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It’s a conspiracy theory.

It’s a conspiracy theory.

It’s a conspiracy theory.

Nah, we always told you it was true, but it’s not a big deal though. Look, something shiny!

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This deserves a meme of its own!

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Here’s the meme:

I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My pronouns are told/you/so.

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"It'll never happen, and when it does, you folks will deserve it."

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It’s not happening, but it’s good if it was.

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Even in the admission they gaslight us!

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Transparency is the enemy of corruption.

Decentralization is the cure.

We need to demand both, relentlessly.

Like so: https://joshketry.substack.com/p/demanding-transparency-our-systems

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And the tweet we've all been waiting for https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601894132573605888

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci

2:58 AM · Dec 11, 2022

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Twitter harmed a whole generation of children. It allowed child brown, banned exposing groomers, and censored Dr. Jay who wanted of lockdown harms. Demonic.

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twitter harmed a whole generation of america by preventing it from knowing its own mind and allowing a small group of political extremists to, like the bolsheviks once did, pretend to be the the majority and cow the actual majority in to silence and acquiescence.

societies pivot on this perception of just who is the mass movement and who the minority. making the mass succumb as if it were a minority is the longstanding tool of elitist info war.

it is how the few subdue the many and take their power by making them afraid to resist.

we can argue about how much of this was deliberate and how much emergent, but that fact that it happened in the US is not looking like much of a debate anymore.

and the middle is about to realize it.

and that is how a whole system flips valence.

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Spot on. Auto correct filtered my comment, by brown I meant p0rn and wanted I meant warned. I hope these kids realize what has been done to them, but the Zoomers voted overwhelmingly blue so they might too demoralized and propagandized to notice.

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Understood. I have 2 kids one is 25 and the other 30. Neither jabbed (oldest worked full time in service industry during the whole darn thing) and won't go for the BS!

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No need to surrender to auto-correct demon 😉 Substack comments happily don't mind being edited; 3-dot ellipsis is the entry point 🙂

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Do you know how happy I was when I figured that out a few months ago? Very happy!!

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Good for you! Curiosity may occasionally kill the cat, but satisfaction always brings it back 😁

Human curiosity along with ingenuity are the most valuable natural resources of all. It's such a shame the wear & tear of institutionalised rigid schooling all but kills both inherent gifts in most folk 😳

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It is hard to overstate the importance of what Musk is doing here.

The propaganda and censorship regimes the neo-bolsheviks have imposed on both traditional and new media are the equivalent of an opening artillery barrage softening up the target in preparation for the all-out frontal assault.

Musk has exposed a crucial component of the enemy order of battle and disposition, showing it to be far weaker and shallower than generally thought.

Make no mistake that for quite some time we have been engaged in an existential war to preserve our liberty and society, and we have been losing badly due to divided forces, disarray, distraction, and a general, demoralized unwillingness to bring the fight to the enemy.

Let us hope these revelations lead, finally, to a stiffening of opposition spines and the mounting of a devastating counterattack that changes the nature of the engagement.

Even if this alone does not turn the tide, at least, for once, we will actually be in the fight, instead of losing slowly through endless appeasement and withdrawal.

Enough.

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Substack is--for now--the restorative potion. The way Ben Collins *tried* to crushingly dismiss Matt Taibbi as "Substack Man" tells you everything about their horror and desperation as their no-longer-sticky fingers slide off the deck railing.

Gonna take a little time and I hope Elon got a good security service but this is a nice new dawn indeed.

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Is the middle "about to realize it", though?

A few days ago, IIRC, I saw a blurb that the Sunday shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN covered this Twitter story (the first installment) for a COMBINED seven seconds.

How is the middle to learn ANYthing about what Twitter did if their sole source of "news" - the alphabet legacy media - don't cover it, don't report it? LIVs are LI precisely because their sources of news aren't newspeople, they're inveterate propagandists. And that's not gonna change.

