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Re:Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out by nabla9 on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:40PM (#13392699)
You should both color within and outside the lines.

But people who live in democracy complaining that the system is corrupt and not using the system to correct itself are deluding themselves.

There will never be better system that distributes real power without coercive action , corruption and dirty politics.

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Re:Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out by logfromblammo on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:54PM (#13392835)
As an occasional tabletop gamer, I can often conceive several different winning strategies just by reading the rules of the game.

In the game of American representative democracy, I would not recommend your strategy. It's playing for 2nd place.

If you truly believe what you said, you should be recommending that people act to corrupt a public official in a manner that provides some leverage to them, personally. Alternately, poach the blackmail material from someone who already has leverage.

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Re:Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out by AnimalMuppet on Friday January 13, 2017 @03:16PM (#13394322)
That strategy will increase your power, if it works. But it carries much higher downside risk...
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