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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

For generations we’ve been corralled toward streams of information which are designed to turn us into idiots and sociopaths. Designed to keep us from getting good information about what the powerful people who rule us are really up to. To dull our curiosity and keep us from asking useful and penetrating questions about our society. To direct any political impulses we might be able to muster in this confusing fog toward mainstream political factions which all support the status quo. To stop us from looking too closely at the death and misery our government inflicts upon people in far away countries. To keep us from noticing that we live in a mind-controlled dystopia that is fueled by endless exploitation, abuse, mass military violence, and ecocide. To keep us mindlessly turning the gears of the empire and trusting our rulers to sort things out on our behalf.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I mean even for Harris she had almost half a decade of vice precidency to signal her intent. Yet she was virtually invisible until the board of NYT declared Biden too neurodegenerated to compete for the position for the most powerful man in America.