Ukraine is in a situation where a war is either being run well, or Ukraine doesn’t exit. There’s no real third option. The U.S., on the other hand, could run a war badly for decades with it’s wealth and geographic isolation propping it up.

Tech is the easy part. Building social capital is the hard part. That takes talking to people, face-to-face.

The description is so vague, that a few ashes in the garbage and someone claiming they saw the note and it’s contents would fit it.

Pundits literally make you less aware of what is happening in the world. Their whole job is to fill the space between an event, and actual, verified information about that event, with wild guesses. Any truthful journalist will admit the limitations of what is known during that time.

If NK can have a necrocracy, he can run a senilocracy -especially since he’s basically just a figurehead for oligarchs and fascists anyway that repeats whatever the most recent person told him.

The fact that you care about the “average” rather than just “a lot of people” means you value democracy. He doesn’t. A “lot” of people doesn’t need to be a majority or even a plurality. It just needs to be the right people.

The actual Nazis didn’t really drop in popularity much, or rather their policies didn’t, even after those very policies resulted in much of the continent being burned down. People literally looked around at the rubble and hoped that fascists would fix things. In Italy, they stayed in power ffs.

You need strong constitutions to protect from this shit, because people will vote for their own death when they are scared.

Who got all the new wealth from increased productivity post 1980? The gays and minorities?

We are speedrunning robber-barrons through WW-II in one shot this time. What a ride. Can I get off, please?

Their whole identity is fuck everyone, you all suck, irreverence. Absolutely, in no way liberal, but exactly what you need to undermine a burgeoning autocracy, especially a fascist one. Jesters make the king feel good, comedians cut through their illusion of supremacy. That’s not liberal though.

It’s more complicated than that. It /did/ work in some sense. The prevalence of severe alcoholism was insane prior to prohibition and it dropped precipitously. The problem is, the cost of prohibition is so many actual lost lives. Both from unsafe supply and organized crime.

A public health approach also can reduce the harm of alcoholism while not creating new deaths. It’s worth understanding the difference so we can expect, for example, pot to become more abused after legalization, but if public health measures are in place, limited harm.

They don’t want moderate left (or democrats, whatever they are). They would be happy to prop up a far left group if they were actually a threat to the state (in fact, under the same policy, the USSR did just that). Their goal is to destabilize, not push ideology. Keep an eye out for isolationist left comments -anything that serves Russias plans. They do have their left bots.

They have a long history of supporting both ends of the spectrum and really anyone they deem will destabilize the hegemony. Noam Chomsky used to be such a regular guest on RT he could have been considered staff back during the Iraq war. The difference is that they have had wild success with the far right to the point that no one is even really hiding it anymore. Trump and brexit being the biggest successes on the books.

The author of archive box makes a very strong case for the need for both decentralized and centralized archives like the internet archive: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-changelog-software-development-open-source/id341623264?i=1000678444105

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, until there is any actual examples of Canada banning images. Even in this case, it’s a loss of public funding rather than blocking. The internet archive is mostly privately funded.

Yes, the trouble with archiving is knowing what will be important in the future, rather than just popular now. We saved a lot of games from the 80’s through 2000’s through piracy, because they were popular to pass around, but we lost a most of the early web because no one thought it would disappear until the internet archive came along.