and they even think they’re outsmarting the fascists when they point out for the millionth time that their bullshit is just that—utter bullshit.

It’s just sad that nothing has changed since Goebbels

Long before that.

That there is even frippery like the Super bowl shows there’s no real concern for the serious,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses

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Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns