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Then donate millions in campaign contributions to ensure they actually care at all what you think!
by none2585 3mo ago
Then donate millions in campaign contributions to ensure they actually care at all what you think!
- vegetablepotpie 3mo agoCoordinated opposition campaigns against misinformed and dangerous legislation has been effective in stopping bad laws [1]. After a website blackout, including a Wikipedia shutdown, lawmakers in Washington decided not to proceed with the Stop Online Privacy Act in 2012. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
- none2585 3mo agoFrom your linked Wikipedia articles many corporations including Google were part of that opposite campaign. Exactly the type of people donating untold millions to our legislatures. Had nothing to do with any kind of grassroots pressure.
- anigbrowl 3mo agoWoohoo, what about this great success (checks notes) 14 years ago?! You think political counterparties don't adapt and refine their tactics?
- noosphr 3mo agoMoney is a poor substitute for people who care. The only people who think otherwise are terminally online losers who have never organized anything larger than a birthday party.
- verisimi 3mo agoAre you talking from experience? What legislation have you organised?
- mlnj 3mo ago> terminally online losers
- noosphr 3mo agoI got new bike lanes installed around the neogboirhood after I wrote to the local city representative about it, then went to a city where I did a PowerPoint presentation of all the places that you could get killed if the driver wasn't paying attention. It took a month from first letter to new bikelanes.
- none2585 3mo agoThis sounds like exactly the gumption we need to finally get the federal government to represent the common man.
- noosphr 3mo agoTwo people were killed in the next city within six months because no one bothered to fix their paths. One was a child. If someone had bothered to write to that council they'd be alive. But by all means, keep winning online arguments and doing nothing.
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- none2585 3mo agoNo I'm with you, I'm inspired. Let's fight them!
- verisimi 3mo agoThe speed of turn-around sounds impossible. That you are asking for bike lanes - which is already part of most local agendas - is more believable. I daresay if someone asked for the lanes to be removed, they would not get any traction.
- none2585 3mo agoMaybe in your country but not in the hellhole that is the US.
- someothherguyy 3mo agohttps://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/money-power-and-the-influence-of-ordinary-people-in-american-politics/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/money-power-... seems like a lot more people believe that than the population you are describing
- noosphr 3mo agoThis changes substantially when you ask people about their _own_ representatives: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/how-americans-view-congress-the-president-state-and-local-political-leaders/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/how-american...
- rsoto2 3mo agoEspiallat ($9.5 million) vs Darializa (350k) Money matters but a popular movement is more powerful still in some places look up DSA
- none2585 3mo agoUnfortunately "some places" does not include the US federal government.