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tptacek01/17/20252 repliesview on HN

As a matter of political science and public choice theory, the legislature is the branch of government most trusted to collect information and make these kinds of deliberations.


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kjkjadksj01/17/2025

Would you call Marjorie Taylor Greene a qualified and trusted investigator for the american people? I sure wouldn’t. Talking about what the legislature is supposed to be is irrelevant. What the legislature actually is is relevant.

coldpie01/17/2025

You might buy that, but I don't. Unless they can actually put forward publicly compelling evidence of a national security risk, this can only be seen as a handout to Facebook by the government. This saga just gives more evidence that the US government exists primarily to serve the interests of US's oligarch class. Aside for those oligarchs, it does nothing to serve US citizens' interests.