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Re:Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop ... by kfprt on Sunday August 08, 2021 @08:58AM (#28106357)
I completely understand your feelings regarding a lack of control and agency. Modern politics now essentially revolve around outrage. No politician wants to vote on something at all controversial, every vote they take is liable to outrage one half of the population or another. Every time they do they halve their voting base until it's an irrelevant tiny minority that agrees on everything. So they have outsourced their job to the supreme court, federal agencies, and the parliamentarian. If you can cause enough outrage you will find that they fold relatively easily.
Re:Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop ... by kook_throwaway on Sunday August 08, 2021 @02:22PM (#28108832)
There's plenty of things governments could be busy doing that aren't controversial, but managing the existing state doesn't have nearly the glamour (or reelection PR) of changing it.
Re:Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop ... by sokoloff on Sunday August 08, 2021 @02:36PM (#28108976)
These topics tend not to be uncorrelated, so making 4 votes doesn’t leave you with 1/16th of your base, but often with 31/32nds of your base.