So I'm gonna rip off my hero Charles P Pierce a little bit, and simplify what he wrote about the latest ginned-up Foxolimbeckian outrage; namely, that Bruce Springsteen trashed veterans by singing "Fortunate Son" at a ceremony for them. As Charlie said,
The song isn't about people like this:
It's about people like this:
I always thought it was obvious.
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." Orwell
"“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" Robespierre
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That's absolutely perfect!
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