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Fair point. However the public actually dissented due to Vietnam, which indicates that the propaganda effort was unsuccessful. In today's world, consent has b
by grandalf 13y ago
Fair point. However the public actually dissented due to Vietnam, which indicates that the propaganda effort was unsuccessful. In today's world, consent has been effectively manufactured.
- tptacek 13y agoTwas. Ever. Thus. They protested Vietnam, and sometimes the National Guard mowed them down with assault rifles. The notion that protesters ended the Vietnam war is also ahistorical, a fiction designed to flatter the boomers.
- grandalf 13y agoFWIW I don't foresee any significant protest or dissent over the surveillance state.
- tptacek 13y agoAll three branches of government appear to have overwhelmingly agreed on the new monitoring schemes. We're walking west by northwest; not south. I agree, though, we need to turn northward.