Was it a mistake on my part to let myself hope that capitalists are not as evil as I was told?

🚨COCA-COLA AND GENERAL MOTORS PULL ALL ADS FROM ABC AND NBC AFTER THEY REFUSED TO BROADCAST THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS — THE MOVE WILL COST THE NETWORKS OVER $40 MILLION PER YEAR! 🔗 t.me/+o-xXNYKd7fE4Z… This is what happens when networks play politics instead of doing their job. Coca-Cola and General Motors have completely pulled their advertising from ABC and NBC. The final straw was the networks refusing to air a presidential address. For these major corporations, that was a deal-breaker. The networks are now looking at losing more than $40 million per year in ad revenue from just these two companies alone. That’s real money, and it’s hitting them where it hurts. ABC and NBC chose activism over neutrality. They decided not to broadcast the President of the United States, and now their biggest advertisers are walking away. Corporate America is finally starting to push back against the blatant bias in legacy media. When companies like Coke and GM decide it’s bad for business, the networks feel it immediately. This is the beginning of the consequences. More companies are watching. Share this everywhere so every network that thinks they can ignore the President sees what it costs them! Follow @mcafeenew for more drops. https://x.com/mcafeenew/status/2078580442802917866?s=46&t=gT6uLhaVod8uwzT4p6povA

🔥 WOW! President Trump just revealed that after he publicly threatened to cut off ALL TRADE with Spain today, Spain CAVED and cut a check for NATO THAT’S how it’s done. “Spain was VERY generous today. You know, I told them I'm going to stop trade. What did Spain do today? They honored a request for LOTS of payments. And if they didn't, we wouldn't even talk to them.” https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2075006404499234987?s=46&t=gT6uLhaVod8uwzT4p6povA

Aristotle wrote the operating system Western civilization ran on for two thousand years – and quietly abandoned in the twentieth century, around the same time all the catastrophes we have been describing began. 1. His central question is not “what are your rights?” It is “what are you for?” Eudaimonia — flourishing, not happiness — is the answer: the full realization of what a human being can become. The moment a civilization stops asking this question and starts asking only about rights, equality, and safety, it has already chosen administration over life. 2. Virtue is not a rule you follow. It is a habit you form – through practice, through the right environment, through a community that models and rewards excellence. This is why negative selection is so catastrophic in Aristotelian terms: it doesn’t just promote the wrong people. It corrupts the very mechanism by which virtue is transmitted across generations. 3. Man is a political animal – not in the sense that man should be governed, but that man is constituted by his community. You cannot flourish alone. But the corollary is equally precise: the polis exists for man’s flourishing, not the other way around. The moment the state becomes the end and the citizen becomes the means, you have not just bad government – you have the inversion of the natural order. 4. Aristotle catalogued the corruptions of every form of government: monarchy becomes tyranny, aristocracy becomes oligarchy, polity becomes mob rule. The pattern in every case is identical – the rulers stop ruling for the common good and start ruling for themselves. This is not a modern insight. It is the oldest political observation in the Western tradition. Every system contains the seed of its own corruption. The question is always: who is it for? 5. Phronesis — practical wisdom — the ability to judge particular situations correctly, without a rulebook. The bureaucratic state destroys phronesis systematically, replacing judgment with procedure, wisdom with compliance, the experienced man with the certified one. This is Aristotle’s explanation for why the credentialed class produces so many wrong decisions with such complete confidence.