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@Hyolobrika @dhfir @skells
Re-labeling distrust and critical thinking as mental illness is a really obvious example.

Another one is ADHD and medicating against being bored doing boring repetitive activities.

Less obvious is there's-a-pill-for-that-ism, treating every problem as an opportunity to medicate => feathering the bed of pharma companies while making people more weak/dependent.

Controlling how people perceive reality has always been a great and highly coveted source of power.

@MisterRogersSnapped they used to use small animals all ground up like

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google is so deeply distrusted by the general population that yandex a state funded propaganda machine is a preferable alternative. just let that sink in, that's how fucked the USA is.
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@thatguyoverthere @Dave @11112011 @oxblood more than that, they've said that calling for violence against Russians is acceptable

@thatguyoverthere @Dave @11112011 @oxblood tbf was thinking earlier that by the whole "freedom of speech until you incite immanent violence" thing Putin can actually censor facebag

@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @oxblood @Dave kordokovsky still quivers from the gulags, the man's a ruin

@cjd @Hyolobrika@mstdn.io @dhfir it's more "to the master goes the knife" than any statements about the nature of truth, physicists as class tend to have a high bar for adjusting what is considered provisionally true in physics

@Dave @thatguyoverthere @11112011 @oxblood everyone is behind you on the Instagram sucks part, where you're losing us is the Russia more free than America part

they print less money... that's about it in terms of positives

@Dave @thatguyoverthere @11112011 @oxblood aint saying America is sunshine and rainbows but I'm not sure you'd want to move to Russia without doing a bit of homework

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@Dave @thatguyoverthere @11112011 @oxblood if you donated to Ukraine you can go to prison for 20 years

@Dave @thatguyoverthere @11112011 @oxblood elected political opposition shot in the streets but camp anywhere you like bro it's not America

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