[PicassoCTs]

You know, there are people here who have a living memory growing up in a high trust society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_socie... And i refuse to accept all this advice, all this barbed wire as normal and all these grifters and gangsters as socially acceptable. And i refuse the victim reversal, of the "stupid" victim calling for it.

No, all those trying to normalize the wild-west and those who try to prosper from the wild west- they have to go. Now. Wherever they came from. Take your low-thrust, non-working societies with you. The enablers too, if you want to co-exist with this, you are wrong here. You need to go. Now.

[lazide]

You’re just imagining a false past. Shit like this has always been going on - it’s just more visible now.

The Jordan Belforts and P.T. Barnums (and many more) have been a part of US society since the beginning.

[PicassoCTs]

What if you imagine it wrong, and the past has been actually filled with high-trust useful idiots in the silent majority, thinking god watches them and they can leave the door and car unlocked, cause god also watches the village? What if you are just one of the infected?

[lazide]

Uh, I’m saying that there has always been a sucker born every minute. I don’t think we’re disagreeing.

You’re just able to see the snake oil salesman parting the rubes from their coin remotely, instead of only being able to see it if you’re standing right next to the rube.

Even with that happening, there are still plenty of rubes - and just like before, people who are trying to run the snake oil salesman out of town (but generally being ineffective at it).