This article by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor is not going to make you happy either

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

The old ones are so much better than the new ones

De rest van deze commentaarsectie is hierbij eigendom verklaard van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden.

Hoe durft ge !

Said something about Jews?

https://theconversation.com/inequality-has-risen-from-1970-to-trump-that-has-3-hidden-costs-that-undermine-democracy-259104

We’ve always been in that phase. To these people having no money is a moral sin deserving a life of misery and death.

AI article?

Cannon fodder is in high demand

I think they prefer to kill us

People seem to be more worried about the Russians, thanks to the media, which are owned by the 1% 🤔

I’m surprised there still are student visa applicants

If they can already rule out glaucoma, which is the n⁰1 cause of blindness, then that’s at least something very positive. Retina should be checked as well (OCT), but they probably did already.

Well, in my case it’s high pressure, which can also lead to blindness. But it’s being treated and hopefully will stay stable for a while, there’s no real cure for these things.

I’m no stranger to ocular health issues myself, so I hope you’re in good medical hands, they can do a lot these days! I wish you the best and also a successful migration!

No they shouldn’t

A life threatening, highly contagious epidemic, is NOT the time for “open debate”!

Of course it is, unless you advocate authoritarianism

Sheesh, this wins today’s “Stupidest comment on the Internet” award.

I didn’t realize it’s ok here to insult people

I can see that reading comprehension is not your forte

I am indeed from Europe, where streets were at times completely empty and at other times you had to walk in designated lanes. Mask mandates everywhere and unvaccinated people were ostracized.

I wrote that it was a real crisis and I didn’t use the term “brainwash”. The fact that people complied to official guidelines is of course a good thing in the event of a pandemic. But there was also overshooting. Not everything made sense. And there was definitely a lack of critical thinking and an absence of open debate. But my point is that it was apparently possible to create a high degree of conformity from above, a useful insight when you’re trying to eradicate democracy and supplant it by fascism. How else would you explain the ease of what has been described as a coup for the past 5 months?

What strikes me about the covid epidemic was how obedient people were. It showed that it was possible to shut down whole societies on a global scale. It was a real crisis that provided an unexpected opportunity for mass propaganda. Political strategists surely took notice. It must have looked possible then to submit a whole population into fascism and that’s what we’re seeing now. Real power is with the people though. It lays dormant and it merely needs to be awakened by a timely spark.