• LemmyLefty@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      That’s why I hate it when conservatives trot out that fake Voltaire quote about the ones who you can’t criticize are who rules you.

      Bullshit. Kings and emperors have been satirized and mocked for millennia. It’s not that they can’t be criticized, it’s that after their nakedness is on display, the accusations fade into the dirt; nothing sticks, nothing matters.

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      11 months ago

      the real reason is that they blame it on poor people and immigrants, and people just absolutely eat it up like they’re starving