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May. 7th, 2017 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Good article in today's Observer.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy
But what does it matter? If a few billionaires control us, isn't that what capitalism is all about? At the simplest it reduces to Monopoly with one eventual winner and the rest of us bankrupt.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy
But what does it matter? If a few billionaires control us, isn't that what capitalism is all about? At the simplest it reduces to Monopoly with one eventual winner and the rest of us bankrupt.
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Date: 2017-05-10 07:03 am (UTC)It's an issue I've been pondering for a while about Australian political campaigns and this really made me consider the need to enforce truthfulness in politics:
www.news.com.au/lifestyle/gay-marriage/advertising-loophole-means-plebiscite-campaign-ads-wont-need-to-be-factually-correct/news-story/695f18b0c5d94002d2e58bccc6716066
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Date: 2017-05-23 04:30 pm (UTC)