• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    Idk. I want to agree, but that’s how we got Qanon. Thinking for yourself without data is just inviting biases to control what you believe to be true.

    I want it to be true that America would not have actually chosen Trump, but the older I get the more I see, the more I realize we’re surrounded by severely under informed, misinformed, disinformed, igorant, selfish, people. The moment nuance is required to actually understand a situation, you can bet it won’t be. :(

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      I want it to be true that America would not have actually chosen Trump, but the older I get the more I see, the more I realize we’re surrounded by severely under informed, misinformed, disinformed, igorant, selfish, people. The moment nuance is required to actually understand a situation, you can bet it won’t be. :(

      By design, unfortunately :(

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          17 hours ago

          It started on 4chan as a troll. It was a meme at the time to have these “government whistleblowers” post on 4chan with anti-Hillary stuff. There were a bunch of them, like FBIAnon and CIAanon. Where they failed, and the four kids behind Qanon succeeded, is that they were too specific with their predictions that never happened, while Qanon was vague and cryptic, so it had lasting power. The account changed hands several times before being taken by Jim Watkins who later owned 8chan.

    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      There is a difference between attesting that people wouldn’t have voted for Trump and attesting that this survey does not prove anything. The latter seems to be the only thing we can deduce here.