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The rest of the world: oh my god

I think any European politician who said anything remotely close to this would see their careers instantly over. How is it possible that saying something like this doesn’t cost them votes in the US?

Land of the free

Again, I’m European so I can’t be sure about this, but I think some of those issues are worse because of the scale, not the thing itself. The entire healthcare system is private—if all prisons were too, I think that would be much worse than the healthcare situation.

As for politicians, up until this election cycle, they at least had the decency to pretend. From now on, we’ll see what happens.

In the Southeast of America a judge was fairly recently convicted of sending underage boys to a private prison in exchange for kickbacks from that prison. He had been doing it for over a decade. And that’s just one that made the news.

It is obvious that something like this would happen. You cannot create a system with perverse incentives and expect the good faith of those who participate to keep it clean. It is exactly the opposite of the spirit of the American revolution (and the rest of democratic revolutions)

As a European, I wonder what kind of dystopia the concept of a “private prison” fits into. I don’t understand how anyone could have imagined that this would end well.

!nottheonion@lemmy.world I think here they are stealing your news

Not always. I’m from Spain, and you can read about how our dictator Francisco Franco ended his life (spoiler alert: his regime lasted from 1939 to 1977).

Unfortunately, the real world is not like a movie where wars are always won by those who defend the most just cause.

I would like to leave this here as a warning, because it seems relevant to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

By overcompensating for the past, Germany is siding with the genocidaires. And the problem is that it’s dragging the Union down, preventing a joint response.

The competent and passionate people can do that, can you point out someone competent and passionate involved at some point in the development of this film?

Yeah, sure, making a movie is hard work and deserves recognition, but when you tell me that a film like Bortherlands, for example, was ruined by the executives, I can believe that. However, if you tell me that behind Madame Web there was a creative team with great ideas and that the executives were the ones who ruined it… well, honestly, I don’t buy that. Especially because no creative had any real input on the movie at any point—it was 100% decided and driven by the executives.

It was a film about Madame Web, there is no universe in which that could have a good script at any point of its production. It was evident from the same idea that it was a bad idea

But did she read the script before accepting the job or did she just see the check? Because it’s true that it wasn’t her performance that ruined the movie, but I think the disaster was coming long before filming even started.

The fascist is the one who contains people in arrest fields. The hyper capitalist who closes food programs for the poorest

From essentially always. The Eastern Indies Company may be the first clear example. Ultra capitalists squeeze the State whenever they can preach that others should prevent the smallest subsidy

This could lead us to a complex discussion about ideology but I believe that Musk is rather an ultra capitalist (what we call ultra liberal in Europe) the repression of the State cares for shit, it only wants tax reduction and disappearance of regulations to the maximum. Trump is a more classic fascist, he wants repression and total control by the State (as long as he is the one who controls the State, obviously). The clash was inevitable, as I said before, reviewing the story will give you the answer

A fascist betraying the hyper-capitalist who supported him to defeat the left. If Musk knew more about history, he could have seen it coming.

I think this is going to turn into an interesting experiment about power and political power versus the power of money.

I also think that a fascist betraying the ultra-capitalists who financed him to overthrow the left is something I think has happened before. Maybe if Musk knew more history he would have seen it coming.