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Casually Admitting to Buying a Candidate (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by alphanerd4 to c/usauthoritarianism

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[–] AnUnusualRelic 55 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Was anyone still on the fence about that?

[–] RestrictedAccount 45 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Lots of people are busy with their lives and don’t have time to connect all the dots

[–] rayyy 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Keep them busy. Keep them entertained. Keep them afraid. Keep them ignorant. Profit.

[–] Mango 6 points 6 months ago

This is why asshats say "empty hands are the devil's tools".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Bread and circuses

[–] NABDad 12 points 6 months ago

That's by design.

[–] DandomRude 6 points 6 months ago

Lots of people might also think that it's perfectly normal in a democracy that you can buy your personal congressman, a supreme court judge or even a presidential candidate. This has a long tradition especially in the US and is probably kinda normalized by now for some strange reason. I think it can't be wrong to emphasize that this is neither normal nor desirable in a functioning democracy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I've been called a cOnSpIrAcY theorist for less.