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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Only a rich crackpot could distribute pamphlets claiming colloidal silver cures cancer, and then they'd still only reach people in walking distance.

Now, any moron can reach literally the entire world at no cost or effort.

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

As soon as the proletariat can do it, the bourgeois complain

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Also, literacy itself was gatekept back then. The stupid people we're referring to wouldn't even have been able to read it.