kaufman & Broad homebuilders, whose developments are ubiquitous ’round these parts.
A mob armed with the phrase ‘wealth criminal’ can probably feel good about killing just about anyone.
I’ve got a lot of magazines.
Makes perfect sense to me. The Democrats are, in fact, the party of the super-rich.
The problem is they have a vast pool of jurors like those in Minneapolis and the media. If they don’t do the trick, there is always the DOJ waiting its turn to get you.
I’ve got a lot of magazines, and a lot of ammo.
Same. The point wasn’t that he did great things in the world. It was that he was a fellow traveler, but his fellows got jealous of his success and had to take him down a peg.
Sexist!!
Yes, Non-binary gender-fluid persons manning the till are not.
We are genetically designed to be zero-sum thinkers in terms of economics. We should evolve people into being able to understand that we can increase wealth.
Plenty of people already think that, Henry. It isn’t evolution. It’s bad instruction. The culture is the problem and needs to be fixed.