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HODL | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Most people did and those that didn’t quietly went along with the regimes plans and machinations.
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Starboard30 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Most people have good intentions even as they are misinformed or simply unaware. Doesn’t mean they are nazis or even just disgusting. These are just projections.
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HODL | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 You sound like you were probably on the wrong side during Covid.
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rowdyhodl | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Hard to claim good intentions when the internet doesn’t forget express remarks made by the regime.
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Starboard30 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Don’t know what you mean.
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Auxmos | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”

-C.S. Lewis
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Brisket | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Most people are asleep and unaware of what they're agreeing to.
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Starboard30 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 But maybe content and focussed on family and living life. 

No shame in that.
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Brisket | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 There's nothing to be ashamed of. 

Agreements can be broken.

Awakening can be quite disruptive if it occurs unexpectedly quickly.