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Fragments's avatar

It's all just so 1984. The Progressive Left will change their minds in a week and it will be back the other way. We will wish someday for the clarity of Wikipedia once Chat GPT and Generative AI becomes the new thought/history reservoir.

It's not enough to have some control, they need all the control. It's not about having some of the power, it's about having all of the power. Leftist movements don't ever trust allowing competing thoughts or ideas because at root they know their collectivist ideas are not an accurate reflection of how people actually think and live. Humans act individually in their very own individual ways and when allowed to do so they thrive as this is how human nature is.

The whole point is to show people that the regime can change its mind, then yours, then maybe change back again and change yours again. Once people have made a basic commitment to "being on the right side of history" then history, facts, basic biological truths, whatever etc etc simply become things that change as the Party says they change.

Who are we at war with? I can't remember. Who do I hate today? I can't remember. Free Speech is good! Free Speech is bad!! It's good again. It's bad. The details become less and less important and are actually not important at all. It's all about the emotional commitment to whatever it is they say you should be committed to. The lesson of the Nazis is not that Hitler was "evil" the lesson is that the German people went along and that is what Leftist movements do. You are either on the bus or off the bus, there is no I don't want/like/need this bus. The bus is Marxism in whatever form it takes. Marxism doesn't hold up under even basic scrutiny from any angle, which is why it requires censorship and then implied and then real violence.

No actual thinking person would see this as news. It's like someone announcing that, "Hey guys we just found out the world is round!!" Ok. Nice of you to notice! Of course we have a two tiered justice system. The center left just found out the world is round.

Bari already got her revisionist hit piece done on her by the NYT. Go on over and read it. Bari, and the Free Press in general, got off the bus and that makes them enemies just as much as some "MAGA right wing nut job." Anyone who is in the "Center-Left"will ether need to get back on the bus and get back on the "right side of history" or suffer the consequences.

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Stuart Nachman's avatar

The left is at war with human nature and the ideals set forth in our country's foundational documents.

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Fragments's avatar

Exactly.

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