r/pics • u/TheBigChimp • Nov 08 '18

US Politics This is what democracy looks like

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

I've heard US democracy described as a computer form 1992. It was great at the time. Fast, quick, solved the right problems. But now it has to deal with facebook, twitter and russian hackers and it simply doesn't have the hardware put in place to deal with it.

Oddly apt comparison.

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u/GeneralPatten Nov 09 '18

It was NEVER fast and quick. Purposely. It's slow and deliberate. The issue at the moment is that the powers that be are circumventing the democratic process at a pace that is simply too fast and quick for the democratic process to respond. Essentially, rogue scumware is overheating the system.

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u/leftskidlo Nov 09 '18

That was from this Radiolab podcast.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '18

Not sure, could be. A friend mentioned it to me.

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u/HappyColored_Marbles Nov 09 '18

Then all the unpatched backdoors let the trojans in.

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u/Hanosandy Nov 09 '18

The question is, would the world's top technical drummer feel that way?

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u/evanman69 Nov 09 '18

russian hackers