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  1. David Boles @[email protected] ·

    Stop Applauding the Forced Apology

    There is no such thing as a sincere statement made with a boot on the neck, and we have built a culture that pretends otherwise.Watch what happens now when someone steps out of line. A demand goes up for a statement. The statement arrives, in the approved shape, full of the approved words, and a crowd gathers to judge whether the sorrow inside it looks real enough to accept. We have a name for that performance when a dictator stages it. We call it a show trial. What we have not admitted is that we run a softer version of the same machine every week, on our phones, for sport. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/05/31/stop

    #coercion #confession #government #human #lie #recant
  2. David Boles @[email protected] ·

    Stop Applauding the Forced Apology

    There is no such thing as a sincere statement made with a boot on the neck, and we have built a culture that pretends otherwise.Watch what happens now when someone steps out of line. A demand goes up for a statement. The statement arrives, in the approved shape, full of the approved words, and a crowd gathers to judge whether the sorrow inside it looks real enough to accept. We have a name for that performance when a dictator stages it. We call it a show trial. What we have not admitted is that we run a softer version of the same machine every week, on our phones, for sport. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/05/31/stop

    #bolesbooks #davidboles #writing #coercion #confession #government
  3. David Boles @[email protected] ·

    Stop Applauding the Forced Apology

    There is no such thing as a sincere statement made with a boot on the neck, and we have built a culture that pretends otherwise.Watch what happens now when someone steps out of line. A demand goes up for a statement. The statement arrives, in the approved shape, full of the approved words, and a crowd gathers to judge whether the sorrow inside it looks real enough to accept. We have a name for that performance when a dictator stages it. We call it a show trial. What we have not admitted is that we run a softer version of the same machine every week, on our phones, for sport. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/05/31/stop

    #coercion #confession #government #human #lie #recant
  4. David Boles @[email protected] ·

    Stop Applauding the Forced Apology

    There is no such thing as a sincere statement made with a boot on the neck, and we have built a culture that pretends otherwise.Watch what happens now when someone steps out of line. A demand goes up for a statement. The statement arrives, in the approved shape, full of the approved words, and a crowd gathers to judge whether the sorrow inside it looks real enough to accept. We have a name for that performance when a dictator stages it. We call it a show trial. What we have not admitted is that we run a softer version of the same machine every week, on our phones, for sport. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/05/31/stop

    #writing #davidboles #bolesbooks #word #truth #takeback