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Re:U.S. Gas Prices Have Fallen for 50 Straight Days by toomuchtodo on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @10:41PM (#32338726)
Indeed, your entire comment is accurate, in broad strokes, across the electorate. Luckily, adoption is ramping quickly enough that we're already passed an inflection point in the US (per Bloomberg): https://archive.ph/wPQ9B

I still argue politics is broken if people don't care about climate change; that apathy flows to their representatives. C'est la vie, we'll clean it up on the backend with tech and clean energy's version of Moore's Law.

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Re:U.S. Gas Prices Have Fallen for 50 Straight Days by throwaway0a5e on Thursday August 04, 2022 @06:03AM (#32341093)
"People don't care enough about my pet issue" does not make politics broken for any value of pet issue no matter how legitimate said value is.

"Politics is broken" is right up there with the. "people are bad at X" family infantile assertions always boil down to the old Principal Skinner "everyone else is wrong and I'm right" argument. Said argument is inherently wrong for issues of social norms or consensus where the "average man" is always tautologically correct.

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