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50493827 ago

I know for certain which it is, but you have to weigh the probabilities. I concede all these problems. If you're still skeptical about the cover-up, or about certain accounts being sockpuppets, that's fine.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow a very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people a sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of debate. Choam Nomsky

SoberSecondThought ago

... the best defense against democracy is to distract people.

Same book you quoted, page 53. I think /pol/ might suit you better, they don't require registration.

srayzie ago

That's what you've spent hours doing