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Embarrassment, or is any form of political activism now seen as a threat?
by w_t_payne 13y ago
Embarrassment, or is any form of political activism now seen as a threat?
- secfirstmd 13y agoAgreed.
- XorNot 13y agoYeah because political activism is never ever sponsored by foreign actors as a means of fomenting unrest. Just ignore what's happening in the Ukraine right now, it might be devastating to your indignation.
- w_t_payne 13y agoFair point, but if the political system itself isn't capable of dealing with that sort of crap, then isn't that a problem that needs to be fixed by addressing the infrastructure of the system itself, rather than anything else? Our political institutions are supposed to reject special interests and make decisions for the national good. This, after all, is their primary function and raison d'etre. If some subset of those special interests (vis, foreign actors) need to be filtered out through some special mechanism, then what does that say about its robustness and fitness-for-purpose with respect to all the other groups trying to game the system?