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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Because the hierarchy of society that most politicians support demands employees who are terrified of leaving their exploitative jobs. Money is a powerful motivator, but even more powerful is the health of you and your family.

    And at the same time, a very sick citizen does not generate economic benefits to them, so there’s no reason to make serious care available and/or not crushingly expensive. Better to drain as much as possible from them before the dead weight succumbs to those pressures than direct any revenue that could given back to “job creators” as tax breaks of subsidies.

    It’s also why political and media personalities will brag about how quickly the county recovered from COVID. It wasn’t an economic miracle, it was sacrificing lives at the altar of capitalism. It went hand in hand with our absurdly disproportionate number of deaths.

    Why we don’t storm their houses and string them up from lamp posts (or, I suppose, vote them out), I don’t know.











  • If ICE was a legal organization simply pushed to extreme action by the legions of antifa supersoldiers continually attacking them (10000000% assaults!!!), you’d think priority #1 would be recording everything that happens to them. That would be a good tool to get the general public on their side and show that they aren’t just roid-raging Nazi incels. But somehow that’s just slipped through the cracks. It’s almost like having reliable footage of their activities would be a bad thing for what they want to do. Like a criminal organization.



  • What I appreciate most here is not that they told them to stop, which may be challenged and rejected by fascists in the judiciary, but that they stated that ICE and the government in general aren’t credible. They’ve just been making things up and being given a default of assuming good faith. It’s like the courts that just take “I feared for my life” at face value, despite the fact that saying that magic phrase regardless of the situation is taught in courses and their fears are based on fantasies. A court that’s unwilling to judge the credibility and rationality of a defendant isn’t a functioning court.





  • The “law doesn’t matter” fatalists forget that the people who would be needed to implement a court ruling are the same group being threatened with their pay being withheld. The core of legal fatalism is that few people will risk their own personal best interests to stand up against tyranny, but in this case they’re not standing up for someone else, they’re writing checks to themselves and all their work friends for thousands of dollars. They’re in a better material situation by writing the check, getting fired, and filing a lawsuit than just meekly going along.