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Billions of dollars spent on elections by people with insane net worths and you're going to blame the citizens who largely struggle to get from paycheck to payc

Billions of dollars spent on elections by people with insane net worths and you're going to blame the citizens who largely struggle to get from paycheck to paycheck? Hacker News attracts a real "social bully" element for reasons I can't rightly determine.

sleepyguy 1y ago
Those same citizens voted for Trump so they could put screws in iPhones and their children would have a bright future working in coal mines and factories.
Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
It's both, we know citizens have power (Wisconsin), we know money has power(Elon Musk) But Wisconsin was wondering because people hate Elon Musk. My worry is that billionaires would fund anonymously both political media and they also own their own social media and so citizens would kind of less vote ... Or billionaire power would overcome that of citizen. I think we need citizens to be aware of this but I also understand politics is a shitshow and i have so many hassles, why take another one. And to that, I have no answer. i myself am stuck on this dilemma. I am really going to stop reading news because I don't think I personally can do anything. I have better things to do like studying or building software which can do better impact. Though it also doesn't sucks to know about politics except I have seen people are really set in stone of politics, myself included.
dylan604 1y ago
It's easy to assume everyone thinks the same way. It's hard to comprehend just how different other lifestyles might be, so it's just easier hand wave it all away. It might not even be intentional or consciously being done.
keybored 1y ago
Most politics chatter is in-group therapy sessions. For SC libs under a Republican administration the analysis becomes: did the majority push the Republican button? And the analysis ends there. For this therapeutic session there is no room for looking beyond the absolute surface of the issue, like you did. But unfortunately these narratives don’t just get trotted out among apolitical libs. The political scientist Rachel Bitecofer had a social media meltdown when Trump won. And again the analysis was “who pushed the Republican button”.

sleepyguy 1y ago

Those same citizens voted for Trump so they could put screws in iPhones and their children would have a bright future working in coal mines and factories.

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago

It's both, we know citizens have power (Wisconsin), we know money has power(Elon Musk) But Wisconsin was wondering because people hate Elon Musk. My worry is that billionaires would fund anonymously both political media and they also own their own social media and so citizens would kind of less vote ... Or billionaire power would overcome that of citizen. I think we need citizens to be aware of this but I also understand politics is a shitshow and i have so many hassles, why take another one. And to that, I have no answer. i myself am stuck on this dilemma. I am really going to stop reading news because I don't think I personally can do anything. I have better things to do like studying or building software which can do better impact. Though it also doesn't sucks to know about politics except I have seen people are really set in stone of politics, myself included.

dylan604 1y ago

It's easy to assume everyone thinks the same way. It's hard to comprehend just how different other lifestyles might be, so it's just easier hand wave it all away. It might not even be intentional or consciously being done.

keybored 1y ago

Most politics chatter is in-group therapy sessions. For SC libs under a Republican administration the analysis becomes: did the majority push the Republican button? And the analysis ends there. For this therapeutic session there is no room for looking beyond the absolute surface of the issue, like you did. But unfortunately these narratives don’t just get trotted out among apolitical libs. The political scientist Rachel Bitecofer had a social media meltdown when Trump won. And again the analysis was “who pushed the Republican button”.