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If your friend lives in the US and perhaps even otherwise, I wouldn’t characterize that as focus and certainly wouldn’t envy it . It is a complete disregard of

If your friend lives in the US and perhaps even otherwise, I wouldn’t characterize that as focus and certainly wouldn’t envy it . It is a complete disregard of freedom and rights that generations of people before him fought and died over so he has the luxury of ignoring elections . A luxury he or his next generations (1) may not have in the future as a result of their attitude and indifference. It is one thing not to be able leave the world a better place than we got it, it is something else to leave it behind worse not even due to greed but of sheer indifference. (1) and this has nothing to do with trump directly or any hyperbole that democracy is on the line. A interested population is key to not having power concentrated in the hands of few who will exploit it inevitably.

9x39 2y ago
>A interested population is key to not having power concentrated in the hands of few who will exploit it inevitably. Doesn't this suggest its populations' collective votes that matter, not individuals' efforts? It could be different if you have a sizable audience or something and can effectively influence that population, but otherwise, individual votes are irrelevant. If you're not in power, positive personal outcomes can be mutually exclusive with being hyperinformed.
- astrange 2y ago
  Individual votes are relevant in local politics. It's not rare to see elections won by tens of votes there.
- manquer 2y ago
  Individual votes have importance not because they can impact the outcome of any election. They are important because they can distribute the keys to power to larger group , the incentives of the rulers align with larger proportion of the ruled than autocratic regimes do. Here is an excellent CGP grey video on the topic https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs —- > hyperinformed Knowing the results of the four year election cycle of the most influential country is just being informed . We are not talking about every gaffe trump did or said during the run up to the election, just the results, anything below that is ignorant

9x39 2y ago

>A interested population is key to not having power concentrated in the hands of few who will exploit it inevitably. Doesn't this suggest its populations' collective votes that matter, not individuals' efforts? It could be different if you have a sizable audience or something and can effectively influence that population, but otherwise, individual votes are irrelevant. If you're not in power, positive personal outcomes can be mutually exclusive with being hyperinformed.

astrange 2y ago
Individual votes are relevant in local politics. It's not rare to see elections won by tens of votes there.
manquer 2y ago
Individual votes have importance not because they can impact the outcome of any election. They are important because they can distribute the keys to power to larger group , the incentives of the rulers align with larger proportion of the ruled than autocratic regimes do. Here is an excellent CGP grey video on the topic https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs —- > hyperinformed Knowing the results of the four year election cycle of the most influential country is just being informed . We are not talking about every gaffe trump did or said during the run up to the election, just the results, anything below that is ignorant