Awkward Ascent Podcast

[Rav Arora @Ravarora1]

Calling on the next U.S President:

An urgent plea to reform psychedelic policy. The U.S is in a mental health crisis with millions suffering from depression, PTSD, and addiction. Those ppl deserve gold-standard treatment.

From @Drug_Researcher and I:

https://t.co/VTomy040u6

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

The world took a giant leap forward into totalitarianism yesterday as the Brazilian government blocked X, formerly Twitter, and threatened to fine its citizens $8,900 per day if they use it.

Brazil, the world's sixth largest nation by population, now joins North Korea, China, and Iran in the list of countries that have banned X. It is the 12th largest economy in the world and the superpower of the global South.

It doesn’t matter whether or not you care about Brazil. Its totalitarianism is at risk of spreading around the world.

Yet neither President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, nor anyone else in the US government has formally denounced the censorship. That’s probably because Biden, Harris, and Democrats not only support the censorship but have also been directly funding it.

Of course, there is authentic demand for censorship from within Brazil, and it is ultimately up to the Brazilian people to reverse the nation’s descent into totalitarianism. Brazil’s powerful government-funded news media corporations have been urging censorship, which benefits President Lula’s ruling Workers’ Party. It’s up to Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco to impeach the Supreme Court Justice turned dictator, Alexandre de Moraes.

At the same time, the Biden administration and Democrats have played an influential role in instigating censorship in Brazil. The FBI went to Brazil and gave its Supreme Court justices advice on how to censor its population. The US government has been funding many of the NGOs in Brazil that have demanded censorship since the election of a populist president there in 2018. And when I testified before Congress in May of this year, the Democrats on the committee and their witness defended Brazil’s censorship.

And Pacheco yesterday affirmed his support for Moraes.

After the election of populist president Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, the US government funded pro-censorship organizations that demanded censorship. Moraes yesterday openly defended censorship to prevent “extremist populist groups” from coming to power. As United States Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr noted yesterday, that’s a direct violation of the Brazilian constitution, which explicitly protects political speech.

As such, the totalitarian takeover of Brazil is a model for what the Democrats and the legacy news media want for the whole world. Pro-censorship scholars at Stanford and Harvard, Democrats in Congress, and the US news media have long recognized that the First Amendment is an obstacle to their plans. And so they have supported censorship efforts by nations with weaker free speech protections, like Brazil, Britain, Australia, and the European Union, to censor and even block X.

It’s important that we fight back. We need to show our support for free speech. I urge my Brazilian friends to stay on the platform. Everyone knows that it would be extremely difficult for Moraes to enforce his insane decree, much less fairly and equally. Proof of this comes from the fact that the Brazilian government and the ruling Workers’ Party are still using X, which means they are also using VPNs to evade their own ban.

Brazil is thus not just a dictatorship but a lawless one. Its leaders are behaving like the hypocritical pig leaders in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.

And independent Brazilian politicians including Senator Eduardo Girão, Congressman Marcel Van Hattam, and Vice Governor of Minas Gerais, Mateus Simões are all resisting the ban and posting on X. “I never imagined myself practicing and propagating civil disobedience,” said Simões, “but censorship cannot be tolerated, ever.”

If you’re not already a premium subscriber to X, please consider becoming one. If you can do more, please consider subscribing to Public. And if you can do even more than that, please make a tax-deductible donation to the free speech movement here:

https://t.co/iaiEtv1t3H

Biden and Harris and other political leaders must denounce what is happening. It’s incredible that the only US government official to criticize Brazil’s dictators is the FCC’s Brendan Carr. Congress must hold hearings. People around the world should recognize Brazil’s banning of X as an attack on free speech everywhere. Everyone is at greater risk of totalitarianism when major countries like Brazil succumb to it.

The good news is that the whole world is watching and many in the legacy news media in Brazil are denouncing the government’s ban on X. It’s not too late to turn things around. The world took a giant leap toward dystopia yesterday. But a worldwide free speech movement can pull Brazil back. It’s time to make 1984 and Animal Farm fiction again.

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

Yessssssss 🔥

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

🚨Whenever the Stones stop, remember: You will never see another band like this again. A 60 year stadium band that never mailed it in. Ever.
This wasn’t a concert, it was a cultural experience.

[CNDPoli🇨🇦👀 @cndpolitics]

@ABDanielleSmith "If you abolish the government, who's gonna build the roads!?"

Well now we have a government who don't even want to build the damn roads😂

One thing I love about the current Liberal government is their ability to make great arguments for libertarianism/anarchy

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

Can’t even talk about wokism on FB without getting punished. Shocking.

[BITCOINLFG® @bitcoinlfgo]

REMINDER 🚨

DON'T SELL YOUR #BITCOIN TO BLACK ROCK. 👀

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

Do you support Mel Gibson exposing the pedophile elite?

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

@BCGovFireInfo Strange how all of the fires this year are visible from surrounding town centres & easily photographed & shareable on social media…what a coincidence.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

The media praised Cuties but criticizes the Sound Of Freedom. That should tell you everything you need to know.

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

@Crunchyhigh @NachoTrust @JustinTrudeau @BillBlair @AnitaAnandMP @PattyHajdu

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

I have to admit I didn’t know much about him since I dont watch MSM, but the man has integrity, which is probably why he was fired. I can get on board with this 🙏🏼

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Good evening

[Psychedelic Medicine Association @Psychedelic_Med]

Big #psychedelicnews coming out of Australia last month: psychedelic medicines #psilocybin and #MDMA have been reclassified and may be prescribed by authorized #psychiatrists starting July 1 of this year. https://t.co/qRwD0S4hju

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

Explained perfectly & simply.

[Crypto Casey @cryptocasey]

Central Banks in a Nutshell 🌰 Perpetual Profit Machines 🖨️💵 (Federal Reserve Created in SECRET!)

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

All because they’re trying to justify #censorship no doubt. Claiming it’s a threat to our democracy to allow people to say what they want 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

I never watch tv but while in the ER waiting room I’m listening to #thesocialtv flat out lie about why people are tweeting negatively toward political candidates & of course blaming racism. It’s about shitty leaders that are destroying our countries & following orders from WEF.

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

New Ep is out! All about Ai with @StephenLecky #ai #AIArtwork #AIart #TheFutureIsNow #TheFutureOfInternet
Excuse the artwork pixilation 😝
https://t.co/8cAtDvKxDx

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

I’m just watching #BlackSummer & honestly I don’t find it scary, I find it educational. 😅 #TheFutureAwaits

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

Funny & terrifying.

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

ChatGTP was asked to explain the end of the petrodollar and the US dollar as a reserve currency to a 5 year old child. It may assist you 🤣

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

The holidays aren’t complete without a Bridgy binge fest.

#HappyHolidays #bridgetjones

[Awkward Ascent Podcast @ChristyPritchy]

@descript @OpenAI I've been trying to contact someone for a week regarding a bug in the new version. It is not allowing to export in portrait mode, even though it says it's in portrait mode. Please help, thank you.