This certainly explains why certain "think tank" types are on so frequently. It's their job to be always available.
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/cia-world-factbookThe death of the CIA Factbook and Trump's war on usefulnessWherever government does something helpful, the regime wants to kill it."Wherever government does something helpful, the regime wants to kill it."
Sums it up perfectly.
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Yesterday we had some elderly people over for our bday and at some point we talked about billionaires and how they should not existPeople who started out in the boom years before the Reagan/Thatcher reaction, when taxes on the rich prevented the emergence of billionaires and there was funding for social goods and services, have lost perspective. It's the baseline fallacy: they just assume what they had is normal.
And admitting things are different now would mean acknowledging that all the reactionary tax cuts and roll-backs of social benefits they voted for were at the expense of others. It would mean they were selfish. Not intentionally, of course: but they bought the BS.