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France seeks science-fiction writers to help futureproof its military against science-fact

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Re: History has shown...

It's more accurate anyway, or at least HL Mencken would agree with it.

And this isn't something said yesterday.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/h_l_mencken_101109

Back in the day, before anywhere near as much PC baloney existed...(in a couple of senses) the saying

was "Fear, uncertainty, and deception" in regards to Microsoft, which entity it was originally coined for. After all, doubt ~- uncertainty. The change was kind of...one of those things like wikipedia edits or a stealthy re-write of history.

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