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 At no point in history have we looked back at the men who were censoring speech and say, 

‘Those were the good guys.’ 
 Correct Fren 😊 
 
 I'm sure that's not true... heck, people said that about the covid police... 
 At no point in history have the people censoring speech had the intellectual capacity to see past their noses. 
 I am so happy to see you here on nostr! 
 We say the US / UK were the good guys in world war 2. 

We say the union were the good guys in the US civil war. 

Those two are just off the top of my head. The thing is these good guys are often remembered as such because they won and got to control the narrative of history.  
 Tru that

…but only cuz the winners get to write history

…I wonder if those may be examples of the slow rot of leadership by corruption over the long arc of time when the history of the decline of western hegemony is written🤔 
 What a banger quote from RFK at the beginning of the podcast. Loved it 
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 a lot of idiots still look back at the covid guys wishing they had done it harder