Every. Single. Time.

Looking at the TP with my functional eyes? I am skeptical.

I’m sick of these private corporations fucking over all of us repeatedly and NOTHING being done.

You misunderstand the role distribution. The American people are not the ones who are being protected from the big companies in the country.

They are the prey being offered to the big companies.

The companies have won. They are paying the legislation to provide a buffet of easily exploitable, squeezable unprotected victims. Depending on whether you need medical procedures, an education, or are just unlucky enough to be chosen to become labour in the private prison complex due to being the wrong colour, the companies are just waiting for you to fall into their respective web, at which point they own you, suck you dry and leave you to bankruptcy or worse.

Not at all (as long as you’re rich enough to bribe him and get served by his capers).

Ooooh no. A government position would imply at least a shred of accountability. They’d lobby for privatisation. Failing that, they’d bribe the officials in charge to run the whole system into the ground so that they can argue a private entrepreneur could run it more efficiently, and then they’d do it with as little oversight as they can buy from their legislators.

The problem here is that it would reward the government for either a) punishing criminals but also b) framing innocents with the goal of taking their money. We’re seeing how well that works with the private prison industrial complex. In essence, it just creates an industry of creating criminals where there were none.

Punishing criminals severely is great. Making it a business will end up with the worst kind of people optimising the revenue from it.

“It’s called ‘cinnamon’, Karen.”

At least you won’t have that particular problem again until you read about somebody who sneezed someone else’s intestines out of his body.

What? Now you can’t even turn the country into an absolutist dictatorship anymore? I thought this was AMERICA! Political correctness gone overboard!

Mention the concept of a daily stand-up pledge of allegiance in schools in any other democracy and get laughed at.

Well, actually, a skull can exist, can lie on the floor, can decay, so it CAN do something after all.

Sorry, but no compassion from me: shouldn’t have built the road right under a lava stream. Stupid decision, really.

“Well, you can’t prevent all assaults in the world, so why shouldn’t I punch you in the face now?” is a rather defeatist point of view.

Two bananas.

Won’t SOMEBODY think of the poor, poor monopolists who so far made their money exploiting the alternativeless victims at their mercy? Why would their prey give them way too much money now, eh? Socialism! Terrorism! All the bad words, what’s in right now? Woke? DEI?

Google: “You wanted words? Here are some words!”

Oh, they’d never do anything as sinister as that. That may still be illegal (if the ultra-rich lobbying hasn’t taken care of that obstacle by that point).

Instead, they’ll just make sure that whatever essential core service they’ve built a monopoly in by just muscling the poorer competitors out of the race will cease to be offered to you if you refuse to hand all your money over to them.

See also: insulin, hospital treatment, etc. This is just a new playing field to find old prey in.

Sure, the possibilities are endless, so the first thing we’ll get that has any research money and effort put into it is how to turn it into an advertising platform and then maximally enshittifying it as soon as there’s a market share to speak of.

It’s fiiiiine, I wouldn’t want a stupid brain chip that’s NOT on fire anyway. Looks much cooler and I bet that’s just how Daddy Elon planned it to be.

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