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This is a "everyone does it" excuse. The reality is that the game rules are twisted by those who spend the most. Look at the dollars involved in Amazon or oth
by r00fus 5y ago
This is a "everyone does it" excuse. The reality is that the game rules are twisted by those who spend the most.
Look at the dollars involved in Amazon or other corporations vs. the EFF and you'll see enough of a disparity that EFF and you calling your congresscritter are a rounding error in comparison.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> Look at the dollars involved in Amazon or other corporations vs. the EFF and you'll see enough of a disparity that EFF and you calling your congresscritter are a rounding error in comparison I agree with you. But people observing that disparity in influence and access and concluding that the solution is to call for banning lobbying is part of the problem. (There is a host of problems, ranging from campaign finance laws to disclosure rules. They each need a solution that, unfortunately, hasn't yet found a compelling banner.)
- Nasrudith 5y agoRights are symmetrical in a functional system. Everyone does it isn't an excuse it is an acknowledgement that trying to make it "nobody does it" won't work. At best the courts will strike it down and at worst you will have just established a small priveledged class of exceptions.
- r00fus 5y agoWouldn't it be more appropriate to call our current system dysfunctional? Clearly in such a system rights are not symmetrical.