Well, who else actually uses them? Democracies (or those governments advertising themseles as such) generally don't bomb their own people with such aplomb and enthusiasm. ANd what about all those useful torture outsourcing orgs that the CIA needs so badly to fight its phantom war on Terrorism?
Look people, who is going to keep the lower classes in the outer parts of the empire down? We can't do that directly, it's too expensive, annoying, there's press conferences, sometimes CNN starts broadcasting about international news to the populace. All annoying and counterproductive to the voting powers and their corporate lords.
And of course, who's going to shadow fund all your actual wealth while you pull down a meager (by elite western standards) 175k salary in congress? The Saudis only care about the big fish like presidents (that's why there's a presidential visit TO Saudi Arabia near the end of every US President's administrations).
Oh, sure, it's "illegal" to get that money. Fine, let us just use Citizens United to funnel the money to your lobbying buds who will totally set you up.
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Well, who else actually uses them? Democracies (or those governments advertising themseles as such) generally don't bomb their own people with such aplomb and enthusiasm. ANd what about all those useful torture outsourcing orgs that the CIA needs so badly to fight its phantom war on Terrorism?
Look people, who is going to keep the lower classes in the outer parts of the empire down? We can't do that directly, it's too expensive, annoying, there's press conferences, sometimes CNN starts broadcasting about international news to the populace. All annoying and counterproductive to the voting powers and their corporate lords.
And of course, who's going to shadow fund all your actual wealth while you pull down a meager (by elite western standards) 175k salary in congress? The Saudis only care about the big fish like presidents (that's why there's a presidential visit TO Saudi Arabia near the end of every US President's administrations).
Oh, sure, it's "illegal" to get that money. Fine, let us just use Citizens United to funnel the money to your lobbying buds who will totally set you up.