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Sadly, this is not true under neoliberal capitalism. With the correct oversimplified messaging and a lot of money, you can influence a lot of people to behave a certain way.


The quote rings true then - If people are influenced in such a trivial manner then they deserve the outcome.


We definitely had microtargeting ads by the trump team to make Harris look bad with conflicting messages, we also define had a musk PAC collect data in an unethical way to eventually do door to door canvas for Trump, and it goes without saying that one of the biggest social network in the US is skewed towards conspiracies (musk posted a video endorsement of Trump yesterday where the Q letter appeared together with Trump and similar bullshit)

Here's something I did about his PAC data collection https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41148139

Here's about Trump targeted ads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887642




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