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Seven years ago, I called #LeonardCohen's *Everybody Knows* "the perfect anthem for our times."

> Everybody knows the fight was fixed
> The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
> That’s how it goes
> Everybody knows

memex.craphound.com/2016/11/11/leo… 1/ A smoke-filled room lit by ...
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That was just after Cohen died, and while the world seems to want to settle on *Hallelujah* as his totemic song, *Everybody Knows* keeps inserting itself into the discourse, in the most toxic, hope-draining way possible. 3/
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#ESPECIAL

👶 Los nepo-babies de la política mexicana.

👉 Nadie les resta sus propios méritos, pero ya se sabe: no hay herencia más redituable que un buen apellido.

🧵🪡
#LosNepoBabies de la política en México.

😱 Los de 50+

@ruizmassieu
@edelamadrid
@GabrielaSodiM
@LaydaSansores
Los #nepobaby de la política mexicana.

🔊 Los de 40+ (primera parte)

@EvelynSalgadoP
@OHarfuch
@sylbeltrones
@VelascoM_
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Miau. Se enojó el Nepo Baby mayor de Mexico, @RicardoBSalinas

¿Por qué a los ultra-ricos les cuesta tanto reconocer sus injustas ventajas? Fácil: porque su riqueza perdería legitimidad

Van 5 cosas en las que "trabajan arduamente" los Nepo Babies ultra-ricos en MX (y el mundo)🧵
1- Es de Nepo Babies empresarios nacer en familias ricas y heredar:

A los Nepo Babies les cuesta mucho trabajo, pero lo lograron. Nacieron en una familia rica. Tú esfuerzo fue recompensado, Nepo Baby (sarcasmo). 🤡🤡
De hecho, no sólo es Salinas Pliego. Al menos 14 de los 17 multimillonarios mexicanos en la lista de Forbes heredaron grandes riquezas.
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Here’s my #nepobaby story if anyone wants to make a graphic. My great great uncle Nicholas Nayfack (1909-1958) signed Judy Garland to MGM & produced 2 iconic films, Border Incident (1949) & Forbidden Planet (1956). Family lore, he wouldn’t give my great uncle Julie a job. Poster of Forbidden Planet,...Poster of Border Incident
On my mom’s side, her grandfather Alec Roseman (who I’m dead named after) was a scenic carpenter who worked on all the old motion picture lots. Family lore is he wasn’t a great guy. When his wife died he left my papa and his other kids in a Jewish orphanage Boyle Heights (1930s). Photo of Vista Del Mar, B’n...
My mom’s maternal grandparents ran a dry cleaners in River Forest, IL, and set up shop again in Hollywood when my grandma met my papa at UCLA. Family lore tells that the house they lived in belonged to a concert pianist first, with a living room designed to be a music parlor…
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