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Offensive! I already ran into the streets screaming and flailing my arms. Honestly, that had more to do with the fact I was late putting my garbage out and the truck had just passed by. Bet they'd have stopped if I'd been brandishing an AK-47.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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