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>Do you think those in power would ever go out of their way to help people learn about gerrymandering, ranked choice voting They tend to be more fine with this
by pydry 4y ago
>Do you think those in power would ever go out of their way to help people learn about gerrymandering, ranked choice voting
They tend to be more fine with this sort of thing if the fix isn't on the cards politically.
E.g. you will see some nuclear attacks on the idea of raising the minimum wage from the media when it is being debated in Congress, while that same media will often fawn over political pipe dreams like basic income.
The Russian bots will pull this trick where they set up, e.g. a facebook page for "proud Texan cowboy dads" and then funnel innocuous stuff they will agree with 99% of the time and then 1% of the time push stuff that really matters to them ("why are we sending yet more money to Ukraine when proud Texans at home are suffering!").
This isn't controversial to state. I think it's clear that they do this - what is controversial to state is that this is exactly what the rest of the "legitimate" media does exactly the same thing on behalf of the oligarchy who own it.