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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by bstar77 on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:35PM (#25693444)
My mother read a book to me called "The Emperor Has No Cloths" when I was very young. The book is silly, but it stays with me to this day. Every time I hear my president repeat absurd, dangerous and divisive conspiracy theories, this book always comes to mind. Same goes for the supporters that defend him.

Public debate is fine, but we are watching a huge population of people absurdly follow this man in his birthday suit. People so easily "persuaded" deserve the (non violent) pushback they get.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by macintux on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:39PM (#25693516)
Yeah, it’s increasingly obvious that the fable was wrong. People are easily led (and not just those who cling to Trump).
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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by toast0 on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:10PM (#25696809)
It's been a while since I read it, but don't quite a lot of people go along with it?

It takes a child to point it out, because everyone else is bought in to assuming the king couldn't be so foolish, so they must be mistaken.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by macintux on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:17PM (#25696866)
Sorry, what I meant was this: after the child pointed it out, everyone acknowledged the truth.

What these disastrous last 5 years have proven is that people will refuse to acknowledge the obvious truth as long as there's a plausible lie they prefer.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by macintux on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:27PM (#25696978)
To follow up: it was hard enough for the two parties to agree on policy when they couldn't agree on the impact of those policies. How do you predict the second and third order impact of a new law?

Now the parties, or at least their supporters, can't agree on the past and present truth of what's happening in the country.

When there's no common agreement on what basic truth is, you can't expect agree on policy to address the problems we face.

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