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 Search engines are weird.

I just searched on DuckDuckGo for "democracy is not served in a tea cup" which I believe I just made up out of whole cloth but wanted to double check, and all the results are articles on the topic of "Assessing claims about Tim Walz's military service"

First of all, who the fuck is Tim Walz?  And second, why are ALL the hits on DuckDuckGo about this strange man?  And third, primarily, why do they have anything at all to do with the phrase "democracy is not served in a tea cup"?

I feel like the Internet is just a bunch of propaganda.  ALL of the internet now, the whole bloody thing.

I'm going outside to help remember where I am.