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Because they are the people who live there, because they make their lives there, because having large percentages of their wealth stripped away by some leech doesn't make them wors…

How is that disingenuous? Amazon is as aggressively anti-union as any company out there. This is exactly in line with the platform she was elected on and the things she is saying a…

Amazon doesn't give out jobs out of the goodness of their heart. Every person they employ they do so with the goal of making more than it costs to employ that person. So why should…

As a taxpayer I would prefer we didn't give any for profit business so much as a nickel. Part of what's so ridiculous about all this is if you picked 2 places for Amazon to go then…

A yes, it's the NIMBY's. Got nothing to do with billion dollar giveaways to trillion dollar corporations. Amazon is just such a benevolent force that they deserve, and Jeff is a ph…

> So marketing to law enforcement is unethical? Yes. The police state is unethical and doing anything to further it is unethical.

> We really need center of the aisle, common sense to be popular again in this country Okay, so left of the democrats. I'd be fine with that. I don't think you know what intersecti…

ICE is as good an example of the police state as anything else.

First off, I disagree. Any scientist should be aware of what they are building. Second, they actively market to law enforcement.

Well now that's the real problem, they don't. They will face no real consequences for this. In fact they will probably fight hard to ensure they can keep making money, no matter th…

> He added that he thought it was the government’s responsibility to help specify regulations around the technology. That's true but it doesn't absolve them of responsibility. They…

If the airbags have a problem which causes them to hurt shrapnel into peoples faces you can't fix that with a software update. and why is being able to push updates to heavy machin…

I was hoping this would be much a critique of the tendency of people to place too much faith in technology, to ignore the human element of solutions, and (among SV types especially…

They should really just have anyone who asks if they can control the car using an app tossed out.

> Tesla turned the car into a software problem No, they convinced fanboys that they turned it into a software problem. The reality is they are no different than any other auto manu…

New York is also really bad about registering people. It's absolutely about a failure to install proper checks on entrenched power.

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Except the US was founded on the idea of a limited franchise.

But you should right?

A republic which partially uses representative democracy, but mostly exists to ensure power to the landowning minority. Nowadays it's not about land of course, but it still exists …

Forcing people ot wait hours for voting is a tactic used to discourage voters and more effectively disenfranchise groups you don't want voting. White majority area has 15 minute li…

> my state had early voting for weeks so there really isn't a "voting day" issue here. (Georgia). Except for the massive campaigns to disenfranchise voters. Which you didn't bother…

If any sort of monitors were looking at this election it wouldn't be considered legitimate. Brian Kemp should be in jail for his actions. Actually he never should have been in a po…

No part of the US federal government is representative at this point. The Senate isn't by design, the house isn't because it's been capped, the presidency isn't by design.

Because a democracy and a republic are not mutually exclusive, unless you are talking about direct democracy specifically. China is a republic but not a democracy. Canada is a demo…