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“The Empire State of Delusion”
Ground floor: everyone’s shouting truth! into their own echo. The marble lobby? Actually drywall painted “objectivity” held together by caulk.
Middle floors: Education Tower under renovation — “Critical Thinking” beams removed for aesthetic reasons. DEI steel supports quietly swapped for nostalgia wallpaper. Survive vs Thrive.
Smithsonian wing replaced with a selfie museum titled Our Version of History.
Top floors: Book bans doubling as fire safety drills — fewer exits, more smoke. Project 2025 architects sketch democracy like a gated condo: low ceilings, no windows, HOA fees payable in compliance. POA fees to the oligarchy.
Penthouse: a ragtag bunch of librarians, scientists, and teachers rebuilding the city with blueprints. They use memes as mortar.
From the helicopter view: the skyline still glitters, but half the lights spell FAKE SPEECH in neon.
Moral of the skyscraper?
Truth isn’t a tower — it’s the scaffolding holding the whole damn thing together but there is an economic cost to counterspeech that calls out the lies of fake speech!
Unfortunately it's the ones who are spewing the lies and the fake speech that are the loudest most of the time. Right wing propaganda like Fox, OAN, Newsmax, Glenn Beck, and the late Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA are just a few examples but the ratings those networks/programs obtain makes me understand why 1/6th of the nation's eligible voting population did ultimately vote for Trump. These places and similar shows/networks/channels are the only place they obtain any information on political news and they do no independent research at all on anything they hear.
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