• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    5 months ago

    I would have been receptive to the “there are larger issues” part but it might help to think of it like:

    Instead of just an X-axis with “more/less important,” add a Y-axis with “more/less political,” a Z-axis with “more/less important to rich people,” an A-axis with “simple/complicated” and so on, with a narrow N-dimensional space in which something can happen. All of these values are changing constantly and independently for every issue. We can affect some of these values, but the entire picture is usually out of any one person’s control.

    At this moment, fixing the concert monopoly is incredibly in the “maybe it can happen” zone. We just have to take it and run with it. Maybe, just maybe, ranked choice voting or taxing rich people or getting universal health care will make it to the “maybe it can happen” zone one day. It’s not that, but hey, at least something gets a little better now.

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      5 months ago

      Again, I’m all for it (in spite of what all the zero chill reddit types ITT think). But my guess is, it will die in some Republican appointed court as planned. It’s probably performative pandering. I would love to be wrong about this. The administration does seem interested in going after corporations and big pharma. Yet little of substance has been done. Just lots of posturing. I think folks are desperate for any kind of progress, which is understandable.