/liberty/ - Liberty

>>95849

A little push for about half of them on that list. I think only the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and MAYBE The Washington Post (I'd have to actually verify) are even self-sustaining at this point.

>>95849

they get a lot of money from billionaires, which in turn get a lot of money from the government via government contracts, loans, etc. In exchange they just have to promote statism.

It's the great circle of State parasitism. What a wonder!

Why do they continue to have any clout?

>>95930

>reason

>no Mises Institute

What are you, some kind of pleb?

>>95930

I didn't say they were good, just that they were the only four that might be able to sustain themselves without subsidies.

How 1984 actually went down:

Winston Smith dreams of rebellion, but gets caught by a sting operation by O'Brien.

How it should have went down:

Winston Smith is constantly bombarded by propaganda that is plainly false. Chocolate rations have been increasing every year, even though it goes directly against Winston's memory. Any time he asks someone else, they repeat what the propaganda has said. Eventually, he gets so gaslit by the media about his own state of memory that by the end of the book some younger fellow asks him, "Weren't chocolate rations higher last year?" to which Winston replies, "They definitely were lower last year," thus showing how the psychosis is kept and transmitted throughout society.

Combine this with another short story of a dictator keeping rebellions in check by creating fuckloads of honeypots and sting operations that keep people from assembling, and you're golden.

>>95934

this. Mises inst is incredible. Stuff that I can trust, yet can still be linked as sources when argumenting against statists.

>>96148

You're proposed story kind of reminds me of Snowpiercer. Where in the end of the movie it's revealed the guy who runs the train has been manipulating the poor at the end of the train in a cycle of false revolution to keep everyone in line and make them think there is some system or progress. So the protagonist not wanting to continue this cycle crashes the train.

>>96148

How I'd be Dictator

Economic freedom? Sure, start your business. I'll make the standard 'minimal' regulations, and of course the agency investigating for these 'crimes' will have come from the industry (because they're the only ones that have the relevant experience), and by sheer statistics, these bureaucrats will have likely come from the largest corporations in that industry. And because of these bureaucrats' network with the corporation they used to work for, they'll hear about any competitor. And of course it won't be coincidence that these competitors will be "No good," and "Have to be breaking regulations to keep their costs that low." Which means my regulatory bodies will make sure only a handful of megacorporations remain. Then I'll be able to claim the market doesn't work, tax the shit out of it, and appear like a hero!

And what would I do with this money? Why, of course…

Freedom of the Press? Sure! And unlike other dictators, I really wouldn't jail journalists. HOWEVER, I would basically copy Operation Mockingbird to a T and then only give press badges to come listen to my briefings to the ones who receive the most subsidies from me. Then as all the media in the country fucking worship me, you'll get gaslit into thinking your own opinions can't be right.

Freedom of speech? Sure! I'll just instantiate pay ISPs to give data on my citizens to my dataming agency, and they'll be used for governmental hiring and background reports..and only allow those who agree with me to get jobs in the civil service. You can still say what you want, just maybe the workers under my dime might not like you for it, and you might not ever get a post into a much more secure job working for me :^).

And with that, my power hold is compl–OH SHIT, THE MASSIVE BUREAUCRACY I MADE TO RUN MY CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS, OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD AND DATAMINING OPERATIONS RUNS THE ENTIRE FUCKING COUNTRY NOW, AND THEY JUST FRAMED ME FOR BEING A PEDO, FUCKFUCKFU–