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On point. I would add that this is a false sense of the commentor getting their two cents in so they no longer care to participate any further.
by spoiledtechie 9y ago
On point. I would add that this is a false sense of the commentor getting their two cents in so they no longer care to participate any further.
- personlurking 9y agoOne might say the same for elections every 4 years.
- B1FF_PSUVM 9y agoMy pet theory is that the purpose of the USA 2016 do was to keep a large disaffected segment inside the tent. (Inside pissing out instead of outside pissing in, as the phrase goes. Until they go away or whatever, that's another day's problem.)
- kristopolous 9y agoIt split the tent. A ten thousand year old idea. Now poor screwed over urban dwellers and poor screwed over rural dwellers are fiercely blaming each other for messing everything up. Setting up a cycle of blame among the powerless disenfranchised groups is so old and still works so well.
- jacquesm 9y agoIt works well but it does not always end well. Civil wars have been started in this way.
- jessaustin 9y agoI think those are called "revolutions"?
- jacquesm 9y agoRevolutions to me indicate regime change rather than the population fighting itself. France went through a revolution, Yugoslavia through a civil war which led to its breaking up. What is happening right now pits one fragment of the population against another aka polarization, that's a harbinger of a possible civil war, not of a revolution.