It's never about protecting you. It's about controlling you.
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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Smooshing events together is normal when you look back at the past, but those of us who witnessed 9/11 as adults know that "Never forget" came later. The immediate response was that if you stay home and hide, the "terrists" win. The big message was, "Act normal, keep shopping!" Same as with COVID. "Don't let this affect your spending habits" is always the oligarchy's reassuring response to bad news. Don't let this little bump in the road hurt profits. They pulled out the "never forget" card later when they decided to turn a terrorist act by a fringe group into an excuse for more military spending.
If only there was a vaccine for terrorism/falseflag/warhawks pick what you like
3k people died in 9/11 in the USA. 1 million people died of covid in the USA. But what people are outraged about is civil liberties. ("The other COVID reckoning" by Scott Alexander.)
The difference between security measures and medical measures: the lack of the latter kills peasants, the presence of the former suppresses them. Win-win, if you a wealthy ghoul who thinks the poors are filthy takers.
Owner class don't care if you, some peasant, dies. It's their control getting threatened that gets them motivated.
And besides, the air filters at your kids’ private academy are better than the hospitals the poors use, never mind the public schools!
It's like that with everything. If a catastrophe can be capitalized, it will. 911 was extremely profitable for the MIC, imperialism, etc. Covid was only profitable to big pharma. The state values global violence far more than the health of any population.
Plenty of other sectors profited also from covid, an excuse to make everything more expensive and never cheaper when it ends.
Same with that ship that blocked the Suez Canal for a short time.
Except if other capital interests stand in the way of a new market.
Clean energy is extremely lucrative, but dirty energy still has money.
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