Every billionaire "started in a garage" story conveniently leaves out the parental loans, elite university connections, and safety nets. Bezos got $300k from his parents. Gates' mom was on IBM's board. Musk's family owned an emerald mine. The garage is aesthetics. The capital is inherited. Stop calling it self-made when it's generationally funded.

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Disaffected · Oct 8, 2026 · 12:43 PM UTC

Corrective retweeted

Disaffected

@DisaffectedPodOct 8

Notice the affectations; they're part of a uniform. 1. The smug facial expression 2. The creaky little girl voice--this takes effort. No woman's voice is like this naturally. It's a simultaneous move to seem smol-n-cute while at the same time signaling volcanic feminine eruption might be imminent. -J

Ryan James Girdusky

@RyanGirduskyOct 8

The Lt. Gov’s race in Vermont does not get a ton of coverage but this has to be one of the most brutal questions I’ve ever seen one candidate ask another and her answer was so smug.