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whywhywhywhy 5 hours ago

It doesn’t matter they can just keep trying and paying people off until it gets through.

Someone somewhere really really wants this and has the time and resources so it’s an inevitability.

latexr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It does matter. Even if it eventually passes, the later and more gutted it is, the better.

Saying that it doesn’t matter is just defeatist (and unfortunately always parroted on HN) and plainly wrong. Defeatists have been proven wrong time and again.

wongarsu 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also making sure this is as painful and costly as possible to pass will discourage future attempts. If we just rolled over and let it happen that would signal that it's easy to pass legislation like this and we would get a lot more like it

whywhywhywhy 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Perhaps a system where that can happen is broken