Obama Blame

I wish someone had gone after the criminals who caused the financial crisis with the ferocity and ruthlessness that Mueller is pursuing the Trump lackeys and hangers-on.

Yeah, I am sure many if not most of those guys were doing illegal things. But we let and are letting far worse criminals get away scot free while having impoverished and continuing to immiserate millions and millions of Americans.

That’s not justice. It feels righteous, sure, and captivates clueless liberals like little else, but it’s ultimately worthless and meaningless.

Meanwhile, the real criminals and saboteurs of the United States continue to enjoy lavish lifestyles with looted money.

French Wrench

Yes, America is a pretty racist place. At the same time, many Americans hold some nebulous idea that all of Europe is some mystical unracist nirvana.

I know the most about the culture of France, and I can tell you that a black man named Barack Hussein Obama (or anything similar) would never be elected to high political office in France.

It’d never, ever happen. Not even a sliver of a chance.

Early I

I don’t get nostalgic for much, but I do miss the early public internet (1994-2000ish or so). It was superior in almost every way. Not yet completely dominated by commercial interests, with a sense of wild freedom and with no barriers, it was a haven rather than the prison of attention and surveillance it has become.

We’ve gone from the open internet to the oubliette.

No one group is responsible for this; “freedom-loving” liberals are just as culpable as the FCC and Amazon. In a way, Mozilla and its terrible decisions is just a symptom of this and the authoritarian turn in society in general.

Ah well, I remember how the internet was going to “change everything.”

It sure did.