Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Fan the flames: Lahaina on fire" video.

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  49. Well the fact is City Hall as we know it shouldn't even exist. The moment you appoint a City Hall you the citizen have no more power. They will demand your money, your taxes, they will commit any crime against you of property or sometimes of violence; you are demanded to pay immediately or suffer and essentially you have no voice other than to vote every couple of years for a different crop or the same crop of dictators. Occasionally you get to vote on a local or state ballot on a few issues but the majority are still decided well behind the scenes or in halls where you have no voice. Only the voice of the 1% and the well-heeled lobbyists of the 1% are heard in the halls of politicians. The masses are ignored as irrelevant and worthless. This is democracy? Choosing a rotating group of ruthless or semi-ruthless corrupt dictators and being forced to pay for them or else?? Wow doesn't sound very democratic or liberating to me. Sounds like slavery honestly. Sounds like criminal abuse. But I'm just a hard Left libertarian what do I know?? I believe we have the right to be our own masters and anything short of complete direct voting on everything short of internal administrative matters is a rampant miscarriage of justice. So long as we continue to bend the knee to masters the masters will always shit right on our faces. How's that working out for us so far? Yes we can have a government that's necessary just for simple organization, but we don't have to have a city hall per se. We can have a "public center" of which within there can be a number of public administrators who suggest policies. This isn't the same as City Hall, which is essentially a hyper-corrupt small group on hire to the 1% interests within that particular locality. All the same public departments can exist as now, along with possibly more, and some current mandatory taxes can exist, while some don't. The key difference is that any policy or public change that is suggested or proposed by any public official must first be put to public ballot. Anything that gets more than 60% of the votes wins. Anybody can suggest a policy and anybody can suggest repealing a policy. Power isn't held by one or a few tiny corrupt set of grubby hands. Public voting can be held at regular intervals say every 3 months. This can easily work statewide and within the municipalities. For state policies they can set voting to a little bit less frequently say every six months. Honestly without this guys we are all little more than pseudoslaves to all the big money interests that operate behind the scenes.
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  50.  @richibucto1    that's right. For some reason everybody votes for the same people who don't give a shit about them, arrogant a-holes who could care less if they live or die. I don't know why this is but it is. Republicans or democrats in this country there all the same- two sides of the same corporate-party ass. They're going to take the money and they're going to serve the Money and whether it's local or at the state level or certainly in DC they don't give an F about the 99.5%. I mean it's rule by hyper-elite anytime they're in office. Once they get into office all their pretty promises go right out the window. Once the big money gets the governors in their pocket or local mayors it's over, because mayors have local Pigs in their pocket and governors have the national guard and State troopers so I mean.... There it is. Sure people can fight back and demonstrate and be willing to risk violence and all of that, but then you get all these psychopaths in those groups I just mentioned who are more than happy to kill their neighbors because somebody on high told them to. It's definitely asymmetrical warfare. Pretty sad. Imagine being willing to kill, harm, abuse, or brutalize literally someone who could be your happy neighbor who's never done you harm simply because some worthless amoral politician tells you to. All for corporate money lust. Crazy. But some people are wired to do that ig and I think that's really unfortunate. These people are dangerous. Mindless bloodthirsty automatons. I do think it is possible to elect politicians of conscience who care about the public and not elite money but it hasn't happened so far.
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  56.  @lynnjacobs9885     Well that's brilliant see I didn't know that cuz I really don't know much about Hawaii or Maui other than the broad strokes of how they were essentially kidnapped into being part of the United States. Well ty for telling me no doubt you're exactly right, what is good for cattle may not be so good for fire management. And if their money can control the political process then they get what they want everyone else be damned. Same story just a different damn day. And people do vote for all these crooks all the time because crooks are excellent liars and people just keep voting for the liars in both parties. I don't know why.... everyone thinks THEIR politician is the sole good guy amongst a sea of crooks. So everyone keeps voting for the same usual suspects always thinking oh no its the OTHER guy that's bad. What people forget is that with rare exception THEYRE ALL BAD!!!... and it is the height of naivete to pretend otherwise. (So what's the solution? Well a different actual people-first party for one that could help. But we can talk about that later.) I am now wondering because of all of this terrible news that has come out if the fire was deliberately started but even if it wasn't, the way that island has been land managed over the past 100 years clearly contributed to high fire conditions. When the big money is allowed to dictate public policy this is exactly what happens everywhere all the time. It's literally a crime because thousands or tens of thousands of people suffer because a few pieces of shit wanted things their way. Do you remember the big fires in Northern California few years ago that destroy the town of Paradise? Now I'm not a 100% certain but I live in southern California and believe those were started by negligent maintenance from PG&E. PG&E is essentially a criminal enterprise at this point which has complete legal immunity because they buy our governors. Doesn't matter which party, they buy them all. The parties are the SAME that's what people can't seem to understand. There's no politician whose Red or Blue in this country that serves us, well there's a few but it's very few and they're not enough to make a difference; the vast majority serve MONEY, not us, period end of story. Why can't people get this after last 150 years of this being true? That is why all these disasters keep happening. Look over the past 100 years of natural disaster I'm the US, I bet you'll find an underlying pattern because I have. All of them could have been avoided or greatly reduced in severity if local and state governments had managed even halfway ethically. But it didn't matter because they were bought and paid off and they didn't give an F about the public not a single F. So they mismanaged public resources for the big pockets and then when the natural disasters hit, The fallout was way worse than it had to be because all of the countermeasures weren't properly maintained or had been removed entirely, such as the mangrove wetlands outside of New Orleans which allowed Hurricane Katrina to become much worse than it would have been otherwise (and due to other factors such as delivered and obvious neglect of the city's levees). If we keep electing psychopaths and criminals and narcopath crooks and willfully terminally stupid dangerous lunatics, we're all going to suffer and I don't think we want that so I'm really hoping and praying something changes but you know, I mean it hasn't yet so I don't even know what to say at this point anymore. I'll be fine but it really breaks my heart to constantly see these disasters that for the most part don't have to happen , not to mention all the other mess that happens in politics.
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