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Great stuff, but it's a dupe of http://videosift.com/video/ted-talks-james-veitch-replying-to-spam-email.

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@newtboy: Trumps appeal to the LCD is successful mostly because the LCD has been allowed to grow so much in our post-Regan society. With inequality on the rise and decades of trickle-down government-by-the-wealthy-for-the-wealthy, those "left behind" have been growing faster and faster every year.

It Trump fails to win this go around then the pendulum may keep swinging further. My concern is that the next 'protest' candidate will be even worse than he.

@ChaosEngine:

We'll have to agree to disagree about some things. For me, as bad as Trump is, I'm not convinced that he is worse than what Hillary was revealted to be by the DNC Leaks...

...but perhaps instead of arguing about which shit sandwich is worse, it is more productive to work together to find out why there are only shit sandwiches on the menu?

On this:

"But things will never change until you fix your broken political system. You're barely a democracy these days."

I am in complete agreement.

When I first heard of the Brexit vote, I thought it was some nasty xenophobic/racist group that had somehow managed to capture 51% of a nation. But could Britian really be that full of xenophobes? It was in a bit of casual research on the subject when I discovered that J. Pie video I referenced in my earlier comment. I had to revise my first assumption about the group that voted to leave the E.U.. While there may have been an element of xenophobia involved, it was economic factors that was the driving force behind the Brexit vote.

People who have been screwed over by years of government for corporations which has only worsened since Glass–Steagall was repealed by Bill Clinton. The hold the wealthy have on government was tightened after Citizen's United.

Much of the support Trump has been able to marshal is a reaction to years of governance-for-the-wealthy-by-the-wealthy.

Lawrence Lessig's does a better job unpacking this quagmire in his talk: "We The People: the Republic We Must Reclaim" which has far too few views on YT or votes on the sift, IMO. For anyone who's ever been unhappy with the political system in the past number of years, I consider it a must-watch.


Link here:

http://videosift.com/video/lawrence-lessig-2016-will-have-two-elections-TED-talk

@kingmob -- You are allowed (and de-facto expected) to upvote your own submissions. So go ahead and do so -- that was an excellent TED talk and it deserves lots of votes and views.

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Here are some good videos *related to patent trolls.
http://videosift.com/video/Patent-Troll-Lawsuits-For-Making-Lists
http://videosift.com/video/Last-Week-Tonight-with-John-Oliver-Patent-Trolls
http://videosift.com/video/How-I-Beat-A-Patent-Troll-Drew-Curtis-TED-Talk

I just happened to be thinking about the sites history yesterday, and it occurred to me that there's definitely an interesting book in here somewhere. At the very least a TED talk (@dag).

Is this really where TED talks have fallen to? A guy trolling a spammer?

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