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[–] 14 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Why are there rarely counter-campaigns for all of these? Passivity of governments towards this is so weird. They occasionally mention banning social media and at the end just do nothing. Why not promote their views too.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The state and these governments serve the wealthy. Who manipulate the media against the people. Why would the states go against the people they serve. Whom to be clear when I say the people they serve I don't mean the people. I'm speaking about the wealthy.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Made me think of the quote I encountered this morning:

    Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

    -- Bertrand Russell

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Yep, if resources were unlimited. Hording them would harm no one. But they aren't. For one person to have more, multiple people must have their liberties imposed upon by having less. The wealthy are by their very nature a violation of liberty. Not an expression of it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    But currently establishment parties are losing ground to others (often right wing) so you‘d think they‘d come up with something, not directly to serve the people but to protect themselves. But they can’t and it’s likely because they don’t stand for anything other than status quo. Can’t survive in information age when you don’t have any message.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    There probably are information campaigns. But disinformation has a massive advantage because it doesn't need facts, you just need catchy slogans with no basis in reality. They spread much more easily.

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