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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by bonzini on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:53PM (#22528467)
We did during the first week, i.e. 10 days ago approximately, including the opposition pandering to their base about how the government was incompetent. They have since backtracked, and the opposition leader (Salvini) has never been so silent.
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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by mrtksn on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:57PM (#22528495)
It feels as if all these people were trained in a secret CIA guerilla training camp and spread across the world to champion the same bullshit. I find it creepy.
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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by shadowgovt on Monday March 09, 2020 @03:00PM (#22528538)
It wasn't a secret CIA camp; it was the Internet.

We created systems for like-minded individuals who were previously geographically separated to find each other and cross-communicate easily, asynchronously, peer-to-peer, and globally. What you're seeing that looks like organized planning by a central office is more the effect of these people all reading (and posting on) the same news sources and message boards regardless of country of origin.

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