Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians
by ssss11 on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:20AM
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I’d genuinely like to know how everday citizens get their government to do the rght thing. It seems everywhere around the world they just do what benefits themselves. people protest, and get hit with rubber bullets, but nothing seems to change.
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I've been wondering the same thing lately. The solution isn't with protesting in the street, even if you can topple the government, you just get more tyranny from the next crowd.
Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians
by sthnblllII on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:42AM
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Unlike the Ron Popiel rotisserie oven, politics isn’t “set and forget”. There’s no magic system where, once established, good honest people can ignore politics and have effective government.
I would suggest to vote with your feet.
Pick a government you like and move there, instead of trying to change the government in the place you happen to be born in.
Voting with your feet also changes where you pay taxes. (Unless you are American, then you need to jump through some extra hoops to make sure your mother country doesn't get your money any more.)
Re:Google: Open Letter to Australians
by throwaway45349 on Monday August 17, 2020 @09:34AM
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I'm not sure this is a good idea. Why would anyone abandon their home/nation to jump ship into a culture they know nothing about -- except for government policy? Only in the US with it's state system is what you're describing practical.
The US is far from the only federal country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism#Examples
You are not only jumping to a new government policy, but the whole package changes. Including culture etc. Yes.
Many people around the world are looking to migrate. If borders were more open, many more people would migrate. About why? You could go and ask some of them. (Or as an alternative, Googling for 'why do people migrate?' gives lots of results to studies etc.)