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Controlled opposition (europe.pub)
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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

How would that work? Nobody is allowed to talk to a sitting Congress? They just go into seclusion every two years?

Communication is fine. All voters have the equal opportunity to talk to their representative (lottery system if too much demand).

Companies don't get the right to talk to representatives, except indirectly via voters.

Capped, controlled benefits are passed from voters to representative (mainly time Volunteered). No financial benefits from corporations. Election funding is centralised and limited.

We don't even have proper candidate run elections anymore. It's all dark money running influence campaigns 24/7/365 from private think tanks and media companies.

I'm saying we make this illegal.

Like, what are you going to do with FOX News or MSNBC during election season?

Ban election opinion pieces. Enforce only facts reported. Full speeches, not soundbites.

Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson? With Twitter and Facebook?

Anyone with over X followers has their political opinions censored unless they are registered as running for election.

asking politicians to regulate themselves.

Certainly not. Enforced by an independent judge.

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    Communication is fine. All voters have the equal opportunity to talk to their representative (lottery system if too much demand).

    I'm reminded of the national media having a meltdown because Bill Clinton traded a few words with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in Phoenix. Now I'm imagining this kind of scandal every time a Congressman trades words with a next-door neighbor.

    Capped, controlled benefits are passed from voters to representative

    You're going to cap the number of hours a voter can volunteer for a political campaign? Even setting aside how that could possibly be policed, I can't imagine how such a policy would be popular enough for anyone to endorse. Imagine a sitting AG ordering the state sheriffs to drag some little old lady out of a campaign office for overshooting her campaign volunteering hour cap and how that would play in the national news.

    I’m saying we make this illegal.

    We already have an abundance of illegality committed by these private institutions. Nobody is enforcing any of it, precisely because the judicial system is in the pocket of billionaire special interests.

    Compare this to drug criminalization. Who gets busted more often? The corporate lawyer doing a line of coke in the Penthouse suite? Or the homeless vagrant melting spoons under the freeway?

    Hell, compare it to the TikTok Ban that got advanced under Biden and implemented under Trump. Did TikTok become apolitical after it's American assets were divorced from ByteDance? Or did it become even more political in the hands of a domestic set of oligarchs?

    Ban election opinion pieces.

    Blatant First Amendment Violation.

    Enforce only facts reported. Full speeches, not soundbites.

    As impractical as it is unconstitutional.

    Anyone with over X followers has their political opinions censored

    By whom? You're going to tell the FCC to censor Elon Musk? You're going to tell the FCC to censor Sitting President Donald Trump? Before or after the head of the agency is fired and the organization is gutted by angry partisans?

    Enforced by an independent judge.

    No such judge exists.

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    Now I'm imagining this kind of scandal every time a Congressman trades words with a next-door neighbor.

    Talking to politicians is fine. Buying them coffee is not.

    Capped, controlled benefits are passed from voters to representative

    You're going to cap the number of hours a voter can volunteer for a political campaign?

    Yep. 24h.

    I'm not worried about individual work. I'm trying to remove the effect of money.

    We already have an abundance of illegality committed by these private institutions. Nobody is enforcing any of it, precisely because the judicial system is in the pocket of billionaire special interests.

    Sort out paying off politicians and this will change.

    Ban election opinion pieces. Blatant First Amendment Violation. Enforce only facts reported. Full speeches, not soundbites. As impractical as it is unconstitutional.

    Ok, I'll withdraw these. I can't see how these rules wouldn't be abused by fascist dictatorship. Maybe the media is less important with modern technologies.

    Enforced by an independent judge. No such judge exists

    Remove the money (except for high salary), enforce disbarment for violation. It will take a decade or two but they will be independent.

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