In the past I would have agreed with you, but in the age of increasingly sophisticated AI being able to nearly perfectly imitate people’s voices or images, I think we need to start asking more of social media companies. When truth starts looking indistinguishable from fiction we’re going to need to find new ways of parsing which is which. Fact checking will be extremely important.
Ugh, I knew a lot of other European countries overreacted to Fukushima, but I hadn’t heard much about Italy specifically. Sounds like they didn’t have as much nuclear energy to start with (unlike Germany), but they had big plans to increase their usage of nuclear energy to around a quarter of their energy grid until they halted it all in response to Fukushima. The Wikipedia page about it is tragic.
Germany in particular pisses me off so much. No country bought into the fear mongering about nuclear energy after Fukushima as much as Germany did. Shutting down nuclear power plants in the face of climate change is so incredibly irresponsible. For all of their faults, I give a lot of credit to the US and France for not shying away from using nuclear energy.
If it gives you any comfort, I was recently thinking about the Civil Rights era and how many of the old Trunp supporters you see were alive through that era. These are people who grew up in a time where Civil Rights were not a given. Same for LGBT rights. People out there still remember an era where that hate was normalized. There are young people that are anti-LGBT or explicitly racist, but they’re exceptions to the trends. So find comfort in the fact that we’re still in an era of transition and that these fuckers will die out sooner than the rest of us. Also, when it comes to war it’s the young who fight and these old fascists are overwhelmingly geriatric.
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