From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/18/26 4:52 PM, Mike wrote:   
      
   > Well, just think this has been going on, in some way or   
   > another, for as long as humans have been alive, on the   
   > Planet Earth, and possibly much, much, much, much longer,   
   > and possible even other planets in the Universe.   
      
   I told a young filmmaker that.   
      
   They emailed us a link, asked for a waiver. It was a   
   film -- an "Art" film maybe, a statement -- about   
   fascism. And it pulled all the stops on propaganda.   
      
   It told it's "Message" using some pretty over the   
   top propaganda techniques. We're talking "Neanderthal   
   bashing a bunny rabbit with a club."   
      
   So I emailed him back and explained to him that he was   
   externalizing fascism, and that the lesson of Nazi   
   Germany is that even good people can be fooled, can be   
   made to support evil. I explained that we don't end   
   fascism by attacking others, we end it by searching   
   within ourselves.   
      
   I'm actually not entirely sure what I said but you get   
   the gist of it...   
      
   I've often said that when I evaluate an issue, form an   
   opinion, the most important factor to me is if the   
   people -- whatever "Side" -- is rational. We can never   
   ever get rational "Solutions" from irrational people.   
   So, the Palestinians have legitimate gripes? Yes they   
   do. But Hamas is irrational. You can't make peace, they'll   
   never honor it, no treaties matter, their own people   
   are just fodder...   
      
   Same thing with America's left right now. They are being   
   manipulated, they are fighting for everything they   
   pretend to want, they have abandoned every issue that holds   
   actual meaning for them, their lives, and they are more   
   likely to get violent than grateful if you point out any of   
   this.   
      
      
      
      
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