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On 10/15/24 20:29, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 15/10/2024 20:23, rbowman wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:06:23 +0200, D wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, rbowman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:06:01 -0700, John Ames wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Welcome to the 21st century, where each and every single goddamn thing
>>>>> is just a delivery platform for advertising...it's enough to make a
>>>>> guy wanna go live in a shack in the woods :/
>>>>
>>>> Ted Kaczynski had a good thing going for a while.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hmm, but could it perhaps be the lack of ads that finally made him go
>>> crazy? After all, our ads is the opium of the mind, keeping us happy and
>>> productive members of society!
>>
>> At this point political ads are coming close to unleashing my inner
>> berserker.
> 
> Our new government has united the country in a most unexpected way. 
> Everyone agrees they are total crap.
> 

The failure of our democracy, and US democracy, is that we don't have 
reasonable candidates to vote for.

Starmer, wasn't popular before the election, he actually got a much 
lower absolute number of votes than most winners, lower than Corbyn's 
both times.

I went through my candidates, one by one, trying to find one I could 
vote for. I couldn't find one. I think PR would help.

Same in the USA, who wants to vote for Trump or Harris?