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"When you have a fundamentalist faith you are certain that you are on the side of the angels."
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Michael Malice"What corporate media does, which is far more nefarious than the state, is simultaneously it will tell the audience These are the issues you should be concerned about today, and [even though we just learned about it five seconds ago] heres how you should think about it. So very quickly it gives the person, who is often marginally intelligent both the concerns of the day, which is just kind of like a fashion issue, but also the answer so that not only do they look sympathetic and empathetic they also simultaneously seem informed. [...] If you go to [public places] and you hear how these people talk, you realize they are parroting [...] almost verbatim, if not verbatim, the people that they saw on their own screen [...] and when you have that epiphany you realize this kind of conservative model that We are just going to teach the population to respect peoples rights and in a 100 years we are going to be free. is really not a tenable one."
Michael Krechmer, known professionally as Michael Malice, is a Ukrainian-American internet troll, author, and podcaster. He is the host of "YOUR WELCOME" with Michael Malice, a video podcast which airs on Podcast One.
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