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84% Of Americans Want Tougher Online Privacy Laws, But Congress Is Too Corrupt To Follow Through (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 45 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Congress is an organ of the ruling class and always has been. When they (rarely) do something seemingly against ruling class interests, it is still a strategem to best keep the capitalism boat afloat (it tries to sink every 5-10 years).

Sure, Congress is corrupt, but it always has been. The system is working more or less as designed. And if you want to oppose this design, the system is also designed to fight you to the death. And funneling all of your capacity into sheepdog voting is how your masters tell you you should oppose them. So if you want to oppose this system, you must become informed as to how it functions and join up with like-minded individuals to develop actually effective means of resistance.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just because you are in the minority doesn't make the system corrupt.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's true! I'm glad I didn't say anything like, "the system is corrupt because I'm in the minority".

PS, the ruling class is a minority.

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