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Low-hanging fruit 🥱 (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] cafeinux@infosec.pub 112 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a low hanging fruit, but I mean... The tree doesn't have a lot of higher fruits, and they're not as tasty anyway.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sure we have plenty of high-hanging fruit:

  • antiquated voting laws
  • asymmetrical representation
  • oligarchy via political funding
  • military industrial complex

But we didn’t start a world war that killed millions of people, that we’re still digging up unexploded munitions from, and that gave us the ability to fix some of our governmental systems and implement social and societal change (at least for white European folks).

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yet, but you can still elect Trump again.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The first 3 I listed are why, yes. And it sucks that the Supreme Court and some dudes 250 years ago put us in this situation.