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[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The elites isn't the main problem. It is that we put narcissistic sociopath in power because of our tendencies to follow the group and vote because of the party we usually vote for instead of looking at the program.

[–] WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Who do you think influences the masses to vote this way, and who put people like trump in the position to be elected?

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Surprise: another narcissistic sociopath. Themself in power because if other narcissistic asshole. You can go quite far like that, but will always end up with masses that vote for parties as if they were the local baseball team.

[–] Jimbel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Turns out billionaires are mostly also narcissistic sociopaths. And they control the media where people get there information from. So there is a high probability for people's actions to be manipulated by those billionaire-censored information. You can not expect everyone to spend there intellect, energy and time to comprehend these systems. The people are not the problem. The problem is the billionaire controlled system. People will change if the system changes.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago

There are still reliable medias that are free from billionaires. But that suppose to pay for them, because without a billionaire with an agenda to keep them afloat, who will?

Personally, I support multiple of them (after looking into them, of course), even when not aligned with my own world views.

You know what, let's start a community to list them all. I think this is the best way to work against the billionaire press monopoly.