• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    This in itself is, of course, a scandal that in any reasonably functioning country would inevitably lead to the government’s downfall.

    so, none, in the age of algorithm driven nonstop brain massage

    • DandomRude@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You’re right, of course, that the billionaires’ all-encompassing power—especially through digital media—makes public resistance very difficult, but I don’t think that such blatant corruption, as the U.S. regime practices it so shamelessly and, above all, so openly, would be tolerated in my home country (Germany). I mean, this is literally organized crime on a scale that’s almost beyond belief.

      Corruption exists everywhere, but such blatant criminality in public office seems to me possible on this absurd scale only in the land of superlatives.

      I can’t understand how this can be tolerated, especially since it has such negative consequences for the population.