• porcoesphino@mander.xyz
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    11 hours ago

    Humans have been killing each other as long as we’ve existed isn’t an argument to avoid trying to make it happen less

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      11 hours ago

      just saying billionaires manipulating shit has been the norm for ages, which is why we used to have media-ownership limits…repealed under Clinton iirc

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        1 hour ago

        Yeah, by memory Rupert Murdoch had his hand at that and in Aus and the UK. I’d love to see that reined in again too

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        4 hours ago

        Agreed, but now they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact.

        In my opinion, the difference is so huge, we might as well think they didn’t manipulate things at all before.