Populist, billionaire and self-proclaimed “Trumpist” Andrej Babis won the Czech parliamentary election Saturday in a political comeback that put the country on a course away from supporting Ukraine and toward Hungary and Slovakia, which have taken a pro-Russian path.

  • plyth@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    It’s always dictatorship, just by different means. Democracy is just too unstable with an internet that makes controlling information very difficult.

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      You could be on to something as far controlling the masses are concerned. Different tools were used in different times, but the games is still essentially the same.

      However, the Arab Spring showed how fragile dictatorships can be when people start using the social media. Nowadays, we’re seeing how the dictators are using the very same tools for their advantage.