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I appreciate that this investigation/raid is being conducted without becoming a major political talking point. Refreshing to see the government simply doing its
by FlamingMoe 2y ago
I appreciate that this investigation/raid is being conducted without becoming a major political talking point. Refreshing to see the government simply doing its job.
- aaomidi 2y agoAt this point I want yearly elections because it seems like election year is the only time the government does its job. Maybe even monthly elections!
- xenospn 2y agoWe have elections every two years! Really more than enough.
- JohnFen 2y agoFar more than enough. We're basically always in an election cycle, and always being subjected to all the electioneering BS that brings. It's utterly exhausting and infuriating.
- anigbrowl 2y agoImagine a job where you only undergo a performance review and the risk of not having your contract renewed once every two years. You have to be George Santos levels of untrustworthy to get ejected by your fellow legislators.
- leereeves 2y agoAs it should be. The legislators should be chosen by the people, not by other politicians. And I seriously doubt the people want to choose more than once every two years (many only vote once every four years).
- anigbrowl 2y agoThis rather misses the point that it's very easy for an incumbent to pass a biannual performance review unless they're massively corrupt or out of touch, which translates to giving politicians an undeserved level of job security.
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- Cerium 2y agoWhy not continuous elections? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_of_no_confidence
- gruez 2y agoIn practice nobody party is going to call a motion of no confidence over trivial stuff like this, so it's a poor substitute. Those mostly get triggered over failure to pass a budget, or over a deeply unpopular law/executive order.
- QuarterReptile 2y agoThe Republican speaker of the house system.
- burkaman 2y agoFederal investigation of RealPage has been ongoing since at least 2022 (https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-realpage-rent-doj-investigation-antitrust https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-realpage-rent-d...).
- psychlops 2y agoYou could have them every hour and would still have to choose between two candidates that nobody wants. There is a lot more to fix.
- cyanydeez 2y agoOr you could just stop electing Republicans for awhile.
- webwielder2 2y ago[flagged]
- ecshafer 2y agoDOJ gained antitrust clearance for investigating RealPage in 2017.
- jabart 2y agoLooks like most of it kicked off in 2022, first flag was in 2017 and did not make a lot of movement. "Though some career DOJ staff members were concerned about the merger, political appointees leading the agency at the time under Trump chose not to challenge it in court, according to the source with knowledge of the matter." https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-realpage-rent-doj-investigation-antitrust https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-realpage-rent-d... Edit flipped a negative
- stronglikedan 2y agoYes, if it's illegal, why wouldn't they? In fact, it appears they did. (and will do it again, if necessary)