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Riff McClavin's avatar

What I'm trying to understand is who are the people still getting their main news from establishment media? According to the commercials, they suffer from a host of physical ailments, so I'm thinking it's the older demographic whose brain cells have made a premature shuffle off to greener pastures. But damn if they still don't vote and fund campaigns.

So what to do, when your customers are dying off? Well, if you're a motorcycle company with this problem you run to the government for protection, just as Harley Davidson did with Reagan. And that's kind of what's happening now, only now it's a tariff on information through a censored Internet. The last thing our government wants is consumers having access to less expensive, better built ideas.

It didn't work then and it better not work now. For all of us.

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Rob Juneau's avatar

I have to admit it's hard to imagine any cowardly culture so "legitimately" rife with bloodlust, and so easily dominated by superperverts, random sports scores, known war criminals and breathless fables of military and financial "greatness" as having any use for honest reporting. Naked greed, yes. Artificially inculcated savagery against the poor, sick and weak? Sure. But actual journalism from clearly inveterate corporations? Maybe after enough of us become sentient, if we can hold out that long. Maybe.

That said, I believe you are making a very real difference for the better with every published word, and I thank you every day for it, Caitlin.

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