I tried very hard to find the line between proper concern and unnecessary freakout over the previous #Trump administration. The same #MAGA folks will worship him for being the best troll ever and say that the problem with the media is they have Trump Derangement Syndrome. But also there was McResistance media cashing in on eyeballs and Dem politicians hyping him as a demon to help their campaigns. This fucking sucks. You both want politics to be entertainment instead of civics. Fuck. #USpol
a current president still saying he won a previous election he lost and that he's been treated so poorly by the media and the legal system while he has the richest media tech bros sucking up to him and control of DOJ, is the best example of crying hard ever seen. and you want to be him even tho he clearly cares more about cheap labor from India and tax cuts than your family and the debt he's piling up. suck harder. maybe he'll eventually love you.
A second good takeaway would be that people will respond to what the media feeds them.
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some do seem better at these decisions and seeing thru media bs but I think that's learned not something you're born with. And I can't understand how we'd figure that out or build a workable system around that idea.
Yeah, so why is the default that everyone has an equal say in everything?
because who would decide who should have more say? the same people who we don't trust? it would be what we had in segregation. rules abused to make sure only the people that would vote like us could vote.
the representative system already does a version of filtering so that the voting on bills is done by who we think of as more qualified. the electoral system and us voters (hopefully with a good civics education and informed by good journalism) are supposed to be the filter.
@wjmaggos Renaming the Gulf of Mexico is going to cost millions of dollars with no economic benefit. This is not very economically efficient!