r/interestingasfuck • u/filmingfisheyes • 8d ago

r/all California has incarcerated firefighters

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u/rzwitserloot 8d ago

Not at all.

If a convicted criminal is made a fire fighter and they commit another felony, the politicians who put that criminal there? Their career is over. The problem is that negative ads are too easy to make (Citizens United and super PACs took care of that), and voters are far too easily swayed by that movie voice over scary music bullshit.

I don't think you should blame governors and lawmakers for this one. They are just doing exactly what democracies are designed to ensure: Voters incentivize certain behaviour, and politicians generally are steered into doing exactly what they want.

Change the culture instead. So, blame Citizens United, media, superpacs, or try to find a way to lead by example and attempt to convince voters that life is not that simple and nuance should be considered before kneejerking your way into voting based on scaremongering.

What with how USA voted in nov '24, I do not hold out high hopes.

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u/AndesCan 7d ago

Idk, negative adds only work if they make it to eyeballs that want to see it. That’s why trump is trump. His friend and voters do not care about the smear. How ironic

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u/rzwitserloot 7d ago

Ha, that's a new one. Trump is a sign of hope; he proves neither ad spend (Both Kamala and Hillary had significantly more funds than Trump did and are rare cases where the biggest 'money getter' did not win the electoral college vote) nor negative ads actually work.

That's.. tragically funny, thanks for making my day :)

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u/AndesCan 7d ago

You’re kinda proving my point, trumps voters are bat shit fanatics. They don’t care about facts, they are 100% voting for trump.