Critical Theory is Systemically Brainwashing Us

r3volution 3.0 said:
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Occam's Banana again.

For someone not inclined to dig into the details of critical race theory and similar nonsense, the key takeaway is that these theories consist of strategic lies told for the purpose of advancing a political goal, which is to say that, in essence, this is nothing new: run-of-the-mill propaganda. What is new, however, or at least unusual, is that this propaganda expressly attacks reason and empirical reality, whereas the typical propaganda attempts to clothe itself in those things to improve its credibility. Which school of ethics is dominant in a society can be determined in one of two ways: by argument or by force. By rejecting reason and empirical reality, critical race theory et al effectively rule out the first option. That said, between socialists (which is all that these people are at bottom) and anti-socialists, there's probably not much of a chance of persuasion anyway, even if both sides are willing to have an honest debate. Further, the average "woke" dolphin-kin-entity on the street has approximately zero understanding of the theory, likely does not reject reason and empirical reality in any meaningful way, and is just regurgitating slogans, while putting fingers in its dolphin-sound-receiving-portholes when presented with counter-arguments: i.e. just as with the rank-and-file of any kind of mass movement. So, disturbing as it is in principle, I'm not so sure that the anti-reason and anti-reality aspect of "wokeness" really matters much in practice. The practical problem, I'd say, is simply that this is a large socialist movement, regardless of whether it speaks in a post-modern voice or an old-fashioned Marxist voice.
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Two truisms that have been written about long ago and are still in practice today:

1) People are easily manipulated by emotional appeals. It's for the children (show poor child) or freedom isn't free (show kneeling soldier with flag)
2) People are easily manipulated by their own desires of status seeking and riches (subversion of political offices)

Reason, facts and science (empirical reality) matter to the manipulators, but not the manipulated. The manipulators rely on reason, facts and science for their aims. How to psychologically move the herds in desired directions is the science. Hell, even "our" own Presidents told us point blank they would spend tons of our money to learn better how to fuck with our brains.
 
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@wokal_distance on "2020 is just the 'end of the beginning' for Wokeness"


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- Trump wins the most non-white voters by a Republican since 1960
- a possible Biden win
- 11 new Republican WOMEN in congress

If you think any of that ends Wokeness, let me introduce exhibit A.

Eddie Glaude dresses up racial guilt as humility and pours it on everyone:


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The Woke are NOT going to stop with the racial gaslighting. If anything, it may receive less media coverage in terms of news stories, but takes like this one, claiming [that] Cubans are "white' [and] not Hispanic, are going to continue:



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People like Nikole Hannah-Jones still have their positions of power in places like the New York Times. In light of all the Cubans and Venezuelan ex-pats who voted for Trump, they will pump out content that claims people aren't "really" Latino unless they vote the right way:



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They are going to say [that] Cuban-Americans and Venezuelan-Americans are "race traitors" because they voted for Trump, and [will] call those people sell-outs:

[see graphic for entry 2/ above]​

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And they will continue to lean into the identity politics even harder than they already are. The racial scapegoating of white people, and the attempts to make everyone who is not Woke feel stupid and ignorant in an effort to undercut their moral authority, will continue:



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They will claim that, in light of the election result, what is needed is more focus on race, not less. This means more racial hot-takes, more articles meant to guilt people, and more media gaslighting:



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They will begin to claim that any gay person who voted for Trump does not really count as gay, or is not a trustworthy person.

Just more slander to erode the credibility of anyone who disagrees with Wokeness:



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They will expand the definition of whiteness to include anything that they disagree with, and will claim [that] black people who do not support Wokeness either aren't really black, or "think of themselves as white."

They'll call them oreos: "black on the outside, white on the inside."



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They'll say [that] women who voted for Trump can't think for themselves and are puppets controlled by their husbands.

They'll do this to ignore what those women actually think, and claim those voters don't have the ability to make their own decisions - and thus [that they] have no moral authority:



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They will continue to engage in disgusting smears against black people who are not Woke enough. Here, Joy Reid calls Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas "Uncle Clarence." She is hinting at the term "Uncle Tom," a racial epithet used to refer to a self-hating black person:


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So this is NOT over. The Woke have burrowed deep into our institutions, and if you think they are going to let them go without a fight, you are mistaken. What is FAR more likely is that they will, under the guise of "sensitivitg training," try to make institutions MORE Woke.

