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People really do have a movie-like concept of historical events. Strange to me.

@djsumdog @shebang
That is not the worst thing...

Many people are terrified of not conforming. Not only will they see it comming, but they will look around them and see people smiling, like nothing is happening. So they keep smiling as well not knowing if they are alone, or if everyone knows...

Stupid social instincts make everyone dumber...

@shebang I wonder how many people on either side saw the threat as they were coming. There are so many people clamouring for censorship because they think the ideas are so dangerous they will radicalise people .. and when you believe that, you are basically saying people are too stupid to make up their own ideas and that you are smarter for them.

Censorship is authoritarian. Telling people they have to close their businesses, give up their income and livelihood in order to protect everyone from an invisible threat is Communism. Printing paper money to help some of them and deny others is Socialism.

But no one sees it that way. Burn the books.

There’s a whole host of reasons why Leftists despise Machiavelli and it has to do with the advises he gives to rulers in “The Prince”. Among them :

The ruler must exercise restraint in the use of his political power
Distrust mercenaries even those who can be used as “ useful idiots”
Disregard advisors and politicians when their policy suggestions put the ruler at odds with the population
Drop alliances and agreements when they no longer serve their original purpose
Be wary of liberal/welfare policies and only use them if extremely necessary

If that doesn’t sound anti progressive, I don’t know what does.

@Pepito did that guy just mis-gender half of the left's population? :ablobcatsweatsip:

If you really think about it, the only people who are hung up on nazis are jews, and since antifa has been doing nothing but attacking Americans and participating in riots with the blessings of the (((media))), This is an all out declaration of war by jews on the native population. We are under attack by an aggressive tribe. There's no ifs ands or buts around this.

@Jdogg247
Yeah, I remember when I found out about this book.

I took my literature book, and looked whz didn't I remember it mentioned in class.

I shit you not, every single book around it had highlighted passages and notes for me to remember, but the Prince was skipped completely. I asked the teacher herself, and she said: Nah... that book is just too boring... :AHHHHHHH:

@wigglytuffitout
In 30 years? Candid went public with this shit in months.

I know, that you mean government this time, but I would not give it more then 5 years.

anyway my pet conspiracy theory is that in like 30 to 50 years we'll find out that parler was created, or at least allowed to continue existing, as a honeypot operation

because their security really does seem like a moment in a comedy movie where the bumbling FBI agents have someone cooperating on the phone when they didn't plan it

"oh shit uhhh bob... what should we ask for security info?"

"uhhhhh.... fuck it, shoot for the moon throckmornton, let's get their full legal name"

".................hey bob, they said yes to that. they said they'll give us a scan of their drivers license if we want"

"YOU'RE KIDDING ME"

"I DON'T THINK THEY'RE KIDDING BOB"

"okay okay fuck. yes, that's good, that's great. fuck it. let's see how far we can push this, ask for their social security number"

"okay just a sec"

"ah fuck. that's too far. that's gonna be too far, they're gonna absolutely call bullshit, fuck, we've overplayed our hand, they're gonna -"

"bob i have their social security number"

"HOOOOOLYYYYY SHIIIEEEET."

Funny. When I heard this one from TFM about 8 years ago, I thought he is quite crazy.

Well, even normies cannot ignore it anymore.
youtube.com/watch?v=xjyGRoBVyG

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