Just because the solution isn’t readily available doesn’t mean that its a lost cause. In most cases, no individual is solely responsible for the whole problem. It takes a huge coordinated effort from the public via protesting to make any impactful difference.

And it’s not a radical change in terms of it being a completely new concept. If anything it’s just going back to pre 2005 which is exactly the root of the problem (citizens united vs FEC)

I’m not a citizen of this country and I don’t have the ability to vote, but the reality that your vote and your voice means nothing to those in power must be incredibly depressing.

But this isn’t something that has existed for a long time. This has only become an issue since citizens united vs FEC in 2005

I mean, YMMV. Sinema ostensibly ran on a progressive platform from a seat in a purple state where liberals were perennial losers. Nobody looked too deeply because the idea of Team-D winning was more important than the idea of placing a competent and trustworthy candidate in the seat.

Combine that with the fact people just don’t have much contact with their elected officials. Mass media doesn’t do a particularly good job of highlighting who is or isn’t trustworthy (in large part because media is also owned and operated by corporate interests).

The biggest problem is not the individuals who lie, but the system that allows them to take bribes without repercussions.

I’m very confused why Americans don’t realize the fact that their democracy is basically non existent.

Elected officials are paid by corporations to make decisions in favor of these corporations and sometimes against the interests of the normal people. The representatives no longer represent.

If I paid my teachers in school to modify the exams so that only I know all the answers, that’d be called bribery.

However, when it comes to the government (of the people, for the people) being controlled by a few billionaires, it’s called lobbying instead of bribery.

This guy would’ve definitely sided with the British in colonial india.

https://sopuli.xyz/comment/19242346

Calm down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4

It’s not too long (15 minutes), but it’s a very good speech about the economic situation in India before and after British colonization.

I saw this number on another post about the same article. And the original math was something like 10 million is 1% of a billion. And Bezos is worth ~250 billion.

So 10 million would be 1/250 of 1% of his wealth. And i did the math to see what that would amount to for a normal person.

If you have $100k in total (savings, investing, properties etc), 1% would be $1000. And 1/250 of that is $4.

So if Bezos was someone who had around $100k in total, the amount he was asked to pay to clean up the entire towns shit is $4.

Someone please check my math.

Not an American. But I’ve heard the same explanation. And it does make sense to me.

However, why do Americans say “Fourth of July” then?

I fully agree with the content OP posted.

But I cannot help myself.

*Your

As someone in academia who writes code, I can confirm.

Do you happen to have a link to that video?

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Her woes have not stopped. <Foo>, who has spoken to the national press about the issue before, has been targeted by vandals and has even received death threats since speaking out.

Adding insult to injury.

This is a shit post now ?

Media headlines that use the word lobbying probably do it so that people don’t take up arms. If they were to instead call it bribery, I think a lot more people would take issue with the whole process.

Scale that up and the final form is insurance that’s controlled by the government. I fully support that btw, the government is supposed to represent the interests of the people (at least in an ideal democracy)