Utter lunacy

Our “city” “government” has been unspeakably corrupt and incompetent for at least 30 years. It steadfastly refuses to take care of real problems, instead pouring money and effort into bizarre insane symbolic hypershit that nobody needs or wants except the alleged “council” and so-called alleged “mayor”.

Latest example, quoted in full:

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Mayor Lisa Brown signed an executive order Wednesday to strengthen community and cultural events in Spokane by reducing costs for both organizers and the City, and tasking City staff with eliminating barriers to establishing new events and growing existing events.

Current city code would have doubled the cost of special event fees in 2025 for large cultural events. Mayor Brown’s executive order puts a freeze on those fees, keeping them at the same level as 2024 event fees. The executive order also aims to reduce operational impacts and costs for the City of Spokane by directing staff to evaluate opportunities to innovate around special event planning. Currently, the Spokane Police Department, Spokane Fire Department, Solid Waste, Streets, Parking, and Office of Neighborhood Services support special events without recovering the full costs of providing services. Mayor Brown’s order directs staff to identify ways to reduce police overtime costs, develop comprehensive solid waste management plans to reduce food waste and improve composting at special events, and evaluate policy and procedure changes necessary to reduce barriers to events like neighborhood block parties.

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Yessir, that’s exactly what we need. We’re a haven of total peace and order, never heard of crime and homelessness, so people are just itching to go downtown and conduct “special events”, whatever the fuck that phrase even fucking means. The police and trash service are just sitting around having fun because there’s nothing for the police to do. We need to keep them busy de-obstacling “special events” to justify their cost. People are avoiding downtown because there’s not enough composting at “special events”. If we composted according to correct Gaian doctrine, all the cool people would be downtown enjoying the “community”.

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From another angle, the weird activities of “congress” and “council” are a type of play or hobby. When I was young I enjoyed drawing imaginary countries and making up grammatical forms for their imaginary languages. Now I do the same thing with graphics.

“Congresses” and “councils” are making up an imaginary universe and writing imaginary “laws” and “resolutions” to govern it. These imaginary “laws” don’t really change behavior or solve problems, they just satisfy the need to make up stuff.

There’s one difference. When I draw imaginary places and machines, I’m on my own time and my own dime. I’m not forcing millions of people to PAY for my hobby, and I’m not forcing real police and soldiers and firemen to waste time dealing with my places and machines.