• hector@lemmy.today
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    The police are just the tool of the oligarchy though. This all stems from a group of the rich that cooperated on a long game to take over the country, to undo the gains of the working class, and return the country to what they saw as the glory days of the gilded age. They aren’t as smart as they think they are though and will land us in the feudal ages, time travel is tough. And be destroyed by the monster they created.

    But in 1971 the business roundtable made the first iteration of a long game to subvert the republic, and project 2025 is basically the newer version of that. They agreed to destroy any opposing forces like unions, infecting them with organized crime and federal investigations and bad media coverage, to take the media, to corrupt the regulators, capture both political parties, corrupt academia and the inflation rate itself, the unreported biggest coup of their, giving us a pay cut every year as 50 plus decades of understated inflation has eroded our buying power and handed that to investors by default, without the sheep suspecting a thing.

    Anyway part of that plan was pushing The Fear of the other in the crime waves, which I’m sure they helped make worse, as the CIA certainly didn’t help importing cocaine to street gangs in the nicarauga contra, and that’s just one of the ones we know about. They gave unqualified support to law enforcement, and rewrote laws broadly enough to give them the discretion to charge anyone with draconian life ending charges if they want to.

    It’s all by design, of the rich, now super filthy rich.

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        Soon they will do end runs (moreso) around the prohibion on debtor’s prisons and start locking people up for private debts again I bet, and it will evolve into indentured servitude, and being illegal to quit your job if you owe money on a plan, out on agreement with the lender.

        Over ten years ago Utah did this already, sharks would buy distressed debt in the state for pennies on the dollar, unrecoverable debt, company sells 1 for .1 or whatever. They then file suit in the big city, in salt lake even as the defendant may live on the other side of the state. When they don’t show up to court they get default judgement, and they get the judge to hold them in contempt, either right then and or later in a collection action. The judge has them held for I forget up to 90 days or something, if they pay they get released, or work out a deal with the claimant. After they are released they can just file another collection action. They get bills for being in jail too but that’s another story.

        Owing money to the state already gets you locked up, they treat everyone as choosing not to pay not that they don’t have the money. But people will claim to be owed money, maybe even medical debt they buy for pennies on the dollar, and use it to enslave people, on the road we are heading.

        That is just for starters, before they bind everyone to their jobs after people walk off their jobs en masse as they don’t pay for life any longer. Unless something changes here and it sure appears we are trusting the establishment to run the opposition so nothing will change and it’s a little late anyway and a hundred times harder now anyway.