So we on the Right will say "another conspiracy theory is proved true", the Leftists will call it "old news" and a "nothingburger" in defending the Democrat Party...and millions upon millions of American voters will know NOTHING about the legitimate, ongoing threat to the republic, because the alphabet legacy media will make SURE of it.

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"if their sole source of "news""

MMM is no longer the middles sole source of news. It's Twitter and FB and Youtube. Why this matters.

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Unfortunately, the middle still waits for MSM to report things like this, or they'll never see it.

Here's a look at MSM today the 9th of December:

Over at CNN, they currently have two stories that have Twitter in the title. They are:

-"Musk says Twitter is rolling out a new feature that will flag 'shadowbanning.' It's complicated"

-"Elton John is quitting Twitter, saying platform's policy shift will let misinformation flourish"

At MSNBC, there is only one story today:

- "It sure looks like Elon Musk is purging left-wing Twitter users. That's alarming."

NBC News has a "Twitter" section in it's "Business, Tech, and Media" section, so surely they are reporting on this, right?. Nope. One story:

- "TWITTER - Lawsuit accuses Twitter of targeting women for layoffs"

ABC News follows NBC's lead with 1 story:

- "Women sue Twitter alleging discriminatory layoffs"

CBS News, 1 story:

- "Employee bedrooms at Twitter headquarters"

A lot of people will never wake up if this kind of coverage continues. They are actively burying a huge story in favor of publishing anything and everything that the establishment thinks will damage Musk.

This is how we get to a point where we inhabit the same physical space with people who live in an entirely different reality. The MSM is the main cause of increased polarization and radicalization that has our nation on the brink.

It's really sad to watch, and it's disheartening to still be continually dismissed by all of the people who still buy into the establishments narratives.

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I heard that with musks's tweet, "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," the MSM is finally taking notice. I have to hold my nose to go look for myself. Haven't checked yet. But it would make sense that this is the last wall they need to keep standing because MSM was and is SO DEEP in the $h!T when it comes to pHarma Fraud pushing.

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pretty obviously deliberate when you take everything into account, including the government encouragement. there should be long prison sentences for those involved. they have helped destroy a generation of youth. those youth have seen suicide as a rapidly rising cause of death as a result of twitter's blocking legitimate debate about the pandemic response.

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As Kevin what's his name said about his investment in FTX... it was "groupthink"!!

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One need only to look at California and gay marriage. I’m not making a judgement on either side…but California voted to ban gay marriage and a few years later…look where we are! Propaganda works!

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I don't know whether to blame that on propaganda. California's Prop 10 (IIRC; could have the number wrong) was overturned by a single judge, and again, IIRC, he is/was gay but not out, so he had a conflict of interest that no one knew about, which he did not disclose until AFTER he had subverted the will of the California people, and of course he did not recuse himself from the case. All IIRC.

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Yeah, I get that. That’s not what I am really talking about, though. I am more-so saying one of the most liberal states voted against gay marriage in 2008. 14 years later we have trannies gyrating in public and people who take their kids to it. It’s wild.

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Dr. Bhattacharya is something like the anti-Fauci. If you listen to him speak in public, it's clear he is a physician and not a media liaison. It doesn't feel like you're spending undue energy parsing weasel words.

That makes him gravely dangerous.

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I caught up with an old friend recently and he said he kind a liked Fauci during the whole pandemic. I found this quite unbelievable. I know at the start he kind of went against Trump, which would explain a lot (here in Europe the media was overwhelmingly against Trump). But Two and a half years on and people still don't see through Fauci's contradictions and lies?

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If all they ingest, like my elderly parents, is the mainstream media, they still aren't exposed to the lies. They follow the narrative. I've given up trying to un-brainwash my father. I've tried over and over again to share el gato's and others data with him and if I don't get a tl;dr, don't confuse me with facts response, the other reply is "if you were right, how come I don't see that on the news". Until MSM ceases their propaganda, nothing is going to really change for those who don't actively seek information. I see it today is my nice red state where 30% of the folk in the stores are still wearing useless masks.

