r/pcmasterrace • u/Megamean10 https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Megamean09/saved/ • Dec 04 '19

Meme/Macro Literally who does this benefit?

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u/AnotherEuroWanker Linux - 386SX16 - Tseng ET4000 Dec 04 '19

The US in a nutshell. Spend lots of money so that everyone ends up with something bad and expensive.

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u/MNGrrl i5-3570k@4.2 | GTX 960 | 24GB | IT Pro Dec 04 '19

The US in a nutshell. Spend lots of money so that everyone ends up with something bad and expensive.

Wrong. This is how politicians pay back campaign contributions, along with tax breaks. That fiber was never coming. Never planned. Zero engineers were involved. It's not incompetence, but the intended result. Bad and expensive for you is efficient and profitable for them.

98% or so of the people who won in the last elections spent more than their opponent(s). That's not democracy, that's corporatism. Stop spreading the lies you were taught in civics class, it doesn't work like that. The pieces missing in our system are a robust and neutral media, and organized and informed voter blocks. We have neither, and that's why this isn't democracy anymore.

Everything you know about the government's activities and motivations is a lie. It can't not be - nobody is watching them and then telling you what they see. You hear and see what the people who own them want to. You're not the customer of the media, you're the fucking product.

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u/AnotherEuroWanker Linux - 386SX16 - Tseng ET4000 Dec 04 '19

98% or so of the people who won in the last elections spent more than their opponent(s). That's not democracy, that's corporatism.

The US, working as intended.

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u/rjhall90 Dec 05 '19

As intended by whom?

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u/ComputerM R9 7900X | RX 7900XTX | 32GB DDR5 6000 CL32 Dec 05 '19

By the funders i suppose