ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAny time you're told that the weak and vulnerable are responsible for how bad things are, rather than the rich and powerful, you're being lied tomessage-squaremessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up11.16Karrow-down1103
arrow-up11.06Karrow-down1message-squareAny time you're told that the weak and vulnerable are responsible for how bad things are, rather than the rich and powerful, you're being lied toArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square118fedilink
minus-squareTomatoes [they/them]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down2·1 year agoI keep thinking about that, and I keep coming back to how the ones being lied to will double down on “but the ____ actually are very powerful! That’s why they’ve taken so much for themselves! That’s why they have so many protections!” I’ve had a conversation like that.
minus-squarejanonymous@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·edit-21 year ago“By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” - Umberto Eco
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·1 year ago“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize” — Voltaire
minus-squareSCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·1 year ago"Children with cancer rule the world " Voltaire
I keep thinking about that, and I keep coming back to how the ones being lied to will double down on “but the ____ actually are very powerful! That’s why they’ve taken so much for themselves! That’s why they have so many protections!”
I’ve had a conversation like that.
“By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” - Umberto Eco
“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize”
— Voltaire
"Children with cancer rule the world "