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you made me happy. people need to turn this shit off. i keep seeing a commercial from somebody acutely interested in hillary getting elected: it pretends trump makes fun of kids with spinal cancer. that pretty much sums up the discourse right now, and it's not good for anybody or anything -- certainly not the direction of the nation.

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it's all a distraction to give the illusion of offering participation. people can go home and feel "i contributed" having fulfilled their civic duty. everyone paying any amount of attention knows its a rigged game ten ways to sunday.

democracy in general is a feedback loop between the press and politicians with the voting population as pawns/fodder. journalists and politicians have one shared concern: staying relevant and needed.

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