From age and ID restrictions on the Internet, to charging rappers with “terrorism,” the U.K. is demolishing the most basic civil liberties. If we let them, U.S. leaders may be close behind.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 hours ago

    i believe that “far-right” sentiments are a natural defense mechanism against a perceived threat.

    if your tribe is in danger, you start kicking the foreigners out, you start going back culturally to what you perceive as “safe”,

    it’s literally like if a windows computer fails to boot properly 3 times in a row, it re-boots into “safe mode”, which is a locked-down, dumbed-down, simplified version of the actual os. we are the computer. if people experience hardships too often throughout their daily lifes, they start “dumbing down” and “rebooting into safe mode”. just that that safe mode causes more hardships for everyone else. and that’s where we’re at right now.