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umanwizard on Sept 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The N95 mask shortage America can't seem to fix

“The government” isn’t a person. It can’t know things. It’s a complex, chaotic system of various people with competing interests who know things at different times and have power over different things.

selectodude on Sept 23, 2020 [–]

Which is why we elect leaders of government who have more power to direct the internal machinations of government than we do directly.

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