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Cake day: July 25th, 2024

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  • I believe that what they’re trying to say is this: keeping a government running requires more than just voting for whoever you think will do a decent job every year or two, because it, ultimately, doesn’t matter what Hamilton, Locke, Madison, De Tocqueville and other influential philosophers of politics might have intended, because any system that is only checked once a year is a fragile system, prone to corruption. It requires constant maintenance, bug fixes, security updates, and independent reviews. It requires not only that every part of it has the light of day cast upon it, but that the people at every level actually look and act on what the light of day reveals.

    Whether you or the framers like it or not, the united states is no longer a representative republic. The people being elected are not representing the people. They are representing corporations, private interests and foreign oligarchs who pay them to give them the sweet meats of the treasury and leaving the ovens untended, but continuing to shovel the coals of our taxes into the ovens, because then they can make their own pies. The US government as it stands is committed to deregulation, to abandonment of all duty, and that laissez-faire attitude is by design, not of the framers or the people, but by the design of the corpocratic interests that have captured the government, media, and every other facet of our lives, including even our private actions and thoughts through a paucity of data privacy.


  • Thank you for your posts in this thread. Your work correcting these people is not unnoticed. They’ve got 300-year-old raw sewage in their basement, see their neighbour’s house has a black mold problem, and then when they find specks of mold in their kitchen, they scream that the neighbours have brought the plague. If they fail to clean their kitchen for one week, the rot will seep in to a degree that their neighbour’s house could never achieve, and it is only by the cleaning habits of a small minority of their household that the house remains livable, but the person screaming is too preoccupied with the spectacle next door to actually clean house. What, do they think that the person next door isn’t trying to clean? Next door is a much bigger house, and the sewage has started leaking through the now-septic foundations from the burst pipe in the screamer’s basement.


  • Bold to claim we had to export it. This is like someone saying “yeah, we’ve got black mold, but it obviously came from our neighbours, and has nothing to do with the raw sewage we’ve left in the basement for the last eighty years!”

    Literally none of those things first gained traction in the Americas. As a US citizen, I think we need to be doing a general strike with riots in the streets and shutting down interstate trade with our bodies marching on the highways.

    But you need to see to your own houses, because while the mold is running wild over here, it didn’t start with us.