Every group of nerds assumes average person knows more about their obsession…

Oh I know what they will do, they will tax the young more and “save” the old with the money

Then you are a robot

The Australian Subreddits got overrun by extremist right wing people who tend to be 20x louder than anyone else, and exaggerate everything.

I don;'t think this is just Australian issue

Where I live there are only two opinions about USA:

1. USA is shiny utopia where everyone is rich, and no hardship can be found.

2. USA is a dumpster fire no different from Russia or China.

American natives are just a funky idea from fantasy land for both sides.

Constant work on democracy is not really possible for people who already spend way too much time of the day surviving, working.

And those who don’t need to work to survive probably aren’t that interested in democracy working…

Interesting points, and while I am not convinced that all the far-right needs is just existence of “nasty foreigners”, I’d like to thank you for bringing this up.

Especially since the idea of “party going down and imploding under weight of it’s own corruption and incompetence” is something that in my country (Poland) happened already to all sides of political spectrum.

My personal opinion is that alt-right is rising world-wide because democratic governments forgot that the way we eradicated radical ideologies post-ww2 was through making life of average person bearable. Radical ideologies can’t find fertile ground among people who own their own homes, who can support whole family with a single job.

And if current solution to alt-right will be to just start wars, raise taxes and double down on policing… it will only give them more fuel.

Honestly I don’t think it can. In USA there is this shit called “law of precedence” and also there is this precedence that means companies are liable in court if they don’t prioritize shareholder profit.

Any reform that could possibly work must probably start with outlawing stock markets and loans.

It applies to human life too.

Many things we consider normal weren’t normal century ago, two centuries ago etc.

Looks way better than half the ads I normally see.

At this point I fully expect that as a last resort Iran will just try to damage permanently the strait.

Answer, in my opinion, is local communities.

Perhaps it’s a bit of nationalist of me, but I think we are flooded daily with unnecessary information about what happens in other countries. In my personal opinion a random person from, say, Berlin or Paris shouldn’t be bombarded daily with news about another school shooting in backwater american town. Nor should they know what happens in politics of each other nations.

A community of my town would be useless for bots, especially if it banned all politics and ads from beyond my town. Elections of president? No dice, the only elections we care about is our mayor.

I do not live in USA. I shouldn’t know about Trump as much as I do, I shouldn’t be talking daily to americans. What relationships could I form with them? We will never go together to restaurant, bar, bowling alley etc. But place where my countrymen, and americans, and french, and germans etc. are herded together is the best place for bots.

Human verification? As in “give us your photo” or something?

Bots will have verification down to the science, done and verified as humans certified… way before actual humans even manage to turn on their cameras.

People are, generally speaking, mostly emotional creatures. Emotional comfort is often more important that facts.

Another example would be closing atomic plants.

Thank you. I shall try the Duck one

The way covid vaccine got politicized and whole epidemic turned into just another stunt to extract wealth from the poor really eroded the blind trust people have been putting in science.

What engines would you advise to someone who is thinking about ditching google?

To be fair, church-owned hospitals are pretty much closest thing to universal healthcare USA currently has. Government chipping in with their own universal healthcare would relieve a lot of cost, paperwork and trouble from the church.