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[cma]

> Plus for communities, it’s more beneficial than they’re locally owned versus all of the money flowing out.

It means a new concentrated powerful special interest in their local area can outbid them, in their diffuse helplessness, in influencing politics.

[notfromhere → cma]

Do you prefer a concentrated powerful special interest that’s in a HQ far away instead?

[cma → notfromhere]

I just mean for their local politics. It is basically creating an artificial "big man" in the community.