Comment by jackfischer
7 hours ago
The public very much voted for massive administrative reform. Are you refering to DOGE, Elon Musk's influence on elections, something else?
7 hours ago
The public very much voted for massive administrative reform. Are you refering to DOGE, Elon Musk's influence on elections, something else?
I personally don't like him using his position to spread fake news and racist propaganda
As if "the public" knows literally anything about how the US federal government is administered.
If anything, they voted for reduced debt burden and they got the opposite. DOGE failed at pretty much every single one of the goals that the public arguably gave it a mandate for.
> As if "the public" knows literally anything
Ah, yes, democracy!, except for when the public is wrong.
Who decides when the public is wrong? We do! Who decides "what the public voted for"? We do! So we are the rulers? No, of course, not, this is democracy.
You want to become the decider of when the public is wrong and of what the public voted for? TYRANT! TYRANT!
No, the claim above is "I know the voters' intent behind their vote based on who they voted for."
This is simply epistemologically incorrect. It's obviously incorrect in this case because voters writ large do not have any idea how the government is administered and how to improve it, so even if they claimed to be voting for that, it would not necessarily be an endorsement of any particular approach.
More specifically we know it's not true in this case because there are polls. Voters didn't even claim to care about this! "How the government is administered" was not a high salience issue to voters. Simple as that.
Nonetheless, I didn't suggest anything about overriding their votes. It sounds like you have some sensitive spots to work through (someone obliquely criticizing your idol for sucking at his job?)
being ignorant and influenced is different from being wrong, the american electorate is well known to be under informed
half of voters don't pay any attention to politics until the week or two before voting
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Only sheep call other people sheep.
Sheep often like to think themselves the wolf or coyote, it would seem.
Holy shit, what his whole speech. Yes go watch it. There is zero way. Zero it wasn’t a Nazi salute.
Fuck, it is like the denial around Jan 6th. Those idiots we’re live streaming that shit. I watched it go down live. Now they say they weren’t violent.
We can’t have discourse when we have legit video evidence and people refuse to open their eyes and choose to deny reality
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