You know if we're gonna pass laws to make it illegal for the government to interfere with the Torment Nexus, the least they could do is not gaslight us with the fucking name of the law. Just tell us the billionaires get to fuck the planet in the eye and the rest of us have to deal with it, at least it's honest that way.

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jfengel 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Practically every law, and lobbying organization, is named for exactly the opposite of what it does. If I see the Puppies and Orphans Protection Act of 2028, I assume its purpose is to use puppies to strangle orphans. Proponents will point to the limitation on how many puppies you can use per orphan.

Similarly, if I see the People For X organization, I assume they are against X. The Committee for Green Spaces and Clean Air is guaranteed to be an oil company.

Once you develop that reflex, everything calms down. Though admittedly, I passed a sign for Fidos for Freedom. I'm not quite sure what Fidos Against Freedom does. I think they give dogs to disabled people, and they bark at you if you try to leave the house.

	▲	idle_zealot 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There is something that this tactic misses: when people try to do good things, the name of their organization or policy is usually pretty honest. In an environment like ours, though, that still means that your strategy of assuming the opposite meaning has something like a 95% expected success rate.
	▲	ToucanLoucan 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		All I can think of is Dr. Augustine from Avatar. "They're just pissing on us without even the courtesy of calling it rain."
	▲	OGEnthusiast 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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bigfishrunning 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They can't be that blatant, that's how you lose your next term

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saghm 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The second term for the "drain the swamp" president implies otherwise (it did take another cycle, but that arguably had more to do with covid than corruption).

	▲	RRWagner an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You cant drain a swamp by filling it with billionaire alligators.
	▲	basilgohar an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's because his opponent and her party were fully behind and financing a genocide in Gaza at the time.