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> Just like taxi cabs and regulators have to adapt to Uber/AirBnb, we have to adapt to NSA/Palantir. If only someone like you were around 200+ years ago to tel
by frostmatthew 12y ago
> Just like taxi cabs and regulators have to adapt to Uber/AirBnb, we have to adapt to NSA/Palantir.
If only someone like you were around 200+ years ago to tell Washington, Jefferson, and Adams that they should accept new reality and adapt to the British seizing our ships, blockading our ports, burning our towns, and spilling our blood.
- trhway 12y agoon the other side Native Americans didn't adapt to the fire weapons used by colonists and used bows/arrows and horse mounted front attack tactics far too long. One can also argue that Washington et al. did accept the reality and thus didn't insist on some new laws/rules restricting British Crown power in the colonies.
- spacemanmatt 12y agoJust how can one adapt to gunfire? Grow a shield?
- shitlord 12y agoDon't be hyperbolic. trhway has a valid point. A lot of things around us are out of our control, so we have to adapt. Let's be honest, the political system is not within our control. Very, very little political change will come out of our complaints. Instead of repeatedly trying and failing to bring about meaningful change, we should adapt -- because that is the reasonable thing to do. We can't change the government's behavior, so let's change ours; something has to give.
- eurleif 12y ago>Instead of repeatedly trying and failing to bring about meaningful change, we should adapt -- because that is the reasonable thing to do. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
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