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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: oddhack ✶  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Investing with an eye on rising authoritarianism
Date: 07/18/24 6:42 AM
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Imagine a world where you either have to give up Facebook (and Twitter and Instagram and TikTok), or give up your vote : )


While I take your meaning, I essentially have given up social media aside from friends-only posts on FB, and a small amount of interaction on Mastodon, accompanied by liberal and instant blocking as needed. The value of enraged incels and Russian bot farms threatening the lives of most of my friends, spreading the conspiracy theory of the hour, and promising dire retribution for not being like them, is exceedingly negative.

The longer-term question (if there is a longer term) is whether the remaining democratic governments will be willing to allow this mass psy-op against their own citizens to continue.

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