FOLLOW THE MONEY A few kidnappings, occasional ski boat, or hometown brown shirts shooting citizens is not enough. They need to destroy a much bigger pile of targets with much more expensive weapons. They need to shock the financial system so they can vacuum up the net-worths of everyone else.

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..and the crypto prediction market scams that the "invisible hands" on the levers of society are pulling: bsky.app/profile/mefl...

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How do you get your already obesely inflated Defense Budget to be even higher? You create national security risk via having complete idiots in charge of it all. Consequences? They'll all just make more money. bsky.app/profile/cmon...

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It's clearly the last resort, but taxing the windfall #profits from wars, violent #aggression & business practices, etc. is the last chance to claw some of it back where it can do good instead of #evil. But it needs to be controlled or the whole system will collapse. bsky.app/profile/phds...

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