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Re:Train burglaries in LA by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:43PM (#29941528)
Oh, wait, now we're onto "it wasn't just the lockdowns. They set up the lockdowns knowing that some months later, they would inject billons of dollars into the economy in a way that would, GASP, benefit the already rich at least as much as the not-already-rich"? That's the claim now?

Look, I get it, the "bailouts" distributed huge sums of money and lots of it went to people who, viewed through the lens of some sort of moral common sense, should not have received it. That's unfortunately the price you pay for a big country with a big economy. Trying to ensure that none of it was misdirected would have ensured nobody got any at all.

Re:Train burglaries in LA by jiveturkey42 on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:46PM (#29941556)
No, you're right. Everything happened exactly as the experts and fact-checkers said it did
Re:Train burglaries in LA by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:53PM (#29941633)
That's not the (only) alternative to the paranoid style.

It's possible to believe that government (like all human institutions) can be deeply flawed and corrupt while simultaneously still doing things that in aggregate are beneficial to the whole of society.

Re:Train burglaries in LA by jiveturkey42 on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:59PM (#29941685)
What was paranoid? It was a convenient way to move around trillions of dollars
Re:Train burglaries in LA by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday January 14, 2022 @06:23PM (#29941882)
The vast majority of which was dispensed to US individuals via checks.

Did some of it go to places it should not have done? See my previous responses.