And, of course, no thought is given to the implications this could have in conjunction with the next Orban. Europe is aligning against Russia as a threat, while at the same time shooting itself in the foot by disabling basic rights like privacy with absolutely no memory of how much more basic lack of privacy (enabled by Facebook) was leveraged with relatively simple tools (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_d...) to help Brexit happen (effectively breaking Europe apart).

This quote from Apocalypto stuck with me "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

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ronsor 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Europe has learned the lesson that extremists are bad, but it has not learned the lesson that the tools shouldn't exist.

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ExoticPearTree an hour ago | parent [-]

There will always be extremists on both sides of the political spectrum.

The problem is quite simple: people swing more to one side or another if their voices are not heard.

The current boogeyman is the growth of the far-right in Europe. But that could have been prevented if the EU did not have an open-doors migration policy to start with. And to have listened to the people on other issues too.

	▲	BonerWiener a minute ago \| parent [-]
		> But that could have been prevented if the EU did not have an open-doors migration policy to start with. And to have listened to the people on other issues too. I believe there are more nuances to this, then simply blaming it on immigration policies. There are a lot of variables in place for why far right movements are and have been on the rise in the EU. And I certainly believe the issues could've been handled better by each member state. Yes, immigration is a serious problem. Especially if member States doesn't increase budgets for handling said immigrants. After all, why does immigration even happen in the first place? Aren't we as a western society responsible for the destruction and destabiliztion of the eastern countries?

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