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Don't tell them what they want to hear. Tell them what they need to hear.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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With neofascists it’s never about free speech, but rather convenient speech. Their idea of freedom actually means compliance. And they never mind watching the world burn. TL,DR: Resist now. Or you will be removed later.

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Murica, in case you missed it, take a look at South Korea and how they dealt with a president that went too far. Or you could just contine belly flopping and let your crazy dictator continue with his “plan” to create a recession the likes of which nobody has ever seen. Your call.

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The President of the United States of America was once known as the leader of the free world. As of today, and thanks to the orange fascist, the title has been revised to asshole of the free world.

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“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it” — Karl Popper.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Snoopy knows

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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. - Frank Wilhoit

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There is a cult of ignorance in the US, and has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. - Isaac Asimov

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