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dartos • 01/22/2025 • 1 reply • view on HN

Convince me that voters, at large, have agency.

Ad spend and marketing reach is a great predictor or election outcomes.

This last US election really lowered my optimism about the democratic process.


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Nasrudith • 01/24/2025

While deeply dismaying on multiple levels Trump was outspent in election budgets. While there are many things to damn voters for being mere puppets is a worse overly-reductive explanation than that the majority are just bad people.

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