Way back in the old days, if the boss wasn't pretty watchful, one of the pranksters would sneak onto the mainframe and start some weird shit thing like:
10 PRINT TO SCREEN: HELP ME - I'M STUCK IN AN ENDLESS LOOP
20 GO TO: 10
And the terminal would eventually lock up and the supervisors would get all pissed off and we'd laugh and laugh cuz it'd take a good 20 minutes to clear the memory partition and restart the sector - or whatever magic the uber-nerds did to get it all back up and runnin'.
And somehow, we didn't know we were just being assholes.
Well, now we seem to have kinda the same thing going on in certain sectors of our politics.
We gave a lot of money to rich people to fix the economy, but it didn't work
So we gave a lot of money to rich people to fix that, but it didn't work
So we'll give a lot of money to rich people and see if that works
And somehow, they don't know they're just being assholes.
10 PRINT TO SCREEN: HELP ME - I'M STUCK IN AN ENDLESS LOOP
20 GO TO: 10
And the terminal would eventually lock up and the supervisors would get all pissed off and we'd laugh and laugh cuz it'd take a good 20 minutes to clear the memory partition and restart the sector - or whatever magic the uber-nerds did to get it all back up and runnin'.
And somehow, we didn't know we were just being assholes.
We gave a lot of money to rich people to fix the economy, but it didn't work
So we gave a lot of money to rich people to fix that, but it didn't work
So we'll give a lot of money to rich people and see if that works
And somehow, they don't know they're just being assholes.
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