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Re:The Demoralization is just Beginning by _DeadFred_ on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:24PM (#43271817)
Didn't Ben Franklin have his own printing press promoting his views?

America's political class got complacent and lazy, and forgot that they have to sell what they were pushing to the American people. They never even FOUGHT the battle of ideas. As they age out/get pushed out new Ben Franklin with their own printing press types will rise.

Re:The Demoralization is just Beginning by amy_petrik on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:48AM (#43276821)
Other part of it, yes, Benny F was quite an edgelord, but it took patience and drive in those days. You couldn't just drop a shitpost in 30 seconds, no, you had to lay out the shitpost in little tiny metal letters, and make copies of the shitpost, painstakingly, one at a time, to distribute. And people didn't come by much reading material in those days, so the shitpost was cherished when acquired. Generally speaking the supply/demand curve of the written word was very much different than it was now. Now, the writing itself and the distribution is automated by machines
Re:The Demoralization is just Beginning by AlexeyBelov on Friday March 07, 2025 @04:50AM (#43288747)
Why did you create yet another account?