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lenerdenator
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Not just the opposition. In other times this would have been the reason for a revolution.
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sph
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There wasn't TikTok and Doordash at the time. Panem et circenses.
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9dev
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I’m not sure this is the answer. As you say, the concept of keeping the masses occupied is a lot older than TikTok or Doordash…
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sph
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Nowhere in history we had products as addictive as those. There are people making a career studying how to exploit people's weaknesses, to induce them to buy products.
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tdeck
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Indeed, not enough people are asking why the Biden administration sat on the Epstein files for 4 years and did nothing with it.
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