hspu.bsky.social
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Won‘t visit the US. I don’t want to be shot by a mass shooter or crazy police officer, die in an airplane accident or get measles or something.
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The fact that *30% of Americans* are fine with annexing other countries is *terrifying*, honestly.
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not alone, there’s new friend russia now 🤡
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History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
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(10/X) Absolutely everything, across all issues, is like that. When liberals do stupid stuff or things go wrong under Democrats, the condemnation never ends (fairly, sometimes). When Republicans, especially MAGAs, do the same, infinite numbers of excuses are made.
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I love it. It’s from the Spanish band MECANO from the 80s.
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They can’t clone the fact that this platform can’t be owned by one billionaire.
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8) I fear the media responds by breaking the links between news and democracy. In 2040 maybe we'll have scrapped websites and publish only on social media. Or sell all the news to those who will pay, forming an elite class of owners of authoratitive information (lawyers, traders, politicians)?
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7) Populists know this about the news. 'They're eating the cats.' Boris Johnson rambling about making model buses during his leadership campaign. Or bad actors simply releasing nonsense into filter bubbles. This of course only serves to undermine the news. Why bother if you can't tell what's true.
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6) But young folk now experience the news as part of a massive daily information dump. There's so much to know and so little time to engage. The news needs to travel around other formats like social media to engage young people. And this fuels the circuluation of sensational and false claims.
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It'll be a token effort, and then they'll work to blame Dems for them not being able to do more. It's their standard MO. They don't really want to get rid of them, they want the appearance of it so they can keep running on hatred of the "other".
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They’re already being blocked for me via this blocklist I’m using
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It‘s also soooo kitsch 🙄
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They are not serious, they are not interested in a constructive discourse, they want to humiliate and feel rewarded by their peers.
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Yes, but the moment needs to come, when we draw a line and say: Well intended, serious critic welcome. But to treat brutal, abusive, vulgar "own-the-libs"-troll with silk gloves is wrong.
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I often think about how much healthier it is intellectually, both as an individual and as a society, when people have time to be bored. There are *so* many demands on our attention that I'm not sure "stupidity" is exactly what's going on here — it's politics losing mental market share.
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I think this is exactly right. The great success of calling everything Woke is that it never actually means anything. It's just an accusation that means whatever you can think of that's bad. And then eventually the whole world is tagged in meaningless accusations that can't ever be sorted out.