Is this corruption?
Pic 1: I was served an ad for a hyper-violent rightwing militia, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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I make trading cards and think Isaac Perlmutter has been one of the destructive forces that exists in American politics.
This guy spent the last 2 decades in the public sector and now he's working a cushy job at an unproductive marketing company that's supported by lucrative govt contracts. This is regulatory capture.
Is this corruption?
It looks like The Marcom Group and Google are ripping off the American people.
Pic 5: Here's one of the most recent govt contract granted to the Marcom Group. The contract is for a massive $193 MILLION. As far as I can tell, the only thing that Marcom actually does is fill out a form on Google ads and click submit.
Pic 4: But the only public facing officer I could find was a middle-aged white dude who spent his entire career working for the military.
Pic 3: The marketing firm is using progressive identity politics to promote itself ("woman-owned small business").
Pic 2: I click on the information about the ad and see that it's being paid for by the agency but placed by a private marketing firm.
14 out of my first 18 villains have been pardoned by Trump.
I'm surprised he hasn't issued a pre-emptive pardon for Kushner since he seems to be acting as an unregistered foreign agent. Several of Trump's pardons were folks facing that exact charge.
@joshbressers Saying regulations can fix is also not really a compelling answer.
What regulation?
Regulatory capture ends up shifting the actual effect to a regulation you really, really don't want to talk about: campaign finance.
As long as grifters who take money from corporations are in power, corporations will be allowed to hurt their consumers.
Without complete, lifelong financial transparency for all politicians and their families, we have no chance of regulating away these problems.
Why should anyone believe in cyber security?
And I'm not saying that people shouldn't want it, what I'm saying is that there doesn't actually seem to be any way to offer infosec at scale.
Oracle just disclosed that they caused what will eventually be known as the worlds largest extortion scandal (https://www.reuters.com/business/oracle-says-hackers-are-trying-extort-its-customers-2025-10-03/)
Oracle has more money, more data and more experience protecting information than any other company in the world and yet even they can't actually do the job.
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It's looking like I was right.
The day after I first posted this card, Oracle disclosed that American executives are now facing a massive wave of extortion attempts based entirely on data leaked from Oracle.
Oracle's role is storing and securing information and they have proven that they are not actually willing or able to secure their clients data.
How can this company continue to exist when it's causing widespread extortion?