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Kid Berwyn

(25,155 posts)
8. Wanna turn your neighbors over to the Gezpacho?
Wed Dec 18, 2024, 02:13 PM
Dec 2024

There's an app for that!



The chances of factual truth surviving the onslaught of power are very slim indeed; it is always in danger of being maneuvered out of the world not only for a time but, potentially, forever. Facts and events are infinitely more fragile things than axioms, discoveries, theories — even the most wildly speculative ones — produced by the human mind; they occur in the field of the ever-changing affairs of men, in whose flux there is nothing more permanent than the admittedly relative permanence of the human mind’s structure. Once they are lost, no rational effort will ever bring them back.

Source: https://www.historynet.com/from-blurring-imperfections-to-falsifying-reality-how-stalin-made-the-truth-disappear-through-photoshop/

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Big Brother at his seedy work Clouds Passing Dec 2024 #1
I feel like this tool could be abused for nefarious reasons. Dennis Donovan Dec 2024 #2
Maybe so, but public records are public. Mariana Dec 2024 #5
Very true, but this is a tool that makes gathering information that could be used for the wrong reasons easier Dennis Donovan Dec 2024 #6
So, all you gotta do is know the precinct number. The results are on the internet! LeftInTX Dec 2024 #7
Yep DeepWinter Dec 2024 #9
This information has been used for gerrymandering purposes for ages. Mariana Dec 2024 #11
Wow Johnny2X2X Dec 2024 #3
I'm pretty sure I would use it in a heartbeat OnionPatch Dec 2024 #4
Wanna turn your neighbors over to the Gezpacho? Kid Berwyn Dec 2024 #8
Soup? ProfessorGAC Dec 2024 #12
A malapropism coined by someone I don't admire. Kid Berwyn Dec 2024 #13
Aha! ProfessorGAC Dec 2024 #16
Marjoram Tailor Grune cleverly called the Gestapo the Gazpacho in one her demented spews. erronis Dec 2024 #14
If you want to create DeepWinter Dec 2024 #10
Sounds like the acceleration of a trend that's been ongoing... keep_left Dec 2024 #15
Some of my neighbors are lunatics on NextDoor already Sympthsical Dec 2024 #17
Thanks for that quote --- very apt, I believe. erronis Dec 2024 #20
We can see our neighborhood's voter registration on our local website GoodRaisin Dec 2024 #18
There are already sites that tell you stuff like that Marthe48 Dec 2024 #19
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