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[–] hangukdise@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

America is truly exceptional... Nonagenarian politicians serve as lawmakers of an economy they barely understand, and part of a system of legalized bribery that reinforces their lack of interest in not understanding, while septuagenarian supreme court interpets and applies laws made in the aftermath of the civil war but are free to bend the meaning of laws as their personal political biases allow, and octagenarian presidents wield extreme unchecked power.

In this system, laws against abuse of personal information and exploitation of data will only be written in 2080 or later, after many lives of common people are damaged, until it damages the life of a congressman and then change happens.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not for the first time do I wish Lemmy had github-like responses. Up/downvotes are utterly inadequate; why didn't Lemmy learn this lesson from Reddit?

Anyway, I love how succinctly you summed up the state we're in. I've joked before that America would be well-served by the introducion of Carousel; I'm well past the Last Day age, but the older I get, the less it becomes a joke to me. It'd be better for the environment, too.

[–] hangukdise@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Oh the carousel. Anyway I just wished voters would vote more consciously but even that has been rigged so that people vote to those who appeal to their own fears and anger 😞