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  • Hannah Arendt

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 10 11:43:40 2025
    "The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What
    makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule
    is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you
    are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is
    not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes
    anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have
    to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its
    own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie--a lie
    which you could go on for the rest of your days--but you get a great
    number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a
    people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It
    is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity
    to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you
    please."

    https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/on-fake-hannah-arendt-quotations-2024-08-04

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 11 19:44:37 2025
    The Origins of Totalitarianism

    Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents,
    regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose
    lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of
    their loyalty.

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  • From JAB is Dumb@21:1/5 to JAB on Wed Aug 13 01:18:03 2025
    On 8/10/25 12:43 PM, JAB wrote:
    "The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What
    makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule
    is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you
    are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is
    not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes
    anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have
    to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its
    own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie--a lie
    which you could go on for the rest of your days--but you get a great
    number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a
    people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It
    is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity
    to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please."

    https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/on-fake-hannah-arendt-quotations-2024-08-04


    Shut the fuck up. You kikes censored the shit out of social media and everything
    else to protect the various left wing narratives.

    The whole idea of a "free press" is a total fraud, along with free speech, secular government, and freedom of religion.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to laugh_at_progs@lynch.confederacy on Wed Aug 13 05:41:07 2025
    On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:18:03 -0400, JAB is Dumb <laugh_at_progs@lynch.confederacy> wrote:

    Shut the fuck up.

    A common expression from MAGAites.

    a "free press" is a total fraud, along with free speech,

    Scammers agree with you....they oppose free speech/press. Are you a
    scammer?

    TechCrunch
    After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has
    emerged in its wake

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