A Boring Dystopia

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Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. (act.represent.us)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

No one with power will ever pass laws to reduce their power, but a direct democracy would be very posible with modern technology.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That would be nice in the future. Unfortunately, the modern Web is not even in the ballpark of being secure enough for something like that (and it's trending worse, not better).

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