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295 sats \ 8 comments \ @Undisciplined 23 Oct Politics_And_Law
Fellow James Board explains how fear is weaponized by the government.
"President George H.W. Bush told the National Baptist Convention on September 8, 1989, “Today freedom from fear…means freedom from drugs.” To boost public fear, a DEA informant arranged for a knucklehead to sell crack cocaine to an undercover narc in Lafayette Park across from the White House. Bush invoked the sell a few days later to justify a national crackdown. He informed the American Legion, “Today I want to focus on one of those freedoms: freedom from fear—the fear of war abroad, the fear of drugs and crime at home. To win that freedom, to build a better and safer life, will require the bravery and sacrifice that Americans have shown before and must again.”
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98 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 23 Oct
Fear is the mind killer. If they are able to sell the fear, and you buy it, they can slowly start taking away your liberties and freedoms. They use it to control the sheep.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 24 Oct
Perhaps everybody should read and absorb “Dune”.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 23 Oct
Fear is the tool. Been saying this for years. They have run out of ideas. There is only fear.
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62 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 24 Oct
Fear and envy
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47 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 24 Oct
Yep. Fear, envy, and greed. Powerful emotions.
It sure isn't greatness or joy.
Unrelated, but it's hard for me to believe people calling their enemies evil while they say fuck you to their fellow humans that disagree with them.
I see it over and over again with hate filled people complaining about Trump. I get the anger but don't kid yourselves. You are full of hate. You have become what you hate. Congrats.
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39 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 24 Oct
“Freedom from fear” offers freedom from everything except the government. Anyone who sounds the alarm about excessive government power will automatically be guilty of subverting freedom from fear“
This is the straight deal. Fear generates the need for security in some people. When they trade security for their freedom, fear has done its work in the political sphere and done it well. Those frightened people surrender their freedoms and demand that everyone surrender theirs, too, so they can be “free of fear”. THEY worked out this trap long, long ago. To free yourself of fear, you have to do the inner work, yourself. Nobody else can do it for you.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 24 Oct
They manage to keep people in a state of being afraid of fear: "Think how scary the world would be if we weren't protecting you."
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 24 Oct
Whenever I hear or read that, I laugh!. The worst they can do is to make you afraid of death. If you don’t fear that, they have no hold on you. People have to face the fact that we are all scheduled to die. We, the living, were born to die. It is inevitable and unavoidable, so why worry about it?
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