• limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    Neighborhood politics, social gatherings, community hotspots has massively declined in the last two generations,

    It’s really hard to organize anything face to face?

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      8 days ago

      It is and while I don’t think that was Eisenhower’s 5d chess play it is more or less directly from cold war era policies that encouraged Americans to live anywhere besides a city.

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        8 days ago

        Yet if you keep the comparison until present times, you can only acknowledge the fact that the French once again rioted very violently and for months back in 2018-20. The “yellow vests” were mostly lower-income workers from far away suburbs and villages. Facebook let them organize and have a real impact on national politics and policy.

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          8 days ago

          It was also a significant amount of right wing agitprop opposing any reduction to fossil fuel usage…

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            8 days ago

            Yep, I wonder what would happen in the US if gas was suddenly taxed 50% up (much more than the yellow vests case, but it is a thought exercise)