Props to this post!!!
An accurate summation of whats happened.....
Literally people in China being bumped off as they have been banned from getting a job, buying food all because their social credit score is too low.
This will be coming to this country within the next 5-10 years.
Where do you think they got the idea from? It's an inherent part of our society, you just don't notice it when it's not so explicit. Though with all due respect, y'all keep electing authoritarians, so it shouldn't be much of a mystery why we're heading down the same path.
Twitter and Reddit are awash with recently created accounts trying to incite, revise history etc - I don’t think it’s too tinfoil to think China/Russia are sending in the internet troops to cause as much havoc as possible - and it’s a draining place to be. If I turn on the dark side of my brain and imagine myself as a tyrant, sowing further discord is exactly the sort of thing I’d order.
It’s tempting to log off but it feels like it’s where an ideological war is playing out and there are people on the fence who’re in danger of being radicalised.
The trousers are definitely around our ankles right now and we’re sleepwalking into mistakes that have already been made in the last hundred years.
Although it's an easy assumption that is undoubtedly true, why is it seemingly never the case that there could be people in the West doing it to keep the status quo/end the status quo?
Unfortunately someone decided that we operate our country via an easily leveraged process. There are ~300 ultra-safe seats in our 'democracy', which means what remains is a rather cheap exercise in trying to get a majority to satisfy whatever special interest you want dealt with, such as regulatory direction and planning permission.
With how the government is it's own judge in this country, I fail to see why anyone is surprised at the state of things. Foreign influence is pitiful in comparison to the damage domestic influence has on our country. I'd say we could probably get rid of the former if we wanted to deal with the latter, as almost certainly end up being one and the same. Unfortunately, people are too busy being manipulated by those very same plutocrats to take notice of the insult that is being played upon them.
So, if i should be so candid. If the proverbial trousers are around our ankles, it's probably because
we put them there in the first place and deflecting the blame at the onlookers laughing at us isn't going to pull them back up.