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It feels like we’re on the brink of something

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Covid, WFH, Musk, The fall of Twitter, Netflix plateau, Reddit Blackout, Crippling interest rates, Trump, Decentralisation, Tech Antitrust, Ukraine

Adding in Edit: AI, Climate Crisis, Nazis, Fascism, Democratic backsliding, automation, mass unemployment, rising homelessness, wild fires

How are you feeling these days?

We sure do live in interesting times

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eclipxe@beehaw.org
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Democratic backsliding?

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SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org
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Prime examples being the stuff around Brexit or Roe v Wade

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PEnorman@beehaw.org
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Or Poland’s PiS party and their anti-democratic partisan judge nominations and the currently ongoing attempted elimination of the largest opposition party through McCarthyism.

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SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org
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Needless to mention ex-democracies such as Turkey, Hungary, etc.

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SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org
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The wave of populists across the democratic world has lead to more corruption and complacency at the top and more distrust and disconnection with the average voter.

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Riyria@beehaw.org
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Honestly, I’m starting to think the Nazis may have won, and they just shifted their strategies to playing the longcon.

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