Woulda been a lot more symbolic if he hadn’t defended Kanye and said he wasn’t changing agencies literally two days ago, until everyone else started jumping ship.

It’s worth nothing that two days ago Brown was questioned about this and doubled down on staying with Ye. It wasn’t till adidas and Aaron Donald bolted that he decided to finally jump on the bandwagon. For anyone taking notes, he rode the “support Kanye” bandwagon until it was pretty much career suicide not to, then jumped ship to the new “fuck kanye” bandwagon. This dude is a clown and doesn’t deserve any praise.

Boxer is close enough

Cuz they saw Mars Attacks

Whose gonna pass the anti corruption laws by the way? The corrupt congress we have who are lining their pockets with the current system? We can’t even pass term limits for these idiots… if you think they’re going to vote against their personal best interests then you’re wrong. If you’re not speaking about the USA in this argument then it’s probably apples to oranges.

What law is going to stop the decision maker from giving a high dollar contract to his unqualified buddy? He’s the decision maker for a reason. The buddy doesn’t have to pay him directly as a kickback, they can offer benefits or disguise shit thru shell corporations etc. Adding more people to the government payroll isn’t going to stop that… replacing the current ones with competent/honorable people might, but good fucking luck with that. The only option is to make it so the only things the government is involved in are things that they MUST be involved in, leave the other shit to the market to handle. It will. If someone is gouging people for a service then someone else will come along and undercut them to get the business. That model works a lot better than the government stealing a bunch of money from its citizens and then blindly shelling it out to buddies of the decision makers. PPP loans are no different if you want a more recent example. We could form committees to make these kinds of decisions but look at the Supreme Court… the most “honorable” group in the land is a fucking shit show. Government is not the answer here.

Nobody has shown “time and again” that privatization leads to more issues by the way… that statement is false. Show me 3 examples where the government handled something better than a private company could. I literally don’t think you can find one example in the US.

The problem is more inefficiency and idiocy than it is corruption. Laws don’t make the government understand business or industry or do things in an efficient manner. They paid $300 million to design a fucking website (healthcare.gov) which was buggy and didn’t do what it was supposed to do for most of the first year it was live. If that contract had gone to someone with actual experience building such a website, that cost would’ve been much lower and the functionality would’ve been much better. It’s still a shitshow that functions on the level of Geocities. Apply that efficiency and expertise to any problem, and that’s what you’re getting with the government handling it.

I’m fine with limited government. Busting monopolies and handling roads and shit like that. I just do not agree that the government is the answer to every problem. The government cannot do ANYTHING efficiently. It’s like making a donation to the Red Cross thru some third party company that keeps 95% of the profit. The government will overspend and mismanage funds for every project it is involved in… if a private company can accomplish something without the government being involved, then absolutely the government doesn’t need to be involved. When their budgets are in the billions they stop caring about how they spend millions, and we end up footing the bill. Y’all wanna pass a bill for every issue that you think needs to be “solved”, and that’s just a naive way of thinking about things if you understand how the government works.

Are you aware that I’m not happy with that?

I pay for my own health insurance. If I ever need medical services, I’ll go get them, I don’t need other taxpayers to fund that. Fire brigades are funded by property taxes… people that don’t own property in my county aren’t forced to help pay for my possible fire needs.

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Edit: listen to the Fraggle Rock theme song you young bastards

When you say “governmental responsibility” what you’re actually saying is that it should be the responsibility of all working citizens to fund. Your mental health is not an expense that should be forced on me, sorry. Do what you need to do for yourself, but keep your hands out of my pockets in the process unless it’s something universal like roads. Just because I’m passionate about Fraggle Rock doesn’t mean I should be able to EFT money out of your account to pay for it so I can watch it. It’s just the concept… you’re making everyone pay for something that not everyone needs and you’re wondering why they’d be upset about that? When you pay taxes yourself one day I’m sure you’ll understand. Guess this comment makes me a Boomer, even though I’m under 40.