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"To eager readers of New Yorker fiction about the superficial, frigid lives of readers of the New Yorker, it takes a thief to catch a thief, much as it takes opaque intelligence agencies to guarantee an open society."

There's 3-6 devastatingly on point memorable lines in this but I'm going to put that at the top.

Like most of us, when you & Taibbi discuss this group & the political-cultural rot it supports, you use the ambiguous pronoun "they."

e.g.: "they want us to eat bugs," "they don't want us to read controversial opinions," etc....

I propose that we put a name to this tyranny of enforced conformity. Let's call them "the regime."

"The regime wants me to get the latest booster."

Does that refer to a Federal hea!th bureaucrat, a school board, a big corporation, the corporate media, or my bossy neighbors at the condo association?

All of them. Or some. It doesn't matter. Everyone not participating in the groupthink knows what it is & who does it and we should give it a far more pejorative identification than the harmless sounding "they."

The regime's media, the regime's universities, the regime corporations, the regime's opinion. Try it out.

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