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@mrsaturday @sendpaws cf. hollerith (now IBM) built the records machines. They still run the databases that back Palantir and adjacent programs.

Literally the same goddamn company, doing the same job.

@subnetter @sendpaws i want to take a moment to point out AIPac openly brags about selecting every chair in congress. now imagine if there was a RuPAC and Putin came out and bragged about it. There would have been screaming from the rooftops.

@sendpaws "release evidence of international child molestation and maybe don't do foreign wars" being ejected from congress with record funding from ethnocentric groups does not give very many charitable interpretations.

@sendpaws basically if you're in the USA and you say "i want to do $literallyanything" and just start trying to do it, you run in to invisible malregulation walls everywhere. in India they're just blatently bribe seeking, in the states its a little better hidden. It's still rent sought and lobbied to fuck and back, it's just that only business owners SEE it, so normies are allowed to believe it doesn't happen.

we see this a lot here with like EPA malregs that ban an american from making any kind of pollutant (it's impossible to manufacture without any pollution) but the tariff policy doesn't selectively cut by compliance, so it basically just takes american manufacturing behind the woodshed.

@sendpaws basically we have known fail states which are few but well identified

- when food costs more than about 50% of day wages, peasant revolt is guaranteed
- when privileges are granted and summarily revoked, riots are very likely

its basically a long con of measuring out how much you can take back at a time, normalizing it, and repeating, the "boiling the frog" strategy, where by the time a resistance forms they implicitly accept most of your control anyway (they're arguing to undo your latest power grab, not that your entire paradigm of control was never valid to begin with)