I don’t even blame them. I mean I do blame them, but I feel like it’s pretty obvious making them into a target won’t fix anything.

People usually rationalize their own corruption because they believe if they didn’t do it somebody else would. That’s not an excuse or justification for what they do, but it’s also not incorrect or irrational.

If you remove one cog, it will just get replaced with another. In this case, it will also be used to help the machine generate it’s victimhood narrative and propaganda, which then is used to justify the bullshit they’ve preemptively laid out in NSPM-7.

That’s why they even hire these people in the first place. They’re basically paid scapegoats so that the machine can always carry on while society is focused on punishing a cog.

I really wouldn’t be surprised to learn that both Charlie Kirk and that CEO of United healthcare were murders for hire carried out by the same networks of wealthy shadowy conservatives. Neither of those murders actually changed anything except increasing the likelihood of more reactionary or copycat violence.

Two cogs are gone, but they have already been replaced. Two men (probably patsys who believed what they were doing would make a difference), are in jail for attacking pieces of the machine, but the machine is more powerful than ever because it now can justify its own propaganda and preemptive crackdown against the people it antagonizes. Make sense?

It almost feels like some districts are purchased by people with a lot of money to burn in order to give people the illusion of choice, and that way no matter which side or which candidate wins, we all lose.

This may be a controversial thing to say, because I know a lot of people feel that regulations and public oversight stand in the way of progress (while simultaneously demanding more accountability?), but it kinda seems like allowing uncapped and untraceable shadowy super pac money into politics, has made things so much worse.

Also, while I do feel there are cases where society definitely benefits from public-private partnerships (For instance, publicly funded research to develop a vaccine during a pandemic partnered with a private company that already has the capacity to manufacture that vaccine for millions of people, while still being monitored for compliance with federal regulations and guidelines), it seems that many private industries feel their role in these partnerships proves they’re an invaluable asset to society, and therefore should be allowed unchecked power and authority free of any regulations and oversight, in return for their “burden” of profiting from and saving humanity.

One might argue that even when the private industry has been called upon to help the American public, and achieved some really incredible things, private industry was never the “savior” of America. They were a product of the great country that allowed them to flourish. They were doing the bare minimum by returning what they owe America for their success, especially given the U.S. government generously (foolishly?) allowing them to rake in trillions of untaxed profits over several decades, with way less oversight and accountability than should have ever been legal (Sackler family).

Yet, when their country called on them to finally return the favor, and the private industry was simply asked to do what was owed to American society during the pandemic, (while still fucking profiting greatly), as always, they felt entitled to more.

Somehow, they always feel entitled to more, while they bleed America dry in return for less and less. They automate and outsource jobs, cut corners to save untaxed pennies, kill innocent people with their irresponsible greed, crash the economy, receive tax payer funded bailouts, destroy standard of living and opportunity, and still expect the United States to keep saying “thank you,” for their generosity and allowing them to repeat the cycle over and over again.

They used to at least act like they gave a fuck about us, but now that the Republicans are so far out to lunch they can do whatever they want without repercussions because people will vote “blue no matter who” despite being a different face of the same shit coin. We are truly fucked.

We need to stop using the term “Blue dog” and replace it with something more suitable and descriptive like “collaborator,” “DINO,” or “Republican.”

Thank you for the receipts.

The problem with the Democratic Party is it’s full of Republicans.

Yep, and it would’ve failed by 1 vote.

220 - 7 = 213

207 + 7 = 214

Establishment democrats only care about people richer than us. Stop voting for them.

These 7 aren’t even pretending to want what we want, at least the rest of the dems lie to us.