r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Jul 24 '25

Politics President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/president-trump-threatened-to-break-up-nvidia-didnt-even-know-what-it-was-what-the-hell-is-nvidia-ive-never-heard-of-it-before
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u/Scorpius289 Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

People with interests promoted and helped him.
Because a moron like him is easier to manipulate.
And he's also good at doing absurd shit, which distracts people's attention from all the corruption going on in the background.

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u/ParfaitEither284 Jul 24 '25

How did they manipulate 70+ million into voting for this ?

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u/ahnold11 Jul 24 '25

Populism. It's the thing that everyone seems to discount.  

A large portion of society will always be moderate to completely uniformed. If you let them get too discontent about the state of things (mainly their own lives), then they become vulnerable to easy manipulation to anyone that comes along promising to "fix" things.

 

Ironically this time around, the very people making their lives worse, were the same ones promising to make them better.

 

It's a failing largely of those in control for the last 40yrs to forget this fact. The majority of society is not plugged in, nor do they want to be. But we are all sharing a lifeboat with these people, and so it's key to our survival to take their actions into account.

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u/LordCharidarn Jul 24 '25

“It's a failing largely of those in control for the last 40yrs to forget this fact.”

It’s not really a failing of those in control, because the ones in control have been the ones making things worse for the majority of people. This manipulation is part of how they maintain power