MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
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MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6d ago
UBI would likely be handled by the government so I don’t see the point. If distributions of this type cannot be handled without the corruption, then I see no reason to assume that the next government distribution schemes will do better.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6d ago
I mean to me the biggest hole in her hagiography is that nobody to my knowledge has ever tried to explain how the wonderful mother who dropped her kid off at school on her birthday ended up in her car blocking traffic and accosted by ICE agents to the point where she is trying to drive away. She clearly put herself there for some reason, and did so understanding that something was going down. So where is she getting that information? Why did she think she personally needed to be there? Why did she think to block traffic?
I suspect she’s a part of some larger group, one that sees itself as “the resistance”. And I think this is the real story— that a lot of people on all sides of the political spectrum are being radicalized and weaponized by groups of political activists pushing fear porn and the idea of them as “the rebellion” as in Star Wars. And until the swamp of radicalization is drained, there’s always a reserve army of ideologically possessed people ready to act on that perception of reality they’ve been fed in their echo chambers. It’s hard to do because the groups are generally smart enough to stay just inside the lines of acceptability while heavily implying the things that would drive people to actually go do something about the “bad guys” of choice. That’s what the fascism narrative is about — every child over four knows Nazis are evil, and has heard the hagiography of those who “resisted” — often with the costs removed. Calling someone a Nazi in the post WW2 era is like telling a bunch of medieval peasants that someone or some group desecrated the host at the church. The point is to create the hatred and ultimately the violence while keeping their hands clean by not saying “attack those people”.
I don’t think that changes things too much simply because politicians and those running the program have a great opportunity to create the grift. Maybe requiring proof of citizenship every X years, or rather than mail the checks or direct deposit require people to go to the office to pick up the checks all of which will require staffing. Maybe they will require proof that you are an upstanding citizen (required drug testing, proof you aren’t a felon, etc.) all of which provides ample room for graft. Maybe this can be kept low enough to be less than current day welfare and make-work projects, but I suspect it will end up being as bad.
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