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One person's sh*t is another person's expensive manure. What we are dealing with is people who try to normalize enormous egregious lies, just like the former President. They revel in it, and this sh*t feeds their basest of instincts, the instinct that says they have to annihilate their "enemies". All's fair....

We need a new strategy to educate the unaffiliated voters. One tactic might be to start approaching this subject with the idea that we have seen progress. From there we talk about the right things to do for EVERYONE'S future. The conversation should be that students deserve the truth about our history and that most of the students will agree it's their right to know.

Let's attend those school board meetings if we can. Say the Pledge of Allegiance LOUD when you get to "with liberty and justice for all". Show support for teachers and their unions.

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Reality. The final frontier of conquest. Of course reality can be defined in a few ways, but the form we're talking about here is within the perceived & accepted category.

Transuniversal stenographic record keeping would be helpful if accessible. Unfortunately, the Office of Objective Journaling is unreachable at this wavelength.

Perceived reality is the act of acquiring data from our senses, and at the very least, acknowledging this data as a representation of objects and timelines.

Perceived & accepted reality is the previous definition plus the act of storing, disseminating, and basing decisions upon the acquired data.

In short, this is the "reality" we live and die by. It is what we believe to be truthful.

Propaganda is a technique which, at the very least, causes a person's perceived reality to waver.

Propaganda is not what we are dealing with now, although it is part of how things came to be this way.

What we are experiencing is a full on burglary and ransacking of the perceived & accepted reality we all share (with some subjectivity, of course).

The reality we need to survive, the agreement of "what is", our own unique and valid perceptions, the fundamental right to make informed decisions - all on a conveyor belt to an incinerator.

Our very existence is being recast in their image. And they are monsters.

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