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It feels like we’re on the brink of something (beehaw.org)
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Covid, WFH, Musk, The fall of Twitter, Netflix plateau, Reddit Blackout, Crippling interest rates, Trump, Decentralisation, Tech Antitrust, Ukraine

Adding in Edit: AI, Climate Crisis, Nazis, Fascism, Democratic backsliding, automation, mass unemployment, rising homelessness, wild fires

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[–] eclipxe@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Democratic backsliding?

[–] SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Prime examples being the stuff around Brexit or Roe v Wade

[–] PEnorman@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or Poland's PiS party and their anti-democratic partisan judge nominations and the currently ongoing attempted elimination of the largest opposition party through McCarthyism.

[–] SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Needless to mention ex-democracies such as Turkey, Hungary, etc.

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