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I have said for years that the real, ultimate enemy of our republic is the MSM. Without the Left's devoted running dog propagandists, their politicians would have nowhere near the powe and presence they currently enjoy. Musk cleaning out Twitter's Augean Stable is a good start, but it's only a start.

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Agree that running dog propagandists are the enemy of all, however the thing they're powering? That treadmill underneath? It's operators seem ultimately neither left or right, but part of an elite network of individuals and institutions intent on using their colossal wealth/influence to maintain and expand power through any and all means including violence, coercion deception, exploitation, ruthlessness. For now, the people who let MSM make their meaning (include those who passively suck Fox teat) believe it to be serving "progressive" or "liberal" or "left" interests, and superficially it can be framed that way, but scratch the surface, and the values costume disappears. But the costume keeps the gullible tuned in.

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Yep. I have friends the same. Quite astonishing. Needless to say, they do MSM and don't know Substack.

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Yes. The problem is not how twitter manages their propaganda machine; the problem is people using twitter.

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FINALLY!

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Yeah, and it also interfered in elections, illegally installing Democrats at the behest of the FBI and other intelligence agencies, thereby further perpetuating the very pathologies -- child porn, groomers, lockdowns, mandatory covid "vaccines" for children -- you cite.

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The epigraphs to my #DefundTheThoughtPolice article (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-us-legislators-defundthethoughtpolice) seem fitting companions to this piece, Twittergate, and the glorious collapse of the unconstitutional infrastructure that has been wielded to silence, oppress, and enslave us:

“In 1946 the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution reading in part, ‘freedom of information is a fundamental human right, and the touchstone of all the freedoms to which the United Nations is consecrated.’ This is our touchstone as well. This is the code of the Voice of America. We welcome the view of others. We seek a free flow of information across national boundaries and oceans, across iron curtains and stone walls. We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”

—President John F. Kennedy, Address on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America, February 26, 1962

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

—CIA Director William Casey, February 1981

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Do American's believe that the work of the CIA is in their best interests

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Only those on the "left" now. Since the election of Trump things flipped. Why was the media in Europe overwhelmingly against Trump? Why do they even care? Couldn't be some shadowy group in the background with plans they don't tell you about, even though they do BUILD BACK BETTER GREAT RESET ;)

https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/

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So Jack and Vajjaya (Vagina?) committed perjury in front of Congress. Uh, anyone? Crickets.

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It's not perjury if the semantics are sufficiently creative. That's the whole issue with the convo around "shadowbanning." I.e. "no we're not shadowbanning anyone under this very specific definition of 'shadowbanning' which doesn't represent the original accusation!"

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Exactly how fauci attempted to claim he didn't commit perjury over illegal gain of function research.

When you can change the definitions of words. Words have no meaning. And the law that was built on that former meaning is null.

Murder is not a crime when you actually committed 'compassionate redirection of life'

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Like i said, truth is relative, mother's milk for the lawyers.

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Yeah, we didn't do "gain of function" research either, provided we all agree to change the original, well-understood definition of "gain of function."

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They call it "visibility filtering," which is not "shadow banning," simply because it's not the same words.

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As the lawyers say, truth is relative.

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Funny how semantics never ever saved one robber, potdealer, cat burglar, and so on.

Unless they're a sufficiently connected and correctly tokenised celebrity committing crimes of course.

It's almost like law is power set in text form.

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Or they just like to steal suitcases. And deal with nukes in their day job.

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Cat, I notice something in many of your posts and I want to point it out. I think you might be writing “decent” where you mean “descent.” I abhor grammar policing, and I should know, having grown up in a family that did it before it was cool, but I recognize how smart and well-written you are and I observe that this has repeated enough for me to think it’s not a typo.

Enough about that. Your awesome. Let’s have margaritas.

(Yes, that was intentional. Call me Michael Malice if you must😁)

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Really nice touch there at the end. Bravo!

