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   Muro deGrizeco :toad: (murodegrizeco@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 21:23:01 JST Muro deGrizeco :toad:

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   • Justice💙:toad: LICSW

   @justiceLICSW

   Years ago, I was visiting my parents, and thumbing idly through a ham radio book. I read out loud, "You might meet Jordan's King Hussein on the air."

   My frail late mother, mind failing, heard just the name Hussein, tightly bitterly said,

   "I don't like that man!"

   The hashemite ruler?

   No.

   It was Obama's middle name she'd reacted to.

   Years of poisonous talk radio into her ears, until the hate became instinctual in her mind, even as everything else faded.

   #Propaganda works.

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     Justice💙:toad: LICSW (justicelicsw@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 21:23:02 JST Justice💙:toad: LICSW

     I had a conversation on politics w a stranger (he was living in the states from Hungary) about Trump.

     He gets his news on #YOUTUBE
     and believes Biden

     is the criminal and I’m wondering how #GOOGLE

     justifies making money
     as they help get the real criminal elected #trump
     #disinformation

     The answer is #GREED #sociopathic

     I know it’s #Facebook and #X too.

     How can we navigate
     more successfully
     the line between
     lies and free speech
     For #democracy worldwide?

     Minoru Saba repeated this.