• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    It isn’t. It’s just older - often past the point of living memory.

    The modern era has far more in common with the '00s and '80s and '60s than modern Americans are willing to accept.

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      8 hours ago

      When you’re older you’ll understand that mass propaganda campaigns and truth control are worse

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        7 hours ago

        Trying to believe this, but I’ve got Chinatown playing in the background and it’s drowning you out.

        But sure, George Wallace and Strom Thurmond were winning elections based on facts and logic. Newt Gingrich and George Bush Jr never went on the TV and told lies. Censorship during the War on Drugs and Crime and Terror is a myth. Nobody in America was being poison pilled with red scares and satanic panics before 2016.