Another Big Idea: Corruption by SIGNYM

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Another Big Idea: Corruption

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Saturday, June 27, 2026 14:19
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Friday, June 26, 2026 7:40 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Corruption is THE government/society- killer.

Just a placeholder for further ideas.

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Saturday, June 27, 2026 8:05 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

JD Vance comments about a president considered to be one of the most corrupt of all time. But, no, it wasn't Donald Trump. It was Richard Nixon, who, unlike Vance's boss, was never actually impeached but resigned before the House could vote on his charges.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/jd-vances-bizarre-comment
s-nixon-163632349.html

The vice president suggested that if the Watergate scandal that led to the end of Nixon's presidency happened tomorrow, "It would be like a 12-hour news story." He added, "The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, June 27, 2026 10:32 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Oh, I see.

You're fighting a war against Nixon.

He's dead, man.

Let it go.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Saturday, June 27, 2026 10:54 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

My idea of corruption goes beyond politicians personally enriching themselves. Maybe the term should be "parasitism": when the elite parasitize more than an economy can sustain.

But then, of course, I'd have to define "economy". MOST people, even supposed knowledgeable alt media commentators, routinely conflate financialism with the economy. Au contraire. Financialism is mostly just another form of parasitism.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Saturday, June 27, 2026 12:38 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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My idea of corruption goes beyond politicians personally enriching themselves. Maybe the term should be "parasitism": when the elite parasitize more than an economy can sustain.

But then, of course, I'd have to define "economy". MOST people, even supposed knowledgeable alt media commentators, routinely conflate financialism with the economy. Au contraire. Financialism is mostly just another form of parasitism.

I don't know where he got the term, but I always liked when Jimmy Dore called it "Predatory Capitalism". His all time biggest gripe is that for nearly all of us, it doesn't even matter what we make in life because the Healtcare Industry is going to take it all away from you when you die and leave you nothing to give your children.

We are way beyond post-capitalism. They dangle the carrot out in front of you by using the very few examples that ever get anything truly amazing done, but the chances that any of us are going to be successful business owners are so slim-to-none that it may as well be promises of being an astronaut or the President one day.

The vast, vast, vast majority of us are nothing but wage slaves at the end of the day. Quite a few of us voluntarily chose that too, making far more money than they'd need to at least be able to retire 20 or more years early, but they can't help themselves and have to buy all the new shit to keep up with the cool kids.

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Saturday, June 27, 2026 1:02 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I don't know where he got the term, but I always liked when Jimmy Dore called it "Predatory Capitalism". His all time biggest gripe is that for nearly all of us, it doesn't even matter what we make in life because the Healtcare Industry is going to take it all away from you when you die and leave you nothing to give your children.

We are way beyond post-capitalism.

Are you aware that this is a problem only in the US?

August 2009
Only in America: Bankruptcy Due to Health Care Costs
James E. Dalen, MD, MPH
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-93430900525-7/fulltext

The article by Himmelstein et al in this issue of The American Journal of Medicine documents that health care expenses were the most common cause of bankruptcy in the United States in 2007, accounting for 62% of US bankruptcies compared with 8% in 1981.2

Most bankruptcies occurred in middle-class citizens with health insurance, further evidence that our current health care system, based on for-profit, employment-based health insurance, is not working. Millions of Americans have limited access to health care because they cannot afford health insurance. Millions of others, such as those who have to file for bankruptcy because of health care costs, have inadequate health insurance. It is estimated that 1 in 5 Americans goes without health insurance or has inadequate health insurance.3

Why is the United States, one of the richest countries in the world, the only major industrial nation that is unable to provide access to health care to all its citizens? Are there any other nations whose citizens have to declare bankruptcy because of health care expenses?

Other industrial nations ensure access to health care to all their citizens, at a much lower cost than the United States, and with better health outcomes, by 1 of 2 basic plans.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, June 27, 2026 2:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I don't know where he got the term, but I always liked when Jimmy Dore called it "Predatory Capitalism". His all time biggest gripe is that for nearly all of us, it doesn't even matter what we make in life because the Healtcare Industry is going to take it all away from you when you die and leave you nothing to give your children.

We are way beyond post-capitalism.
Are you aware that this is a problem only in the US?

No. It certainly is not.

The US problem IS the worldwide problem. The worldwide problem is the illusory world I've spoken about before that has been funded for generations by $39 Trillion worth of debt and virtually nothing to show for it, unless you're counting the history of how we all got ourselves stuck between the hammer and the anvil. "The world you thought you knew 6 months ago is dead and never coming back, and all of that...

