It amuses me to no end that people are using the Hitler analogy with Trump.
The obvious comparison (if he subverts elections) is Erdogan.
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Lucky how? We can subvert the entire system or hope we luck out like the Romans and get a competent dictator to clean up the mess.
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The latter seems unlikely, given that the Roman Republic had enormous power concentrated in just a few people and institutions, but...
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... we do have NATO, the EU and UN, which could easily be turned to centralizing power.
Not a good thing, exactly, but a possibility.
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The idea of cutting through the bullshit with tech might work, but then anyone can capture that tech as a means of centralizing power.
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So long as we're all stuck on one planet, I don't see how we prevent power structures from doing what power structures do. "The blade itself..." etc.
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There is the Corbyn phenomena, driven by social media, do you not think that as social media matures it will offset some of the more authoritarian aspects of power.
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I'm Norwegian. I grew up under social democracy. It's lovely. Corbyn lost, though, and he'd need at least two terms to effect real change.
Social media has more authoritarian than anti-authoritarian utility, I'm afraid. Automates ideological profiling, no need for wiretaps.
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Authoritarianism needs lies and disinformation to succeed thay use centralised Media as in state tv etc. social media brakes the stranglehold on information and allows the truth tellers who are the majority to, overtime, overwhelm the lies and disinformation
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This all relies on the assumption that people want truth, not "evidence" confirming what they wish to believe. Social media simplifies that.
It may take repeated exposure to the truth for some people to accept it. social media gives the ability to present the truth many times from many angles.