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What's a low stakes conspiracy theory you believe?
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Public programs are purposely underfunded to make it easy for people to point to why they don’t work (the average person doesn’t think about/care whether they get funding), making it easier to continue the process of privatizing everything.
Many conspiracy theories aren’t actually conspiracy theories but a consequence of profit-driven motives that give the illusion of a conspiracy theory.
That's not even a conspiracy it's the explicit neoliberal plan
The first one is just political strategy, it's known as starve the beast
That's just observable facts.
That one's not even hidden
Hmm not sure I like the framing here, liberals are 100% culpable as well
And then you can make great use of absolute numbers over more contextualized relative numbers/ Here's a made up example:
$700 million / 300 million Americans = $2.33 per vaccination, insanely cheap. Less than you spent on gas tax getting to and from work today.
I'm always immediately suspicious when someone starts throwing around absolute numbers like that.
Self assured STEM dorks and their consequences
As someone who works with houseless folks this is absolutely without a doubt a thing. There are for profit companies springing up that do similar social services that I do, too, so the privatization part even applies. It's fucked
Yeah, afaik this is pretty widely acknowledged. Both the GOP and the Dems do it. The notable example I can think of is all the public housing projects the US grudgingly built in response to Soviet housing programs, then deliberately starved of resources to convince people they don't work.
Starving education of resources so it can be privatized has been ongoing program for decades. Everyone's in on it - Tech Billionaires wanted to control education so they could proletarianize coding and they largely won. Christian Fascists wanted Charter Schools so they could re-impose segregation. Democrats wanted to privatize everything so they could loot public education funds and divert the money to magnet and charter schools, while also stripping resources going to minorities. The whole purpose of property-tax funded education was to ensure that class was rigidly enforced.