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A Boring Dystopia
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Why do they call it "land of the free" again?
Cognitive dissonance. Discrimination is illegal, so obviously anyone who experiences it is crazy or lying. Clearly, they should have just followed the law against selling loose cigarettes if they didn’t want to die.
Sounds like gaslighting.
“They Thought They Were Free: [German society 1933-1945]”
For the same reason narcissists like to say they're the best.