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If you did not catch John Oliver piece about guardianship (Original Post)
question everything
Jun 2018
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rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)1. I saw it. It is another example of how capitalism in its essence works.
It is pure. No one is out of bounds, even grandma. Thats what I got from it. Watch out from your birth to your grave.
This shit did not use to happen. Its like the ones who bought up closed Walmarts to separate children from immigrants and hole them up and get paid for doing so.
Government is there for a reason. It protects you when its at its best.
Canoe52
(2,963 posts)2. We did, well worth seeing if you are in the twilight years.
worstexever
(265 posts)3. The story was written previously in the New Yorker, I believe
John quoted from the NY during the segment, but it was more or less the same story.
trof
(54,273 posts)4. Saw that. Scarey. Worth watching.