Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "Governments hate the idea of news spreading freely, via independent journalists" video.

  1. Unless he has directly instructed violence against someone then any legal restriction on free speech is an obscenity.
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  2. Yes this is similar to how I think of it. The government is a machine, it does not feel or fear. It strives for efficiency because it's main goal is presenting favourable data to it's masters. Unfortunately it made a mistake in not understanding the adverse effects on efficiency that would result from importing masses of man-meat from incompatible parts of the world.
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  3. When they say neutrality, you should think of it in the same way as when they say democracy.
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  4. Think of the government as a machine, including all the people that are part of it. They are not people, they are parts or tools of the machine. This is the way you should think of the government machine, as indeed it thinks of us... as numbers. The machine's job is to manage the system efficiently so that the right numbers come out of the other end of it.
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  5. "But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it.”
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  6. In a multicultural society, the role of the authorities becomes primarily managing a collection of bickering tribes. They are well aware that white Brits are still comfortably the overall majority and by far the largest single group - and the government's job is to suppress the predictable and justified anger over what is being done to them and their country until their proportion of the population is sufficiently small that they no longer have any power.
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