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Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Authoritarianism, duh. It’s a global thing.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re answering the how, but I’m asking for the why. 😅

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    • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      More money. More power. More control over millions of people. Control over what you say? Not their problem; just control everything.

      The ability to deny other what they want is a drug to some people; make them feel superior.

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    • ISOmorph@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Financial issues among the general populace due to consolidation of wealth > oligarchs create propaganda that brown people are to blame > uneducated masses vote for authoritarian with empty promises

      It’s the same program human civilisation has know for millenia

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    • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Evil people doing evil things because they’re evil. They want more than they have any right to and are willing to throw everyone else under the bus.

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    • plyth@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      feddit.org/post/16373509

      War is likely.

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• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s not lead, it’s Russians

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• goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Probably

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