• @nialv7
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    111 month ago

    The problem is not the government got to choose - in a functioning democracy, the government would represent the will of the people.

    The problem is this democracy is fucked.

    • WatDabney
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      41 month ago

      Citizens United was a death sentence for the ideal of the government representing the will of the people.

      Trump’s election is the final nail in its coffin. He hasn’t even taken office yet and he’s already brazenly selling influence

      And if he and the oligarchs have their way about it, it won’t he long before we won’t even be able to say things like that. Not because the oligarchy will do something so doomed to failure as trying to censor it themselves, but because sites that don’t “choose” to censor whatever they want censored will be banned.