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[–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

THIS is why tippingpoints matter:

Once one is owned, then one cannot undo being owned.

Northern Mexico, being owned by the drug-cartels, is another, different-domain, example: they didn't prevent being ruled, & now they cannot undo being owned.

It's actually a fundamental principle: symbiosis turning into reverse-takeover always costs one the owning of one's self.

Country, political-party, business, not-for-profit, community, charity, language, culture, it holds consistently.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    Once someone gets some hooks into you, your only choice is to rip that hook out.

    If it's a small hook, you might be able to recover your political career. if it's just a few small hooks, maybe a medium sized hook, you might not go to jail.

    but AIPAC is using anal hooks from hell. they started with the small ones, and they've been getting progressivley bigger and more numerous, and now... well. I'm not into that.

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