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I think these people should absolutely be compensated, but I cannot help but notice one thing. CA will use my tax money to compensate them. In this case, I don'

I think these people should absolutely be compensated, but I cannot help but notice one thing. CA will use my tax money to compensate them. In this case, I don't mind, because it's the right thing to do. But I was obviously never a part of any of these decisions, I obviously have never voted for people who did this stupid shit, etc etc. Yet I end up paying for it. That seems to be a pretty big problem with the decision making process then. I would like to hold the fuckers who wasted 2.26 trillion dollars, ~3000 American lives and countless local lives over 20 years to hand Afghanistan from Taliban back to Taliban, achieving absolutely nothing. But who do you hold accountable for it? Using the democratic process, you punish Bush by voting him out? Well, he's long gone. Most of those fuckers are enjoying their retirement, they will never be held accountable for any of this, yet here we are paying for their insane decisions.

sircastor 5y ago
There are actions that we’re responsible for individually and actions we’re responsible for collectively, and in the case of the latter, there is often inherited responsibility that we must answer for even though we individually didn’t have anything to do with it. It’s the reality of being a community, large or small.
- atatatat 5y ago
  On the average, we need more smaller communities.
lucian1900 5y ago
In theory, war criminals get tried and punished accordingly. Since none of them do, clearly the majority isn’t in control of state power in most countries. As always, the solution is for the majority that do all the work to directly seize state power in a revolution.
- atatatat 5y ago
  Oh, they're in control. They just can't compete with the State & media power that convinces their peers that everything is business as usual. "Manufactured Consent"
david38 5y ago
Bush is long gone, but Obama and Trump continued the war.

sircastor 5y ago

There are actions that we’re responsible for individually and actions we’re responsible for collectively, and in the case of the latter, there is often inherited responsibility that we must answer for even though we individually didn’t have anything to do with it. It’s the reality of being a community, large or small.

atatatat 5y ago
On the average, we need more smaller communities.

lucian1900 5y ago

In theory, war criminals get tried and punished accordingly. Since none of them do, clearly the majority isn’t in control of state power in most countries. As always, the solution is for the majority that do all the work to directly seize state power in a revolution.

atatatat 5y ago
Oh, they're in control. They just can't compete with the State & media power that convinces their peers that everything is business as usual. "Manufactured Consent"

david38 5y ago

Bush is long gone, but Obama and Trump continued the war.