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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by rorykoehler on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:58PM (#23657531)
Another facet of this phenomenon is American political discourse spilling over into countries where it doesn’t make any sense. I see it in Ireland for example.
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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by luckylion on Saturday June 27, 2020 @06:18AM (#23660809)
I suspect that this is owed to the fact that the US is an empire, albeit not an explicit one where it's clear who is a province and who isn't.

I believe that people realize that American politics is much more important to their future than local politics, and that their countries will follow whatever way the US go, with some delay but little choice. The US political conflicts form the US, and that then forms it for everyone in the provinces.

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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by rorykoehler on Saturday June 27, 2020 @07:18PM (#23665476)
There is definitely an aspect of that but some of the stuff doesn't make any sense. The Irish were colonised and slaves themselves for example.
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