I am disappointed in you @Anaximines. I have more respect for your intelligence than to have thought you were capable of putting out such a set of misleading, trite, and trivial questions. But of course, because you are bright - unlike some downrampers who will remain nameless, you are, in fact, intellectually capable - what I should have said was that I didn’t think you were morally capable.
Your post resembles the far-right MAGA legislators who are asking these types of “give me a yes or no” questions in their so-called House “investigations” in the U.S. where they equate social programs with communism and authoritarianism and when it is these same far-right idiots that are exhibiting controlling characteristics and yearning for authoritarianism. Your questions appear to me take a position that because a group of people is part of what should be a respected government/quasi-government organisation, they could not break the law, be self-serving, or carry out activities that are plainly immoral. One only has to take a look at the robo-debt scheme to see that people who we put in positions of power are capable of abusing that power for “the party”, political, or personal reasons.
I and several others could answer all of your questions and still support ISX, but we have done that already - several times. So if you are really interested in serious non-trivial answers, I invite you to go look them up. But I don’t think you will do that. You were more interested in looking clever than in attempting to get to any truth.
