On Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 2:36:06 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
I am not concerned with gretaness. Then make the list less "gretaness" again. I am concerned with survival. Our ability to survive as a nation state declined under King Joey. The trust you claim, only ran one-way. The Europeans protested the install of the Pershing missiles after the USSR installed SS20's. They danced to the tune that benefited the CCCP. Today? They dance to Qatari cash which Europe is flush with, all the time expecting us to fight Putin for them. Incongrience here. The export import imbalance was a thing by the wealthy to max profit and min loss. It has failed for the rest of us. Now? We will see if Don's hardball works for us or not? If not we can always go back to the Socialist International crap. Chill with the straw men and make some attempt to engage in discussion instead of the whataboutism deluge. It makes your position seem - what's the Maga term for this again - ah yes "weak". Nobody reasonable would dispute your concern about fraud or waste—whether it’s in USAID, EV chargers, or anywhere else. Misuse of public funds should be exposed and corrected. The fact that you think that "team progressive" is walking around trying to defend fraud and waste... I admire the openness but you're proving with every post how you'll believed any contrived, out-of-context statement. Fraud and waste do matter. But let’s be real about scale and focus. A few bad actors siphoning $6 million or a poorly executed rollout of EV chargers should be criticized. But these stories are small fires compared to the inferno of wealth transfer the US continues to quietly normalized. Trump's 2017 tax cuts handed $1.9 trillion to the top income brackets. His businesses profited directly from government travel and campaign events. COVID relief saw hundreds of billions flow to corporations that laid off workers anyway. So the question isn’t: “Is waste bad?” Of course it is. But you lack belief in your own judgement and ability to question, instead always paroting your MAGA media consumption. Because why not ask: "Why am I only being fed/parotting outrage when it’s helping someone poorer than me?" Because let’s face it: a lot of this fraud-flavored outrage isn’t about corruption. It’s emotional bait. It’s algorithmically optimized to tell you that someone somewhere—immigrant, aid recipient, poor foreigner—is stealing your money. But you’re not supposed to get angry when a billionaire parks your tax refund in the Caymans or buys back stock with bailout money. That silence? That’s designed. And your whataboutism propagates it. And then we come to the word you use: survival. If we really mean “survival,” then it has to mean systems-level thinking: infrastructure, education, housing, energy, clean air, economic dignity. Not just here—but abroad too. Because starving kids/parents don’t stay put. Collapsing states become migratory pressure points. Survival means reducing the instability that breeds collapse, and that’s what public investment and foreign aid should do—when managed well. And that leads to the heart of it: relevance and responsibility. The problem isn’t that aid or green tech investments are fraudulent. It’s that you don't demand better from those with actual power. If you believe in accountability, then start asking: Why is it that corruption at the bottom enrages you, but corruption at the top earns loyalty, cults of personality, and silence? If you're serious about national survival, then start demanding returns from the real beneficiaries of this privileged system built around the dollar: the hedge/investment funds, the monopolies, silicon valley, the families with dynastic wealth. And if they scream “class war,” why not let them? They’re cleaning the floor with you guys; dominating you up to the flavor/direction of your outrage as I demonstrate here. Helping people isn’t the problem. Mismanaging it isn’t an excuse. Worshipping power while punching down is exactly what your dreaded elite wants you to do: Sit around online and post your outrage instead of getting ahead by asking the those with the resources/influence where your cut is from the Dollar privilege and global financial dominion. That would get you your hydrogen car but I don't think you even want that. You'd rather cling to your obviously engineered outrage and continue whataboutism. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/098c5b21-3d97-4f2f-8fb5-91199c603e23n%40googlegroups.com.
