• PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Exactly as planned by the new admin.

    Dissolve gov trust, install corporations and christofascists.

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      3 months ago

      Young people are also turning away from corporations as well. I have so many people in my collective that outside of oil products and housing we manly provide each other with many services that the government used to handle or corporations made too expensive. It’s not perfect, but damn does it save us all a lot of money.

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        3 months ago

        Part of the problem with your sentence is the implied “I don’t trust the government at all” mentality, which is just as ill-informed as saying “I completely trust the government”.

        It’s how conspiracies flourish.

        Literally, all you have to do to distill down any conspiracy is to say, “I don’t trust the government, therefore…” and you can start filling in the blanks.

        Trust law? FCC? Roads? Plumbing? Water treatment? Work safety? The weather? Phones? Batteries? Etc

        Are they perfect? Fuck no. But government regulations have helped save so many lives and improved many more. And yes, it needs further improvements.

        But to gut it to the point of complete distrust and Indiana Jones-ing the idol for a bag of sand, is just gonna get you a giant fucking boulder that crushes everything in its path.

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      3 months ago

      It’s every admin. Since the 60s, production has skyrocketed, while real wages, living standards, services and at least a fig leaf of integrity among elected officials found a 13th circle of hell.

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      3 months ago

      oh no if only there was an amendment to check and balance the government. It wasn’t the first one nor the third one. Shame nobody gives a fuck about the tools given to them.

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        We are slaves who have been trained to hate each other since birth.

        I don’t know why people expect us to act like bees and swarm every threat that emerges. Nobody gives a shit about each other, at least not enough to throw their life away

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          3 months ago

          Why throw life away? You would be doing nothing illegal, would get the best lawyers for the trial of the century and could live off well from the kickstarter. Be selfish, get rich and famous ez.

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      3 months ago

      Not just distrust, but also uncool. Could you imagine trying as hard as you’d need to try, just to have Matt Gaetz be one of your co-workers? Public service has never been less attractive, and we have never more badly needed senators with actual souls.