Money. Like radiation, it is in its way absolutely vital to the function of the system it occupies. Also like radiation, it utterly destroys and mutates everything it touches when introduced in the wrong amounts, in the wrong places.
The latest ruling of the Supreme Court cannot bode well for American civil society. Things were bad enough when they could only donate limited amounts of money to particular candidates. Now, in this single stroke, it has been made legal for corporations to spend, freely, as much as they like on advertising for political agents and actions. Considering the current practice of such advertising (Freudian manipulation to elicit exclusively emmotinal behavior) what horrors must now await us? Thinking of the irrational behavior and emmoting fostered by FNC, this sort of thing is only going to encourage more people to completely ignore reality in favor of what makes them feel good.
Jesus H. Fucking Christ, these are the same people who want to sell cigarettes with cartoon characters.
The latest ruling of the Supreme Court cannot bode well for American civil society. Things were bad enough when they could only donate limited amounts of money to particular candidates. Now, in this single stroke, it has been made legal for corporations to spend, freely, as much as they like on advertising for political agents and actions. Considering the current practice of such advertising (Freudian manipulation to elicit exclusively emmotinal behavior) what horrors must now await us? Thinking of the irrational behavior and emmoting fostered by FNC, this sort of thing is only going to encourage more people to completely ignore reality in favor of what makes them feel good.
Jesus H. Fucking Christ, these are the same people who want to sell cigarettes with cartoon characters.
I can officially say that I want (and need) to get the fuck out of this country.
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