Bluesky

Always. I don't understand why other commentors are happy to eat the crap right up and not even think the "feud" between eLump isnt real. Elongated ego left at the federal time limit for a "Special Government Employee". There was no fighting. He left because he had to.

Now he's trying to get the center-left back into his fold, many of whom will inevitably follow him down the rabbit hole of fascism, and into the arms of crazy.

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

• Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.”

• Charles-Marie Gustave le Bon, French Polymath