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1. _rrnv ◴[] No.21190615[source]
People seem to be really surprised that capitalism doesn’t equal freedom. Time to wake up. Free world is in decline. Democracies of today are mostly facades to a more-less controlled societies. Sure, people can vote, but what happens after that? The accountability and controlling mechanisms have been in erosion for years now. Even the EU legislation, once a model of democracy, is now so far from the individual citizen that it’s often difficult to understand why Brussels is voting on certain laws.

It used to be that free press kept close tabs on those in power. Well, thanks to the Internet it got very easy to attack the press and very hard for the press to stay profitable. We are heading towards a cliff and hopefully we will create a better system after that. But man, it will hurt to fall.

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3. leppr ◴[] No.21191265[source]
Allow me to indulge in the slightly spammy repost of relevant comments I made yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180623

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180714

It's important that we clarify what the word "Democracy" means in our language, and whether to accept or reject the fact that its current use is tragically removed from its original meaning: it used to describe a concept, it's now simply a label with no intrinsinc meaning.

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4. _rrnv ◴[] No.21193791[source]
Well put!