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      Most of it isn’t particularly coordinated, albeit still by design.

      It’s the nature of capitalists to want to keep their workers relatively ignorant and distrustful. This translates to many disparate plans that all tend to have the same outcome. Occasionally the capitalists hold hands as they run rough-shod over the “little people”, but for the most part they’re in it for themselves. Any alliances or coordinated efforts are opportunistic, not endemic.

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          Marriage of convenience, not design. There is a middleground between vast international conspiracy and complete and random chaos. The world exists in that middle ground. They would eat each other alive if they didn’t have us to devour first.

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            I think it can be both. Musk got caught manipulating his stock holdings in Twitter, running his mouth, and forced to buy it (marriage of convenience), and then making moves to intentionally restrict speech on the platform and tank it to suppress people organizating against his interests (intentional).

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          Hanlon’s Razor: never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.

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      I don’t disagree with you, but our institutions were designed at a time when messages traveled at the speed of a horse and 90% of the population were growing food for everyone. While there has been a concerted effort to undermine our institutions, they’re also old and there might be better

      Of course, this means a Constitutional Convention, and because those rules were written hundreds of years ago it will also give land more representation than people, and we’ll probably end up with something worse than what we have.