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pjmlp ◴[] No.44507998[source]
The consumer protection laws are so bad the other side of Atlantic.

Most European countries, have their own version of consumer protection agencies, usually any kind of complaint gets sorted out, even if takes a couple months.

If they fail for whatever reason, there is still the top European one.

Most of the time I read about FTC, it appears to side with the wrong guys.

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b00ty4breakfast ◴[] No.44508075[source]
neoliberal deregulation and regulatory capture, not necessarily in that order, has basically killed federal consumer protection in the US.
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scrubs ◴[] No.44508254[source]
And it can get worse. Over shooting right (left) invariably leads to overshoot left (right) which we absolutely do not need either.

The American sense (when we get off our butts and do it) is common sense, slowly changing law that always apportions control in equal parts to accountability.

It's the last part that is more galling (because increasingly we've failed) and ultimately will be the more decisive in any future inflection point.

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MSFT_Edging ◴[] No.44508903[source]
When has the US actually overshot left though? There was a short period of social justice awareness, but that didn't translate to actual leftwing economic legislation. Even protests and movements with left wing goals were co-opted by the nominally center-right establishment and neutered.

This both-sides stuff gets me, man. Our history is by and large very right wing and every time there's a flutter of left leaning ideas, people chalk it up to some far-left political success and therefore the far right backlash is deserved, as if things ever actually went left in the first place.

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xphilter ◴[] No.44508942[source]
They’re talking about those times we let women vote, implemented social security and got rid of Jim Crow. Really overshot lol.
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1. MSFT_Edging ◴[] No.44519852[source]
Ah yes, the period of slightly-less-suffering. What a monumental mistake on all our parts...