• Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    He once used one to poll the people on how he was doing or something. I forget the other one but it gave americans the right to say fuck congress and representation my vote finally counts. I forget what it was for tho.

    • zbyte64@awful.systems
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      1 day ago

      Clinton was notorious for polling people and changing positions, but that was not by referendum. Sometimes our pundits play loose with words and pretend polling is a referendum because we don’t actually have referendums. See also “democratizing” when it just means “commodotizing”