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Comment by morkalork | Hacker News Reader

Americans, not content with learning from others' mistakes, will now be learning them first hand. The horrors are just beginning.

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Historians, particularly ones who study fascism and Russia/Eastern Europe are already fleeing the country.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-...

Fuck. That is a bleak assessment.

I would leave too, but I'd have to abandon a couple loved ones

The problem with leaving is that if everyone leaves, there is no where to run to.

Freedom requires solidarity, you cannot have freedom without solidarity.

Europe is also seeing far-right ideology spreading and taking over mainstream politics so this really isn’t an American problem only right now.

It is the unholy union of a new unregulated form of communication, social media, and unregulated privatized intelligence companies, such as Palantir and Cambrdige Analytica.

Ironically China implemented the GFW because they correctly predicted this exact scenario being used to destabilize themselves.

I don’t think that’s why the GFW exists but ok

You can't subject people who were illiterate subsistence farmers who never left their home town 50 years ago to highly processed foreign propaganda and expect good outcomes.

Funnily this (only its local not foreign propaganda) is kind of what's happening in India. The BJP (party in power) is leaning very heavily on propaganda towards the uneducated masses to boost their image.

You think wrong

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