All the shit you buy that you don't need and most of the stuff that you do need is made by slaves in countries such as China, many of them very under working age. All of the electricity that powers your shitty, unsalable Ford F-150 Lightning comes from coal being burned somewhere you don't have to smell it. Despite any lies you believe to the contrary with no purpose other than to feel better about yourself, everyone in the world is using more fossil fuels every year and those numbers never go down. And they will never, ever go down unless we start going Nuclear, or all the oil starts to run out. At the very best your little obscenely expensive hobby is keeping just a small fraction of that growing number every year at bay. You don't get to claim that your electricity, personally, is being powered by solar or wind unless you've got your own damn solar panels or a windmill on in your backyard. And even then, only if your entire usage every month is nil or less and you're getting credited for feeding into the system.

Everything any country thinks they have simply evaporates overnight if all the debt ever gets called. There's hardly a military presence at all in the EU anymore, and they've got 27 Million Muslims living all throughout, just waiting for the chaos to start when the free money wells finally dry up. Europe, or the once-strong and noble countries that used to mean something before the EU swallowed them all up, would never have allowed itself to atrophy the way that it has over time if they needed to keep up their own very strong military presence for VERY real reasons that are and have always been festering just beneath the surface. But the US has been powering that illusory world with debt this whole time. Up until recently military spending had been the main culprit for our debt year over year, until the interest on our debt just eclipsed military spending.

27 Million Muslims love their new homes when they get a bunch of free shit. Even the ones who do indeed work for a living and contribute. What happens when the free shit disappears along with the jobs that AI or the eventual and inevitable recession or depression is going to destroy? What will 27 Million bored, hungry and facing homelessness angry Muslims do in that situation when there are tons of people who look nothing like them and share none of their values at all, with shit that they wouldn't mind having? 27 Million men and women, very many of whom have had MUCH more difficult lives than the likes of you could fathom. 27 Million men and women who know how to face adversity when it comes. Have learned to predict and intuit likely future outcomes when building their defenses as a life skill since they were old enough to enunciate.

Indeed what would they do when they know the entire police force has been liberally feminized and couldn't even fight back when things take a turn if they wanted to. What do you suppose that unarmed, pudgy little dumb fucks without a competent local police force to protect anyone from real riots by people who come in thousands strong and aren't going to stand down, even for rubber bullets would be able to do about anything if one or a few of them decided they want your watch or your car? Or even your house when they start having huge majorities over the soon-to-be extinct and former citizens of these countries.

Indeed, indeed what would you do if you lived in a country that voluntarily submitted to relinquishing any and all firearms to the government when the end of this chapter in human history inevitably begins?

If the EU couldn't have relied on increasingly more US Debt every year since not long after a bomb was dropped on Nagasaki to keep them safe since WWII, they would be STRONG today. And there wouldn't be any Muslims living there. There would just be proud French people. And proud British people. And proud Spaniards. And proud Greeks. And proud Italians. Et cetera.

But now they're fucked. Some of them know it. I suspect most of them have always known subconsciously, but have either been too thoroughly mind-raped by the Liberal Media, as you are, to have their own coherent thoughts. Or they have just been too beaten down by the Media and the Public Education System. And the Entertainment Empire. And all the various ways TPTB use to keep anyone from ever vocalizing a complaint about any of it outside of their own heads.

And what's even worse is none of them have even a sliver of the Constitutional Protections of Free Speech that you and I enjoy and take for granted in the RWED everyday. People nearly anywhere in the EU who have written about or tried to report on any of these things get arrested for it. Anything from just being pissed off at some inconsiderate jagoff Muslim they bumped into at the gas station before work, to brutal rape of 8 year old girls. Daughters of the citizens of these once proud and now dying Western nations.

But more are waking up to the fact that their home countries don't even belong to them anymore every day, and as more people finally open their mouths, the movement begins to grow until it becomes an unstoppable force. Better late than never. Hopefully not too late.

Your take on it is that of a simple-minded "vote blue no matter who" voter who has no imagination, nor the ability to think outside of whatever box that the current article trapped their single-track-mind in that day.

You don't think. There is no CPU in that brain cavity. You are nothing more than a wi-fi repeater. A golem. A range extender for The Message.

It is all the people out there, just like you, who have put everyone in a very precarious situation that I just pray doesn't blow up in my lifetime and that we stop wasting time and begin to use legal means to take care of this problem without any serious levels of bloodshed. And there will be bloodshed. Thankfully, the SCOTUS decision yesterday is a great start on taking care of the inevitable problem that you unwittingly helped create for all of us.

And we need to do it quickly before things get worse on the international level or we end up in a depression scenario for one unexpected reason or another.

You are a very stupid person, Second. Very stupid.

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