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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I just want to point out that the majority of people are manipulated by massive corporations on a daily basis. They just use it for immediate profit by getting them to buy things. They could easily start manipulating people for political gain, of which they've tried in the past with varying degrees of success.
This is expressly what a constitutional federal republic (a specific type of democracy) is meant to prevent.