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Citations Needed: Episode 196: Benevolent Billionaire Despotism and US Media’s Softball Treatment of ‘Effective Altruism’
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I mean honestly half of it is just academic writing/reading, media asserts tons of shit without proper citations or citations are [it came to me ~~in a dream~~ in a raytheon funded think tank].
Are houthi iranian-backed? who the fuck knows. Is genocide in gaza "war between israel and hamas"? hamas is paramilitary organization of a non-state actor, cause palestine is not even recognized as a state (although usa have rich history declaring wars without declaring them, or fighting abstract things). Is effective altruism effective or altruism - the answer to both is no, so what the fuck