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[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago

That's because they're on the list.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

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
[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Fuck yes, Carl Sagan. More people need to read Demon Haunted World. I'm happy for his sake that he died before he had to see what we've become as a society, but I didn't think he would have been particularly surprised at how things went down (especially given his cautionary essay about "The Dumbing Down of America" from the same book written in the 80's)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Why didn't he make a copy of this list when he had access to everything? If he did, Why isn't he leaking it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Because he’s on it? Just a guess. Stones and glass houses or something.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

It's just part of the kayfabe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

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