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0 pointsbflesch2mo ago0 comments

It's never to late to rejoin, we've all learned a lot about foreign propaganda in the last decade.

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Someone at Davos commented "It took you 7 years to negotiate your way out, it will take you 7 years to regret and then 7 years to negotiate back in".

consp2mo ago

All while losing all goodies and setting the economy back a decade.

Nextgrid2mo ago

But the remaining wealth of the country has successfully been extracted in the form of overpriced and not-fit-for-purpose utilities, transport companies, taxes, and so on and given to corporate interests. From their perspective it's a resounding success.

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tonyedgecombe2mo ago

We need a whole generation to die off before that becomes likely.

In the mean time we should move closer when the opportunity rises.

bfleschOP2mo ago

Don't be so sure that the next generation automatically gets less indoctrinated.

Facebook at least documented content interactions out in the open. With tiktok you don't notice what kind of content someone consumes.

There are tens of thousands of people working a full time job just to influence people in democratic countries to act/vote against their interests. Then we have hundreds of thousands more in advertisement industry with their own interests, mainly in line with goals of US companies.

There is reason for optimism because if everyone is on tiktok it becomes "uncool" again but still it is a very dangerous tool.

bloomingeek2mo ago

I'll bite on this one. I've been saying to anyone who will listen here in the states: my generation, the Boomers, needs to die out and/or get the hell out of the way. We're trashing almost everything because of a cult of hero worship.

fnimick2mo ago

While I used to agree with you, based on the most recent polling, Gen X and Gen Z are both farther right than Boomers are these days. So we're fucked long term too.

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yetihehe2mo ago

Someone at Davos commented "It took you 7 years to negotiate your way out, it will take you 7 years to regret and then 7 years to negotiate back in".

consp2mo ago

All while losing all goodies and setting the economy back a decade.

Nextgrid2mo ago

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tonyedgecombe2mo ago

We need a whole generation to die off before that becomes likely.

In the mean time we should move closer when the opportunity rises.

bfleschOP2mo ago

Don't be so sure that the next generation automatically gets less indoctrinated.

Facebook at least documented content interactions out in the open. With tiktok you don't notice what kind of content someone consumes.

There is reason for optimism because if everyone is on tiktok it becomes "uncool" again but still it is a very dangerous tool.

bloomingeek2mo ago

fnimick2mo ago

While I used to agree with you, based on the most recent polling, Gen X and Gen Z are both farther right than Boomers are these days. So we're fucked long term too.

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