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Treasury official is running the bailout. It’s been great for his family

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Re: Treasury official is running the bailout. It’s been great for his family

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Post by margalabargala »

gorbachev15 wrote: post #28
javert wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I concur, but coming from a more historical/legal perspective. The U.S. has always fundamentally been like the Central and South American countries, just with a thin layer of Lockean rule of law and property rights. That layer is quickly eroding. The U.S. will become more like Mexico or Argentina (for instance) over time. Love him or hate him, Trump did a lot to advance this timeline. You can see that his style is mu…

Politics is downstream of culture, and as the demographics of the country shift more towards those of Mexico or Argentina (for instance) we should not be surprised when our political climate reflects that.

If that were true, I would expect the demographics of the supporters of the current administration to be skewed towards immigrants, especially from Central and South America, and I would expect to see opposition to the current political climate from the demographics most culturally different from those- non-immigrant, white males.

But it seems to me the opposite is instead true. Are you perhaps suggesting the non-immigrant, white males supporting the current political climate look up to the immigrants as role models?

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Post by chance_state »

purplezooey wrote: post #9

Talks about draining the swamp, proceeds to swamp the swamp with more swampy swamp-dwellers.

>The cleverest trick used in propaganda against Germany during the war was to accuse Germany of what our enemies themselves were doing. [1]

It's one of the oldest tricks in the book. Somehow a billionaire who shits in gold toilets in a palace in NYC convinced a bunch of working people that he was on their side. Hilarious and sad.

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/37824/did-josep...

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Post by noad »

cosmie wrote: post #29
noad wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw an armored Mercedes car on the streets of Denver for the first time a couple years ago. I have seen dozens of them in Africa and Latin America, but it was a really depressing moment for me when I first recognized that in my home town. I think that people who are not well traveled are not even aware of this slide, but we have been moving towards becoming a highly stratified developing nation for 20 years now. Th…

Being in Denver, that particular example may be related to someone in the cannabis industry. The bank lockouts and cash build up that's common in that industry make individuals in it prime targets for robbery[1]. With extreme violence[2] involved in some cases, it'd make sense for those stuck in this situation to invest in things like an armored vehicle if feasible. While still a situation that's a direct result of a…

This had nothing to do with marijuana. They usually use GMC Suburbans + men with rifles, but sometimes you see Brinks armored trucks too. I am quite familiar with the weed trucks.

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Post by cosmie »

noad wrote: post #34
cosmie wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being in Denver, that particular example may be related to someone in the cannabis industry. The bank lockouts and cash build up that's common in that industry make individuals in it prime targets for robbery[1]. With extreme violence[2] involved in some cases, it'd make sense for those stuck in this situation to invest in things like an armored vehicle if feasible. While still a situation that's a direct result of a…

This had nothing to do with marijuana. They usually use GMC Suburbans + men with rifles, but sometimes you see Brinks armored trucks too. I am quite familiar with the weed trucks.

For actual money runs, yes. But as the personal vehicle for a successful marijuana business owner?

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Post by noad »

cosmie wrote: post #35
noad wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This had nothing to do with marijuana. They usually use GMC Suburbans + men with rifles, but sometimes you see Brinks armored trucks too. I am quite familiar with the weed trucks.

For actual money runs, yes. But as the personal vehicle for a successful marijuana business owner?

Why are you assuming that? You just really want to force weed into this story somehow, is that the prism through which you see the world?

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Post by CyberDildonics »

rthomas900 wrote: post #27
javert wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I concur, but coming from a more historical/legal perspective. The U.S. has always fundamentally been like the Central and South American countries, just with a thin layer of Lockean rule of law and property rights. That layer is quickly eroding. The U.S. will become more like Mexico or Argentina (for instance) over time. Love him or hate him, Trump did a lot to advance this timeline. You can see that his style is mu…

A Mexican friend, long living in the USA, told me how much the Trump family reminded him of corrupt elite families in Mexico: "The dad thinks he's above the law and constantly cheats on his wife. The sons wear their hair slicked back and boast about how good they are at business even though they've never done anything in life but sponge off their dad's companies. And the daughters think they are glamorous fashion mod…

You can see the same thing in thailand where the rural voters voted in a corrupt billionaire. Eventually his attractive daughter took over.

Re: Treasury official is running the bailout. It’s been great for his family

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Post by javert »

gorbachev15 wrote: post #28
javert wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I concur, but coming from a more historical/legal perspective. The U.S. has always fundamentally been like the Central and South American countries, just with a thin layer of Lockean rule of law and property rights. That layer is quickly eroding. The U.S. will become more like Mexico or Argentina (for instance) over time. Love him or hate him, Trump did a lot to advance this timeline. You can see that his style is mu…

Politics is downstream of culture, and as the demographics of the country shift more towards those of Mexico or Argentina (for instance) we should not be surprised when our political climate reflects that.

Yes, but that is an entirely separate phenomenon from the one I was raising.

Immigration is not the reason the U.S. is not losing the Lockean "rule of law and property rights" layer.

It's losing it because other ideas have come to predominate the intellectual landscape.

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Post by jessaustin »

cosmie wrote: post #35
noad wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This had nothing to do with marijuana. They usually use GMC Suburbans + men with rifles, but sometimes you see Brinks armored trucks too. I am quite familiar with the weed trucks.

For actual money runs, yes. But as the personal vehicle for a successful marijuana business owner?

Why would such a person need a different sort of vehicle than any other successful business owner?
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