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The government is not your friend, and the only thing they have for you is a bullet.
I mean, governments can do good things.
Like taxing the fuck out of corporations.
What about putting that money toward retaining walls/birms, carving out some overflow pathways for the next time the river floods?
Throwing money at local co-ops, to kick start a more equitable, local, and representative economic system, or at least found some alternatives to the existing cartels?
The New Deal was overall a pretty good idea, in comparison to... not doing it.
The state very, very often doesn't do good things because capitalist democracy is fundamentally flawed and exploitable, but it just irks me that what is probably the policy equivalent of a last dying breath of this doomed town of 10,000... is to pay off old timers, who will then cycle that money right back into the immensely corrupt healthcare system.
Lets be real: Probably not many young people in a dying town with no jobs, they probably all left to find work and don't really care to hear about entirely predictable bad things happening, that they gave up warning their parents about half a decade ago.
There's not gonna be a 'great wealth transfer' of inheritance from boomers to their kids and grandkids, 90% of it will go to paying off HELOCs and geriatric daycare, basically because so many boomers are so stubborn, priveleged, and dismissive, that they've driven away their children in numbers never before seen in US history.
Corpos always get their money back, with interest, one way or another.
The things their monopoly on violence allows to exist keeps us from equalizing? Yeah–they dont do that
For the rich, sure.
Sorry I didn't catch on that this is a bit at first. Feeling a little dumb.
But back during the New Deal... the US did. The corporate tax rates topped out at near 90%.
This is just a historical fact.
So, sometimes, they do in fact do that.
Are you trying to make a counter argument, or just doing a rhetorical/snark dodge?
It was a good bit but you're wearing it our being picky pretending you don't understand tenses.
... Tenses?
Is English not your first language?
I'm not doing a bit.
I have made the point that governments can, and have done good things, that it's silly to oversimplify to the extent that you are.
Your response has been to entirely not deal with that at all, to throw bombastic rhetoric around, with no substance to back it up, just buzzwords, pretentiousness and oh also just mis quoting me, with more buzzwords.
You argue like a hexbear tankie.
Your mom argues like a hexbear tankie!
Why is it less adorable when you do it?