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    When you’re older you’ll understand that mass propaganda campaigns and truth control are worse

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      Trying to believe this, but I’ve got Chinatown playing in the background and it’s drowning you out.

      But sure, George Wallace and Strom Thurmond were winning elections based on facts and logic. Newt Gingrich and George Bush Jr never went on the TV and told lies. Censorship during the War on Drugs and Crime and Terror is a myth. Nobody in America was being poison pilled with red scares and satanic panics before 2016.

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          mass propaganda campaigns and truth control are worse

          These predate the Internet.

          But also, omg the post 9/11 Internet was black pilled to the gills