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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by lopmotr on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @08:22PM (#24783370)
Donating to politicians only has an effect to the extent that some voters insist on voting for the most well-funded politicians. They are the real problem because they are the ones actually deciding who gets into government. You should vote against all high donation-receiving politicians to help cancel out those soul-hurting votes.

Unfortunately, most of the people who complain about this stuff don't actually care enough to vote against it, and they become part of the problem themselves.

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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by adrianN on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:44AM (#24785027)
In the US you have the choice between two candidates. Both of them take every dollar that they can get. Do you propose people should just stop voting?
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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by lopmotr on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:08PM (#24843945)
There are other candidates but they don't spend enough for people to know they exist. Vote for one of them. It doesn't matter which because they won't win but they don't have to. They just have to "steal" enough votes from one of the major party candidates to cause them to lose. Next time round, they'll have to adjust their policy to be against political donations in order to win back those activist voters.
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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by zaarn on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:24AM (#24785467)
The solution for the US would be the first radically reform it's election and voting systems.
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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by adrianN on Thursday October 15, 2020 @03:01AM (#24785693)
The people should just vote for a candidate from a party that doesn't benefit from the current system... wait
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Re:Google employees are free to speak up, except on antitrust by randmeerkat on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:58PM (#24784424)
It doesn’t matter how you vote. Money in politics will win every time. Blaming the voters is victim blaming. This is just late stage capitalism at its finest.

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...

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