"freedom of speech is a wonderful invention, it is a bleeder valve to get rid of dissent in a relatively harmless way.
BUT
if freedom of speech mobilizes people so that their concerns become actionable, then things begin to happen"
"i asked a historian at the National Security Agency at a meeting once:
'What is it that you and I can discuss with any sense that we share a common history?'
He said: 'anything up until 1945'. "
See Also:
"if an organization comes-into-being that purports to defend the population against these evil-doers, my first suspicion is that the evil-doers have created this subterfuge to gather 'real birds in digital cages' ..."
"[all this] means there are increasingly fewer people you can discuss in depth and detail the truth of what it is you're discovering...most people accept the consensus reality because it's easier and enables them to carry on with their lives"
amen to that.
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As you read this book, (or about the Bolsheviks in general) a very strange thing happens.
It occurs to you that the Bolsheviks are eerily familiar. Everything, their art, writing, media, their "sayings" and their general "vibe" is all so familiar... but why?
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The empty-calorie futurism, naive utopianism, impractical designs, and fact-free idealism are EXACTLY what we see everywhere today.
We've been so inundated with it in recent years that even this ~100 year old book feels eerily current
The Corporate Press just REFUSES to connect dots for the public like these:
- TWO major mass shootings (2022 Buffalo, NY & Christchurch, NZ 2019) were linked to Ukraine neo-nazis
- The Senator👇who met Zelensky in Minnesota (🚨 ) is now in trouble for smurfing (aka laundering)
So just to be clear:
- Ukraine (accused of being a money-laundering front for foreign aid)...
- meets with Senator who just recently had evidence released of campaign-fund laundering
- They meet in THE SAME STATE the "largest fraud" in US history now is🤔
Dawg...they have been fighting FOREVER. it's all in the *first* 3 mins 👇 : Crimea, Kiev, Russia, The Kremlin, The Tsar, The Khan.... and this was in 1547!!!
Ukraine (the Borderlands) is called "The Bloodlands", cuz they've been fighting FOR. EVER.
I have said "we live in the shadow of an old aristocracy" quite often in my threads. but why?
Let's pick a random part of life. Entertainment. A random popular show. Seinfeld. A random character. Elaine
Daughter of French Billionaire, but not just any Billionaire
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So it turns out, Seinfeld's "Elaine" (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is from a family dynasty of the largest food shippers in the world. She's not just some random quirky former SNL-cast member.
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Leopold Louis Dreyfus was the "King of Wheat" and his empire controlled the World's wheat supply during the Great Depression and World War 1 and World War 2.
They even "diversified" into arms trade.
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