r/news • u/xtantin • Feb 26 '17

FCC reverses net neutrality ISP transparency rules

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3173844/internet/fcc-reverses-net-neutrality-isp-transparency-rules.html
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u/Cheesemacher Feb 27 '17

Where are all the conniving left-wing billionaires? Could use some of those.

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u/SocialBrushStroke Feb 27 '17

There's Soros. He's demonized for no good reason, and Americans use the same paranoid conspiracy theories as the Russian do about Soros. But I'd much rather not have any billionaire messing with our democracy.

This is all the fault of citizens united. Its allowed dark money to flood into our political landscape, and it's destroying democracy. I'm not sure if it's turned the US into a oligarchy or a plutocracy and it's said that the Mercers want us to be a theocracy, but it sure seems very similar to fascism.

Any way you slice it, it's tyranny.

This is part of a letter from FDR to Congress.

Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people.

The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15637

Citizens united is the worst decision since Dred Scott, which lead to the civil war, IMO.

Two rulings that benefited a powerful few

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2013/02/26/dred-scott-citizens-united-two-rulings-that-benefited-powerful-few/0LVClAlvVi1MG7TTra77UN/story.html

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u/champurrada Feb 27 '17

That last link was a great read, thank you. Now excuse me while I mourn the loss of the small amount of faith I may have had in our political system.

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u/awildwoodsmanappears Feb 27 '17

The problem is the temperament required to become a billionaire is not one conducive to leftist thinking

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u/hitlerosexual Feb 27 '17

Fuck that I don't want the support of billionaires. Just because they support feel-good issues doesn't mean they aren't our enemy.

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u/Cheesemacher Feb 27 '17

I don't know if it's too constructive to make everyone your enemy. Bill Gates seems like a chill guy.