Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attributes of monopoly

Re:Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attribut... by boomboomsubban on Thursday October 15, 2020 @02:51AM (#24785628)

Every example of the "divide and conquer" strategy you mention has the US at least assisting the "top ladder." Mexican drug cartels only exist because of America's "War on Drugs," and beyond that you run into people like Pablo Escobar deliberations propped up by the US to further their interests.

>And, mind you, China is completely unaffected by the processes tearing the U.S. apart

Isn't this the exact same " divide and conquer " strategy you just mentions? If we don't continue supporting our tribe, ignoring it's many faults, that other tribe will make things much worse.

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Re:Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attribut... by john_moscow on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:00AM (#24789289)

Europe has been living like this for centuries during Medieval times. Inquisition, witch hunts, heretic burning, wars, plague... African tribes have been at war with each other for as long as we know them. It's a human fallacy and not some evil plan hatched by U.S. billionaires.

Besides, the billionaires will be fine, it's the middle class that will find themselves living in ghettos.

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Re:Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attribut... by boomboomsubban on Thursday October 15, 2020 @04:12PM (#24793263)

>It's a human fallacy and not some evil plan hatched by U.S. billionaires

Right, US billionaires would never develop an evil plan like exploit violence to make money. Those actions are just African nature.

If China were to gain more power though, obviously they would steal the middle classes' wealth and force them into poverty.

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