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And if Biden repeals the executive order against Crtitcal Race Theory, they will sweep in dressed as "diversity training" and IMMEDIATLY begin to quickly and quietly spread Wokeness throughout the government, and turn government agencies into Woke-spreading institutions.

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The Republicans have rejected Wokeness.

Many Democrats voted against Wokeness ([they] voted Biden, the least woke candidate!!!).

Everyone hates Wokeness, but it is in the institutions and it will not stop.

So get ready for what's coming because ...

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In the same way the devil comes dressed as an angel of light and fascism comes wrapped in a flag carrying a cross; Wokeness comes wrapped in compassion and empathy while preaching Social Justice.

So get ready, be on your toes and do your prep work because ...

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To quote the now-cancelled Winston Churchill: "This is not the beginning of the end, it is the end of the beginning."

Now the real fight starts.

Let's go.

/fin
 
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This, right here, is going to cause a MAJOR problem in the near-term future.
 
Occam's Banana said:
@wokal_distance on "2020 is just the 'end of the beginning' for Wokeness"
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Further on which, from Colin Wright (@SwipeWright), managing editor @Quillette:


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I don't understand the claim that this election will cause introspection among the woke regarding their ideology. They're incapable of viewing problems from a POV outside their ideological framework. In their minds all outcomes are are perfectly consonant with their ideology.

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Their ideology has never aligned with reality, and that has never stopped them from doubling and tripling down. It is beyond falsification *by design*. It is not a correspondence theory of truth. It only pretends to be one when some bit of data happens to lean in its favor.

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It is fundamentally about power, not truth. It doesn't matter one bit whether *we* view certain outcomes as falsifying woke narratives. We can only hope that those who haven't already succumbed to the ideology will be inoculated against it.

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Just look at all the mental contortions prominent woke ideologues are engaging in, redefining Latinos and Cubans as white, etc., just to maintain the narrative.

https://twitter.com/EPoe187/status/1324182074971009027


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https://twitter.com/kmele/status/1323837496975888385
 
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1328004055088701441


2+2=5 Critical Theory : This is What CRT Scholars Actually Believe (12 November 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl3p3M67MkQ

In September 2020, President Trump banned Critical Race Theory (CRT) from government agencies, coinciding with a social media push for 2+2 to equal 5. Joe Biden claims he will rescind Trump's executive order. But, just what is CRT and what do CRT scholars actually believe, in their own words, in their own studies? This final installment examines CRT research and the influence of the family on math education.
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Here are the two previous installments:

2+2=5 Critical Theory : The Crisis of Common Core (28 September 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ugAdXotqnU

Trump has banned critical theory from government institutions. What are the effects of government education programs on students both within schools and outside education? Let's examine the impact of U.S. government programs on education.
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2+2=5 Critical Theory : Math Anxiety and Stereotype Threat (16 October 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3BizbQrVSs

Recently, teachers, the Smithsonian, and scholars have argued that 2+2 equaling 4 is offensive. Let's examine the effects of government programs on education and the effects of student math anxiety and stereotype threat; the idea that students conform to common beliefs about their gender or ethnicity, creating self-fulfilling prophecies, on education.
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The Cure for Critical Theory is Liberalism



Critical theory and postmodern thought are quickly taking over our schools, workplaces, and governments. With the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, we can expect to see even more of these policies integrated into our government. Why does this matter? It matters because this way of thinking has the power to undo the tremendous progress that we have already made as a society. So this Thanksgiving, let’s reject these toxic ideas of critical theory. Let’s instead be grateful for the ideas of liberalism—of individual liberty, equality of opportunity, free and open inquiry, and free speech and debate. Sam Martin, creative director at Free the People, breaks it all down in the latest episode of The Cult of Wokeness.
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Manufactured Associations

Its much like hearing the term over and over again "Gun Violence" so you hear one word and the immediate association is with the other word. You hear Gun and think Violence. You hear Violence and think Gun. Its a Mnemonic. Red Apple. You hear Red and think Apple, and when you hear Apple you think Red unless a "Modifier" is present. Green Apple shows the modifier is Green so it breaks the memory association that Apples are Red. The term "Gun Violence" is the same way, but its artificial, propaganda, public relations, and thus Brainwashing.

