the political philosophy of cats

gato's first law remains undefeated (and mini-memepool)

it’s not just a good idea. it’s the law.

and the evidence just keeps piling up, doesn’t it?

they simply cannot help themselves.

he sold you down the river and the UK knighted him for it.

and now he is off to collect his 30 pieces of silver in the form of a tidy sinecure and options package. because we’re going to need folks with connections like yours to keep moderna out of trouble if people realize what just happened…

and because it is always cheaper to buy politicians than to compete in free markets, gato’s first law remains undefeated and regimes of plunder prevail.

they will force you to buy that which they sell and then they will pay their agents handsomely for having facilitated the forcing.

they will build regimes around this principle and erect entire ethoses of inverted ethics to proclaim themselves your saviors for having done so.

it is the primary product of powerful politicians who would subsume your rights to their collectivist coercion.

ever it was and ever shall it be:

the entire purpose of this power is to invite, enable, and profit from corruption.

round and round it goes and where it stops is always the same:

it’s time to stop making the same mistakes

and falling for the same facile promises.

this is not a game that anyone can win

and it’s just going to keep coming

because that’s what suits them

it will not get better until we re-assess our responses

and remember that which is obvious