corruption

To what extent is George Soros a political figure?

This post is a response to two questions posed in their complete formats as: Question 1: “To what extent can George Soros be termed as a political figure?” and Question 2: “Democrats, what would you say to a group of Republicans begging you to give them a chance to prove that they are good people?”

To no extent in “capital P Politics” and a limited extent in “small p politics.”

He mostly avoids public statements about politics, politicians, and political issues. He recently made a rare comment referencing tariffs as warfare when Trump began his tariff rampage, but that was the extent of his input.

It had bothered me for some time that he hadn’t been more vocal, but then I realized how anything he says can create massive ripples throughout the marketplace.

His voice is like Marvel’s Black Bolt from the Inhumans.

He has to be extremely careful about what he says publicly because a slip of the tongue can kill an entire industry and dramatically impact people’s lives.

It took me a long time to arrive at that realization and regret being so dense about it.

I wouldn’t want that kind of influence. It’s way too much stress and responsibility that few can handle, and even fewer can be trusted to handle it responsibly.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are excellent examples of being too incompetent to have as much power as they do.

He is a shadowy figure who quietly does what he can to leave a positive legacy for the world. That makes him a lightning rod for the toxic among us and an inspiration to those who value his contributions.

Question 2: What do you say to MAGAs who claim they are good people?

Stop begging and start doing.

Actions speak louder than words.

Republicans are being judged by their actions.

Remaining silent in the face of a fascist takeover of the nation is complicity with that fascism.

It doesn’t matter how much you beg, you’re still an ass, and a cowardly one at that if you don’t stand up and fight against it.

If you do that, you won’t need to debase yourself by begging. Grow a spine and take responsibility for the actions of the party you identify with.

Why do you think people are just as pissed off with the DNC?

It’s because they have been spineless while all this destructive nonsense has been happening.

People from all walks of life, except the privileged, demand a new world. The status quo can’t survive because we can’t survive it. We need to work together, and that includes the enraged MAGAts who need to stop attacking their neighbours and start demanding changes from the monsters they admire.

After all, you can’t seriously be okay with being told that you’ll have to cut back on buying dolls for your kids this Christmas, and then be OK with Mango Mussolini getting a half-billion-dollar gift from the people who financed the 9/11 tragedy to jet around the globe to visit his branded properties.

No one who can accept those two conditions can be a good person. Only a coward and a hypocrite who refuses to protect their family could accept that. If you want to be seen as a good person, then it’s time to do the right thing, not the Reich thing.

Why don’t they outright ban loopholes in modern law?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Why don’t they outright ban loopholes in modern law? I get how humans are, and how literal laws can be, but still it’s like it doesn’t account for human nature and the laws written for robots.”

This question is like asking why can’t every bluish-coloured pebble of sand on a massive beach be removed.

Loopholes in law are bits of legal logic in which the language can be interpreted in multiple ways. At the same time, some of those interpretations constitute an escape from consequences, also known as a “technicality.”

The only things that can be done are to write laws in such ways as to make their interpretations as unbiased, neutral, and clearly defined as possible and to ensure the spirit of those laws is adequately conveyed within their construct.

Sadly, in a distorted environment where power imbalances influence the construction, application, enforcement, and rendering of decisions based on established statutes, loopholes are a feature, not a bug.

In the corporatocracy known as the U.S., loopholes are intentionally incorporated into laws to allow those with means an ability to access technicalities and avoid accountability for their actions. The highest court in the land has been deliberately shaped to serve the interests of power over and above the interests of the people. The Citizens United ruling would have been much different if that had not happened. The same is true of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

With an organization like the American Legislative Exchange Council, laws are written specifically to benefit the wealthy and disenfranchise everyone else.

ALEC Exposed

Unbiased and neutral laws are impossible to write and enforce within such a toxic and anti-justice environment.

You may get “how humans are,” but few Americans truly understand how dire their circumstances are. With this level of corruption throughout their “justice” system, Americans have no hope of restoring justice without the people mobilizing and “pulling an Iceland manoeuvre in the extreme.” Americans are now well past the point of achieving justice in a just society without severe chaos ruling the land long enough to cull the monsters responsible for the corruption.

