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Jan 2025
1h 29m

Downstream: Woke Capitalism Just Collaps...

Novara Media
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Donald Trump is the next president. Meta, Walmart and McDonald’s have forsaken their diversity policies. Elon Musk is demanding that Keir Starmer be removed as PM. Why is this all happening at the same time? And why do progressives have so little to offer when it comes to the economy and people’s everyday lives? Brett […] 
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