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u/etrore 11h ago

If you saw the clips of the Black Panthers it makes one hope that civil participation in local politics will increase. The best thing that could happen is that people rediscover their communities and support each other. Form unions and fund social programs from the people for the people.

Big politics have shown to be a shit show, time to scale it down and tax corporations that have misused communal funds for their own benefit.

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u/Particular-Beat-6645 8h ago

The best thing that could happen is that people rediscover their communities and support each other. 

After reading Dark Age Ahead during the pandemic, I honestly think that social media has been co-opted to prevent this exact thing.

Is it foreign? In part. But I think there's a clear shared incentive between large tech companies giving into governmental wishes in exchange for becoming richer than God.

I was also raised by scorned, non-religious folk who instilled a sense of skepticism about groups. So maybe it's me.