In short, Luigi was just the first shot back across the bow by the little people quickly reaching their breaking point. There will likely be riots nationwide before Trump’s term has run its course. Sadly, he’s not the problem, but a symptom of the problem and attacking him won’t solve the core problems. In some ways, he’ll be doing the nation a favour by making it impossible for the people to ignore just how prevalent the corruption issue is.

The MAGAts intuit this on a visceral level, and they voted for the symptom of the problem to deal with the situation. Still, their support is very much like pouring gasoline on a fire to make the apathetic among the nation wake TF up and pay attention to the freedoms they’re allowing to erode and be taken from them.

It is mind-boggling, for example, to outsiders to see a nation struggle to rein in mass murders and establish universal health care. You’ve had movies indulging in revenge fantasies against the corruption, but few of you seem willing to commit yourselves to fixing it. You seem to have settled in with having your children attend school while fearing for their lives and pretending there’s nothing horrifically surreal about that.

Americans are way, way, way past the point of fixing a few loopholes to restore sanity to your nation.

Would hastening societal collapse do more harm than good?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Attempting to increase global problems to bring societal collapse sooner, would that do more harm than good?”

Societal collapse is, by definition, the most harm that can be done.

It may seem like the easiest way to address the rampant corruption we see today, but there is no guarantee against a new and next-generation form of corruption taking root in the ashes of the old. The odds are greater that a new form of corruption will be even more corrupt because they will have better learned how to protect themselves from reprisals.

If you look at the responses to Brian Thompson’s execution for crimes against humanity, there is no remorse being displayed by the monsters among us. They feel righteous anger at having been assaulted so violently.

Their response to a situation where their victims strike back is to hunker down with increased security measures.

They learn nothing from random acts of violence.

It may be the case that destroying all of them at once will eliminate the currently most powerful of the corrupt among us. There are always new generations following who are eager to outdo their forerunners.

Indeed, this generation of corruption defining the ownership class is a case study of learning from their prior mistakes. It is precisely why they have essentially co-opted all media.

The best thing we can do is build from where we are while learning to embrace values and contribute to solidifying the social contract we share.

We must stand up against the corrupt in whatever way we can. We must also be evident in our statements so that the world understands how violence is treated as a last resort after all other options have been exhausted. This is the only way to minimize the destruction of everything we have built together. This is the only way to preserve and protect the best of what we want for our society and our children’s future.

From Marvel’s Loki Series

Is Elon Musk evil or corrupt?

This post is a response to a question posed in its full format as follows: “Is Elon Musk evil or corrupt? I tend to admire people that take their money and build something of value.”

Elon Musk is a typical human born into a life of privilege and who happened to be smart enough to leverage that privilege into such a degree of wealth that it allowed him to free up restraints on the ego that drove him to that wealth.

This phenomenon occurs because humanity has no overarching vision that unites us and that we all consciously strive toward in everything we do.

Far too many are still at the toddler stage of “I’ve got mine, eff you,” and our culture of wealth worshipping exaggerates the sort of narcissism we see running rampant everywhere.

Musk, Bezos, and an appalling list of etceteras got wealthy because that’s what they valued, not because they dreamed of using that wealth to better humanity. The people working on the betterment of society are mainly working on shoestring budgets while relying on closely-knit relationships with others who believe in the potential of what they’re doing.

Those are the invisible creators throughout society that people with privilege — the sharks among us love to feed on and claim credit for their creation. It is like a pattern Musk’s fanboys should be able to spot now due to their knowledge of him, but they somehow fail to see the obvious.

The consequence of this worship mentality is that we no longer view the wealthy as we view other human beings. The rich and powerful acquire, along with their materiality, a perception of superiority as a human who magically transcends human failings.

They don’t, but we see evidence of an analogy that money is like salt for food; it magnifies what was already there.

We haven’t come to grips with the implications for us as a species because of this particular blind spot we have cultivated through millennia of worshipping imaginary super/extra/meta humanoid beings as paternalistic avatars for our species.

