The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex and purchasing and using illicit drugs all while the Florida Republican was a member of Congress.
Because if they legalized that shit we’d get to do it too without the cops busting out asses, and the entire point is to lord the fact that they can do whatever the fuck they want (and that we can’t) over us.
Even this misses the point, imo. It’s not about lording over people. It’s about creating and maintaining a system that lets them pick and choose who sits behind bars, who loses access to their finances, who is allowed to vote, and ultimately who has the power.
The rules exist to allow them to target anyone they want. The fact that they simply ignore them when they break them is not the end goal; it’s hust a small part of the system of oligarchic control.
The point of making stuff that lots of people do illegal is that it makes selective enforcement much easier. Protesting hippies in the 60’s? Make weed illegal and you can bust them for that. Plant the weed on them if you have to.
Black folks getting out of line and demanding equal rights? I hear jazz musicians like to do heroin, let’s make that illegal with harsher penalties. Later, do t the same thing for crack cocaine.
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
Because if they legalized that shit we’d get to do it too without the cops busting out asses, and the entire point is to lord the fact that they can do whatever the fuck they want (and that we can’t) over us.
Even this misses the point, imo. It’s not about lording over people. It’s about creating and maintaining a system that lets them pick and choose who sits behind bars, who loses access to their finances, who is allowed to vote, and ultimately who has the power.
The rules exist to allow them to target anyone they want. The fact that they simply ignore them when they break them is not the end goal; it’s hust a small part of the system of oligarchic control.
I’ve never understood how rules for thee makes them so rock hard.
What’s the point of power if you cannot rule over others and make sure the underlings know their place?
The point of making stuff that lots of people do illegal is that it makes selective enforcement much easier. Protesting hippies in the 60’s? Make weed illegal and you can bust them for that. Plant the weed on them if you have to.
Black folks getting out of line and demanding equal rights? I hear jazz musicians like to do heroin, let’s make that illegal with harsher penalties. Later, do t the same thing for crack cocaine.
https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/
I think a lot of them also get off on the whole taboo/forbidden thing. Also explains closeted gay Republicans.