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Hortensis

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2. Nice little window on the past. Farmers at other times
Thu Nov 23, 2017, 08:02 AM
Nov 2017

had to resort to violence against alliances of railroads and financiers that were exploiting them into destitution, even deliberately breaking them to take over their land.

Although the immediate egregious effects on freedom of information are more than enough to have us fighting this, even worse over not much time it can (and I believe will) have the same political effect that seizing radio stations still does in underdeveloped nations.

Controlling the media is critical to seizing power and overthrowing governments, and right now the new billionaire and centimillionaire classes already have control of most of our media. Inimical interests among them currently use the internet against us but do not control it.

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