• minnow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    incompetent

    No, malicious. Racist in fact.

    Suburbs were intentionally designed to be hostile to families without a car. This created a financial barrier to living in the suburbs, organically weeding out “undesirable” (aka non-white) families. Yes this also meant that many white families also couldn’t afford to move to the suburbs, but that was a downside the rich white racists were willing to accept if it meant keeping most non-white families out.

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      2 days ago

      You’re absolutely right but I’m also gonna go out on a limb and say malicious/racist and incompetent are not mutually exclusive from one another.

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        They are not but this incompetence angle ignores a more likely scenario: corruption

        But people in us sleep better when we say:

        don’t atribute malice when incompetence will do

        Yeah sure but this big money and when there is money, there is corruption

        This the hill I will die on.

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          Then literally everything bad involving people becomes a conspiracy theory

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            24 hours ago

            Yes, Capitalism is a big conspiracy involving the capitalist class conspiring against the working class. Look at their class interests. They are and have always been quietly waging a class war.

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              20 hours ago

              Amen…

              They are still living in the world where a good rich daddy guiding the country to a prosperous future…

              ADULT FUCKING MEN LARP THIS SHIT

              🤡

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            Well you see if this information was easily accessible online and we could review it then we would be able to tell what is going on buy government contracting while pretending to be transparent is hardly “open source”

            So taking tech analogy unless I can inspection the code or people smarter, why would I assume it is not malicious?

            So while I can’t claim that every government contract has corruption attached boy any close inspection surely always yields something, it is part of colloquial speech re “efficiency” of government contracting is always bring mocked but the people can’t reach a logical conclusion here.

            I am just positing that based on circumstantial evidence this is how corruption would look like.

            Sure they tell telsa get some money to do something but we don’t get the terms and conditions and performance unless some shit really got botched

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      many white families also couldn’t afford to move to the suburbs, but that was a downside the rich white racists were willing to accept

      I think this was a feature, not a downside. (I agree with the rest of your post tho)