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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:00:28 JST iced depresso
   gotta bribe em' all :blobcatprofit:
   congressmon
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:00:27 JST Sexy Moon

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     @icedquinn I was at a fancy restaurant a month or so ago and we were next to a table of some lobbyist guys who were talking loudly, they were bragging about bribing nancy pelosi over electric car stuff. I don't remember the details, but they literally said bribe haha.
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:01:31 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @Moon @icedquinn i think that's a really new development, that these things aren't really kept secret anymore. And why should they, everybody knows but just carries on.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:03:12 JST iced depresso

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain @Moon late stage fall of empires the derangement comes out full front and center because they'll never be punished for any of it
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:07:08 JST Sexy Moon

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain @icedquinn what's your position on lobbying? I admit that it's necessary because politicians don't know anything and need people from industries to explain why the industry is important, but using money to gain access has obvious problems.
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:07:08 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     • Sexy Moon
     @Moon @icedquinn it's an effective form of influencing government and that's the only reason why it's hated. it's just as illegitimate as any other form of forced government.
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:12:54 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @Moon @icedquinn i guess it's self-fulfilling, if it was not effective nobody would do it (well, unless gaslit into thinking it works #ivoted). The effects of lobbying have been a catastrophe for everyone but the root issue is that there's somebody to lobby, who can decide on policy with nearly absolute power. Politics is always a war, and in democracies it's a war of all against all.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:12:55 JST Sexy Moon

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain @icedquinn I don't know how you can say it's the only reason, if you gatekeep it by donation, then obviously it's going to bias toward established players and deep pockets.
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:14:36 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     • 「セル」cell (سل)
     @cell @icedquinn @Moon much better :cofe:
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     「セル」cell (سل) (cell@pl.ebin.zone)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:14:37 JST 「セル」cell (سل)

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain @icedquinn @Moon >voting
     >protesting
     >versus having #cofe with influential person of power
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:17:20 JST Sexy Moon

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @lain @icedquinn yeah I agree except effective for whom, certainly not for good governance, just yeah effective for getting a piece of the pie
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 22:43:24 JST Sexy Moon

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     • MattZ
     @colinsmatt11 @icedquinn @lain there are thousands of industries and they can't be knowledgeable about all of them, is what I mean but now I see what you mean about what I said lol
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 22:43:24 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @Moon @icedquinn @colinsmatt11 i think it's a whole wrong way of thinking that lead to all of this.
     
     1. the economy gets big
     2. governments should have a monopoly on regulation
     3. agents of the government can set rules
     4. those agents have no idea what to do because they are professional politicians
     5. bring in people from the economy to tell them what to do
     
     it doesn't make any sense if you don't believe in the schoolhouse rock version of politics.
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     MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 22:43:25 JST MattZ

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     @Moon @lain @icedquinn

     lobbying is important because politicians are incapable of doing their job.

     Well, I think we all can agree that there’s a better solution. :blobcatbot: