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Jokes that punch down often seem to ultimately lead to more actively oppressive actions. Was anti-semitic humor popular in Nazi Germany prior to more actively anti-semitic policies? Has there been research done on whether comedy contributed significantly to the environment that led to the Holocaust?
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What's the current view on alternative theories to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr? Are they just pseudo-history, or treated as serious possibilities?
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Was Hobbes right when he said that the life of man in the state of nature was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short?"
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The 2020 film "Worth", about the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, presents Charles Wolf and his Fix The Fund movement as extremely powerful, able to make foundational demands and lobby thousands of victims of 9/11 to support or oppose the Fund. Were Wolf and his movement actually that influential?
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How did good cop/bad cop become well known outside of an internal law enforcement strategy? Did law enforcement ever try to stop the spread of the trope to maintain the potency of the strategy?
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