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Strongly disagree. Her job is to win cases and be the figurehead for a change in tone where we stop letting monopolies run the country, and she's doing the latter admirably.

If America could get their shit together we'd pass stronger antitrust laws that make winning these cases easy. It is unreasonable that it takes so much work to fix things that are obviously horrible for almost everybody.

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But she's the FTC chair not the legislature. She has to work with the laws as they are not as she wants them to be. I don't believe her role is to be a figurehead for legislative change.

The very fact that the FTC is "doing things" is a complete breath of fresh air. When it fails to do them, that's a sign that the system is rigged against them working (or that the laws we need to ban the things that suck aren't in place yet). It's part of a larger movement.

It sucks that the FTC fighting uphill battles is the only way to make the changes we need. In a better world, the citizenry could make it happen through class-action suits, but the laws we need to have a better world don't exist yet.

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