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And that narrative makes sense to me until I realize that the electorate still picked rich guys backed by other rich guys...
Comment by [deleted] at 06/12/2024 at 22:26 UTC
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Psyops and propaganda are effective af, and have been for the entirety of human history.
There's a reason that the data science / psychographic technology used to sway foreign elections (a la Cambridge Analytica) is treated as export controlled military technology.
We're multiple technological generations past that now, and if you think it wasn't in full play during the US election cycle, you would be wrong. It's cheap and easy in 2024 to manipulate individual behavior en masse.
Comment by OverlyLenientJudge at 06/12/2024 at 22:32 UTC
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That's just another symptom of the same societal ill. People are so desperate for change, for *something* to be fixed, they'll gullibly believe an obvious, open grifter saying he's going to fix everything without double-checking any of his claims.
Comment by TheLoneliestGhost at 06/12/2024 at 22:25 UTC
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There’s precedent, and even a great musical, about how to handle that, too.