Key to brainwashing is to get the Public to adopt the tactics and enact them without knowing they are brainwashing others.
 
James Lindsay - In The Race - "YOUR WELCOME" with Michael Malice #148
American mathematician, cultural critic, and founder of New Discourses, James Lindsay joins Michael this week for a discussion on critical race theory and its warning signs, the theory's parallels to Soviet logic, which philosophers were merely rationalizing their own pathologies, how language is often used as code to communicate with like-minded people in plain sight, how growing up multilingual can negate semantic quagmires, implicit bias test and the invalidity of their metrics, how ethnicities are often clumped together for the convenience of forming political coalitions, how to expose contradictions with Socratic thinking, why getting Chesa Boudin out of office is a must for San Francisco, the validity of cordyceps memes and the parasitic path of wokeism, corporate America's impressive implementation of Maoism, and so much more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxYqqhNdP2s
 
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1387804697793290246


Critical Race Theory: A Two-page Overview
https://newdiscourses.com/2021/04/critical-race-theory-two-page-overview/
James Lindsay (29 April 2021)

“Unlike traditional approaches to civil rights, which favor incrementalism and step-by-step progress, critical race theory calls into question the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and the neutral principles of constitutional law.”
From Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, first edition (2001), by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, p. 3.​

“Crits [Critical Race Theorists] are highly suspicious of another liberal mainstay, namely, rights.”
From Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, first edition (2001), by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, p. 23.​

Critical Race Theorists describe Critical Race Theory as a movement (which is strange for a theory of society) designed to reinvent the relationships between race, racism, and power in society. To do this, they begin with the assumption that race is socially constructed and racism is systemic. This means that they view racial categories as social and political fictions that have been imposed by white people on people of color, especially blacks, and that the “system” upon which all of society operates on every level unjustly produces “racist” outcomes that favor whites (and minority races that adhere to “whiteness”) at the expense of people of color, especially Latinos and, even more especially, blacks. Because racism is a property of the system, which includes everything from policy to behavioral norms to manners of speech to what we consider true, racism persists even if no individual or institution acts in a racist way or holds any racist beliefs. It is the way society operates that is racist, as can be determined by the fact that there are statistical differences in average outcomes by racial category.

Critical Race Theory proceeds upon a number of dubious assumptions and by means of a variety of questionable methods, including:

