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California’s billionaires pour cash into elections as big tech seeks new allies (www.theguardian.com)

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Outcry over taxes is just one of the ways the tech sector is ramping up its influence campaign. Several Super Pacs have popped up over the past few months and tech is injecting these committees with tens of millions.

McCuan said this strategy is helpful for the ultra-wealthy because it allows them to stay behind the scenes, while donating limitless money.

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[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Give me an example of true theocracy being used in history.

The theocracies that actually existed - the caliphate, or imperial Japan - are the true theocracies. In general, whatever exists is real and true; if our expectation does not match up to it, then it is our expectation that is flawed or incomplete.

Aren't those things already in place, to a degree, yet proven to be easily circumvented,

If they were easily circumvented, you would not hear billionaires crying about progressive taxes or labour standards.

as those same people create and uphold the laws regulating them.

And that's the problem with a completely free 'democracy'. The rich will use their greater wealth to buy politicians or spread disinformation. We need to either remoce wealth inequality, or at least prevent it warping democracy. This requires rules, and an authority to enforce them.

Anarchism is not the removal of regulations, it does remove central authority, the coercive and corruptible bodies in control.

If rules are not enforced, they might as well not exist.

Democracy in all of its current forms, in the world that we live in today, is not working. It is badly broken. There is far too much to fix, even by your own admittance. It has grown into the very ugly behemoth that we see today.

I agree with all points except the third. A truly democratic state - one in which all people have equal voice - is the only defence against the rich and powerful abusing their wealth and power.

That will not happen within the democracy that we currently have.

I don't know. I hope peaceful change is possible. But those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable.