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Artemis · 5w
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 offi...
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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'm the fucking weird one to be asking "wait. Why do WE pay someone to do that?"
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Artemis · 5w
I think we are constantly asked to normalize the most ridiculous shit, because we're supposed to just accept people who are power-hungry & trying to "move up". It's like, "OBVIOUSLY this guy would want to make his boss look good, so that when his boss gets a better job, he'll take him along. What d...