{"id":89869,"date":"2025-08-27T05:31:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89869"},"modified":"2025-08-27T05:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:31:24","slug":"he-who-is-force-fed-false-history-is-condemned-never-to-know-hes-repeating-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89869","title":{"rendered":"He Who Is Force-Fed False History Is Condemned Never To Know He&#8217;s Repeating It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Everyone is an expert about what they know.\u00a0 But what if everything you know is wrong?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Wikipedia article on <a id=\"OWA3ed0c235-0556-0698-411a-fa649a28872b\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sad_Puppies\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Sad Puppies<\/a>\u00a0is wrong, viciously wrong, libelously wrong.\u00a0 I know, I lived through it, I was there at the beginning.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m just one person and I have no power to educate the world.\u00a0 The Liberals who edit Wikipedia have spoken and every AI bot repeats their story as if it were The Truth with capital &#8220;Ts.&#8221;\u00a0 Anyone who reads it is misinformed, misled, deceived.\u00a0 Any opinions formed on that basis are misguided.\u00a0 Any actions taken as a result will lead to error.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so don&#8217;t rely on Wikipedia.\u00a0 Use the Google or Bing search engine to get many different results to compare.\u00a0 Read the first half-a-dozen results to learn the truth.\u00a0 Ahhh, but the first half-a-dozen results are articles selected for you by an algorithm written by the same Liberals who curate Wikipedia.\u00a0 They all say the same thing, reinforce the same point.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like going to the Planned Parenthood headquarters and asking the first ten abortionists you meet what they think of killing babies.\u00a0 Of course they all say the same thing.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what a party line is for.<\/p>\n<p>If all you know about Sad Puppies comes from Wikipedia, you know nothing about Sad Puppies.\u00a0 Who cares, tempest in a teapot.\u00a0 Yes, but if all you know of the JFK assassination comes from the Oliver Stone movie, and if all you know of Covid comes from the Star Tribune, and if all you know of January 6 comes from Democrats . . . you get the idea.\u00a0 Bad enough for us, who lived it and thus can recognize the lies.\u00a0 What about our kids, and grandkids?\u00a0 How will they learn the truth?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Joe Doakes<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It&#8217;s all been wrecked by design.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Everyone is an expert about what they know.\u00a0 But what if everything you know is wrong?\u00a0\u00a0 The Wikipedia article on Sad Puppies\u00a0is wrong, viciously wrong, libelously wrong.\u00a0 I know, I lived through it, I was there at the beginning.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m just one person and I have no 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