For all the talk of gerentocracy, only one party is governing like they won't be around to see the future. death cult budget - ThreadSky

mosheroperandi.bsky.social • 7 days ago

For all the talk of gerentocracy, only one party is governing like they won't be around to see the future.

death cult budget

Reposted from George Pearkes

The House bill is straightforwardly anti-growth in every conceivable way.

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markshore.bsky.social•7 days ago

it's amazing, isn't it?

I'm concerned for Xi and Putin too; they aren't young men and all of the uncontrollable laughing is probably taking a physical toll on them

chrisll.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yes, but the other party might have stopped this or improved the bill if a number of their members did not die within a year of reelection

emer.net•6 days ago

Absolutely. If they get their way, there won’t be a future.

deborahelizabeth.bsky.social•4 days ago

twiceborn.bsky.social•7 days ago

Back in Sparta's glory days, its citizens implemented a restrictive legal and social system that sent vast amounts of wealth to themselves (and especially the wealthier citizens) while making it both easy to fall out of citizenship AND impossible to become a citizen if you weren't already.

twiceborn.bsky.social•7 days ago

At the time, this was fantastic for the wealthier Spartan citizens and even earned them the admiration of some Greek elites of other city-states.

twiceborn.bsky.social•7 days ago

This also resulted in Sparta's strength becoming incredibly brittle, the citizen body dwindling over time as they lost citizens to war or poverty, land got vacuumed up by already-rich citizens, and no new "fresh blood" was added to the citizenship pool.

twiceborn.bsky.social•7 days ago

When the Spartans finally lost to the Thebans at Leuctra, the stagnant social and legal system their recent ancestors created meant Sparta would never rise to power again, forever nothing more than a literal meme.

twiceborn.bsky.social•7 days ago

I thought I'd bring this up for no reason at all.

oneoneder.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think GOP is just too stupid to govern these days

eaglebeaverman.bsky.social•7 days ago

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