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Riff McClavin's avatar

I remember when both parties started erecting "free speech zones" far removed from their conventions where both the TV cameras and the delegates could remain blissfully undisturbed by the rabble's protests and demands. Exact same thing going on now with the Internet.

Our country has become a grotesque parody for anyone paying attention.

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JackSirius's avatar

I wish this article could be shouted from every window and rooftop, but we all know it won’t be. MSNBC/NYTimes/CNN and all the other usual suspects in the MSM will not only ignore free speech, they will continue to work tirelessly to eradicate all non-Narrative speech.

However, let’s not despair. Let’s not underestimate the power of truth. Every time Google/Facebook/Twitter deplatforms a truthsayer, some number of those zombified by mass formation psyops awakens. That number may be small, but small numbers can change the world (indeed, as Pearl Buck noted, it’s the only thing that ever has changed the world).

Also—trying to be an optimist again—let’s notice that the MSM is in free fall collapse. More people now watch that titan, Joe Rogan, than all of the most popular U.S. cable news shows combined.

And truth-telling is additive. To Rogan’s audience, add Caitlin, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, CJ Hopkins and a lot more Substackers (and those on similar alternative uncensored platforms like Locals, Discord, etc.), as well as a stable of YouTubers led by Jimmy Dore, and you start to get a formidable multi-national assemblage of free folk who are mad as hell and have the numbers and the gumption to do something about it.

Let’s make no mistake, the rulers fear us. They may not yet be quite on the verge of heading for their bunkers, islands and yachts, but they are laying in extra stores of caviar, Cognac, and bullets, and they are nervously whispering about people like Caitlin in the conference rooms at Davos.

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