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The USA is moving away from concepts like 'laws' and 'illegal' and more towards a system based on vibes and bribes.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 8mo ago
The USA is moving away from concepts like 'laws' and 'illegal' and more towards a system based on vibes and bribes.
- lazide 8mo agoIt’s always been a case of ‘if they can’t catch you/enforce it, it didn’t happen’. It’s absurdly blatant now, however, and backlash is likely to be pretty crazy in 5ish-10ish years once it’s impacted enough people.
- zombot 8mo agoBy then the opposition will have been renditioned to black holes or killed.
- lazide 8mo agoThe current opposition maybe. No empire/government/strongman lasts forever.
- XorNot 8mo agoRussia has been a basket case for the better part of the last 1,000 years. History sucked for a very long time. It is not a natural law that things will just get better.
- lazide 8mo agoSure, but it is a natural law that the specific strongman in charge dies eventually. So far at least. Every tsar was different, Stalin and Lenin had their own flavors, etc. Sure it may suck, but the flavor does change? And that is something!
- spencerflem 8mo agoNot if the democrats can help it
- AreShoesFeet000 8mo agoLaws and morality have always been bendable. It’s just that doing the bending requires a certain competence that was somehow lost.
- lazide 8mo agoIt used to be they had enough shame to try to cover it up. That certainly is in the past!
- AreShoesFeet000 8mo agoI hate these free floating quotes and sayings, but maybe the “malice vs. incompetence attribution” idea applies here.
- lazide 8mo ago‘sufficiently persistent incompetence is indistinguishable from malice’? or did you mean a different quote?
- HardwareLust 8mo ago"Vibes and bribes" is such a wonderfully apt description of our current regime.
- kotaKat 8mo agoHey now, the system of “checks” and “balances” is still holding up - the checks clear, and the balances go up.