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It's an election year, don't hold your breath.
If one party's election-year pandering is legalizing marijuana and enforcing antitrust law, I'll take it.
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It's an election year, don't hold your breath.
If one party's election-year pandering is legalizing marijuana and enforcing antitrust law, I'll take it.
It's better but it's still a half measure and far away from the blanket pardons that the President (any president) needs to be signing asap.
I get the whole "progress is slow thing" but this is a case of politicians being the only slow ones. A supermajority of the public supports alcohol/marijuana parity.
Let's however not get too caught up in feel-goodism that somehow breaking up Ticketmaster is ridding the live entertainment industry of some external leech that everyone hated. You should realize that venues and artists are equally beneficiaries of what Ticketmaster enables. In a sense they enjoy having Ticketmaster be the hated scapegoat for high prices that they then also enjoy the benefits of. Without Ticketmaster…
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Of course it's feasible. Nobody is saying "go to Europe", they are saying to not go to concerts. To effect change, you have to make sacrifices.
Exactly. This is not a food company. We're talking about a product (live event tickets) that is totally optional and which nobody has to buy. This should be the simplest "vote with your wallet" scenario ever. If everyone collectively stopped buying the tickets, they'd either be out of business or be forced to change their practices. People like their bands more than they dislike Ticketmaster, so TM is not going to vo…
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I think the objection is the timing. If the administration truly cared about such things, they'd do them in non-election years. But they seem to save up these things for election years so people feel listened to.
I’m confused about why you’re so opposed to the biggest climate legislation package ever signed into law.
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In this case, because I don't expect Biden to win another term and I expect the prosecution of this case to take longer than a year. The last several administrations have opened their term by tearing down everything that the prior administration had done. To be specific: I'm not confident the prosecutor behind this will have a job at the end of the year.
I genuinely think that if Biden does not win another term there are far larger problems for the American project than Ticketmaster, including democracy existing as we know it today.
American politics are full of superlatives, and very devoid of any real actions. Once the hero or the devil gets elected, nothing happens much.
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So is my theory for what its worth: https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba The US as a democracy isn't supported by evidence.
Giving up on your democratic representation is not going to make things better.
> “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”
I know that Ticketmaster's role is to play the bad guys and most artists are in on the scam because they get some of the "fees" without the blame. But this is ridiculous. I found some old tickets that I saved as mementos and some were as low as $20. I saw someone posted pics from a show in the 80s that was $5. This is just absurd.
Take them down. As one of my favorite bands would say (Floyd) "cut them into little pieces."
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I genuinely think that if Biden does not win another term there are far larger problems for the American project than Ticketmaster, including democracy existing as we know it today.
On your opposite side, they think if Biden wins babies will die horrible deaths. American politics are full of superlatives, and very devoid of any real actions. Once the hero or the devil gets elected, nothing happens much.
Jeez, How did Govt take this long to break up Live Nation. How?
The Administration is bound by the Due Care clause, but that's a huge window, so you can just intentionally create a dysfunctional and incompetent group of people and give them the responsibility for enforcing this nations laws. This Administration, although it would hate to actually admit it out loud, actually put someone competent in charge of the agency with this enforcement responsibility and then.. to everyone's…