We are groomed from childhood to worship, which comes naturally through trust between a parent and child. That depth of connection between humans is what defines humanity. For a species that has arisen from a history of barbarism, it’s not surprising to see relics of that bonding psychology in play to serve as the uniting vision for a culture we lack as a species.

This blind spot we have and this compulsion to worship wealth and power have been coming at a cost that nowhere near enough of us can yet see. Those who do are freaking out because of the eerie similarities the fawning behaviour he receives has with cult members. Being a fan is one thing, but abandoning all reason to avoid critical analysis and engage in a blind defence of antics that are blatantly self-serving nonsense only shows that it’s not Musk that’s a problem; it’s us.

We still haven’t gotten to that stage where we understand the meaning of “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — however, if we don’t get our environmental issues under control, we won’t have a choice but to believe unlimited wealth in the hands of too few is too much of a threat to the future of our species to allow it to continue without ensuring it halts immediately via guillotine.

Those who still don’t get it should ponder the wisdom of establishing an entirely new industry catering to the wealthy that will be responsible for the most significant environmental damage from a single human activity than all others, and that’s the amount of carbon pumped into our atmosphere to lift a ship into our outer atmosphere for ego boosting junkets for the pampered class.

They’re already responsible for the lion’s share of lifestyle contributions to our environmental issues, and no one is crying foul about their latest space penis ventures.

They’re not necessarily “evil” (even though Bezos does a tremendous job of being convincing in that area); they’re just self-serving adults with power who have the emotional development of children.

The consequences of failing to restrain power will undoubtedly be considered “evil,” but all of us will evenly share the blame.

Is capitalism simply the human nature of “survival of the fittest”?

This post is a response to a question posed in its full format as follows: “Is capitalism simply “survival of the fittest” in humans, and just an explanation of human nature instead of an ideology?”

No. Capitalism is a system of exchange of value.

The toxic competitiveness that becomes defined as “survival of the fittest” is a human mental illness that perverts a life-saving, poverty-destroying system into a weapon of mass destruction serving their selfish whims.

Capitalism is not the problem, and the sooner we stop blaming abstractions, the sooner we can solve the issues that are being made worse with a tool like capitalism.

Capitalism is only one tool in a kit of corruption wielded by corrupt humans who destroy lives while seeking dominion over all others.

Another tool is our political system, and it’s being just as corrupted as capitalism.

Yet another tool being corrupted by vile creatures resembling humans is our justice system.

Our systems are corrupted by corrupt human beings seeking only one end: dominion.

The problems that have persisted throughout human history have always been the same: an evil obsession with power.

We are facing the threat we have always faced — power.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The only way out of the mess we are creating is to attack power, to disempower consolidations of power.

The only solution to the threat of concentrated power is to spread power throughout the globe and all of society — to share in power as equally as possible.

This is why democracy exists today, in whatever hobbled form it does.

This is why democracy is necessary for our survival as a species.

We must always find concentrations of power as threats to our existence and properly distribute power throughout the masses.

Everywhere power is concentrated, it is an enemy of the people and of the progress toward achieving our potential as a species. Institutions, industries (particularly multinational), and organizations of all stripes must be converted into democratic institutions.

We cannot continue to allow autocratic institutions to increase their power because their endgame is always dominion.

Spreading power to create democracy everywhere and in all things necessitates equipping the unskilled, the undereducated, and the under-developed with the knowledge and capacity to handle their increased personal power properly.

For this reason, we must learn to value education on such a level that we view it as the lifeblood of our existence as a species. Without it, we die.

Human nature craves education, even among those who hold educational institutions in disdain, because no one is oblivious to the value of learning something that makes their life even better.

Anyone in a position of teaching others knows that education is the link in the chain of our human existence as we pass on what we have learned from others to a future that stands upon generations of shoulders before them.

The light of awareness glowing within the mind of someone who has just learned something valuable is the most priceless treasure one can experience while passing on the most priceless gift one can give another.

Capitalism is a tool that can and has lifted us out of poverty, and we, the people, must take back control of capitalism to shape our future for the betterment of all and not solely for the few.

We must wrench the wheel of capitalism from the hands of those corrupted by its power and return it to its rightful owners — we, the people.