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Comment on Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy— When people perceive AI as replacing human labour, trust in democracy and political participation decline

bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

People’s trust in democracy SHOULD BE 0%. It’s all fake, it always has been. It’s an illusion of control for us, so we don’t resist and try to break free of the open-air prison we live in.

Revolution is the only way out.

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gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Trump and co just successfully revolted and are now attempting to institute their ideological vision

Did you account for it being someone else’s revolution?

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- SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s less of a revolution than it seems to be. Both parties have been doing awful things for a long time, Trump is just louder about it and more flagrant in his defiance of the other branches of government.
  
  But it’s not “Trump is a fascist, unlike any president before him.” Trump is a fascist, but there have plenty of fascistic elements in the US goverment all along, and there have been other presidents like Trump in US history.
  
  The system really is working exactly as intended.
  
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- Hamartia@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Trump and co. are merely impatient oligarchs that feel that they now have the technological and propaganda controls fine tuned enough to reduce the chances of blowback ever reaching them as they ramp up the extraction of value from the rest of us.
  
  For the other lot were doing this apace too but most of the worst of their efforts were hidden in the global south.
  
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- bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  My point is that we need to recognize that Fascism is already here and that we need to accept that democracy has failed us here. We need to fight for a better world, we can’t just vote our way out of this.
  
  Clapping our hands and saying “I do believe in Democracy!” won’t bring it back.
  
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  - gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I know it’s boring but we very likely will just vote our way out of this
    
    This is really not the first Trump type president in American history so I’m not sure why we’re all assuming it all ends here
    
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nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Problem is, we’ve never found a better system. They all suck, in various ways, many of them far worse than representative democracy. And that’s even if no one’s messing with the details of the setup to keep a certain group in power.

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