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Why are americans so stupid and yet manage to export so much smart stuff from tech to podcasts to scientists. Is it some sort of dystopia where 1% rules, 20% live in a bubble and 79% are just brain dead idiots?

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TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Why do people from Europe go and build monuments and luxury in Saudi Arabia?

Money. Same answer in the US.

The US is an oligarchy, as attested to by this Oxford study. To answer your question, mostly yes, hence places like “Silicon Valley” and institutions like the electoral college.

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- mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Interesting that was written in 2014… Before it was obvious it had all just gone to shit
  
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  - djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It just wasn’t obvious to you.
    
    An election was stolen in broad fucking daylight in 2000. That was the canary in the coal mine on election interference.
    
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jimrob4@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Yes.

Then there’s us smart ones who see what’s going on, but we’re outnumbered by idiots.

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funkajunk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I fear you may have hit the nail on the head

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