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The whole gag to fascism is that it is 100% projection at all times, both internally and externally.
They attack people because they're afraid to get attacked and they can't imagine a situation where everyone isn't thinking exactly like them, so of course it's only a matter of time before they're attacked...and thus must attack.
It's circular and deeply uncreative, but it is the root of every bully, from the playground to the autocratic despot.
Or these people were murdered and they used the opportunity to target disinformation at Ukraine. It seems plausible. Fascists encourage cruelty, which tends to result in increased deaths, and Russia uses every opportunity to lie and obfuscate reality so they can point back to poorly written articles decades later and claim "both sides."
Yet another terrible thing about prisons - they target policing in urban areas where the population is high and tends to vote Democrat. Once arrested, tried, and convicted, that person is sent to a prison in the middle of nowhere - and now counts toward the population of that area, but cannot vote themselves.
Population is used to determine how congressional districts get allocated, and they haven't increased the number of congressional seats in decades. So as the prison population rises, they are gaining seats at the expense of urban areas losing the same number.
It's literally an updated version of the 3/5 compromise.
Dental is expensive, and it can have devastating impacts on health if it isn't taken care of or is done wrong.
It's also very ambiguous as to what is dental and what is medical. For example, I got a severe case of TMJ disorder suddenly. Doctor wouldn't do anything because it's "dental" and my dental insurance didn't cover it because it was the jaw, not the teeth, and therefore "medical." These distinctions date back to medieval roles - they didn't make sense then, they certainly don't make sense now, and we built two entire industries off of the made up distinction.
And also, grateful isn't a term that should be demanded of citizens when their government still has work to do. Good changes don't mean that more changes aren't needed.
Which is why police should be abolished and replaced. We need SWAT and cops with guns sometimes, but we don't need those people to be the primary mechanism and the primary decision makers.
What we consider police should be a small subsection of the public safety force that a modern society needs. Give us traffic monitors, mental health counselors, etc.
To me, the likelihood that Russia did everything right and Ukraine just fucked up, suddenly, and blew up a plane they knew carried POWs is very low.
More likely, one or a combination of: Russia made it up, or Russia lied about who was on the plane so that it would get shot.
Show the fucking receipts or shut up.
We already have school choice. You can send you kid to a public school. You can send your kid to any private schools, which often are treated much more lienently by the state. You can hire a tutor. You can home school. You can even do all of the above and then let them get a GED instead of a diploma.
What they want is not to pay taxes. That's it.
They already are. They worship the death of their God, ignoring all the stuff he said to do while he was alive. They won't engage in any common sense gun control. They worship the military while they're engaged in killing people, and then they demand those people continue to sacrifice their lives by underfunding and cutting benefits at the VA. They force births, but only to feed the machine with those bodies - once the kids are born, they try to stop them from receiving any benefits like food, medicine, or education - in large part to force them into the military or prisons where they can be controlled and used up.
Regressives the world over are not creative. They do what they do because they believe others will do it. They're bullies because they were bullied, and they don't want to be the victim, so they erroneously believe that means they have to strike first.
They never stop to think, "What if the world weren't shit? What can I do to make it better?" They accept as a fact that it is shit, and they believe the only way to come out ahead is to step on someone else.
When you get several of these people/groups pointing at each other, it becomes an infinite cycle.
Sounds like a similar premise to Childhood's End.