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You know...you're right. No single person ever did anything of significance. My vote with my money won't do anything. My vote on election day won't do anything. My life will never amount to anything. I might as well go buy and iPad and bitch about Apple's walled garden...

...nice attitude you've got there

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Even if I do great things, I can only do them in so many domains in a single lifetime. In all other domains, my only recourse is to complain about how they should be. The idea that no one can complain unless they would choose to overthrow the status quo within every domain is silly.

Complaining and offering criticism is a different thing than claiming violation of personal freedom. I sometimes wonder if most Americans have forgotten how to criticize without, at the same time, vilifying.

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