Putin’s Razor: Never attribute to self-own that which could easily be blamed on Russia.

Courtesy of COVID I feel like a frustrated spectator dealing with poorer memory, and brain fog when I reach the limits of a much reduced intellectual stamina.

I didn’t say brain dead, I said wilfully ignorant with words that included “brain”.

You lot are so practiced in misrepresenting the argument it’s like a flow state huh.

Come back Mitch, we need you for one last ‘vote’.

No answer to them being paid off by the same people because there cannot be one.

Give it a generation or three, but yes.

Companies that “haven’t gone evil” yet are like dynasties that aren’t ruled by a mad king, yet.

People die if they are killed.

Well met, the-answer-is-thought-terminating-cliche-what-was-the-question.

I hope you’re having a lovely day.

It’s not naive, it’s their excuse to switch their brains off.

If uncomfortable thoughts only come from faraway malicious others trying to undermine your “democracy”, you can dismiss them guilt-free.

Now you can simply drop a piece of paper in a box and call it good. Nothing scary needs to be done or considered to arrest the decade long freefall into overt fascism that you wait no stop you’re thinking again.

Ah, the classic thought-terminating strawman.

Now if I’m careful not to think about it, or look at their policies, or how the “”“left”“” party deals with popular upstarts, or how they respond to their constituents, I can imagine the two party system isn’t deliberately maintaining an Overton window far outside what any actual democracy would tolerate.

Let’s all just forget how many of these ghouls make sizeable contributions to both parties.

All the workers in the company, or all the workers, period?

Internal democracy within entities that still have the same rapacious, anti-social incentives against broader society as traditional businesses won’t get you far. At best it might slow down the process of turning those within into faithful heralds of the algorithm of capital.

The implicit admission that “out of sight, out of mind” is the first line of defence of thought control they’re desperately trying to maintain is too funny.

I love democracy.