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Whilst it's easy, simple and populist to blame a tiny [x] group of people for all that is wrong with society, it does not have a good historical precedence: try asking any Germans you know!

More difficult is to acknowledge the huge middle-class that has been created as a result of globalisation over the last decades.

I think everything you typed appears to be wrong? For instance there are no laws keeping prices close to producer price. That task is done by the competitive marketplace in capitalism. In socialism/communism the price is controlled by authoritarianism, which is why those regimes are marked by mass shortages and starvation.

I think people here are underestimating how difficult it is to implement is_deleted in a production system. Literally EVERY query has to be rewritten to reflect the new database schema. If it's not been implemented from the start then you have a considerable re-write, and usually this type of project will not be revenue generating.

"Republicans have repeatedly claimed for over a decade now that the Democrats run an international child sex trafficking network"

You're referring to Qanon type people? They are fringe extremists. Why would you group all republicans in with them?

Compare to r/politics section of Reddit, which is a much more mainstream group of people. On that website there are regularly top-voted comments with thousands of "likes" saying all republicans are pedophiles/fascists/racists etc.

The article correctly identifies such rhetoric as poison for the societal good. But both the left and the right have to acknowledge that it exists everywhere in the online discourse.