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Comment by Nasrudith | Hacker News Reader

Have you considered that the root problem may be that a plurality of voting Brazilians are simply terrible people?

Fascists rose before with radio and newspapers once and there wasn't any meaningful changes preventing the usage for such and yet they didn't reoccur indefinitely in the same nation.

Stop blaming the tech and start blaming your countrymen for being awful people.

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It has nothing to do with what nation they are - but an uncomfortable conclusion that the problem is in the voter base is self evident for elections.

1. Bolesaro is a fascist and only terrible people would support him. If supporters of genocidal fascists are terrible people the who is? 2. He won the election. 3. A plurality of votes is needed to win the election.

QED the voting plurality are terrible people. I said nothing of other nations by baseline and thought it was abundantly clear that it was a lesson of experience that assuming that a large number of your voting countrymen aren't terrible people is sadly a mistake.

Sorry, but this sounds mean.

What's mean about it? Brazilian voters are simply reaping what they sowed - "social media" has nothing to do with it. It's called living in a democracy.

You should see “The Great Hack” on Netflix. It might change your mind.

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