• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    $200 million to “struggling” music artists such as Post Malone, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne.

    Ok, Rand. Now tell us how many of them are not Post Malone, Chris Brown and Lil Wayne, but artists who are, in fact, struggling.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah. The US government is one of the biggest and most byzantine entities on the planet. You’re going to be able to find some bullshit in there if you look. But that doesn’t all of a sudden mean this culture-war pettiness is the whole problem, and the tax breaks and giveaways for the rich and the Death Star defense budget all of a sudden aren’t relevant to the discussion.