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> If people had been free to speak their minds back then Are you under the impression that people weren't free to speak their minds "back then"? People did spe
by JoshTriplett 6y ago
> If people had been free to speak their minds back then
Are you under the impression that people weren't free to speak their minds "back then"? People did speak their minds, loudly and regularly. That didn't change the outcome.
- fatbird 6y agoYes: there were marches of millions of people in all the major cities of the Western hemisphere against what were readily understood to be the lies of the Bush Administration rushing to war. Didn't matter. The invasion of Iraq happened, and millions stood dumbfounded, unable to understand how they could have failed when they clearly got their message out.