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The Indirection Game

RMS at school - modified

Summary: How to attack institutions and concepts by personifying them, then proceeding to character assassination based on lies and deliberate distortions

THEY don't like copyleft They don't like the message They tell us it's like theft Mere copyright passage

The institution they abhor Yet they cannot just ignore When the dirt presented starts to bore They keep digging deeper for more

A message is powerful A concept is masterful Personification of the hateful Creative concern-trolling ever so artful

Crucify the heretic Won't that be fantastic Persecution automatic Then somebody else they pick

1941 Watson letterRecursively repeat As long as the interests fit And sure their facts are shit Libel, slander, and defamation writ

Making an example of the elder Whose mind is mild and tender Attacks on the older people don't matter We're tolerant! We know better!!

Fact-checking to the rescue It's only just a coup PentaGAFAM's Dachau "Master race" like Macao

FSF, FFS Won't you follow orders? Oust the founder, add some moles Open up your borders

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