No practical point in getting bent out of shape over all of it, though. Not much has changed in twenty years. They didn’t listen then and they won’t now. This place ain’t ever gonna change, because the people allowed to speak and be heard either participate in the crimes of the empire or depend on them for their comfort and social station. That’s how empires work. They lie to themselves until a historical force comes along large enough to show the lie, and then they end.