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Jesus Christ, you have issues. It was an honest answer to your question, which no one else answered (in fact, you even got downvoted). Don't look a gift horse i

Jesus Christ, you have issues. It was an honest answer to your question, which no one else answered (in fact, you even got downvoted). Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. And don't assume you're not just like the people you're complaining about either. If you don't like my answer, that's your problem, not mine. But it was the best answer I could give, without bullshitting you. And I created my account during 2016 because that was yet another period of time when I happened to be looking for work, due to the volatility of this job market. Which this time is due to the high federal interest rates, which happened under Biden. I don't idolize any politicians, but I think some are definitely worse than others. And I barely spend time on here these days because the comment quality has gone way downhill. The red wave happened all over the world, FYI.

scrollaway 2y ago
Voting is a cop-out -- It's not that I don't like your answer, but telling people who find the system to be broken "just go vote" is like telling someone who's homeless "just get a job". It's unlikely to solve the issue, and ostriching out of the actual root cause. While a necessary part of a healthy democratic system, voting by itself does nothing to fix systemic issues, especially when those issues have to do with the voting system. The US's two-party system is a very good example of this. Election interference in romania is another.
- celdon25 2y ago
  That's fair, though if you were seriously looking for a comment that purports to completely solve a problem of this magnitude, especially this particular problem, you're not going to find one, here or anywhere. What can one person do to change an entire generation? But suppose for the sake of argument that I was assigned the responsibility to figure it out. The approach I would take is to leave no stone unturned to find every method to maximize the propagation of quality information, like Google did before they became evil. Now they stand in the way of it. Maybe instead of voting, one can lobby for ways to legislatively make this easier. And maybe it is possible to move the needle there as I've yet to come across such an effort that has been a source of inspiration. But maybe they just don't show up in the search results.
aguaviva 2y ago
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scrollaway 2y ago

Voting is a cop-out -- It's not that I don't like your answer, but telling people who find the system to be broken "just go vote" is like telling someone who's homeless "just get a job". It's unlikely to solve the issue, and ostriching out of the actual root cause. While a necessary part of a healthy democratic system, voting by itself does nothing to fix systemic issues, especially when those issues have to do with the voting system. The US's two-party system is a very good example of this. Election interference in romania is another.

celdon25 2y ago
That's fair, though if you were seriously looking for a comment that purports to completely solve a problem of this magnitude, especially this particular problem, you're not going to find one, here or anywhere. What can one person do to change an entire generation? But suppose for the sake of argument that I was assigned the responsibility to figure it out. The approach I would take is to leave no stone unturned to find every method to maximize the propagation of quality information, like Google did before they became evil. Now they stand in the way of it. Maybe instead of voting, one can lobby for ways to legislatively make this easier. And maybe it is possible to move the needle there as I've yet to come across such an effort that has been a source of inspiration. But maybe they just don't show up in the search results.

aguaviva 2y ago

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