I work for the government, so I happen to be an expert for this topic. I will thus add my take on this.
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH... lol no.
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Hey wait a minute... I work for the government, and I don't remember seeing you at the meetings.
People need to realize that not everyone that sees things differently than you is malicious. Some people truly just don’t understand or see what’s going on around them. A large part of the reason America is so divided right now is because people with different viewpoints can’t/wont talk to each other and come to an understanding of why each party believes what they believe. Most people have more in common than they realize, and not everyone on the other side wants to see half of the world burn. Some people do, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a fraction of the majority.
And it takes 8 beers?
ikr I'm 7 years sober and ready to throw molotovs lmfao
Used to be you thought you could trust the government and they pulled shit like the Tuskegee Experiment.
Now you actually can perversely trust the government. Just pick the shittiest thing you think they can do, make it worse than that, and they’ll do it. No secrets. They can’t keep them.
That was a short lived trust. Go back further and you had things like the Boer War, even further all the medieval wars of conquest in Europe. It used to be that medieval peasants had just as much to worry about with their own “friendly” soldiers as with the enemy soldiers, since both sides in a war would pillage the countryside in order to gather food and resources for the army.
Trusting the government is a modern invention. In some cases it’s justified, but it should never be an unconditional trust.
The best sort of trust comes from knowing what the incentives are for all parties involved. If everyone is behaving rationally, then you can trust those whose incentives align with your own. One of the big issues we have right now is an outbreak of extremely irrational and erratic behaviour.
That's a good point
Ah the government, my oldest and most trusted friend! -Nobody
My family: "Politicians are so full of hot air that we could use them to solve the energy crisis!"
Also my family: "Did you hear what that politician said? It's so great, I'm glad they've got their priorities straight!"
Of course liars are only lying when they're saying things I don't like! They're definitely telling the truth when I want them to!
Eh, people still trust the police in circles wider than piefed. Imo police are the armed wing of the government
They are the boot
I don't need any beers to start a counter to that discussion. Fuck the government
Reverend insanity read like a highschool murderhobo novel, but they were rightly pragmatic on all governments and organizations being about accumulating resources to the top.
30 on 30
True story!
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