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astrange on July 11, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

If you talk to random people in a democracy, they can't vote their interest even if they wanted to, because they don't know what's actually affected by politics and what isn't.

Some people switched to culture/values voting (ie, telling other people what to do), some people just enjoy winning and so vote for whoever they think is going to win.

mlyle on July 11, 2022 [–]

I find these responses strange. I never was talking about voting in a democracy. I was talking about how shareholders vote shares in public companies.

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