• @derekabutton
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    1 month ago

    “How do you control the masses when so many of them can vote?”

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      81 month ago

      Turns out, the Electoral College can actually do the opposite of what it was intended for!

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          1 month ago

          It was initially there to safeguard against populist demagogues with no sense of responsibility or decency who might destroy the country. Oops.

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      31 month ago

      The usual stuff, propaganda and outright lies, but the most effective way is through echo chambers…

      Just make people able to pick and choose with what communities they want to engage with and soon plenty of people will form self-radicalizing communities.