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I agree with this from @Rural_Canadian. The mechanisms are subtle, the subtleties are many — but it ultimately comes down to the obvious conclusion: people with a lot of money are trying to buy control of our sense of reality. And to a disheartening degree, they’re succeeding. photog.social/@Rural_Canadian/

Social 📸 PhotographyBe_Outside (@Rural_Canadian@photog.social)Democracies are relying on "social networks" and media owned almost entirely by oligarchs. That is definitely hurting democracies worldwide.

A post like this will no double attract replies of the the form “Well •I’m• immune to that because I do [contrarian thing]” and…like, lovely, good for you, guess what, the oligarchs simply don’t give a shit. Your individual habits and mine are an acceptable minor inefficiency for them.

This is not a thing where individual action can help.

@inthehands Disco Elysium! Somehow a group of depressed Eastern European communists managed to ship a long philosophical ramble as a really good game.

@Catfish_Man
Man, I really need to play it one of these days.

@Catfish_Man @inthehands I don’t think there are any Eastern European communists left 🙃

@lorentey @inthehands probably true, but there are people who sit in coffee shops and philosophize about the old days… 

…which is a theme the game goes into quite a lot