From Framers to Tyrants: The Long Arc of Emergency Power
The Constitution didn’t break. It evolved—through fear, loopholes, and precedent—into a tool of control. From blind trust to endless emergencies, this is how liberty gets rewritten.
David Kirsch
New patch dropped. You’ll still be poor, just more efficiently.
Patch Notes: Billionaire God Mode still unpatchable. Justice bug fixed (accidentally). Ads now embedded directly in your dreams. Welcome to System Update 1984.0.
The System Isn't Broken - It's Designed This Way: A Manifesto
The system isn’t malfunctioning—it’s functioning exactly as designed. FINE PRINT is your refuge from the noise, where we trace the rigged patterns, decode the myths, and dismantle the illusion of neutrality. This is your first dispatch from inside the machine.
The Hollow Promise of Cannabis Social Equity
Equity was promised. What we got was roleplay. Predatory partnerships, PR stunts, and broken funding pipelines turned cannabis social equity into a costume—worn for licenses, discarded for profit.
The Myth of Mainstreaming: Why Corporate Cannabis Got It Wrong
Cannabis didn’t need a corporate makeover to be accepted, it was already mainstreamed by legacy operators and activists. The market didn’t reject cannabis. It rejected the lie that culture was the problem.
Multi-State Operators (MSOs): How to Overpromise, Overextend, and Underdeliver at Scale
MSOs promised to professionalize cannabis—what they delivered was hype, debt, and mediocrity at scale. This isn’t a new industry, it’s a rerun. Same greed, new costume. Different plant, same scam.
Engineered to Fail: The Architecture of Democratic Decline
American democracy isn’t malfunctioning—it’s performing exactly as designed. From gerrymandering to dark money to judicial capture, our institutions were architected to resist the people, not serve them.
The Theater of Managed Opposition
Democratic resistance is theater—well-funded, consultant-driven spectacle that simulates opposition without risking real change. The show must go on, but the outcome was rigged from the start.
The Illusion of Democracy: Tolerance, Rigged Systems, and Authoritarian Drift
What looks like democracy is often just theater. Carefully staged, cynically funded, and collapsing under the weight of its own rigging. It’s not broken. It’s built this way.