If hundreds of millions of Americans and Europeans knew what was actually going on, they’d certainly be against the policies their unelected bureaucratic oligarchies are imposing, both at home and abroad. Precisely this is why knowing the truth is all the more important. Unfortunately, it can indeed be dangerous to think and speak freely at this time, and we can only expect more censorship and more “thought criminals”, as any deviation from the official narrative is “dangerous for our democracy”.

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    This is just right wing and conspiracy theorist bs. I’m not saying there is no censorship but this is misinformation designed to confuse people, sow distrust, and make them susceptible to more misinformation so they can be influenced politically.

    This kind of shit really took off in 2020 and if you’re still falling for it, please take your life back in control. If we’re gonna criticize the West, let’s take a fact-based approach.

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      Oh so you hate censorship, but you just don’t want to see the evil wrongthink. I see, I see.

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        Oh I do. But I want journalists to tell me about it, not propaganda outlets. This article is written to make me angry, not to emancipate or enlighten me. It wants to manipulate me.

        If I may recommend a book, Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. It’s about exactly the difference between

        1. investigative journalists that do their due diligence to uncover actual conspiracies
        2. conspiracy nutjobs that just believe and share every conspiracy they hear, and ironically, often end up serving oligarchs by doing so.

        If anger becomes more important than truth, we become tools in the hands of the powerful. Choose truth

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          The difference between journalism and propaganda to you is whether a western source is saying it or a country which is no longer controlled by the western financial apparatus. You weren’t trained to question.

          Oh you mean the book that Klein felt obliged to promote when feigning an apology for lashing out at the left for not condemning Hamas?

          It’s absolute schlock. I don’t know what convinced her that people on Twitter are worth writing a book about, but the quarantine really had a deletrious effect on some people.

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            No, I mean the Naomi Klein that voices pro-palestinian opinions in the book. Here’s a highly israel-critical interview.

            This is what I mean. Blind dogma and hatred will make you turn against those who should be your allies.

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            The difference between journalism and propaganda to you is whether a western source is saying it or a country which is no longer controlled by the western financial apparatus

            What makes you think this?

            I haven’t been trained to question, that’s true. I learned. You only learned to be scared apparently, and you’re currently in training to dismiss facts altogether. I suggest you drop out of that curriculum

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        Let’s remove all the moderation but instead let’s introduce new law, making public lies a criminal offence. Deal?