• kbal@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    It’s amazing how many big obviously consequential decisions around the world come down to a 50/50 vote lately. Have they perfected propaganda techniques that 49% of people are genetically susceptible to? Or is just that nobody knows what the hell is going on so we all decide completely at random what to believe?

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      1 month ago

      There’s probably some truth in “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”