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Thanks for the upvote! I agree with you. There's a bit of bias in all of this, and no matter how objective I try to be (or don't), I'm inherently making a poli
by snikolic 15y ago
Thanks for the upvote!
I agree with you. There's a bit of bias in all of this, and no matter how objective I try to be (or don't), I'm inherently making a political statement. Most political issues are way too complex to summarize with a website that spits out a binary answer in a giant font. It's dangerous to even try.
On the other hand, I think it's a travesty that our system is so opaque to its own constituents. I'm upset at how difficult it was for me to find a simple datapoint about a widely discussed and hot political issue - namely, what happens to my taxes? I'm still not 100% sure I've got the datapoint correct, either.
This is tricky: We lack information. Information isn't digestible by most folks unless it's in easily consumable soundbites and datapoints. But incomplete information, or information without context, might be just as dangerous as no information at all. So where do we start?
I have no idea, but it's been fun seeing some strangers tweet my site around.