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[sophiaserpentia]

So, did i say that giving $700B to the Bush Administration looked like a kleptocratic smash-and-grab for the immediate friends of people in the administration, before the store burns down?

If i didn't... well, there you go.

Comments

[lassiter.livejournal.com]

OMGWTF? The bailout czar is actually named "Kash-Kari"?!?!?!?!?!

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

That is rather fitting, isn't it?

[lassiter.livejournal.com]

We're living in a Thomas Pynchon universe.

[neitherday.livejournal.com]

You've tagged this post with "american imperialism", however this is not an act of imperialism — it is the opposite. While it might not be anti-imperialistic in a revolutionary manner, it is a looting and divvying up of what remains of the empire.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

All empires collapse. So this act of looting by the aristocrats is an act that one would expect to see happen in an empire.

[neitherday.livejournal.com]

True. However, imperialism is empire building. This is empire dismantlement for personal profit and greed, which is by definition not imperialism.