Whenever a system is set up to allow corruption, it becomes corrupt. This ought not to surprise anyone, since it’s pretty obvious that the people who set it up to become corrupt planned it that way.
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Whenever a system is set up to allow corruption, it becomes corrupt. This ought not to surprise anyone, since it’s pretty obvious that the people who set it up to become corrupt planned it that way.
What is a legitimate state? If you’ve been with this blog for the last couple of years, you’ll probably have encountered that question in a variety of forms. [stderr] It’s not as simple as it seems.
Here’s a candidate rule: any time you see an organization trying to enforce its own system of justice and discipline it is because:
When the media report on police crimes, they still use credulous language. What does that say?
Warning: Unsettling, Death, Gore, Cops killing people
Corporatism favors the rights of corporations ahead of those of their customers; right now we’re in the middle of a complex shouting-match regarding what companies like Facebook can decide to provide to marketing partners; are we trusting them too much with our data? Are they going to handle it responsibly? What makes people imagine that companies are not going to immediately have a strategy meeting and ask, “what is the worst thing we can do with our customer data? Because: let’s do that!”
US citizen Otto Warmbier died after 17 months in North Korea, during which he was abused, ignored, exposed to cold and not fed.
What if your “good guys with guns” turn out to be the Keystone Kops?