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So the solution to massive social unrest is to get people to stop talking about it? Just pretend it is not happening and everything is going to be fine.


Going after the symptoms rather than the causes.

Our leaders are so narcissistic and think so high of themself and low of us that they can't fathom that any discontent from their subjects are real and not some manufactured discontent from the whatever country they happen to war monger against.

That said social media is toxic and I am quite sure Facebook and Twitter have manipulated the feeds to incite discontent in countries that is on the Washington shit list. When they shut down social media it was seen as an attack on democracy ...




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