alt Hacker NewsIt’s definitely a result of the money at play, which is unprecedented in scale and (imo) speculation.
But this is, in theory, why we have laws: to fight power imbalances, and money is of course power.
Tough for me to be optimistic about law and order right now though, especially when it comes to the president’s biggest donors and the vice president’s handlers.
the building of the American Railroads were the largest capital endeavor in known history IIR. .. and Stanford was in the center of that, too