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Re:A Year of Meta's News Ban in Canada by pegasus on Friday August 02, 2024 @04:49PM (#41142511)
> And now we have a fascist government in Holland so I'm simply disillusioned and I don't care what they do anymore.

If that's indeed the case, it should be an alarm call for all citizens to start caring and getting politically involved even more than before. It's not like the world owes us not to go up in flames, and if it does, we shouldn't just sit down shaking our head in disappointment.

Re:A Year of Meta's News Ban in Canada by wkat4242 on Friday August 02, 2024 @04:52PM (#41142543)
Yeah it's really sad when our own minister of immigration was promoting the "displacement theory" :'(

And I'm already politically active, I always was. But I the these people thrive on dissent just like social media does. Anger is a very strong emotion.

Ps I have since edited the term fascist to extreme-right as it's a more appropriate description. Though both apply IMO. For example the party in question doesn't even permit members. It's all about the one guy who decides everything.

Re:A Year of Meta's News Ban in Canada by nailer on Friday August 02, 2024 @06:08PM (#41143080)
> If that's indeed the case

It's not. The Netherlands remains a parliamentary representative democracy.

Re:A Year of Meta's News Ban in Canada by wkat4242 on Friday August 02, 2024 @09:41PM (#41144086)
It is but with a quarter of people voting for extreme-right I'm very disenfranchised and I just don't care about society anymore.

The good thing is that the current coalition is so unstable it will likely collapse soon. Even during their inaugural debates they couldn't stop slinging mud.

Re:A Year of Meta's News Ban in Canada by squigz on Saturday August 03, 2024 @12:43PM (#41147642)
> It is but with a quarter of people voting for extreme-right I'm very disenfranchised and I just don't care about society anymore.

Unfortunately this is how the far right is able to gain power.