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minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·2 months agoOnly a rich crackpot could distribute pamphlets claiming colloidal silver cures cancer, and then they’d still only reach people in walking distance. Now, any moron can reach literally the entire world at no cost or effort.
minus-squarem532@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoAs soon as the proletariat can do it, the bourgeois complain
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoAlso, literacy itself was gatekept back then. The stupid people we’re referring to wouldn’t even have been able to read it.
Only a rich crackpot could distribute pamphlets claiming colloidal silver cures cancer, and then they’d still only reach people in walking distance.
Now, any moron can reach literally the entire world at no cost or effort.
As soon as the proletariat can do it, the bourgeois complain
Also, literacy itself was gatekept back then. The stupid people we’re referring to wouldn’t even have been able to read it.