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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You need both.

  You need people to fight now, and people to document the shit out of this to cut through as much propaganda as possible for the future.

  The current regime has already started to rewrite history, documenting the truth is putting up a fight!

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• InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Palantir threat model specifically says only a fringe will put up a fight right now.

  There’s a projected line in the sand where people stand up, but so long as you stay on one side, you’re safe, and the scary thing is, you can push that line and it will move.

  The plan is to be super aggressive now to move the line, then 12 months from now to act all domestic abuser who regrets it and love bombing to cancel out most of the anger before the midterms.

  In their defense, this is exactly how Reagan did it and it worked.

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  • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think as you get younger, people are much more aware of abuse dynamics than they were in the past. I think their models may be off.

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    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is the interesting part!

      We Americans believe we are all blessed by the holy aura of freedom and democracy.

      These models were trained on 3rd world countries.

      Let’s see how far they work, maybe we really are just as weak and corrupt as those we hold in contempt.

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      • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        not an american thing. product of global culture, generally. the kids (and to a lesser extent, the middle aged) are a lot more aware of abuse dynamics specifically. I don’t think it’s just america.

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