• quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    5 hours ago

    Bullshit. That narrative is only spread by the media companies that billionaires own. Turn off the TV.

    Most people loathe, not respect, rich people.

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      It’s everywhere on social media, and presumably those posters are real people. People used to think Musk was fucking Iron Man lol

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        Yeah, you just agreed with me.

        You’re reading bot content and content that’s boosted by algorithms in the hands of companies run by billionaires

        Most real people despise rich people

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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.