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If you find yourself agreeing with your preferred slice of the political spectrum all the time on every issue, it means you are in a cult.

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Caitlin: Why do you keep saying it is a capitalist system? It is not. Free market capitalism cannot exist when the central bank sets interest rates and the banks use fractional reserve banking to create currency. That is NOT capitalism.

Fascism would be a better description of our current economic situation.

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Another excellent written construct at putting together a cluster of passages that speak to the core of my being. I'm a Moderate who doesn't believe that western governments are in the business of truly caring for their population, but only pacifying them while bleeding them dry financially, intellectually, morally, spiritually and physically.

I praise you for triggering us to think differently than what we've been taught all our lives by the Propaganda Industrial Complex and all the other three letter government agencies that seek to control us by telling us that they are "safe & effective" even while in the midst of the world's biggest silent war: The Plandemic. Keep doing what your heart compels you to do because it's very effective in comforting those of us who really understand your words of wisdom. The world needs your medicine to heal the millions of lost souls who put too much trust and service in their government.

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I refer CNN to my liberal friends and family as "The other Fox news".

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I unashamedly admit that this is my personal echo chamber. Here I am seldom subjected to the ranting of idiots who see the world in a different way. That's why I come here.

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Mass media has *The Sheeple* fighting a culture war instead of a class war.

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Get it. I’ll be brief.

I’ve been left my whole life. Covid and the vaccine woke me up. Now that I’m awake I see where the left is headed and what they’ve been planning. Moving the west towards a tyrannical corporate run state on the name of “climate change” is insanity. You don’t agree with this?

I consider myself independent and my line my entire life is “politics should be played between the 40yd lines. Everyone hanging out on their own 5yd line is close minded.

I see things differently nowadays. The left is out to destroy middle America and especially “white” middle America because we represent a class who will fight against tyranny and censorship. Point being... it’s different now.

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For Twitter Files alone Elon Musk has entered history.

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You only need to engage the public in a discussion of substantive issues, ie. social reform to find out how closed their minds are due to the pervasive propaganda they are subject to daily. Our minds are shackled to this Kool Aid Fountain of misinformation and lies. The worst part is that the public is oblivious to it.

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Too much illegitimate unaccountable power in too few hands=chaos and decline.

All the great ideas have been expressed what remains is to act upon at least a few of them of which we appear totally incapable.

While the West appears totally determined to destroy itself, I hope the East survives and moves forward. Here in the West we constantly ignore we are only 13% of the world's population and we think that entitles us to rule the world! Global parochialism and parasitism are very big issues of our times .

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YES!

And may it never go to your head!

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If anything, it is the distortions and corruption that have rendered capitalism as an unworkable thesis. Any institution or organization can be corrupted, even saintly religions.

Faulty capitalism still works far better than socialism or communism on its best days. The WEF and other parasitical elite cults all use capitalism to gain power and prominence until they get around to enslaving mankind.

I couldn't care less about musk, CNN or liberals. They are all firm examples of brain dead, over propagandized people and organizations all basking in their supreme arrogance while hating humanity at the same time. I guess it's a kind of multitasking.

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"American liberals just spent days raging at CNN for hosting a town hall with Donald Trump"

The goal is to prevent the havenots from organizing by depriving them of leadership.

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Opinions and assholes, everyone has one... Keep on poking holes in the matrix. Arguably, I agree most of the time with your writing ... :)

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May 14, 2023·edited May 14, 2023

This is entirely intentional.

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“I've never encountered anyone with whom I agree all the time, and it would be silly for me to expect to. I agree and disagree on various subjects with the communists I follow, and the libertarians, and everyone else. I've agreed and disagreed with things I've heard from Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Alex Jones, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping. And you should too. That's normal.”

You nail it here for me. It is very hard these days in the online world to deal with differing viewpoints. And lest someone thinks I agree with you (Caitlin Johnson) on every issue: no. Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other documents like the Bill of Rights (USA), and Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Canada) are very important to me human rights take priority for me. Therefore, I am very critical of the CCP and Xi Jinping due to Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet. But my country (Canada) takes a hit thanks to the Fairy Creek Old Growth protests, Indigenous land defenders and the Truck Convoy. No fan of Stephen Harper or Justin Trudeau (last two Prime Ministers).

Thanks and take care :)

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