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And coincidentally those minor improvements are only proposed a second before the election. Probably will never come through. Then you vote and then come another 4 years of tax cuts for the rich and money transfers to israel and the military.

We call this system a democracy, because you see, the power lies in the hands of the people. The power to tick a meaningless box that is.

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You can’t take the politics out of politics. Of course the timing is suspect, and on average efforts to make changes like this don’t succeed. But occasionally they do, and now is a good time to start talking about them. Forcing Republicans to take stances on things before November is an excellent idea, because the Republican party itself is in the process of crumbling, and depending on the outcome of the election, there is a chance to pass legislation on various issues that would make life better for the average American.

As you point out, the whole process is totally messed up, politics is so dirty, large corporations and the ultra wealthy are so powerful. But on occasion we do see positive change, so we shouldn’t write it off as impossible or meaningless.

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My asshole is bleeding only 22 out of 24 hours. I should be glad they didn’t fuck me more.

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I got two hours to spare, thats if you’re down.

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elections are not politics. they are a symbol that signifies absence. the big ones at least.

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election year

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Nope.

  1. The President isn’t running for reelection

  2. The Biden Administration has been going after junk fees, anti consumer practices (e.g. refunds being issued as vouchers instead of cash), and dark patterns for its entire term.

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Just because he isn’t running does not mean he doesn’t care.

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So we agree; he’s doing this because he cares.

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The junk fees and other anti-consumer practices was something Biden was pushing for while VP too. The big one, at the time, being that charges have to hit an account in chronological order so that banks can’t re-arrange the order of charges to maximize over draft fees.

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The President isn’t running for reelection

I wouldn’t necessarily count that out, since Biden still has an interest in boosting Kamala Harris’ chances.

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Better law: almost nothing can be a subscription.

Printer ink should not be subscription. You should just be able to buy ink. Shows and movies should not be subscription. You should just be able to pay for what you want. Internet service should not be a subscription. You should just pay for your usage.

There’s an incredibly small number of things that benefit the consumer by being subscription. Subscriptions are to benefit the seller and usually by trying to offer as little product as possible for as much money as possible.

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slight disagree on internet, usage based pricing does work for a fair amount of people, but there should also be price tiers for guaranteed speed and latency without having to resort to business plans. For example, if the ISP advertises 1gbps, they should be held to a standard of say 800mbps for at least 3 9’s reliability, and/or ping within some deviation based on your distance to the local hub.

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Ya know honestly I’d be happy if they had to guarantee only 10% of what they advertised as the “up to” speed. In the afternoon, I’m only getting 0.1-0.5 mbit/s upload on my Gbit plan. It’s infuriating to wait 3 minutes for a teams message to send

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internet should be a free public service, and if we’re going to have a government, they should be running it. the one major disadvantage of that is that they would absolutely spy on you, which the corporations freely let them do anyway, but charge us out the ass for. fuck them.

and if you want to keep the corpos (why?) it’s not even about speed: the only costs of internet access are initial infra, backbone licensing, and maintenance. none of those are super use dependent; the parts are not mechanical, and do not wear much faster with increased throughput.

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Shows and movies should not be subscription

In addition to the other complaint about internet services, which I agree with. This also makes little sense. Cable was essentially a subscription service to media. Media should not be locked to a service, it should be freely available to buy yourself or stream providers to license for their services and compete for price. There shouldn’t be media silos where content producers also act as sole distributors.

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Proposed but like… that means pretty much nothing right?

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How do policies get in place in your reality?

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Usually has to pass a vote in both the house and Senate then be signed by the president, so plenty of chances for the bill to fail or be entirely gutted and turned terrible

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Stop muddling fucking unrelated laws together in the same bill!!! This is why good shit doesn’t get passed.

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These aren’t actually bills. The press release in question is documenting Rules that the mentioned agencies are proposing adding to the CFR, which is controlled by the executive branch (although Congress does have some oversight/ability to veto that has grown recently due to Conservatives wanting to curtail the ability of a Democratic executive to improve people’s lives without negotiating through a Republican controlled filibuster) and separate from the US that is the set of laws controlled by the legislative branch. And these are separate rules within the CFR, probably not related to each other at all except for both being mentioned in the same press release.

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