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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by volkk on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:50PM (#21444964)
it's ridiculous how blatant it all is, to the point that even in modern media (e.g tv show Succession) pokes at all the cancer this stuff produces and its one of those things most people are like "yep its happening" but there is nothing being done to stop any of it. ive stopped using facebook/twitter ages ago. that stuff is the downfall of modern society
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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by president on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:07PM (#21445888)
I think you're absolutely right. It's frightening that there are so many wrongs happening in society today yet nobody seems to be able to stop them from happening. I'm not sure what has gone wrong here but I suspect it all stems from deep-rooted corruption in our leaders and institutions.
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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by momokoko on Monday November 04, 2019 @05:30PM (#21447324)
One of the unfortunate side effects of significantly reducing the power of democratically elected governments is that while the government has less power to do damage, it also less power to correct wrongs.
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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by CamperBob2 on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:55PM (#21449179)
On the other hand, if you reduced the Federal government's power enough, it wouldn't matter who was President.

The staggering amount of power we grant to the executive branch is one of several elephants in this particular room that no one really wants to talk about.

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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by donw on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:01PM (#21448573)
I think it's a pretty far stretch to say that the power of the Federal government has been "significantly reduced" in the past hundred years or so.

Happy to hear a good counter-argument, though...?

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Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm by 12xo on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:11PM (#21446550)
Its not corruption per se its perversion. Honor and integrity have been usurped by greed, money and power. As long as money = speech and corporations are considered constituents, the issue will prevail. The real solution is to outlaw campaign contributions and lobbying... But that's not going to happen as long as the foxes are guarding the hen house.
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