Imagine there’s an FBI raid on, or congressional investigation into, whatever American news outlet attacks your political beliefs, and I think you’ll find yourself believing not that the government must be scared of the truth, but that these guys didn’t deserve their tongues.

It’s easy to stand outside a regime’s borders and say it can’t change your reality, and comforting to believe that the truth always comes out in the end, but I think reality is more harsh: “History is written by the winners.”

Apparently George RR Martin, from A Clash of Kings.

Edit: Apologies, should have been in response to the sibling, rather than the parent.

Wow I’ve not heard this one before? Who said this? I love it.

This does not apply to Holocaust revisionism, before anyone even suggests it.