Lucas Kohorst

Because of the nuances of the Electoral College, votes in some states are much more likely to swing the election than others. FiveThirtyEight compiled a “voter power index” (VPI), which compares the relative power of the vote. A VPI of 1 means that a voter in that state has an average chance of swinging the election (~1 in 60 million). A VPI of 2... See more

It’s just as true for someone like me who has probably read more in my 24 years of being literate than tens of millions of humans put together, maybe more. It’s so, so obvious when something is botted, astroturfed, poorly edited, copied and pasted, and inorganic that I’m shocked other people cannot see it:

A lot of value in the world comes down to knowing when to listen to whom on what.