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  • All good points, thank you. I don’t disagree but I don’t think those things are as impactful as most.

    The way I see it is that we keep trading one bad thing for another all the time. We might have TikTok now but we no longer have led in gasoline that gave anxiety/ADHD/depression to my generation. TT has also been demonised beyond belief due to influence campaigns from Meta but that’s a side note. We have mass manufactured nicotine products but at least it’s not an unfiltered cigarette. I don’t believe we’re regressing, or regressing beyond what’s a normal amount of random change.

    Accumulation of knowledge is one of our best bets and seems to be somewhat working out. History will probably not always move towards a brighter future but that’s okay because long term we either bomb ourselves out of this planet or actually work it out.



















  • In 2016 Russian influence campaigns targeted both Clinton and Trump to sow mistrust in the democratic process so it’s not the whole story. This year Trump, on his own (and his billionaire friends) won by a landslide in terms of popular vote. There was interference for sure but it’s not enough to affect elections by this margin. It’s being told like that to absolve ourselves from bearing responsibility for creating a reality where half of the population feels left out to the point where they want to demolish everything.



  • I somehow doubt that couple of days is enough for prosecution to make a case or for judges to go through the evidence. Due process traditionally allows for appeals too.

    I’m from Poland where previous populist right government set up constitutional court with their own politicians and it will take time to replace them legally. Currently that court is a laughing stock because they rule on everything, mostly outside of what they actually can, seemingly on their own and at moments notice.

    What Romanian constitutional court did sounds kinda similar and it worries me. Are we throwing away democracy because otherwise we get fascism? I’m not sure if we’re not going to end with fascism anyway, just with liberal aesthetics.