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dchyrdvh | 5 years ago

TBH, it's nothing to do with those lazy petitions. This happened because the CA's AG chose to be a good guy, leveraged his power and put a lot of effort into fighting the bad guys. I'm sure he's been offered fat kickbacks and received thinly veiled treats. After this stunt he won't be offered a high ranked corporate position to scheme shady things and won't be able to buy yachts and helicopters left and right. That's basically the price he's paid. I think attributing this win to some "voices" would be dishonest.

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TheRealPomax|5 years ago

So he made a sacrifice because, what, he just woke up one morning and felt like it? No. It's because the public brought it to his attention with enough public support to probably not hurt his career.

kbenson|5 years ago

Sometimes it's because they woke up and felt like it. You don't immediately stop having having feelings about issues like you or me as soon as you're in the AG office.

If that's just too wild to consider, it probably also looks good come next election.

dchyrdvh|5 years ago

I'm sorry to be dense, but that's a naive view, that an otherwise sleazy sociopath can be forced to behave by public opinion.

Good people give food to homeless because they see value in doing so, not because they fear repercussions from public opinion.

burkaman|5 years ago

Why do you think AG Becerra chose to put some of his limited resources toward this issue?

dchyrdvh|5 years ago

Because "in the world of souls there are two poles and between the two, wastes time and disappears into nothingness the majority of the humanity".

_jal|5 years ago

Citation needed.

Other than your cynicism about the effectiveness of petitioning for redress, why do you think this is true?

What in Becerra's background makes you think he's angling for a revolving-door job?

Other than you showing us that you "know" how the "game" is played, what can you back this view up with? Something seems lazy here, and it isn't the people writing letters.

blibble|5 years ago

not to denegrate the achievement of beating the scum, but the bad guys here are minnows in the grand scheme of things

they're selling domain names, not running an oil major or large defence contractor