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interesting. so in this scenario, government has a job and media has a job, but citizens, who are parts of a democratic polity i understand, don't have a job---like to be informed, to make informed decisions---and so have no interest really in accurate information. it's ok to lie to the polity it's ok to manage them. because american democracy really is that paper-thin. and the irony, i suppose (were there even surprise about this) is that it's the conservatives who claim to be all about democracy in america (except when it's politically inconvenient at which point democray becomes mob rule or communism somehow except when it's convenient when it becomes what the united of states stands for) who are in this place yelling: I DONT WANT TO KNOW ALL THIS STUFF I'M NOT LISTENING LA LA LA SHOOT JULIAN ASSANGE.
i dont get it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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