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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah. I mean I try not to be the guy standing on the corner with the "THE END IS NEAR" sign, but the writing is on the wall here. History has shown us that if a populace doesn't work hard to maintain a democracy, it loses it to the forces working against it. And our society simply can't responsibly handle the threat of internet propaganda and radicalism. There will never be a more stark election than what we just experienced and we still failed the test. If we're failing the easiest, most obvious tests we could possibly be given, we don't stand a chance.

It's not going to be some cataclysmic collapse and downfall. It's going to be slow and steady and extremely despressing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

But God forbid you call it depressing and ruin someone else's high on the way down.