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Funny how much the internet influenced by the crazy dot.com bubble and investment community solicitations turned into a huge monopolies for Amazon, PayPal, Apple/MSFT, Social Media companies --- all aligned with the mysterious myth of innovation and progress when actually they were mining our data, pushing out competition, and getting the US public addicted to massive amounts of debt, consumer product, technology, and conditioning the public for inflated prices in healthcare, housing, education, and food.

At some point, I think we have to see this country and its leadership as giving a big middle finger to the average person all over the world. And there will always be some asshole like David Corn who says this all could have been avoided if people had been smarter and voted for Hillary. What a steaming pile of revisionistic blackmail.

And now, as was so predictable, the reversal of Roe v Wade will cause the biggest Kabuki theatre of political pretend since "Wag the Dog". Democratic establishment figures don't care about Roe v Wade, they are too busy having to fund raise. It's a non-issue for them.

In the larger picture, we have witnessed failure at every level government: the failure to really fix the financial crisis in 2012, Obama's gambit not to install his own supreme court judge when he had a chance, the foreign wars in Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen, the constant onslaught of coups/regime overthrows by the CIA/US foreign policy makers, and the total inability of either party to deal with a pandemic that has killed over 1 Million people (without much reverence for the people who have died in the last 3 years due to CoVid), and this open display of miasmatic corruption (not to mention cryptocurrencies, NFT's, and the downfall of the dollar hegemony due to self-inflicted sanctions on Russia) can only be seen as the final embers of empire.

We should collectively find a way to punish their bank accounts, but also make it very clear - F U to elite decision makers in this country.

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