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by tarkin2 169 days ago
"[A] direct attack on a democracy’s ability to form consensus" is a wonderfully precise term.

Splitting democratic nations through fearmongering targeted at everyone's online profile is an incredible weapon.

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Democracies virtually never form a consensus, there are always dissenters on any issue. Democracies reach decisions by majority rule, not consensus.