In Alberta and elsewhere, the far-right is using referendums to mainstream white nationalism
growing ignorance, failing education, growing effective propaganda, lack of regulation on media manipulation …etcetc
Our education system really is broken. I’ve seen it firsthand. It’s not just a matter of me or others being in a different generation, but rather it’s in terms of their critical thinking, social skills, handwriting, etc.
The younger generation got messed up by Covid in terms of schooling as well.
And for mother fucking fuck’s sake, disallow phones in school during school hours!
Oh for sure it’s not a “generation” problem, like their DNA is somehow inferior or something. We just use that more to denote sections of people in a given time, who obviously have things going on differently. It’s a shitty thing to use though because it often ends up being reduced to simply that.
Technology (bad…technology) has lobotomized generations of people. Big tech needs to be held accountable, stiff regulation and educational reform was needed years ago… And things chug on as the tech illiterate boomers continue to fuck future generations over.
And yeah, no phones in school… Hell, I don’t think anyone under 18 should be on social media, or using AI chatbots.
I’d shake your hand bud cause we’re in total agreement!
Sent in my ballot a week ago!
I wish to stay in Canada. I can’t believe I had to participate in something like this but … Here we are.
Nazi hunters, rejoice!
It is not a serious sign of a growing far right, it’s a confirmation that the far right is becoming more emboldened.
It’s a sign that countries around the world are susceptible to foreign disinformation and unrest campaigns. Brexit was the first shot. trump getting elected is an ongoing attack on American hegemony. AFD in Germany is an attack against an anti-Russian government, the LePenn shit in France is a reaction to them being anti-Russian…
It’s not that the far right is growing, it’s that the ‘traditional west’ has been under rampant attack from historical adversaries, and the companies inside the west are letting them attack us collectively, because they make money off of it.
Shut down the bot farms like Ukraine has done, and watch these movements start to wither on the vine.
instead of shutting down bot farms, entire countries, Russia, China, Saudi A, Israel, etc should be disconnected from the global internet. It has very little economic benefit to have them online and a huge political downside of easy manipulation. It is much easier to shut down and prosecute bot farms when they are hosted on Western soil. Then we just have to actually prosecute them, even if they are trillion dollar companies like Twitter.
Oh darn, we will have to explodify all the data centers. :(
Honestly I’m willing to go more analog in life to get rid of this online unrest bullshit.
Stupid people are shutting up less. Birds of a feather squawking together.
After the russian bot farm went offline recently, all of the separatist influencer pages have a fraction of the traffic lol
In this case it’s very likely American data centers doing the work.
I don’t see the logic behind that. Trump has that weird s*** to say about Canada, but most Americans don’t ever expect Canada to be part of the US. But there is benefit for other countries to cause strife within both Canada and the US.
Look at all those old white people! Shocked I say, shocked!
The elites also use referendums to prevent proportional representation from being passed in Canada.
Never ever stop allowing referendums. They are the ONLY way we have acheived popular change in the US.
Republicans have been trying to curtail and get rid of them in the US, over half of the states have them to some degree. Some states did change the vote from 50 to 60 and such. Ohio maybe, and some SW shitholy one I forget.
We all agree on many things, removing the ability to have a popular vote on it is a recipe for tyranny. (US states often have citizen sponsored ballot initiatives, via petition, maybe you should get some, eh?)
But I agree the separatist vote is, well, tantamount to allying with the US prez, which is at this point, a betrayal of the country, and it’s people.
