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In terms of the human condition, chances are that for just about everything you think is right or true, the exact opposite is what is actually right or true.
So, since you believe everybody except you is stupid, then the opposite is actually true?

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Too bad actually discussing my thread is beyond you.
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Huxley believed people would be controlled by pleasure, while Orwell saw it would be by fear and violence.

Turns out they were both correct.


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Silly me.
I had been entertaining the idea that Joe might prove to be smarter than he seems.

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Those who do not learn from history are doomed to saying stupid shit about it online.
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I would venture that any theory about how and why Hitler and his movement appeared, prospered and led to a second world war, such a theory would be nonsense without understanding the cause. For some reason Hitler is the only "face" of WWII, when the Japanese were just awful.
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I would venture that any theory about how and why Hitler and his movement appeared, prospered and led to a second world war, such a theory would be nonsense without understanding the cause. For some reason Hitler is the only "face" of WWII, when the Japanese were just awful.
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Those who do not learn from history are doomed to saying stupid shit about it online.
Not learning from history is not a requirement for saying stupid shit about it online
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Those who do not learn from history are doomed to saying stupid shit about it online.
Not learning from history is not a requirement for saying stupid shit about it online
And, most simply seem to learn how to repeat the the mistakes of their forebears.
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And, most simply seem to learn how to repeat the the mistakes of their forebears.
More like, "History is written by the victors"

Which is no longer true of course.

These days, it's actually possible to read different versions of history. In fact, history changes with each new decade of textbooks.

Or on Wikipedia, in a matter of seconds.
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Does anyone else ever think, "I wonder if Disobey/Cultsmasher is just busy doing real world shit? Or is he in jail?"



I'm just kidding. I don't think about him at all.
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I can tell.
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I Ran across this, today.

"We build layers of understanding, brick by brick, until they can withstand all the bias, propaganda, and sheer nonsense that’s floating out there in the world of history writing. It takes time. " - Anon
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Huxley believed people would be controlled by pleasure, while Orwell saw it would be by fear and violence.

Turns out they were both correct.


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You apparently missed the point of my thread. People are controlled by many things. Chiefly, stupidity. Also, your X link goes nowhere.

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Does anyone else ever think, "I wonder if Disobey/Cultsmasher is just busy doing real world shit? Or is he in jail?"



I'm just kidding. I don't think about him at all.

That was unnecessary. I wrote many threads around here. In the ones you did reply to, it usually wasn't with a rational response. Which means that you didn't think about what I had to say. If you didn't think about them, why should you think about me.
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I Ran across this, today.

"We build layers of understanding, brick by brick, until they can withstand all the bias, propaganda, and sheer nonsense that’s floating out there in the world of history writing. It takes time. " - Anon
Wherever you ran across that saying, you should toss it back out the window. From what I have seen, most people don't build layers of understanding. They build layers of stupidity to shield themselves from reality.
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Lookit you wasting your life. :)
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Also, your X link goes nowhere.
That is deeply ironic.
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"We build layers of understanding, brick by brick, until they can withstand all the bias, propaganda, and sheer nonsense that’s floating out there in the world of history writing. It takes time. " - Anon
Wherever you ran across that saying, you should toss it back out the window. From what I have seen, most people don't build layers of understanding. They build layers of stupidity to shield themselves from reality.
You are just hanging with the wrong crowd, Chumley.
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Lookit you wasting your life. :)
You are stupid. So you are the one wasting your life.
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"We build layers of understanding, brick by brick, until they can withstand all the bias, propaganda, and sheer nonsense that’s floating out there in the world of history writing. It takes time. " - Anon
Wherever you ran across that saying, you should toss it back out the window. From what I have seen, most people don't build layers of understanding. They build layers of stupidity to shield themselves from reality.
You are just hanging with the wrong crowd, Chumley.

No, I'm an expert on humanity.
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There you are! Shorter of breath and one day closer to death!
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... No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
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Since the X link didn't work

Adolf Hitler in English AI Reconstruction - YouTube
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The historical fact that almost no nation would take the German Jews, especially not the US or England, Hitler was dead right about that.

Reminds me of how no nation will take the Palestine population in the present. Which is deeply ironic.
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