Being wrong takes no effort.

You can’t give up what you never had. Previously.

It’s not wrong to say regulatory capture is a problem, it just doesn’t go far enough. The US government was never not captured by the bourgeoisie, because the US was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote. BBC: [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

The game is rigged. The election cycle’s pomp and circumstance is to divert your energy and attention from the fact that it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

are my tax dollars also funding a child sex trafficking rings?

If you’re in the mood for yet another mindfuck today, your federal taxes don’t actually pay for anything. Previously.

Everyone involved should get investigated and tried for any and all crimes.

Indeed they should, but they won’t, because they’re above the law. They shouldn’t be above the law, but they objectively are. What you’re seeing isn’t some rare exception, it’s a peek behind the curtain of how the United States is actually run, and it’s nothing like how it’s supposed to work on paper.

It must be cheaper than dirt within Qatar and the UAE right now, because most if it can’t leave.

I don’t know how people can maintain their suspension of disbelief at this point.

How do people still not see that, as horrendous as a child rape ring is, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s just an entertaining diversion for these people, whose day job is running the imperial core.

Both Clintons are in the Epstein files hundreds of times. They also both happen to be war criminals.

This is serious. Now it’s hitting the ultra-wealthy right in the Prix.

Thank you for the legitimate target.

I never watched Hamilton, because I can’t stomach more singing hagiography.

I would watch a remake involving late-18^th century Epstein files, though.

That’s not what whataboutism is, and even when used correctly, it’s often done in bad faith.

Ireland is a bourgeois democracy, otherwise known as a bourgeois dictatorship.

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:The_German_ideology#Ruling_class_and_ruling_ideas

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.

Please lets avoid editorializing articles’ original titles to such extremes in this community.

You’re bolstering my case, given anarchism’s track record. Communism is founded on historical materialism, not on morality or idealism.

But you don’t have to subscribe to communism to get value out of letting go of moralism.

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This is just silly. Keep moving the goalposts further and further from the founding, child-raping slavers.

This silly, idealist question isn’t the gotcha you think it is.

Thank you for providing us with an concrete example of all states being the the same shit.

You’ve been so blackpilled by capitalist realism that you think it makes you enlightened. It’s a form of self-reinforcing learned helplessness.

Nice fantasy world you’re living in.

🫡 As you were, then.

FYI, as a post ages, there are diminishing returns to engaging, because the audience quickly dwindles. Somehow @Cowbee@lemmy.ml keeps going and never burns out—maybe he was bit by a radioactive debatebro—but most mortals need to pick their battles strategically.