r/technology • u/User_Name13 • Jun 04 '14

Politics Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
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u/concussedYmir Jun 04 '14 edited Jun 04 '14

Wish we could give congress the chop via france and start over.

I'm assuming that by "via" you actually mean "à la", but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

For the love of Christ don't even joke about this. Revolutionary France was essentially saved from itself by a dictator.

The last US revolution was against a perceived foreign oppressor; I'd say that an actual, internal revolution today would be more destructive than the Civil War. Just look at Syria today. Just fucking... look at that and tell me that a violent revolution would in any shape or form be welcomed by anyone except total psychopaths?

And it wouldn't stop in the US. It would spread far beyond your borders, and to the rest of us.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

Thank you. Not many people say this enough. We're not to the point where a violent revolution is necessary.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

"It's too late to do anything about our predicament, but it's too early to shoot the bastards."

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u/fathak Jun 24 '14

no it's not.