Summary
Billionaires like Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy are spreading false claims to discredit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a federal agency protecting consumers from fraud and abuse.
Andreessen falsely accused the CFPB of politically motivated “debanking,” despite no evidence.
This rhetoric aligns with the “DOGE” project, led by Musk and Ramaswamy, which aims to slash government regulations and programs under the guise of efficiency.
Critics warn this effort will harm public services, benefit billionaires, and push privatization at the expense of ordinary Americans.
And this thread is about governments in general, and their necessity in enforcing these social contracts you’re referring to.
You understand that there’s more than one person involved in an Internet comment thread right
Sure.
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/current-affairs-media-bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)#:~:text=An epistemic bubble is an,of significant information and reasoning.
In an extreme “echo chamber”, one purveyor of information will make a claim, which many like-minded people then repeat, overhear, and repeat again (often in an exaggerated or otherwise distorted form) until most people assume that some extreme variation of the story is true.
