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  1. Jun 2022
    1. "Do you think these people are mentally ill? Do you think it is possible they are making all this up?"

      Very ironic that he kept this in despite his own lies in the piece.

    2. You don't have to deny it. There's a wonder to seeing so much order laid out in front of you. And people are walking around, whispering statistics in your ear. It's easy to slip into a kind of Stalinist wet dream. And I try to subvert that by locking onto actual faces as they take me up and down the aisles.

      Details like this make it even more infuriating knowing that a lot of this is fabricated.

    3. "That's true. I'm not going to buy their products." And she says, "You will lie to them." And I say, "Yes, Kathy. I'm going to lie to lots of people."

      Could this not ruin Kathy's career as a translator?

    4. First there's one worker waiting. Then there's two. Then there's three.

      I'm amazed that nobody thought this might be fabricated. Especially with the guards reactions.

    5. And in fact, in the camera roll, there were pictures on it from inside the factory. And they posted these pictures into the article. And I looked at these pictures, and they took my breath away.

      What an oddly farfetched thing.