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Cynicism helps people feel smart, when in many cases it actually just reveals their immense ignorance (such as this case).
by llamaimperative 2y ago
Cynicism helps people feel smart, when in many cases it actually just reveals their immense ignorance (such as this case).
- kylebenzle 2y agoIn this case ticketmaster is a scape goat by design so artists can charge whatever they want.
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- llamaimperative 2y agoAnd what bearing does that have on the discussion at hand?
- wumeow 2y agoThis is actually supported by evidence: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167218783195 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167218783195
- willcipriano 2y agoSo is my theory for what its worth: https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba The US as a democracy isn't supported by evidence.
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- __loam 2y agoGiving up on your democratic representation is not going to make things better.
- willcipriano 2y agoWhat democratic representation? > “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
- __loam 2y agoYeah that's what happens when over 40% of the voting public gives up like you. No representation.
- vsnf 2y agoThis defeatist attitude is unhelpful. Are you prepared to lose nearly everything come November? What will you do when the dictatorship looms over you, will you accept your dwindling freedoms? What would cause you to actually stand up for yourself and fight for a better future? I see this attitude espoused a lot and I wonder if any of the people who say so will just roll over and accept a creeping totalitarianism with a shrug. Is there literally anything at all that you'd be proactive about? If you have causes you are passionate about but you refuse to participate in the (hard won, bloodily won) civic right of voting, then your ability to affect those causes will evaporate. No matter how much you think your government doesn't care now, they will care even less when it is truly, wholly, dictatorially unaccountable to you. And then what? What was your anti-voting stance for? A substantial chunk of the electorate seems to prefer losing and then whining about outcomes as long as it allows them to pat themselves on the back for 'staying above it all and seeing the futility all along'. I implore you instead to care, hold your officials accountable, and vote. A bad future is not inevitable.
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- willcipriano 2y agoDictators can actually get something done for you, I'd prefer that to our current anarcho-tyranny. "Francis's term "anarcho-tyranny" refers to armed dictatorship without rule of law, or a Hegelian synthesis when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens' lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law."
- wumeow 2y agoYet the authors of that study recommend increased voter turnout.
- EasyMark 2y agoA lot of people (domestic but especially foreign axis of evil countries) want us to feel discouraged this way so we'll stop voting and let MAGA win, because they aren't going to stop anytime soon.
- refurb 2y agoOr, they've lived on enough to see the impact of regulation go wrong.
- llamaimperative 2y agoLike good design, good regulation becomes invisible. Actual wisdom is recognizing and counteracting that bias.
- refurb 2y agoAll regulation has a cost. And if based on the track record of the US government, it tends to be high and even potentially introduce weird incentives that solve one problem but create two more.
- llamaimperative 2y agoLack of regulation has costs too. I’m open to your argument if you can demonstrate somehow what “tends” to be true. I suspect you can’t, and neither can I, which is why we should assess regulations on a case by case basis of their own merits instead of totally unsupportable “regulation good” or “regulation bad” maxims.