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I never voted in my life. I live in US for 4 years now, but not allowed to vote _yet_. I do not believe in the voting system. In my opinion, people's choice for

I never voted in my life. I live in US for 4 years now, but not allowed to vote _yet_. I do not believe in the voting system. In my opinion, people's choice for one or another candidate/party is directly dependent on this candidate's marketing efforts. It doesn't make any sense, since one can be a "bad" guy by nature, but then good marketing does the trick and afterwards people vote for him/her. Some sort of a karma/rating system would probably work better, i.e. you are not allowed to run your campaign, until you collect 500 points. This approach would require candidates to merit the campaign first and require them to be "good" guys during their entire career.

witty_username 10y ago
Hasn't Trump turned this completely upside down?
- reconx 10y ago
  He used his experience in media/showbiz to exploit the media to give him free PR all the time, whereas the other politicians had to 'work for it'. It's like the Kardashians, they actively make an effort to be in the news for something, to maintain top of mind awareness...of their degeneracy.
  - gist 10y ago
    He also said things that were plain interesting and outrageous to hear and see. Similar to slowing down for a train crash. No secret about that and really anyone could have quite easily reverse engineered and done the same. His big skill is more having, for lack of a better way to put it, 'balls' as well as no problem with the blowback or downside of his actions. That is the secret sauce with Trump. In a nutshell the other candidates, by comparison, were boring.
- hnbro 10y ago
  i think trump's win had a lot less to do with trump himself than other factors.
  - spinlock 10y ago
    It's impossible to prove a contra positive so we'll never know if it was Comey, or the Russians or what that put him over the top. But, Trump did get himself within striking distance. So, I give him credit(?) for the birther movement, and Mexican rapists, and no puppet. Because those are the things that energized his base to the point where he could win with a little help from his friends.
eli_gottlieb 10y ago
>I do not believe in the voting system. In my opinion, people's choice for one or another candidate/party is directly dependent on this candidate's marketing efforts. It's easy to say that when you know your President will kill you for being too involved in politics, as happens in Russia.
- kfk 10y ago
  Wow, everybody is super sensitive about women in tech, but it's ok to make comments like this? Talk about multicultural respect. Or maybe I am reading it wrong? Anyway, please be careful with this tone, it's very bad (as Italian, I know very well since 80% of the people I meet ask me "hey, what's up with mafia?").

witty_username 10y ago

Hasn't Trump turned this completely upside down?

reconx 10y ago
He used his experience in media/showbiz to exploit the media to give him free PR all the time, whereas the other politicians had to 'work for it'. It's like the Kardashians, they actively make an effort to be in the news for something, to maintain top of mind awareness...of their degeneracy.
- gist 10y ago
  He also said things that were plain interesting and outrageous to hear and see. Similar to slowing down for a train crash. No secret about that and really anyone could have quite easily reverse engineered and done the same. His big skill is more having, for lack of a better way to put it, 'balls' as well as no problem with the blowback or downside of his actions. That is the secret sauce with Trump. In a nutshell the other candidates, by comparison, were boring.
hnbro 10y ago
i think trump's win had a lot less to do with trump himself than other factors.
- spinlock 10y ago
  It's impossible to prove a contra positive so we'll never know if it was Comey, or the Russians or what that put him over the top. But, Trump did get himself within striking distance. So, I give him credit(?) for the birther movement, and Mexican rapists, and no puppet. Because those are the things that energized his base to the point where he could win with a little help from his friends.

eli_gottlieb 10y ago

>I do not believe in the voting system. In my opinion, people's choice for one or another candidate/party is directly dependent on this candidate's marketing efforts. It's easy to say that when you know your President will kill you for being too involved in politics, as happens in Russia.

kfk 10y ago
Wow, everybody is super sensitive about women in tech, but it's ok to make comments like this? Talk about multicultural respect. Or maybe I am reading it wrong? Anyway, please be careful with this tone, it's very bad (as Italian, I know very well since 80% of the people I meet ask me "hey, what's up with mafia?").