If you think this can’t happen outside the U.S., consider that we’re all subject to the same forces - social media-driven discourse, collapsing institutional trust, and the rise of narratives untethered from reality. It’s a systemic vulnerability in every democracy.
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I realize that our Nazis regime wants to shut down this platform.
Here’s mine. Ban all social media as profoundly destructive and destabilizing for democratic societies. It’s just a website at the end. There’s no real value. Humans will go on fine without it.
And honestly, it looks as though you American do not deserve anything better.
I.o.w.: get the f.. of the world stage.
- Americans are dumber
- America has a two party system. A lot more fragile than us, where parties can be booted out and never seen again. And lunatics (like AfD) are isolated
Uneducated ignorant citizens who believe in wild conspiracy theories like "Flat Earth" is soft spot of any democracy.
A threat.
Unless you making lying less profitable, you can't stop this from happening.
So there is hope that we could make the needed changes to our information environment.
Seems even more relevant today.
https://youtu.be/7hQvBIyOC6Y?si=PoZbqyqxACmWMIg4
In fact, we are in an existential war and responding as if it was peacetime is a death sentence.
I told him to tell them “if you think it can’t happen to you - you haven’t been paying close attention” Don’t let your media be polluted with disinformation
The constitution wasn't designed to / cannot deal with situations like this
Legitimate political power requires the ongoing consent of the people
Americans overthrew their government one time
No history book wrongs them for doing so
http://demos.co.uk/research/epistemic-security-2029-fortifying-the-uks-information-supply-chain-to-tackle-the-democratic-emergency/
Perhaps information can no longer be made as dominant as it once was. I'm not saying it's not still important, ...
social exclusion. People feeling that government isn't 'for them'.
Explicit, tacit or implicit exclusion that creates groups who think 'fuck society, I'll find my sense of belonging elsewhere'.
Yes. It's not like things have really changed. The face-eating leopard is still a face-eating leopard. It's just come out into daylight.
The most concerning part is that the US elected one such person twice.
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It may need to be root and branch reform at that level
https://bsky.app/profile/eliothiggins.bsky.social/post/3ljd6zljnts2z
(I do see anxiety & fear in voters who can’t afford rent.)
Shouldn't we be more rigid on spreading lies?
Similar to how we Limit sales of Alcohol to the youth or fight smoking:
Ban social media for below 18y old. Fight news outlets like #Fox and #Springer more explicitly for lying. On #X and #Facebook, harmful content must be labelled
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I was a student of Dr Dator's in the 90s. Some of may seem far out, but it's worth considering his main thesis: we've moved from an Information Society to a Dream Society. It comports very well with disordered discourse!
Way back in 1976, the movie "Network" warned about EXACTLY this phenomenon, which we then watched play out in real time over the next several decades.
Notice how the same story or attack suddenly is everywhere.
Pro democracy forces are very bad at unified messaging and that needs to stop.