Congress has a very low approval rating. It's safe and effective to make fun of them. There's been two threads here on/. now and 90% of the comments are defending Amazon over the politician.
Amazon is one of if not the largest company on earth. Everything they're is doing here is carefully thought out and focus group tested. They picked a strategy to manipulate the voting public based on that testing, and as near as I can tell it's working. Anti-Union sentiment is strong despite reams of evidence and re
Actually, I only dislike lobbyist politicians. The traitor kind. Not the passionate kind that has become very rare nowadays.
Warren and Sanders used to be the latter kind. I'm not up to date of if they still are. But I'm assuming they are.
But I still think there's better solutions than politicians. (Democracy in a whole country is a delusion of something that doesn't work for groups beyond 100-150 people. So we call oligarchies with mock elections "democracy".)
Its socialism and communism that dont work beyond about 100-150 people. Tribes are often run as reasonably successful communisms or socialisms, but that model falls apart at scale. Often with a touch of popular democracy thrown in, yes. But democracies also most definitely work at larger scale. We certainly dont live in an oligarchy. Obama would NEVER have been president in a US based oligarchy. For that matter, neither would Biden, having come from a truly poor background. Trump and the Bushs, on the othe
Obama was president *because* of US-based oligarchy. Remember the 2008 bailouts?
He was one of the best things that ever happened to them. Who do you think arranges all the big money for canidates if they return the favor? Why do you think the establishment strongly preferred Clinton over Sanders, or anyone else over Trump? Because the establishment strongly prefers those who are bought off and paid for.
Because everybody hates politicians? (Score:5, Insightful)
Amazon is one of if not the largest company on earth. Everything they're is doing here is carefully thought out and focus group tested. They picked a strategy to manipulate the voting public based on that testing, and as near as I can tell it's working. Anti-Union sentiment is strong despite reams of evidence and re
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Actually, I only dislike lobbyist politicians. The traitor kind.
Not the passionate kind that has become very rare nowadays.
Warren and Sanders used to be the latter kind. I'm not up to date of if they still are. But I'm assuming they are.
But I still think there's better solutions than politicians. (Democracy in a whole country is a delusion of something that doesn't work for groups beyond 100-150 people. So we call oligarchies with mock elections "democracy".)
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Re:Because everybody hates politicians? (Score:2)
Obama was president *because* of US-based oligarchy. Remember the 2008 bailouts?
He was one of the best things that ever happened to them.
Who do you think arranges all the big money for canidates if they return the favor? Why do you think the establishment strongly preferred Clinton over Sanders, or anyone else over Trump? Because the establishment strongly prefers those who are bought off and paid for.