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Artemis · 5w
Update: at some point this guy resigned from his county job, though the timeframe is not clear at all. Apparently, we all pay for people to give for our elected officials good press, & so then OF COU...
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That's what I learned: we all pay for people in our local government to make their bosses look good.

It's "obvious", right? If I stop & think for a second about everything I know about political office-holders throughout fucking history, I think "well, I guess I knew that," but that's the fucking thing, isn't it?

We're all supposed to just know & understand that "this is how it works". We're supposed to accept that OBVIOUSLY we pay people to hype up elected officials. It's a perk of the job.
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Artemis · 5w
We're just not supposed to be bothered by it. We're supposed to find it normal that the person who is paid by the taxpayer to do press for a government office would be loyal to their boss & trying to advance their political career in order to advance their own. "That's just politics, baby." And I'...