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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by andreygrehov on Saturday December 31, 2016 @12:07PM (#13291878)
I never voted in my life. I live in US for 4 years now, but not allowed to vote _yet_. I do not believe in the voting system. In my opinion, people's choice for one or another candidate/party is directly dependent on this candidate's marketing efforts. It doesn't make any sense, since one can be a "bad" guy by nature, but then good marketing does the trick and afterwards people vote for him/her. Some sort of a karma/rating system would probably work better, i.e. you are not allowed to run your campaign, until you collect 500 points. This approach would require candidates to merit the campaign first and require them to be "good" guys during their entire career.
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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by eli_gottlieb on Saturday December 31, 2016 @01:02PM (#13292201)
>I do not believe in the voting system. In my opinion, people's choice for one or another candidate/party is directly dependent on this candidate's marketing efforts.

It's easy to say that when you know your President will kill you for being too involved in politics, as happens in Russia.

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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by kfk on Saturday December 31, 2016 @01:50PM (#13292463)
Wow, everybody is super sensitive about women in tech, but it's ok to make comments like this? Talk about multicultural respect.

Or maybe I am reading it wrong? Anyway, please be careful with this tone, it's very bad (as Italian, I know very well since 80% of the people I meet ask me "hey, what's up with mafia?").

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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by witty_username on Saturday December 31, 2016 @12:51PM (#13292132)
Hasn't Trump turned this completely upside down?
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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by reconx on Saturday December 31, 2016 @01:05PM (#13292219)
He used his experience in media/showbiz to exploit the media to give him free PR all the time, whereas the other politicians had to 'work for it'.

It's like the Kardashians, they actively make an effort to be in the news for something, to maintain top of mind awareness...of their degeneracy.

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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by gist on Saturday December 31, 2016 @02:02PM (#13292534)
He also said things that were plain interesting and outrageous to hear and see. Similar to slowing down for a train crash. No secret about that and really anyone could have quite easily reverse engineered and done the same. His big skill is more having, for lack of a better way to put it, 'balls' as well as no problem with the blowback or downside of his actions. That is the secret sauce with Trump. In a nutshell the other candidates, by comparison, were boring.
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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by hnbro on Saturday December 31, 2016 @01:24PM (#13292323)
i think trump's win had a lot less to do with trump himself than other factors.
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Re:In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news by spinlock on Saturday December 31, 2016 @02:04PM (#13292548)
It's impossible to prove a contra positive so we'll never know if it was Comey, or the Russians or what that put him over the top. But, Trump did get himself within striking distance. So, I give him credit(?) for the birther movement, and Mexican rapists, and no puppet. Because those are the things that energized his base to the point where he could win with a little help from his friends.
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