It’s just what the evidence from pre-history through history supports.

The rich are the government - from local ‘big men’ style rulers, councils of nobles, mercantile empires from Assyria to the US, to local governments that serve property developers.

The history of the state is the rich working out ever more sophisticated ways of getting what they want without revolt.

Surely if anything it’s cynical rather than naive.

The most powerful in every society are the ones with the most resources and they’ve always been the ones with the free time to operate a government, which they use to pursue and secure their interests.

As far back as we have written and archaeological evidence of heirarchical institutions existing, they have been controlled by and on behalf of the rich and powerful.

I’ve got bad news for you, our government is already owned by the rich. Every government is. That’s the whole point of having a government, it’s how the rich control others.

It’s false and self serving to say all the good parts are patriotism and that’s what I do but all the bad parts are nationalism and that’s what they do.

All nation states are murderous vermin undeserving of respect. Holding any identity strongly - national, religious or ideological - can turn you into a destructive rube.

Welfare = black, poor people = whites.

Ding ding ding! We have a winner.

Disposable heroes of hiphoprisy have a great version about Pete Wilson.

This is not a problem for big ag. That’s why no regional or national ag-orgs are complaining. This is not a face eating leopard moment, sadly.

Campaneros still need to work. The pattern at the moment is they stay away for a few days after a raid, but then return. This benefits their bosses. Previously there were work stoppages to pressure bosses to raise the $/piece rate. Not now.

Plus the regime has promised to replace the workers lost to their ethnic cleansing campaign with an expanded H2a visa program - after having stripped away many of the already meager protections against wage theft.

The plantation lords know they’re getting cheaper, more exploitable labor.

There is no data to suggest that protest non voters swung the results and some recent data from Pew that they did not.

If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at Dems for choosing policies they knew in advance would supress turnout.

But again, this election was neither free nor fair. Only those who engineered this coup are responsible for it.

Personally, I blame the murderous fascists.

If we were a democracy then maybe it would make sense to blame the public. But our elections are a cesspit of corruption, vote buying, gerrymandering and rampant open illegality.

The public have had little to no relevant say in who forms a government for a few decades at least, probably since the 70s. It makes no sense to blame the public.

That’s more deaths than the Holocaust at a much early stage of fascism too. Of course that doesn’t account for inflation - 6m dead is closer to 20m with today’s total population.

But have no fear, this republican regime will do everything in their power to surpass their idols.

This regime is nothing but human trafficking tsars.

It’s an incredibly impressive feat, many will be glad to know the beaver is available.

This times a million. Nazis say some bullshit while trying to kill your grandma.

When I worked for a drug company one of my favorite past times was noting misuses of the word ‘innovation’ in meetings.

I’d write the correct word instead, so I’d end up with a list like: good, product, good, feature, good, good, selling point, progress, good, plan, good, good, good.

They’re part of a cell style right wing terrorist organization. trump regime.

she was taken to the border at San Ysidro, where she was presented with self-deportation paperwork.

“But when Juli refused to sign the paperwork, when Juli demanded to see a judge, when Juli demanded to speak to an attorney, she was punished,” the attorney said. “She was taken back to an unmarked van along with other travelers who were also insisting on their rights, and taken to a warehouse where she was only given water. A warehouse where she was not given food. A warehouse, where men and women were held together. A warehouse without any law enforcement employee, without any official there present,” he added.

We’re paying for this ethnic cleansing campaign. Tax dollars are going to abducting brown folks at gunpoint.

led crowds in chants of “free, free Palestine” and “death, death to the IDF” [The BBC said:] “The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable … " [Starmer said:] “appalling hate speech.”

“Free Palestine” is not antisemitic. Criticism of a nation state’s armed forces is not antisemitic. Especially when those armed forces are objectively committing genocide.

America loses

That’s exactly what trump wants.

A bag of big macs congealing on his desk, a victim of sex trafficking in his bed and some news on tv that will make putin happy.

[The police] identified an 18-year-old as the car’s owner. He was arrested on a warrant connected to a prior DUI charge from Denver.

What they didn’t get from the car’s owner was a confession…

“The story that was relayed to me was that the three people who were in the vehicle, all three claimed to have been too intoxicated to know who was driving,” said Johnson.

The 3 year statue of limitations was allowed to expire because the 18 year old car owner with a prior DUI claimed to be too drunk to remember if he was driving and his two friends said the same thing.