You know, DOGE, fascist president and corporations dictating what people can do, institutions being ruined, laws being ignored. Is there any way out of that or is it over? Is the USA done?

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    84 days ago

    Hmmm, it seems the modern way for autocracies to deal with elections is to control the information space. I don’t see election being called off, but major social media platforms boosting one side while attenuating the other goes a long way. We know Musk is all in on this and the other big players like Zuckerberg & Co seem all too happy to oblige. Tiktok is an open ended question at this point.

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      64 days ago

      Hmmm, it seems the modern way for autocracies to deal with elections is to control the information space.

      So there is two different types (from how I understant it):

      One is that elections are just completely fraudulent

      The other has legitimate elections (as in, they actually count the votes and not make up numbers) but with a strong propaganda machine that favors the government.

      Russia is the first type

      Turkey is the second type

      I think the USA would become more of a Turkey situation than a Russia situation