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I've been thinking of writing a piece of "How do you know you are being lied to?"

What you are allowed to say is one of those indicators. But it's more insidious than that. You aren't even given anything outside the narrative.

I am sure some think that we spent a a lot of hours digging to find something to "confirm our bias" but in reality we were being offered only one alternative that didn't jive with reality.

It's like this: previous to this vaccine, every vaccine had adverse effects and side effects to it, and then for this one, nothing. You're actually telling me that the most frequently used vaccine in history has NO adverse effects, or that those that are reported are "false claims?"

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Taibbi has a good label: “Censorship-Industrial Complex.”

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Well, our little misapprehension was in thinking all those bad things happened in a thing called "history."

Repeating for the trazillionth time: human nature doesn't change. The instincts which help us survive also make us brutal in trying to crush anyone who might impede us in the struggle.

Every child ever born must be civilized by its parents to find an uneasy balance in life between what one wants and what one may legitimately try to get. Every training system--religious, secular--quickly becomes corrupted by its leaders and legions.

All we can do--each one of us--is keep trying to make the right choice, at every moment throughout every day a choice is required. Damn tiring, ain't it?

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Propaganda. Weapons-grade.

It appears to me like no one cares that the whole world was just rolled.

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How important is religious belief to morality and integrity? Apparently, extremely important. Without it, you can rationalize anything.

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Voltaire said, “To know who rules over you, just look to who you are not allowed to insult”.

There is a corollary in there somewhere, I’m sure.

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If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same;

18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights

Gottlieb(former FDA) emailing Twitter in attempt to oppress opinions of American citizens

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Been tempted to take the batteries out of my bullshit detector for several years now because the damn thing won’t stop shrieking.

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Sometimes it’s the little things -- Fantastic subtitle.

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Anyone who can remember when "civics" was included in school curricula is revealing their age. Just sayin'.

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“ You Are A Liar Just Like Your Father and Get Behind Me Satan”

That usually shuts them down while simultaneously confusing them.

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founding

"Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation."

~ George Carlin

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it's called "racoon dogs gone wild"

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It’s called nefarious chicanery. And it seems to be the mainstay of DC.

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No one Speaks Power to Truth like a Bully, not the least concerned about Reality or Truth, and today there is no Bully bigger than .. Big Government/ Pharma.. all they do is speak Power to Truth.. exert their power to gain More Power and More Profit.. Never ever satisfied.. murdering hundreds of thousands possibly millions.. in a couple years... no big deal, not... to BIG Brother just all in a days work..

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You call it Revelation.

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