  • Racism is ordinary: Critical Race Theory holds that “racism is the ordinary state of affairs in society,” thus the question in Critical Race Theory is not “did racism take place?” but “how did racism manifest in this situation?” Thus, racism is relevant to all interactions and everything else that happens according to Critical Race Theory, and it is everyone’s duty to investigate, expose, and “disrupt” this racism once identified.
  • Immanence of racism: As a corollary to the above, racism is believed to be immanent in society, which means hidden just below the surface and everywhere, always, according to Critical Race Theory. Therefore, all acts of racism are not to be understood as isolated incidents by individuals or institutions but as specific manifestations of a pervasive system that defines society. (This is why justice is not achieved by finding a police officer guilty; the system must be remade instead.)
  • Interest convergence: Critical Race Theory holds that dominant racial groups (whites) will not help more oppressed racial groups (blacks, in particular) unless it is also in their own self-interest to do so. Therefore, racism does not go away but is just reproduced in new ways, usually ways that hide it more successfully and require more work to identify in the future (through Critical Race Theory). Therefore, racism doesn’t get better and, in a sense, gets worse over time because it gets harder to identify and call out.
  • Motivated ignorance: Dominant racial groups (whites) are positioned as benefiting from the system of racism Critical Race Theory assumes pervades everything and therefore have little to no motivation to challenge or change it. Instead, they have motivation to intentionally ignore racism (“willful ignorance”) , to maintain it, and to rationalize it as justified (say, by claiming success is the result of merit). Refusal to “interrogate” one’s own “white complicity” in the racist system is often treated as a character flaw (e.g., “white fragility”) and a feature of white privilege. This trait, together with the above, gives racism a permanence, according to Critical Race Theory.
  • Structural determinism: Critical Race Theory holds that the systems of oppression in society determine one’s outcomes in life. Therefore, people of color (especially blacks) are positioned by the allegedly white supremacist system to be kept down, and it is the deterministic power of those power structures (rather than individual traits like character or merit) that determine success or failure in life.
  • Authentic racial experiences (engaging positionality): Critical Race Theory holds that systemic racism creates identifiable racial experiences for members of all racial groups. Further, Critical Race Theory is the only social theory in existence that properly understands how one’s racial social position with respect to these power dynamics can be rightly understood. Therefore, members of each racial category have an authentic racial experience as determined by Critical Race Theory that describes their lived experience within an allegedly white supremacist and systemically racist system that is, especially, “anti-Black.” When these perspectives are put forth by a member of the relevant racial category, they cannot be questioned. When a contradictory perspective is put forth by a member of the relevant racial category, that person is said to have some form of false consciousness, such as “internalized racism” or a cynical desire to “act white” for personal gain.
  • Unique voice of color: Corollary to the above, Critical Race Theory holds that critically conscious (Woke / Critical Race Theorist) members of minority racial groups possess a unique voice of color that speaks to the lived experience of systemic oppression by race, as Critical Race Theory defines it. This is another tool for asserting that Critical Race Theorists cannot be doubted in their declarations of their experience “as a” member of a particular race.
  • Identity politics: Critical Race Theory is unabashedly involved in identity politics in the sense of creating special interest groups and political coalitions out of racial identity groups. This tends to take the form of a small number of Critical Race Theory activists speaking for certain racial “communities,” using the points above as justification.
  • Impact over intent: Critical Race Theory holds that if a (critically conscious) member of a minoritized racial group has experienced racism in some word or deed, then that’s the correct explanation for what happened, and it cannot be questioned. This empowers hypersensitivity and a victimhood-seeking frame.
  • Anti-liberalism: As can be read in the quotes at the top of the page, Critical Race Theory holds that the philosophy of liberalism is, in fact, a racist system because it creates conditions under which existing inequities (inequalities in outcomes) increase while misleading people to believe that things are more fair than they are.
  • Narrative and counterstorytelling: Critical Race Theory favors the telling of stories, especially stories that challenge prevailing wisdom or reject established knowledge (usually resting in lived experience and/or statistical exceptions and outliers) as a means of challenging and rejecting facts in favor of politically useful statements and beliefs. Narrative is considered superior to careful, rigorous methodologies, which are believed to have been established from within the “white racial frame,” for example, and that therefore uphold white supremacy, either intentionally or unintentionally.
  • Revisionist history: Critical Race Theorists believe it is their obligation to rewrite history to tell it from the perspective of Critical Race Theory (even if factually inaccurate—because of the reliance on narratives and counterstories) rather than fact-based or official history, which is deemed to have been written from within the “white racial frame,” which is believed to uphold systemic racism and white supremacy. This is the role of the 1619 Project.
  • Intersectionality: All forms of oppression by all forms of identity are linked into one broad, pervasive “Matrix of Domination,” thus necessitating solidarity across all forms of oppression.
 
Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 16

If you want to understand the present moment, especially how similar Wokeness seems to Mao's Cultural Revolution, you have to understand the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci wrote a series of essays and books while imprisoned by the Italian fascists in the 1920s and 1930s that are referred to as his Prison Notebooks. These are the birthplace of Cultural Marxism, which James Lindsay argues has evolved into "Identity Marxism" since. Once you understand Gramsci, you can easily understand what is going on with our society at present and understand more clearly than ever why it must be resisted.

Though he didn't coin the term, the idea fellow communist Rudi Dutschke would name "the long march through the institutions" in 1967 is ultimately Gramsci's roadmap to getting communism to take hold in the West. Gramsci identifies that the "cultural hegemony" of Western cultures prevented communism from having any chance of taking root, so he recommended a strategy that seeks to tear apart and capture major cultural institutions, including religion, family, education, media, and law. Mao understood this clearly and used it to devastating effect. The same thing is happening throughout the West today. Join James Lindsay as he explains the thought and relevance of Antonio Gramsci in today's Woke movement, which he aptly brands "Leninism 4.0."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdsSIWh_VkQ
 
 
Cross-posting @Mach's OP for greater exposure.

These are long articles, but very much worth reading.

