• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    And a few days after that, PragerU releases a video titled “Why democracies will fail eventually”, which tells its viewers that democracy creates “moral decadence”, and now a “strong leader” is needed to fix the issue, who might have told some noble lies like a parent tells their kid the stork brings the children when they’re not ready for reality. And the video ends with a “Roman salute” over “God Bless America”.

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      29 minutes ago

      People tell their kids the stork brings babies because the parent is the one not ready to have the conversation.

      The parent is avoiding their own humiliation. Telling kids how babies are made is not embarassing for kids. Kids have no reason to feel shame or judgement about these kinds of things….

      Just pointing this out to show that the metaphor here is deeply flawed.