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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by tombert on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:12PM (#28947659)
Obviously America has problems that should be addressed, but I tend to think these "blame the US for everything cuz it's irredeemable" are doing a pretty big disservice all around. If we could singularly find these problems to be a uniquely American thing, that would be great! That means we've identified the problems and conceivably we could change the US to suddenly fix it. I think the reality is that it's not that simple. History has shown us that people across basically every nationality are vulnerable to demagoguery, and I seriously don't think the US is unique in electing a bunch of blowhards as leaders.

There are lots of things about the US I would change (socialized healthcare being the obvious thing in my mind), but I don't think that we should delude ourselves by saying that the US is beyond redeemable.

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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by adrr on Thursday October 21, 2021 @02:55PM (#28949294)
It all depends. If one side believes the election was stolen and proceeds to rig elections in their favor in retaliation. America is done. We're at a point where fact don't matter. This is story illustrates that. Fact that SSN were sent out publicly doesn't matter. Fact that any security expert would say this wasn't hacking doesn't matter. Experts no longer matter. Whether they are doctors, scientists, etc.
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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by tombert on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:26PM (#28950402)
I agree that the lies about election fraud and whatnot are dangerous, but I fail to see how that's uniquely American. Conspiracy theories exist all over the place, and predate anyone alive today.

I will agree that the acceptance of conspiratorial thinking in conservative circles is especially harmful (I wrote more detail about that in a sister thread), but you don't have to look very far in European history to find them electing demagogues too.

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