• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    It was like that on Reddit, where exposure was a function of other people up voting this shit. Sure, there were bot farms, but I argued with real people who thought this nonsense. This was before ChatGPT had us app arguing with their magic 8-ball.

    More proof: Trump won reelection, didn’t he? Sure, he only got 49.9% of the popular vote, but doesn’t that further demonstrate that there’s a lot of people who think being a billionaire makes you smart?

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      Trump did not win.

      The US is not a democracy. The progressive parties have zero chance of winning.

      Put a progressive in the televised debates and give the people rank choice voting, and you’ll see what the people actually want

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        The US is not a democracy, but 77 million people voted for him. You can’t ignore that.

        There are, in fact, millions of people who worship billionaires and I don’t know how you think you can deny this. Just yesterday during Thanksgiving I had to listen to my sister’s mother-in-law defend this man, she isn’t a chatbot and she isn’t being boosted by an algorithm. The US is full of temporarily embarrassed billionaires that want to be just like Musk or Trump.

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          It’s about 30% of people. That’s too high, but not high enough to win an election in a democracy

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            But, high enough to rule the country. Especially when they’re also the ones with all the money.

            Liberal democracy can never overcome them. You need something more revolutionary to overthrow the system they’ve rigged.