The US is becoming a hollow state in which oligarchic factions wield the machinery of government to funnel money into their coffers via bloated military projects, mass incarceration in private prisons, regulatory capture, etc. Politics is pure kayfabe, team oligarch vs team state
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Replying to @eigenrobot @hikikomorphism
I don't think it was always like this, or at least not to this degree. not that everything was great in the past but that the particular form of hollowing out of the state seems to have begun in the 80s and accelerated continuously for the last ~35 years.
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incarcerated population corroborates this pretty elegantly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States …pic.twitter.com/h3S59wShg7
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Replying to @danlistensto @hikikomorphism
Hmm is this the state hollowing out or metastasizing tho Maybe both
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Part of it is that society went bugnuts back in the late 60's/early 70's and "tough on crime" got a major boost, resulting in sentencing getting WAY harsher in the 80's and continuing to date with few reversals.
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the timing isn't quite right on that. some kind of latency between first stirrings of backlash and implementation of backlash policies?
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Think it accelerated with a few moral panics in the 80s/90s. Crack babies, super predators, something something
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never forget that Bill and Hillary Clinton made their political careers by wearing a D pin while implementing backlash policies that ruined millions of lives
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Yep. Sadly it's not even in the top three most disgusting things about him, but it's easily in the top ten. A hypocrite of the highest order and an enemy to the poor and minorities that would make a Klansman weep in envy.
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top three 1. He's a serial rapist 2. He's a habitual liar 3. He's a petty grifter
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Replying to @danlistensto @legalinspire and
all three of those apply to Trump as well btw (as if that even needed repeating). Nixon was at least not a rapist.
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