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Indeed

Voters: We want a lefty MTG, screaming at the SOTU and saying outrageous shit all the time!

[eventually gets lefty MTG screaming at the SOTU and saying outrageous shit all the time]

Voters: Not like that!

Well that’s true.

What have you burned down? Sounds like you’re mostly working within the system to improve it and being a reasonable professional serving the greater good in the best way you know, which is (apparently) lame.

Nah that’s too much work. Shitting on the Dems on the intertubes is way easier.

WHERE’S THE MONEY LEBOWSKI

Yep!

. . . Well that and the oil industry.

what would be needed to change the status quo.

One of the following:

• widespread media literacy
• competent understanding of technology
• a gun

I’ve recently accepted that the vast majority of people who use technology daily will never question or understand how it works, but will act as if it is indispensable, omniscient, and impenetrable.