Oh that’s not fair, Leslie Knope is the public servant we all deserve.

I’ll throw in a few.

I want Dr. Cox and JD to be my medical team, the two of them would do everything they could.

I want my local burger shop to be Bob’s.

And I wish Captain Holt was a real police commissioner.

It’s both ways, I both ignore things from you, and I don’t send anything to you either.

Exactly right. The positive is that we can also easily defederate from bad actors, but unless you explicitly allowlist everything then that’s going to be a losing battle.

Downside of free and open is that it’s, well, free and open.

Think about how much propaganda we are fed. The right tried to tell us that all major cities are horrible crime ridden deathtraps and it’s just not true. I can walk through my city any time and be fine. Now people may not feel safe but feelings aren’t what is actually happening.

What is proven is that fear gets clicks, and so the more you amp up that things are unsafe the more people will click.

Most reasonable answer. Propaganda is insidious. It is subtle, it can latch onto anything. It could be racism, that’s one thing sure. It could be that they wanted lower taxes and over time it slowly convinced them it was all of the others. It could be anything. To assume like this, well, it’s exactly why the right has so much just reasoning when saying we’re quick to throw the racism card. Because, well just look at this thread.

Did they own the libs at least?