• madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF ADS!!!

    Any of you watch the NBA? I usually just tune in for the playoff, but holy fucking shit. Every square inch of the screen is fucking ads. Commercial breaks every possible millisecond of stoppage.

    I don’t know how anyone can watch this shit regularly.

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    They should just have the candidates endorse products on stage.

    Trump could talk about how confident he is on stage wearing the new leak-free Depends

    Biden could pull up a bowl of Quaker Oats and talk about his regular bowel movements.

    RFK could say he’s all good now thanks to HeartGuard+ Brain Dewormer

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      What democracy? The will of US citizens have practically no factor in which laws pass, big money on the other hand…

      That being said, congressmen & president are somewhat democratically elected - and voting is thrice as influential if you’re in a low population state!.
      So you can influence if big money A’s laws get passed, or big money C’s (big money B gets their way regardless).

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    Because it was the nonpartisan debate committee keeping that shit out of it…

    I’m still not sure why anyone thinks letting the two parties run the debates is a good thing.

    Or why CNN is considered a good place just a few years after a conservative multibillionaire on WBs board said they bought it to make it more like Faux News.

    Everything is consistently getting worse and people keep acting shocked it happens and there was no way we could have seen it coming…

    I just don’t get why other people can’t seem to notice the way things are headed.

    Things won’t magically stop getting shittier because we keep doing what we’ve done as it’s gotten shittier.

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      You can thank the Biden camp for that. If they had proposed using the nonpartisan debate committee then by the rules and projected polling, they’d also have to put RFK Jr. on the stage. Frankly that is the last thing the Biden campaign wanted.

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        4 months ago

        While it’s good to see them finally do something that will actually help his chances of winning…

        I wish it wasn’t something so antidemocratic.

        RFK jr is a joke, but after the last three elections, D and R aren’t going to magically start running competent candidates next year. And giving the parties more power is the exact opposite of what we ne d to be doing

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        Yes we did all die horrifically, but value was created for shareholders, and in the end, isn’t that what truly matters?