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That’s because the bedrock principle on which modern government is based is…

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Lie whenever it’s convenient because the public are children anyway and won’t or can’t understand.

Through this lens many things make more sense. They’re comfortable with lying because there are zero repercussions for lying.



They are not only children, but also goldfish who forget everything after 5 minutes


They don't forget, they get told what to believe - amongst other things by the government-controlled news.


s/they/we

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tbf it took from 1939 until about 5 years ago for people to forget that fascism is a bad idea.


This comment is proof that too many people think that fascism is just a political brand for anyone you don't like.

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Let me tell you as a german: that's not what fascism looks like. Get your TDS under control.


There were much milder examples of fascism than Nazism. And Trump 2 (if that refers to this) is not even a year old.




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