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Wow, people can be corrupt in any system, shocking. So if they’re always going to be corrupt then it’s not blameshifting to talk about how the current system is allowing that corruption to flourish. The problem with unregulated Capitalism is that it concentrates fantastic wealth and power in the hands of a few unaccountable individuals and corporations. That’s not an error or a goof, that’s the entire design of the system. It allows the superwealthy and corporations to buy off the government at an industrial scale with no need to even be subtle about it.

I’m sorry, but capitalism will never love you, and white knighting it won’t make you rich. Stagnating wages while corporations report record profits, wealth concentrations that make feudal nobility look like a teenager with a piggy bank, a government solely concerned with keeping the rich rich and making them richer. This is unregulated capitalism working as intended.

We used to keep this shit in check, stopping mergers, breaking up monopolies, the super wealthy used to have a 90% tax bracket, etc. Problem is that around the time of the civil rights movement those in power, actual power, realized that they could use social issues to keep the people divided and rabidly tribalistic about their political parties while they robbed us blind. It worked. It’s not red vs blue, it’s green versus not, and you ain’t on the green side.

Commie gonna commie.

Whatever you say, comrade.

Right blameshift to the captalism boogeyman. Couldn’t be corrupt government officials that would do the same under any other monetary system

Well yes. If everyone knows about your secret plans then they're not very secret anymore

It's blatantly obvious to anyone with a functional brain. The multi billion dollar media company is pro workers rights, or fair pay? I dont think so. "But they support democrats" democrats are right wing.

Adding to this and u/Starskeet people should watch all of Adam Curtis' documentaries like Century of the Self.

Through in Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, Antonio Gramsci collected works, Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism and the granddaddy of it all Edward Bernays' Propaganda.

It's freeing in a nihilist sort of way.

Sure, kid.

Civic democracy literally can't exist when wealth is that concentrated.

yes. but nothing you are allowed to notice.

Do you even know how spending works or do I have to explain our entire legislative system to you? It doesn't come out of a budget. That's. why it needed serval pieces of legislation. All of which passed easier than legislation that helps people.

There is no left media. It is right wing and extreme right wing.

It's not experimental and then there is legit questioning and "just asking questions".

If it starts with some Ievel of secrecy, does it stop being a conspiracy when it's documented and discussed?

It's almost like one party was just fine with antitrust and representation laws, while another was about maximum deregulation except when minorities also get to enjoy any benefit.

Who do you mean?

That's a good point.

> Does something stop being a conspiracy when it's documented and discussed?

When it's being done in the open from the beginning? Yes, because the key component of a conspiracy is that it's designed to be secret.

> Governments is tasked to break up companies like this.

The Government is tasked with protecting rich people from having to deal with poor people. Everything else is incidental, at least in the USA.

It also didn't come out of the healthcare budget, did it?

I feel like I'm constantly saying the same thing over and over again and you're just flat out ignoring it.

Every country has various "buckets" of budget. The US is not taking money away from infrastructure or firefighting to send it out to Ukraine, it's using the military budget or the emergency budget. Aid or not, you wouldn't see a difference.

You also wouldn't see a difference because MOST of the aid is in the form of equipment and not money. You can't build a hospital with a bunch of M777 howitzers, can you?

As for "why aid for your own people is not possible" - ask the Republicans who are consequently blocking all attempts at a more "for people" legislation.

I love people discussing this as if its relevant?

This is ten years old and the media landscape has dramatically changed.

Turns out all those conspiracy theorists trying to destroy the media weren't doing it to bring us truth but to push more lies.

Conspiracy involves at least some level of secrecy, otherwise it's just a pact

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DOD contracts are fraught with bloat and inflated bids