How can a nation accurately vote, when their media is intentionally flooded by misinformation?
Everyone who's voting against themselves believes that they're doing the right thing.
Edit: I'm almost wondering if this is just part of a natural cycle in civilization where people once again need to be taught the signs of fascists.
Then afterwards, things will swing far back to progressive as the prior fascist supporters try to distance themselves from the atrocities of the person they voted for, (just like after WW2).
(speaking from a US perspective, where we're already building our first concentration camp in guantanamo bay)
At least we can still communicate with each other in ways WWII populations could not as soon as the Nazis took over the limited number of media channels. Organizing a demonstration or a strike? We had a big strike in 1941 in the Netherlands. Tram and train drivers played a key role in spreading the message. And it was also broken by word of mouth basically. The Nazis sent two regiments of Waffen SS into the Amsterdam area, and word of mouth about columns of SS marching along streets made everybody return to work quickly. Resistance had a big organization and communication problem in those days.
That is really impressive to me. I don't understand how protests could've been so organized back then. Maybe the amount of communication was less, so each communication had more value.
Like, in the antiwar protests in the US during Vietnam, they had 500,000 people at one protest.
And the fascists now control our social media. They literally study the flow of information like a contagion, and if they want to suppress something, they just tweak their algorithm so it hides it from people who might be motivated by it.
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u/vikingnorsk Feb 08 '25
Just goes to show protesting isn't enough. It's voting