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Robert Epstein has provably seen behind the Google curtain - highly recommend you watch him on the Rogan podcast. He almost seems Unibomber cooky but it’s because he knows what is legit going on

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Yes, I wish everyone would watch this.

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Random leftist on Twitter in 2020: “that’s a right wing conspiracy, and Russian disinformation campaign”

Same guy in 2022:”these Twitter files are old news, everyone already knew about this years ago”

The hubris...

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No kidding 🤣🤡

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I do not get the sense that the average person is aware of this suppression of free speech, nor are they concerned. Until there’s coverage in MSM (unlikely), I sense this all remains inside baseball.

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Try for coverage in the UK Daily Sceptic or even the Spectator. Toby Young, editor of the Daily Sceptic, was once editor of, and still writes for, the Spectator. He also set up the Free Speech Union, because the UK has no 1st Amendment.

The Spectator has the same owners as the UK Daily Telegraph but gets no grants from billionaire eugenicists, unlike the D.T. So it's published plenty on the medical disaster compared to other UK MSM.

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The depth of evil influence is just beginning to emerge. There's a reason the facts are just trickling out of Twitter HQ; processing the entire abomination at once would be impossible.

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The part of propaganda I didn't appreciate until I've lived to witness it is the passion with which the propagandized mind defends the propagandists.

I'm not talking about the corrupt ones that have skin in the game and benefit from the propaganda. I'm talking about the "little guy" who has no rational reason to protect the regime, yet they do it.

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they just want to be on the winning team. right now they think they ARE - they know the Left is lying, cheating and stealing. but they're not the victims (in their minds) if they are on the "same team."

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Yes. They say things like “you’re on the wrong side of history” whilst we are shocked 😳 at their blindness.

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Bad Cat, you probably already read LewRockwell.com but it may interest you that an article along these lines was published today: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/12/thomas-dilorenzo/why-the-left-must-destroy-free-speech-or-be-destroyed

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That's a very good article. Thanks for sharing it.

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You're welcome. It's important to dispel the ignorance which authoritarianism brings.

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Vijaya is a scamming liar. All of social media is just a platform for social engineering and has been used by the state as a tool against the people it's supposed to represent.

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"We just want to keep everyone safe. We just want to ensure the truth is shared and misinformation is blocked." Well then who are the holy deciders of what is safe and what is truth? "Why we are of course!"

They are so arrogantly stupid, so drunk on their own virtue, that they can never see that anointing themselves the great deciders is the opposite of free and fair - it's fascism.

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The sad thing is... none of this is news to me. Or most people who read bad cattitude. Like, on one hand, I really wondered if the world I live in has truly descended into this weird woke theology, this multi-headed monster which seems to touch every aspect of life - education, energy, politics, health, you name it. So, the surprise would be to be proven wrong. The fact that what was obvious is now known as true, is not that exciting tbh

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Some one please tell me how we have a legitimate Federal government if the elections are tampered with by the State Police, in this case, the FBI.

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If Twitter gets "de-biased", there are still other big festering piles of excrement that appear to be untouchable - Google, Facebook and Wikipedia.

Search Google for "Libs of TikTok" for example.

Unfortunately, I don't think Elon's pockets are deep enough.

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Well if he can show to investors how he could make those platforms more profitable than they currently are, I'm sure there is a few hundred billion floating around they could pull together to make few hundred billion more, down the line.

There are trillions out there waiting to be invested. If Elon can make new Twitter worth more than it was, more money will follow him. Question is, does he want /need/ has the energy and time in his life for more. And will he survive the coming onslaught of Deep State actors who will try to destroy him (both financially and literally).

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wow, I had never read the wikipedia page on libs of TikTok (as I would never take wikipedia as a source on anything anymore) but it's full on lies and propaganda.

I hope Elon tries to buy it next.

I think one of the most important things will be repealing the 'Smith-Mundt Modernisation Act' that allows the media to legally lie and distort.

As long as that sort of flat out lying is allowed we are fucked big time.

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