Wendell, will you please run for Congress?

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Logan recently said on the Tek that the only way to fix the problems with ISPs (and everything else government) in this country is from the inside. Honestly I'm not so optimistic, I think we are all fucked no matter what we do, but it's worth trying, so will you please run for Congress? You're very intelligent, likable, and you seem to have good principals/morals. You are also very good at explaining technical issues and concepts in ways that laymen can understand. You're also a white male with a clean cut image, so the institutionalized racism and sexism in this country wouldn't negatively affect your chances.

 

I know you would hate it, and it would probably mean you couldn't spend as much time on the tek (and your consulting gig, ofc) as you currently do, but god damnit, we need a smart guy like yourself telling those piece of shit politicans wtf is up in the house, and we also need someone like yourself to get some widespread media exposure so stupid americans can hear a little about how the ISPs and government is fucking all of them. Just pretend you're doing an episode of the tek every time you speak. I know you'll have to show your face, but we need you, slugger.

 

So whuddaya say? :D

 

 

(If after careful consideration, you decide not to, it's OK, but in that case would you join the WAAF party? Because truly, we are all fucked!)

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yes... please do Wendell

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I think wendel has too much other stuff to do besides trying to deal with politics. He is a busy person.

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you lost with me with institutionalized sexism and racism bullshit sjw rhetoric.

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Please Wendell, please.

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I gather Wendell would be far too intelligent to waste his time on the schemers that run your government (even in Australia it seems to be the political lobbyists that 'decide' policies, and not the elected government)

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I agree some what. But I would not wish this kind of fresh hell on Wendell

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Wendell should train people to work in the government for him.

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I think FCC chairman would be better suited

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I am betting that Linus would show support if Wendell did decide to run for anything. That would increase his support base by a good bit. Other tech/gaming people might do so as well. Wendell could become the face of the technology in politics. It sure would be nice to have him there, though I don't know how much good he would do. Having some eyes on the inside would be awesome though.

EDIT: typo

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I think you might be on to something if you can get enough people in that are on the side of progress and not profit.

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I appreciate the vote of confidence.

One man. CAN. Make a difference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otzJszJ9MnA

Lol. Except in politics. This is the space, science and technology special committee. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPgZfhnCAdI

*shuddering intensifies*

This is maybe perhaps something for me to explore once I'm over the hill in another decade or two. We have a two party system though and It's just not likely I would fund this myself. And it is naive to think that one individual citizen could acquire funding and backers without also adopting the agenda of those backers. 

One interpretation of Obama's behavior, a constitutional law professor at Harvard, with regard to expansion of state's powers, the nsa, whistleblowers, wall st investigations, etc is that those industries were far too connected to his campaign financing for him to follow through with his campaign trail promises. 

Even Ron Paul (who had promised to gut the Fed), once put in charge of the Fed, had a very sobering "Oh god this is worse than I ever imagined, we can never dismantle the fed in my lifetime" type of revelation/press release. I find Ron Paul credible and honest, though I'm not sure he would make an effective leader on his own. 

I really have a distaste for politics. I would like to see people with the public trust acting in the public's best interests and the best way to do that is for masses of citizens to take over. It can't just be me. It has to be all of us, together.

 ps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYB_iykyEK0

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"You should look at the scientific literature rather than the public comments"

Words to live buy. Somebody buy that guy a beer. We need to add signatures ASAP, I have found mine.

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I dont think Wendell would be any good in politics.  Isn't he allergic to bullshit?

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I actually do want to mail that guy a thank you letter. Anyone want do dig up his address? I am sorry these people are so dumb. Please keep fighting the good fight.

On the other hand, what has happened to society that we no longer shame the criminally stupid? Reading 100 year old newspapers for 'local' news there were great stories about stupid things (local) people had done. I get the feeling it was literally lets all point and laugh at bob, but also we should help him out because he's so dumb. Send him some barley please.

I feel like somehow this important social governor has been lost because we seem to have no functional press. A citizen keeping abreast of the comings and goings of their government should not have to rely on obscure sources of intelligence.

 

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Naw man Wendell cant run for politics, he isn't stealing candy from babies.

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Sad part is the only sudo-functioning News source is the Onion...

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Politicians are only powerful if the citizens think that they need them. If the citizens behave in such a way, that politicians don't have anything on them, can't blackmail them, can't sell them crap, they are powerless.

The best way to change the world, is by cleaning up your own act, bu giving the example of sharing and fairness.

Nobody ever in the past or future history of mankind, will ever be respected by later generations for the number of votes he/she received in an election. People are only ever respected for their deeds. Even scientists aren't respected until they share their knowledge.

Example: arguably the most brilliant scientist of the 20th century was Van Neumann. The number of things he invented is just insane. But he was never respected, and he's not even that well-known. That's because he was a sociopathic psychopath. He died of radiation disease (he got that because he thought he was immortal), and when he was dying in a military hospital, there was a military intelligence operative standing next to him with a gun pointed at his head, ready to shoot if - because of the morphine - he would divulge some scientific secret. Yes, he was a very rich man, with a very decadent life style, he was really living the American Dream you know... influential in Washington, rubbing elbows with the big industries, bathing in money, a dozen women on every finger, etc...

Then there was this insecure scientist called Albert Einstein, he saw himself above all as an academic person, he wanted to teach people and make them think. He didn't have enormously high expectations for himself, he had more important things to do. He also often had a lot of criticism for politics. He was easily less intelligent and less creative than Von Neumann, but everybody respects him and knows him as one of the most important scientists of all time...

The same goes fro presidents. Carter got a Nobel peace prize, yet he was voted out of office for criticizing the consumption illness of America, he was criticizing the oil industry, the power industry, the big corporate world that destroys the earth for just another buck. After his 1979 speech, he signed his political death sentence, and the presidents after him would pretty much dedicated their term to undoing what Carter had achieved. Right now, every president doesn't leave any opportunity pass by to go to war in the Middle East, whereas Carter made a peace treaty there, etc...

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well, it is kindof a breeding ground for terrorists. they kindof crashed a couple planes into a couple buildings 13 years ago...

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Are you serious? This is going nowhere good, and fast.

 

Back to the topic at hand. Wendell, please give me someone that I can actually feel decent about voting for.