• mommykink@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The whole world is shifting hard to the right. It’s pretty crazy to see happen in real time.

    Something something “weak men” something something “hard times”

    • TwoGems@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s due to all the propaganda BS everyone needs a fairness doctrine for media at this point

    • theneverfox@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      I think it’s more “tech has created extremely reliable and granular methods to hijack a democracy”. Pair that with wealth inequality, and you have a recipe for billionaires able to buy their way into becoming nobility without putting a target on their backs.

      This wasn’t some accident or an artifact - a small group of billionaires bought up the Western media over the last few decades, have run astroturfing operations to misrepresent public sentiment to lawmakers, and more recently have started to use social media to shape discourse. And I think we all know they do a whole lot more behind, but these are the things that are well documented publicly if you care to look

      Humanity has plenty of cycles, but this was something done intentionally and systematically by a number of individuals that could fit in one room

    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Which is hilarious because I look at PP and all I see is a weak man and yet that’s what we will probably elect.