They’re just straight up evil.

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      What’s really insane is they don’t even want the knowledge. They just want knowledge in any capacity to go away.

      • No, they want the knowledge but only for themselves, after all during the guilded age, the educated where the rich and the rest where ignorant so they couldn’t push back and be controlled. PBS and NPR spread knowledge for the masses and THAT is what they want to stop

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          I don’t think you’ve seen who’s doing all the destruction. These people do not care about gaining knowledge.

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            A lot of them are ivy League educated and their rhetoric is performative. Yeah there’s a few dummy true believers in the bunch (more than there used to be, as we shift into the second/third generation of people being raised hearing it, not realizing it was the cover story)

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      makes being alive American worthwhile

      FTFY.

      We deliberately don’t get news about it, but China is making entire cities for the well-educated looking to return to China from the US. They are “taking the solar system” right now according to some experts, and are on their third space station among multiple lunar missions. ESA and other countries have also taken grand steps into space. International science and medical research forges ahead without us. There are countries effectively expanding their social safety nets and other than US involvement in Israel/the Middle East broadly, the world is at an all-time peak of peace and personal safety.

      You are being fed a cultivated image. This entire “free speech” catchphrase that we’ve been taught to scream at any offence is an illusion, a lie reinforced by every branch of media, which are in turn branches of the corporations that have long since nailed the coffin closed on actual democracy.

      Remember Dead Internet Theory? Dead America Theory. We died around Reagan, the country has been running on momentum and money. We won’t feel it until the money runs out and that’s why this current administration is a pile of bottom-feeding bilge rats scraping off whatever they can from taxpayers. They know the value of the American dollar is about to start plummeting, and climate change and other technological changes to the global stage will be the final flush of this toilet we’ve been trying to pretend we’re not spinning around.

      Our progress and species will go on, just not without America leading the way. Even if we got a “perfect” president and administration tomorrow they wouldn’t be able to undo this reverse-snowball that’s currently evaporating out of control.