Quote (Plaguefear @ Dec 10 2024 08:39am)
Citizens united nullifies all the nonsense you just typed out, your average fortune 500 ceo has the voting power of a hundred million people.
and as always the same people who want to kill us if we don't give in to their unworkable political demands are the ones who want to suppress our political expression and overturn the first amendment.
You know I don't actually
want to be the ardent civil libertarian I am today. I'd much rather be focused on issues and progress. A basic respect for free speech and fair trials makes me stand out from the ravenous horde of cockroaches trying to eat away at the structure of our democracy. Goomshill used to say stuff like hey, lets build infrastructure to compete with Japan and China. Now its "Lets not burn down the infrastructure of our republic". I need to give a sermon about how elections should be decided by a mandate of the voters and not the bullet of a lone gunman. Or how trials should be decided by the weight of evidence judged impartially, not appeasing a lynch mob. Or how you effect change by passing laws not by terrorist attacks.
Arguing with someone like plaguefear is very much like trying to explain the ethos of the Magna Carta to a surly lot of Taliban goatfuckers. I might as well try teaching them why you don't run SFTP through a compressed SSH tunnel on a slow connection