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Re:The antidote to civilisational collapse – An interview wi... by pjc50 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:31AM (#26721889)
The public have to care about corruption more than culture war.

I've noticed in the UK there's been a number of corruption stories, starting around Brexit but hugely accelerated by pandemic procurement, that have been raised in the press and then just forgotten about.

In the US you can see how much energy has been put into fake scandals while distracting from real ones, e.g. Pizzagate vs Matt Gaetz.

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Re:The antidote to civilisational collapse – An interview wi... by adwn on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:01AM (#26722070)
I don't know why you're being downvoted, you hit the nail on the head. There are so many minor scandals that get inflated to epic proportions by the players of the opposite team, that truly outrageous scandals stay without consequence because they'll be replaced by the next one three days later.
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