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“Superstar politicians and superstar quarterbacks have the same kind of delicate egos, and people who life on that level grow very accustomed to very thin, rarified air. They have trouble breathing in the lower altitudes; and if they can't breath right, they can't function.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

tags: politicians

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“Assassins, like politicians and journalists, are not attracted to losers.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

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“Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.”
― DaShanne Stokes

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“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

tags: 1968, adolf-hitler, big-lie, fascism, post-factual, post-truth, propaganda, reality-control, totalitarianism

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“That gin-soaked little Nazi from the Gazette got pissed off when you didn’t doff your hat for the national anthem,” Burgin explained. “He kept bitching about you to the guy in charge of the press box, then he got that asshole who works for him all cranked up and they started talking about having you arrested.” “Jesus creeping shit,” I muttered. “Now I know why I got out of sportswriting.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

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