Re: RE: Re: Job Offer

On 3/21/2025 1:58 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Tue Mar 18 20:03:33 2025 Jeff Liebermann  wrote:

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 07:50:15 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:
(chomp)

But mankind seems to "want" a leader. Even very primitive clans in New
Guinea.

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Yep.  Some of the worst dictators were hatched during times when
things looked grim.  Economic depressions, wars, droughts, invasions,
plagues, crop failures, etc all provide real or potential dictators as
a solution to the problems.
"Just give me control of everything and I'll fix everything".
Whatever the cause, bad times seem to give the people a reason to give
power to dictators instead of allowing the chronically ineffective
committees to hammer out a workable compromise.
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What I find amusing is how the US leadership is using such problems to
promote their agenda.  Going into 2024, the economy was in good shape,
unemployment was tolerable, inflation was a problem which could be
solved and there was no crisis available that needed a dictator to
solve.  The Trump/Musk solution was to create a crisis that only a
genuine dictator could solve.  They begin to dismantle the federal
government in the name of "efficiency".  They continue to destroy the
federal government until it is completely ineffective (and therefore
efficient).  In other words, they create a situation from which only a
fearless leader can save the country.  Of course, the only available
dictators available are Trump and Musk who will surely offer their
services to fix the problems they had caused.
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Or maybe the individual states secede from the union in disgust and
form their own independent states.  Instant balkanization.
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Wake me up when the nightmare is over:
<https://logwork.com/countdown-h5o4>

    Give us some more comical comments. MOST of government departments were invented ONLY to give a good paying job to some senator's brother-in-law. Ain't it a shame that is ending? Literally hundreds of millions of Ukrainian money has been traced back to the Democrat congress people. Give countless billions of dollars to the Ukraine and make yourself rich in the process. Ain't it a shame that the Attorney General is going to prosecute these creatures?

Both major* parties are huge, old, and wildly diverse. Neither is inherently more moral than the other.
One might intuit that the Democrat party is more corrupt from noting that frequency of convictions and volume of public monies diverted are larger. Then again, it may also be that Republicans are just better at not being caught. I don't know, and you don't either.
There certainly are some smallish number of honest people in both parties. Good luck finding which ones; that's just the inverse problem of finding whose fingers are in the till.
*When the Libertarians or the Communists or the Greens or the Socialists or whoever get enough political power, they will attract apparatchiks who will steal too.
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