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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 06:37:12 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
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On 09/11/2024 06:31, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 05:52:31 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> Spending twenty minutes on a greyhound bus talking down a drunk black
>> man waving a loaded revolver who felt disrespected in Chicago.
> 
> You're one of the lucky ones. Some go home in body bags.

Ive had a lot of experience  with Glaswegian  drunks...This guy was no 
different. He just wanted someone to pay him the respect of listening to him


-- 
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will 
eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such 
time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic 
and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally 
important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for 
the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the 
truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Joseph Goebbels