We need to reclaim our attention

Re:We need to reclaim our attention by jacquesm on Sunday January 02, 2022 @09:56AM (#29769165)

The scary thing about that is that if you convince enough people that violence and collapse are imminent it may well become true.

Scenes in Amsterdam right now:

https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6176186/noodbevel-museumplein-n...

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Re:We need to reclaim our attention by inetknght on Sunday January 02, 2022 @10:33AM (#29769480)

For someone who can't see the pictures or read dutch, can you summarize?

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Re:We need to reclaim our attention by jacquesm on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:36PM (#29771047)

One of our political parties has found out that by pressing the 'anti-government' button and piling on a bunch of conspiracy theories they can mobilize scarily large sections of society for protests, which invariably turn violent because there is a radical element at play.

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