if you fall for this shit you are such a gigantic rube we need a new word to describe the level of turboschmuckery dear god (lemmy.ml)

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WHY AM I EVEN AWARE OF ONE OF YOUR (NOT EVEN) MAYORS?? WAS RATBOY NOT ENOUGH??

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[-] miz@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I'm not an expert but it seems like City of London is a tiny fortress of finance capitalism to administratively insulate the financiers from any messy interventions from fixed capital or (gasp) the masses of greater London

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 12 points 23 hours ago

I mean that's how it functions but the why is dumb medieval commune shit, if the city of london didn't have civic rights from the charter the big money would just technically be registered in castletown or something