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As I get older I become more and more disenchanted with, it's hard to say, what, exactly - America? Performance in the pandemic, refusal to even consider differ
by ALittleLight 4y ago
As I get older I become more and more disenchanted with, it's hard to say, what, exactly - America? Performance in the pandemic, refusal to even consider different ideas, rhetoric around elections and so on. Shameful that scientists and doctors are silenced when they disagree with our largely unelected leaders - but much worse and much more shameful is that the people responsible for our terrible COVID response will remain in power - same as the people responsible for foreign policy disasters and so on.
- alexfromapex 4y agoAmerica has been an oligarchy for a long time but it's becoming super apparent because of the pandemic. Also, things like cancel culture, the two party duopoly, and weaponized social justice are not helping anything and leading to a form of progressive fascism that is killing the country by killing productive debates. Super good quotation from the article: “The thought was, if you platform me, it’s a dangerous thing,” Bhattacharya said. “You know what’s dangerous? Is to not platform me. If you have a legitimate scientific view, a legitimate policy view, then not speak of it, then essentially what it does is it sends a message that we do not care about the truth.”