Darnton

Because the powers pulling in the negative direction has a much easier job than the powers pulling in a positive direction. The negative powers just has to play to peoples stupidity, fear and hatred. Simple black and white “solutions” (ie. just fault the outgroups for everything).

The positive powers have to stick to complex and often longterm solutions which requires effort and thought for people to understand the benefits of.

ITT: Lots of people who doesn’t know which community they are commenting in.

I don’t think it has plateaued, the reasons they give for why it should have done so makes no sense. The main problem being their metholodigy of spotting AI created content which is highly dubious. The more straightforward explanation is that AI created content has become more difficult to spot, especially for the tool that the researchers used.

Do you mean Serbia, or are you just confused in general about things?

Because they control the stream of disinformation to their voters. Their voters don’t actually live in the real world, but in a fantasy scenario dreamed up by Republican talking heads.

I’m pretty sure it is ragebait written by an American. Non-Americans don’t really care about this at all.

Same now with regards to aid to Ukraine.

GDP is an incredible useless way to measure average wealth.

Written while slavery existed, to just mention one example. What it teaches is that the US was build on lies and hypocrisy if nothing else.

What does “voting for fascism over there” mean in this context?