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Bring Back the Crooks: Institutionalized Corruption and the Death of Objective Truth

from Cheese Plate Time · #58

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5 min

A wide-ranging rant wishing for the return of boring establishment corruption (Clintons, Bushes, Obama drone wars) over current chaos, the systemic erosion of liberty, and how truth has become pliable and hard to verify amid media bombardment.

In this bit11 moments
  • 26:15Tim jokes he's switched sides to the Nazis because he's not into violence.
  • 26:31He's changed his entire worldview after understanding the levers of power, institutionalized criminality, and fraud in the country.
  • 26:44Tim wants the old Clinton-Bush career criminals and crime families back instead of the current system.
  • 27:13The system isn't designed for revolution or wholesale reimagining of how things work.
  • 27:43Fighting against the status quo requires extreme outliers, making any opposition inherently crazy.
  • 28:11Tim supports actual reform—decriminalize weed, legalize it, get people out of prison, rehabilitate felons—not performative offense at jokes.
  • 28:41If your humanity depends on other people's feelings about you, you're pathetic and not strong enough to survive.
  • 29:22Objective truth has become incredibly pliable, filtered through so many spins that nobody knows what's actually true.
  • 29:50Most people just grab a news source and run with it without asking what alternative version exists or what someone's trying to convince them of.
  • 30:25A generation of losers raised without marriage, home ownership, children, or community bonds—only electronic and digital connection.
  • 30:42This digital-only existence leaves people empty and shallow, spending 36 hours on Reddit.
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