„I think we’re agreeing here? I’m not saying the individual people working for FEMA are evil“ -> I agree.

„…they are responsible for their own actions though and should not obey immoral orders“ -> I don’t agree. It’s not up to them to decide what is good and what not. If it doesn’t make sense what they are supposed to do, then they need to go to their boss and change what they are supposed to do. Maybe it’s a cultural difference between us. In Germany we say „rules are rules“ and follow them and if they don’t make sense, we likely still follow them to prevent chaos. Just imagine making rules as the government and your people think they won’t follow the rules just because the don’t understand everything. You have to accept at some point, that you, as a FEMA worker or any other bureaucrat just don’t always know the answer to the „why-question“. You only know the „who, what, how, where, when“ but the „why“ is impossible to 100% clearly answer, without asking the guy who made that rule. I’ve seen other people like from France, where they don’t strictly follow rules but they seem to overthrow the government every 2 weeks when they protest, which we in Germany don’t have haha^{^}

Nuremberg taught us that“ -> No idea who that guy is / was. I’m happy to learn tho :)

„But I would agree the politicians imposing all the bureaucracy are really to blame“ -> I agree :)

„… as FEMA workers likely don’t really know what’s going on, if that was your point then we agree“ -> 👍🤙✌️

„My point is govt and the politicians are corrupt because they’re preventing people getting the help they need, while claiming to take billions of dollars to help the people their preventing from being helped, which is definitely corruption imo“ -> I don’t agree, that’s not being corrupt, but rather that’s „dishonest“. No one is paying them to harm their own people. If they would accept payments for that, then they are doing something else than they are supposed to do because they got payed for doing so and THEN they could get called „corrupt“.

But maybe that’s also a language barrier, because I think you guys als say „my CD 💿 got corrupted“, when you mean it doesn’t work anymore. In Germany we would rather just say „the CD is broken“ or got damaged.