Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

Re:Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline by pookeh on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:31PM (#18650961)

> If you're a regular person, it takes a lot of time and energy and you get nothing out of it. One vote never made a difference.

Except when you start preaching that idea, then you are part of the masses that think that way, and hence the minority of people who do vote, and who do not represent the majority opinion, are the ones that influence the outcome.

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Re:Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline by jondubois on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:43PM (#18651017)

I'd rather be part of the masses who think rationally. If it were up to me, the system would look very different but it's not. I have 0 influence. The best I can do for myself is leave the country if it gets bad.

If everyone thought like me, then society would churn through governments like toilet paper and life would be better for people like me who only stand to benefit from change.

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Re:Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline by InitialLastName on Monday December 10, 2018 @05:49PM (#18651819)

If you don't think it can change for the worse, I'd like to point you towards some properly failed states.

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