All of this could’ve been prevented with the truth.
I know it’s hard, and we all want to avoid it, but we can’t let such impulses stand in the way, otherwise it means standing in the way of freedom, of rights, of peace, of safety, of health, of rights, of our continued existence on this planet and the existence of our children.
But we’ve stood by and allowed the degradation of truth, submitting ourselves and our society to a diet of falsehoods that have left us bloated on fiction.
A fiction allowed people around us to lie, and cheat, and steal, and remain in power long after they should’ve been removed.

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9 Jan
This mob literally went to DC as if called up to fight a just war against “liberal” aggressors.
They were radicalized by the lies they were fed, the grievances they held, and the hate they were taught to have.
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I think that sampling is an art, and wish there was a better way to work these situations out, but sample licensing is still subject to copyright law.
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This is 100% true. Adults should know right and wrong. Every terrorist rioter in that crowd should’ve known better, and their actions must have consequences, 1/
but in fairness, they were egged on by people in power, people they trusted to tell them the truth, people who deliberately lied to them in order to attain power and keep it.
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This is an attempted coup.
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This proposal sets a very dangerous precedent that would undermine songwriters’ ability to collect future royalties from their work.
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