college application help is my go-to example for how American guanxi works - in its most powerful form, it can't be a simple market transaction, but still grows out of business and power relationships
well here's one news story about the thing I've been obsessively tweeting about for days (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Epstein Helped Woody Allen’s Daughter Get Into College, Emails Show
Feb 5, 2026 01:33remember when Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for help getting Tucker's kid into college?
anyway another example of why college application at the higher level should be 'you meet X standard and then we randomly draw from a pool.'
'getting the daughter I had with my teenage stepdaughter who I groomed and then married into college through the help of America's most notorious pedophile' very normal stuff
Also I don't think some people understand how much the corporate world runs this way too. People mostly get jobs based on who they know and networking. Who hasn't had a useless coworker or an incompetent boss who was some big wig's son or neice or something.
>introduced to novel cultural concept
>look up its meaning
>it's protexia again
A guy in my class that was a bit of a dumbass got into Georgetown because his Haliburton dad got him a recommendation letter from Dick Cheney. He didn't take a single AP or IB class, and got an average SAT score.
