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Americans, not content with learning from others' mistakes, will now be learning them first hand. The horrors are just beginning.
by morkalork 2y ago
Americans, not content with learning from others' mistakes, will now be learning them first hand. The horrors are just beginning.
- hayst4ck 2y agoHistorians, particularly ones who study fascism and Russia/Eastern Europe are already fleeing the country. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-...
- Baeocystin 2y agoFuck. That is a bleak assessment.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoI would leave too, but I'd have to abandon a couple loved ones
- hayst4ck 2y agoThe problem with leaving is that if everyone leaves, there is no where to run to. Freedom requires solidarity, you cannot have freedom without solidarity.
- dawatchusay 2y agoEurope is also seeing far-right ideology spreading and taking over mainstream politics so this really isn’t an American problem only right now.
- hayst4ck 2y agoIt is the unholy union of a new unregulated form of communication, social media, and unregulated privatized intelligence companies, such as Palantir and Cambrdige Analytica. Ironically China implemented the GFW because they correctly predicted this exact scenario being used to destabilize themselves.
- dawatchusay 2y agoI don’t think that’s why the GFW exists but ok
- hayst4ck 2y agoYou can't subject people who were illiterate subsistence farmers who never left their home town 50 years ago to highly processed foreign propaganda and expect good outcomes.
- sofixa 2y agoFunnily this (only its local not foreign propaganda) is kind of what's happening in India. The BJP (party in power) is leaning very heavily on propaganda towards the uneducated masses to boost their image.
- queenkjuul 2y agoYou think wrong