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Iowa’s starvation strategy: Maybe the cruelty IS the point?
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Iowa’s starvation strategy (permalink)
I don’t really buy that “the cruelty is the point.” I’m a materialist. Money talks, bullshit walks. When billionaires fund unimaginably cruel policies, I think the cruelty is a tactic, a way to get the turkeys to vote for Christmas. After all, policies that grow the fortune of the 1% at the expense of the rest of us have a natural 99% disapproval rating.
So when some monstrous new law or policy comes down the pike, it’s best understood as a way of