I watch Demolition Man for the first time the other night. I always heard people say it predicts our current time and I definitely see that. The fines for profanity were funny, but hate speech laws are worse than that. Also the banning of meat and and salt
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That is true. I’ve known some good hearted poor people or people down on their luck but you are right. That is a nauseating trope that every poor person is poor due to no fault of their own.
Same reason(s) Greta and Hogg were appointed as notable; strategically promoting feelings over facts. When the root cause of a calamity also benefits your cohort, you better have a shield to distract the dutiful citizenry. Those who are bad at negotiating and general social awareness are both essential for many peoples' fortunes, and the root cause of preventable collective misery. Pull some strings, make it taboo to insult the poors (but only the non-threatening kind, fuck dem rednecks) , while your at it, paint some inconvenient policies and virtues as anti-poor; divide-and-conquer.
So do your part, and blame some victims today!