See Mach's original thread here: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...e-s-Getting-Major-Injections-of-Woke-Ideology

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Medicine's Getting Major Injections of Woke Ideology

They are attacking everything, inside and out.

Part 1

Medicine's Getting Major Injections of Woke Ideology

https://www.realclearinvestigations...ll_likely_affect_your_health_care_789077.html

Part 2

As Race 'Equity' Advances in Health Care, Signs of a Chilling Effect on Dissent

https://www.realclearinvestigations...s_of_a_chilling_effect_on_dissent_789529.html
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FTA (bold emphasis added): https://www.realclearinvestigations...ll_likely_affect_your_health_care_789077.html
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Rare is the doctor who is willing to publicly question claims of white privilege and implicit bias in the healthcare system, and already several doctors who have publicly pushed back have been demoted and have filed legal actions alleging retaliation. This year the medical profession received an unequivocal message when two editors of the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association resigned under pressure over a podcast that aired opinions expressing skepticism that the United States is plagued by systemic racism.

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The movement is just beginning reshape the practice of medicine, but a primary assumption is that white doctors and institutions are pervaded with unconscious bias, and that black doctors, who are significantly underrepresented in the profession, would provide better care to black patients. But because black students typically get lower scores and lower grades, increasing the ranks of African American and other minority practitioners would likely require moving away from a reliance on conventional measures of academic qualification, such as undergraduate grades and standardized test scores.

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Efforts to improve health outcomes for black patients are advancing on many fronts. They include a Boston hospital pilot project to offer preferential admissions to non-white patients for heart care; prioritizing non-whites for COVID-19 vaccinations; and the changing of a United States Medical Licensing Examination test from a graded score to pass/fail to help minority students succeed.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is adding a diversity requirement for accrediting U.S. residency and fellowship programs for newly minted doctors; and Northwestern University and its Feinberg School of Medicine are seeking to improve diversity by eliminating a six-decade-old Honors Program in Medical Education.

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“The fundamental problem with social justice in public health is that there are no limiting principles to it,” American Enterprise Institute senior fellow and author Sally Satel wrote in the journal Liberties this year.

“Differences of any kind — in income, education, school performance, and, of course, health — are manifestations of racism and racism alone,” Satel wrote. “The practice of ‘equity,’ the enactment of critical race theory, permits, if not endorses, unequal treatment of the dominant group in order to arrive at equal group outcomes, even if it is to the detriment of ailing individuals.”

Satel is among those who doubt equity is attainable, given the complex underlying factors that shape human health. But some medical ethics experts are pushing in the other direction and going so far as to argue that equalizing group outcomes between blacks and whites may necessitate tolerating a greater loss of life. [i.e., more white people should die in order to "even the score" so that "equity" can be achieved - OB]
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Much more (and more details) at original articles - see Mach's post for links.
 
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I watched a video the other day about a hospital patient, 50yo white male, being intentionally left to die of pneumonia by hospital staff.

This content of the post directly above this one does look like a clear and present danger. Stay out of hospitals. I don't want to connect dots that shouldnt be connected but seems to me that its mostly older folks, but particularly white, who have accepted the most shots and will likely end up in hospitals from ADE reactions. If this "critical race theory" stuff has been imported into hospitals, as it seems it is, we can figure out what the end result of such hospital visits for care will result in.

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“Differences of any kind — in income, education, school performance, and, of course, health — are manifestations of racism and racism alone,” Satel wrote. “The practice of ‘equity,’ the enactment of critical race theory, permits, if not endorses, unequal treatment of the dominant group in order to arrive at equal group outcomes, even if it is to the detriment of ailing individuals.”
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Occam's Banana said:
Cross-posting @Mach's OP for greater exposure.

These are long articles, but very much worth reading.

See Mach's original thread here: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...e-s-Getting-Major-Injections-of-Woke-Ideology



FTA (bold emphasis added): https://www.realclearinvestigations..._likely_affect_your_health_care_78907 7.html


Much more (and more details) at original articles - see Mach's post for links.
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Thank you very much, I was looking around for a proper place to share those links, but nothing jumped out at me, it was late.

It is unbelievable how quickly they are taking things over, the only hope we seem to have now is the next election.

I'll throw this repeat-video in while I'm here, it is good, that guy in at the end, Gonzalez, in an encyclopedia of truth.

 
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