alt Hacker NewsThe meta narrative here is a shift towards more authoritarian ideas gaining further foothold/dominance.
As can be seen in the naming treatment + the comments on that article + comments here. But also can be seen in various other places.
In fact, it has already happened to a degree where we see these lagging(!) indicators pop up. So wherever we currently stand is further than those. To which degree though I couldn't say.
Plan/act accordingly.
It's beyond obvious at this point that we exist alongside a massive bot brigade (or many midsize bot farms) ready to chime in with senseless, cookie-cooker support for short-shrift authoritarian ideology.
It's palpable in the comment sections of many corporate news outlets, as well as on reddit.
Unless there's evidence that this pattern of comments is from real biological humans, I see no reason to presume that it is.