Re:Is my plane a 737 MAX?
by 93po on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:29PM
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What do you call giving government officials lots of money to take anticompetitive actions that personally benefit you that they would otherwise never do and also have a clear conflict of interest with the purpose of their elected position?
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I call it representative democracy.
representing only those with the most money at the expense of literally everyone else
This just isn't true. It's a weird fantasy of helplessness which breeds inaction. Our system is imperfect sure but not broken. This level of apathy is a choice and promoting it is harmful.
Re:Is my plane a 737 MAX?
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @11:59PM
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> giving government officials lots of money to take anticompetitive actions that personally benefit you
Give a specific case. Because almost all of them, with Boeing, involve on one hand a $5k donation, and on the other hand, a factory in the district. Guess which one gets you an urgent meeting with the Congressman.
Tech, in particular, has this cartoonish totem of how politics works. This usually ends hilariously. But in this case, it’s being used to justify inaction, which is conveniently self fulfilling.