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Re:The near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppr... by fzeroracer on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @01:00PM (#41916276)
“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

John Ehrlichman, White House counsel and assistant to Richard Nixon

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Re:The near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppr... by anonfordays on Friday October 25, 2024 @01:20AM (#41942443)
Hilarious, your quote is also fabricated, he never said it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State."

Not Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party and Reich Minister of Propaganda

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Re:The near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppr... by Apocryphon on Friday October 25, 2024 @12:24PM (#41946796)
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Winston Churchill
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Re:The near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppr... by anonfordays on Friday October 25, 2024 @12:44PM (#41946996)
"I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies." - Not Winston Churchill
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Re:The near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppr... by Apocryphon on Friday October 25, 2024 @12:48PM (#41947040)
Sadly fraudulent

https://checkyourfact.com/2019/07/29/fact-check-winston-chur...

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Re:The near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppr... by anonfordays on Friday October 25, 2024 @01:56PM (#41947757)
You were so agog to reply that you missed my "not" in front of Winston Churchill. Swing and a miss.
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Re:The near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppr... by Apocryphon on Friday October 25, 2024 @02:01PM (#41947813)
Wow, just spat out my drink at this. You have won the internets today, good sir. An updoot for you
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Re:The near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppr... by anonfordays on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @12:56PM (#42053688)
Thank you kind stranger!
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Re:The near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppr... by Apocryphon on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @12:57PM (#42053702)
gas and ban
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