• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      9 days ago

      They respond to public pressure. We didn’t have that at the necessary scale at the beginning

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        9 days ago

        The cynical might claim that they can afford to appear to respond to public pressure now, since the slush fund was already completed.

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          More that congress operates on a go-along-to-get-along basis by default, and it takes some serious popular rage to change that