• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    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.