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Conservatives head for German election victory but far-right AfD set for second place, exit polls say (www.bbc.com)

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The conservative CDU/CSU party is expected to be the largest party in the next German parliament with 30% of the vote, according to the first two exit polls Friedrich Merz, 69, is in pole position to become Germany's next chancellor The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is set to become the second biggest force in the country, with a record 20% of the vote, according to exit polls

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[–] RamblingPanda 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We really need to invest in education. Twenty years ago. Maybe thirty.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Education is not the problem. It's painfully obvious that big tech is colluding with oligarchs and their corporations/lobbyists to brainwash their user base with disinformation.

We need to invest in outlawing surveillance capitalism, along with all the psychological profiling, warfare, and information islands/bubbles it is designed to amplify.

[–] RamblingPanda 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Something shielded me from it, and I basically live in the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I do too, but I don't use conventional social media so I'm not spoon fed information based on some algorithm of my historic activity. I actively avoid using "accounts" pretty much everywhere until I need to buy something.

The way I receive information is more like RSS and crowdsourcing.

Either way, they don't need to target everyone. They just need to target the most ignorant subset of the population.