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tarkin2today at 8:14 AM1 replyview on HN

"[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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naaskingtoday at 1:59 PM

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