If a sink hole swallowed the Capitol tomorrow, no one would notice. They are functionally powerless and only serve to manufacture consent. A lot of them need to be removed, but some are cultural ballast. They will gravitate to a new power once the Cathedral is toppled. We just need to people like Tucker to start pummeling them more aggressively, particularly the Rs.
Go out and vote for team Trump. Deliver him the mandate he needs to crush the commies. The worthless curs like Lindsey Graham will naturally recoginize their new master.
People often say that as a kind of half joke but it really is true. I spent a month without fire/police/emt, electricity, tv, radio and all that after a really bad natural disaster a couple years ago. It was pretty great and I didn't miss any of it. The only things I really trully regretted not having were a bit more preparation for my emergency systems and a fully functioning emergency hospital because you're obviously more likely to get injured when you're doing backbreaking physical labor. Even this covid lockdown thing was great as far as not having government services. LIfe just went on as normal during that government shutdown a while back too. These people don't matter for anything except public works and having a judicial system in place to punish violent criminals. I mean that as no disrespect to the great people working service jobs or even the military because I would hire them to do those jobs anyway even without any government being involved. The scariest thing (besides people losing their livelihood because they're not allowed to work and their businesses are shut down capriciously) about the covid shutdowns was farmers LITERALLY burying crops for a government bailout because there was a real possibility the population could starve to death just like in the holodomor and even that was government induced.
I want super militarized police. They should only come out when shit is real.
Nationalizing fire departments was a subsidy for insurance companies. In order to protect one building you really have to protect the whole block.
The same goes for security. You can see this when a celebrity's security detail moves into an area and calls the neighbors to tell them they are protected too. They have to secure a larger area than the house itself, and they want the neighbors to participate in the effort.
People will naturally self organize to cover these things in interesting and exciting ways. Markets are fucking awesome.
They aren't functionally powerless. We've been demoralized to assume such things. If 2/3rds of Congress simply wanted to improve our country, the swamp would be drained in 3 months - that's how much power they actually have. They have made themselves purposefully non-functional so that they can continue living quasi aristocrat lives on our dime. We demand excellence in every arena of our society except for the one where 535 people are entrusted with the decisions that dictate the future of 330 million. I understand demanding perfection from our system is a fool's request, but there is a gulf between that and what we have now.
Congress is accountable. That limits their ability to wield power. They are a minor player and a particularly cowardly one at that. True power is unaccountable and resides with the Polygon: the press, the universities, the judiciary, the Fed and the banks, the “Hill” (congressional staff), the civil service proper, the NGOs and transnationals, the military, the Beltway bandits (defense and other contractors), and corporate holders of official monopolies (such as “intellectual property”).
If a sink hole swallowed the Capitol tomorrow, no one would notice. They are functionally powerless and only serve to manufacture consent. A lot of them need to be removed, but some are cultural ballast. They will gravitate to a new power once the Cathedral is toppled. We just need to people like Tucker to start pummeling them more aggressively, particularly the Rs.
Go out and vote for team Trump. Deliver him the mandate he needs to crush the commies. The worthless curs like Lindsey Graham will naturally recoginize their new master.
People often say that as a kind of half joke but it really is true. I spent a month without fire/police/emt, electricity, tv, radio and all that after a really bad natural disaster a couple years ago. It was pretty great and I didn't miss any of it. The only things I really trully regretted not having were a bit more preparation for my emergency systems and a fully functioning emergency hospital because you're obviously more likely to get injured when you're doing backbreaking physical labor. Even this covid lockdown thing was great as far as not having government services. LIfe just went on as normal during that government shutdown a while back too. These people don't matter for anything except public works and having a judicial system in place to punish violent criminals. I mean that as no disrespect to the great people working service jobs or even the military because I would hire them to do those jobs anyway even without any government being involved. The scariest thing (besides people losing their livelihood because they're not allowed to work and their businesses are shut down capriciously) about the covid shutdowns was farmers LITERALLY burying crops for a government bailout because there was a real possibility the population could starve to death just like in the holodomor and even that was government induced.
I want super militarized police. They should only come out when shit is real.
Nationalizing fire departments was a subsidy for insurance companies. In order to protect one building you really have to protect the whole block.
The same goes for security. You can see this when a celebrity's security detail moves into an area and calls the neighbors to tell them they are protected too. They have to secure a larger area than the house itself, and they want the neighbors to participate in the effort.
People will naturally self organize to cover these things in interesting and exciting ways. Markets are fucking awesome.
They aren't functionally powerless. We've been demoralized to assume such things. If 2/3rds of Congress simply wanted to improve our country, the swamp would be drained in 3 months - that's how much power they actually have. They have made themselves purposefully non-functional so that they can continue living quasi aristocrat lives on our dime. We demand excellence in every arena of our society except for the one where 535 people are entrusted with the decisions that dictate the future of 330 million. I understand demanding perfection from our system is a fool's request, but there is a gulf between that and what we have now.
Congress is accountable. That limits their ability to wield power. They are a minor player and a particularly cowardly one at that. True power is unaccountable and resides with the Polygon: the press, the universities, the judiciary, the Fed and the banks, the “Hill” (congressional staff), the civil service proper, the NGOs and transnationals, the military, the Beltway bandits (defense and other contractors), and corporate holders of official monopolies (such as “intellectual property”).