"The Waldo Moment", the Black Mirror episode everyone compares to this, still has Waldo lose the election
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It then time skips to a dark future where Waldo is somehow ruler of the world but people treated this as a weird fantasy element
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There's a lot to say about that ep honestly and how ppl at the time slammed it for being bad science fiction
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Like it's not even "science fiction" really, the technology behind Waldo exists in IRL and was used by Nintendo to market the N64
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It's actually skewering SF tropes from way back about computers being used to create the "perfect candidate"
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On the show Waldo is, you know, obviously fake and stupid and nobody gives a shit, it's part of his appeal
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Waldo obviously stands in for Trump but he even more stands in for all the garbage Youtubers and chan turds who got him elected
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Hiding behind their stupid cartoon frog that gives them license to say all the racist shit "normies" don't get to say
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Old school SF imagined the Internet being used as this ultimate deception to create a Perfect Man (Dick's The Penultimate Truth)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jenmercieca
And Orson Scott Card's Ender's game, where as I keep mentioning, teenagers take over the world with anon. blogs
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Yeah except the blog doesn't have trenchant political insights it's just "SUCK MY DICK NEOLIB CUCKS"
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It's important to note that democracy DIDN'T give us this. Antidemocratic features (EC, gerrymandering, malapportionment did)…
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @arthur_affect and
Democracy depends in part upon an absolutist and no-exceptions view of civic equality. Voter suppression, felon disenfranchisement,
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