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Ingrid
2025 Apr 29, 11:32am
yikes ! I don't even have that much yearly ! how can they fraud 25 000 ??? I think it is high time we let CA be its own country (since they compare themselves to countries).
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Patrick
2025 Jun 21, 4:49pm
Patrick
2025 Jun 21, 4:49pm
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/accounting-for-accountability
here’s my theory (and pardon my french) but we have basically not only removed all consequence for acting like a total asshole, but we have created huge sets of consequences for trying to stop anyone from acting like a total asshole.
and this is not a good plan.
you scream at pregnant women on the subway or loot a walgreens in broad daylight, and you’re all good. try to stop it? guantanamo for hate crimes.
the rest is just people responding to incentives in predictable ways. ...
there is a quite substantial subset of humans who are not fundamentally capable of abstract morality and such structures essentially turn them in to civilizational WMD’s. when all you understand is consequence, its removal uncorks one helluva bottle and it can get pretty crazy pretty fast.
the US is not even the worst of it. in germany and the UK, gang rapists are going free while those who criticize this outcome online are being jailed.
https://slaynews.com/news/california-democrats-push-decriminalize-welfare-fraud-under-25000/