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To: SaveFerris

It is debatable who actually said this—but it tells you the way the elites think:

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”


8 posted on 12/24/2023 9:23:24 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

Newton’s Third Law: states that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. This has been true in communications technology as well. As the internet expanded our ability to communicate with other like-minded individuals... bad actors took advantage of the new technologies as well. The result has actually been a net negative for freedom lovers everywhere. With the introduction of A.I. it is hard to say where this path will take us.

The problem is that the number of people who have the resources to wield huge amounts of influence has gotten smaller and smaller. Our beloved socialist, Bernie Sanders has said repeatedly that the two richest men in America Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have more wealth than the bottom 40% of Americans combined. I have no idea if that is accurate, but it still highlights an issue that has become problematic. We have special interests made up of a very small number of people who have been lording over the rest of us with their own best interests in mind.


10 posted on 12/24/2023 10:04:08 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: cgbg

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

It fits with another propaganda bit of prose they LOVE to repeat ad naseum.

“You don’t want to be on the wrong side of History”

Which to me is a warning to not oppose the Empire, or you will be blood in the treads of their tanks. Figuratively, and eventually, literally.


19 posted on 12/24/2023 1:50:37 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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