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    6 days ago

    Surely you know they’re just using that as a way to get people to accept it. They don’t care about the children - except as a source of revenue.

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        6 days ago

        we know that it’s always either “think of the children” or “terrorism” but a huge majority don’t, so we need to say it each time on the off chance that they pay attention beyond the headline… for once.

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          I’ve lost faith. I’ve come to realize there is a small minority of humans with the biological capacity to be individuals and think critically. I almost wish I were one of the “normal” people. I’d have a social life and a job.

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            3 days ago

            i’de have a careers, money in the bank, and a family. lol

            the truth of the matter is that they just aren’t aware and only they can make themselves aware; a truly bitter pill.

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              This is probably why civilizations collapse after 500 to 900 years. The morons become the majority, then only the smartest and healthiest survive the fall, wonder around for a few hundred years trying to pull it together, then the cycle repeats.

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                2 days ago

                there are morons for sure, but i believe that the overwhelming majority are just not informed and my own experiences with studying american propaganda thanks to things like the freedom of information act has convinced me that they were intentionally not informed to benefit the epstein oligarchy.

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                  I don’t think Epstein figures particularly prominently. He was just one of many. There’s no doubt it is being done on purpose. Well educated, intelligent people can see through the lies by using the tools of critical thinking. Morons just believe what they “hear” most frequently and trust only what they’re told to trust.

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                    11 hours ago

                    epstein is more of a recognizable name to me rather than a definition of the scope or longevity.

                    There’s no doubt it is being done on purpose. Well educated, intelligent people can see through the lies by using the tools of critical thinking. Morons just believe what they “hear” most frequently and trust only what they’re told to trust.

                    i’m starting to believe that there’s more to it than this: the epstein revelations spurred me into other rabbit holes from other revelations from sources like the freedom of information act where the american gov’t effectively publicly admitted to creating propaganda about controversial topics like north korea; yet self-selective-trusting maga morons and well educated, critical-thinking-espousing liberals alike both believe the propaganda anyways despite some of these revelations being in the public domain for decades at this point and will reject the proof when you show it to them.

                    this extends to even more modern propaganda regarding ukraine and it’s all making me believe that it’s deeper than one group being morons and the other more educated.