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Dream on...

• toomuchtodo 10y ago
  I don't dream, I do. I apply political and financial pressure against my Congressional reps, and have even threatened (with someone else's financial backing) running someone against them (which secured their vote for a socially progressive bill I wanted passed). But you do you. I enjoy applying pressure in the political space, and I play a long game.
  • jMyles 10y ago
    I'm not disagreeing about representative pressure. Listen, I've been in almost every congressional office building on the hill and participated in several house campaigns, including a successful one. But I also don't kid myself: this kind of action is not playing the long game. The agenda is set such that congress really doesn't even get to vote on the important matters directly. For example, there will never be a vote directly on the matter of whether to spend money gleaned from taxing gig economy companies on shoring up services or bombing brown people. But that's not even the point. Government is not the long game. The state is temporary and its time is nearly over. The long game is human evolution, especially what we today call "technology."
    • notriddle 10y ago
      Government is a fact of how humans think. Tech isn't going to change how our brains work.
      • jMyles 10y ago
        No?
        • toomuchtodo 10y ago
          Check out how much cash the Clinton's and DNC poured into her campaign. A lot of good tech did there! /s "The state is temporary"? How outlandish. The state will outlive you, and will crush you if the people don't use effort to coerce it in the right direction. Tech might help or hurt a cause, but people will be the ones who are needed to win the day, not tech. But don't believe me; just watch who is getting inaugurated.