>>4427This is accurate. Bezos did in fact donate $100 million as a "Courage and Civility Award" during peak woke in 2021. As recipient, murder-apologist Van Jones got to allocate that money to charities of his choice.
Why the Xs? It's real, and it raises an important point:
The racist Left is not funded by "leftist billionaires". It's funded by centrist billionaires, by normie lib billionaires, by venture capitalists & other suckers who lack discernment and courage.
You see it locally. Look at Mike Moritz, the Sequoia guy who once railed against the far left in a Times op-ed titled "The Progressive Politicians Who Failed San Francisco". So he starts a new local paper, the SF Standard, to provide sane journalism against said corrupt progressives. Then what happens? He hires some lib to run the paper, who in turn hires new-grad Journalism majors, who in turn... you can see where this is going. Mike Moritz is not a communist, but he managed to increment the number of commie rags in San Francisco by one.
Thanks, Mike!
Jeff Bezos is also not a communist. But he has given billions to race communists, both directly as in the Van Jones case, and indirectly via history's most expensive divorce.
Why? Naivety; lack of courage; lack of attention and care. These accidental sugar daddies focus their primary attention on their business pursuits, leaving a crumb of side-quest attention for "philanthropy" and "politics".
(So why have commies been vastly more successful than anyone on our side at vacuuming up these highly lucrative crumbs toward their agenda? What do we need to do differently? That is the billion dollar question. A good prompt for a new thread.)
Jobs is the exception that proves the rule: he tried to avoid politics and philanthropy altogether. No crumbs. Net result? Infinite money for commies, of course, but only after his death--disbursed a billion here, a billion there by his human pez dispenser wife Lauren Powell Jobs.
Only Thiel and a select few others consider their political and cultural impact a primary legacy and direct their efforts accordingly. They alone escape this sad fate.
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Epilogue. What happens after you give Van Jones $100m to allocate?
Let's hear it from the towering intellect himself:
> "I realized, I was gonna put myself in an early grave because you have insurmountable opportunities," Jones expressed on Earn Your Leisure. "You also have insurmountable obstacles. You could also have insurmountable opportunities. The door’s just opening and opening and opening and opening, and that can stress you out and that can also bring a lot of haters."Yes, he got tiredt. But he PERSEVERED.
> Jones said therapy, prayer, meditation, and ramping up his fitness journey have allowed him to return back to his sense of self.> “We’re worthy, we’re worthy to be in these rooms,” he said. “We’re worthy to move capital. We’re worthy to imagine whole industries. We could make every Black neighborhood into ‘Wakanda’ with the best technology in the world.”> He added, “That’s what’s available, I think, as an entrepreneur. So much of politics is about the past and the present. Reparations is about the past. Redistribution is about the present… That’s politics. Either reparations or redistribution. But the future has not been written. The future’s worth fighting for.”Thanks, Jeff!