• CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day ago

      But that would mean that the not-quite-fascist conservative establishment would also face consequences for corruption, and we can’t have that because the not-quite-fascist conservative establishment are the good guys that protect you from evil communists, you know?

      (/s, just in case)

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        i find it frustrating how unaware the centrists are that they’re absolutely going up against the wall, just like the rest of us. but they’d rather have cushy jobs than not get executed

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      The issue is not that there are no people who know what the right thing to do would be. It’s that those people don’t end up in powerful-enough positions.

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        24 hours ago

        That’s clearly by design, too 😐 who could possibly give up all the time and money and has the amount of influence and power to get there in the first place? All the real money is centralized in the wrong hands at this point, and they will gladly gatekeep