All three of these billionaires -- Soros, Hoffman and Omidyar -- fund groups and outlets that aggressively spread disinformation. The idea that *they* are going to use their vast wealth to police the internet in the name of keeping us safe is laughable.
https://t.co/vuBB5Gj4VV
As I wrote yesterday, almost every group that purports to fight "extremism" and "disinformation" online is funded by the same small handful of like-minded liberal billionaires and western security state services:
https://t.co/NyKdZ2nyKD
The idea that liberal billionaires like Soros and Hoffman (and Omidyar) are going to save society by using their limitless wealth to police the internet for what *they regard as* disinformation, extremism and hate speech is one of the creepiest and dystopic things I've heard.
In just 6 weeks, the Covid Pass has transformed my country into a regime of control and segregation.
This is the new society created in Lithuania, the nation furthest along the path to the authoritarianism inevitably facing all countries which impose a Covid Pass regime:
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If you're comfortable with having the Party that controls both houses of Congress & the WH (and thus the entire executive branch) dictating to tech companies who can and can't be heard on the internet, and what views should or shouldn't be permitted, then you are an authoritarian
With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society.
We have no income.Banned from most shopping.Can barely exist.
But we will not accept authoritarianism.
Here's how life looks after one month in Lithuania,under Europe's first strict,society-wide Covid Pass regime:
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The self-flattery of the vision of the left gives its true believers a huge ego stake in that vision which means that mere facts are unlikely to make them reconsider, regardless of what evidence piles up against the vision of the left and regardless of its disastrous consequences
The left's vision is not only a vision of the world, but also a vision of themselves, as superior beings pursuing superior ends. In the United States, however, this vision conflicts with a Constitution that begins, "We the People..."
What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people — like themselves — need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat.
This is my neighbourhood in Calgary, Canada 💪💥
All bars, restaurants etc. now require v@x passes (including for patio seating) so people are starting to bring their own food and eating outside. It’s a start.
We go into debt. They threaten to shut down. They increase the debt. They raise taxes. They go into more debt. They threaten to shut down. We pay more in taxes. They spend more. We re-elect them. Sound familiar?
The best reason to watch the news is to see what they want you to think today & to track the various propaganda campaigns, assessing their levels of intensity & possible future paths. The worst reason is to find out what's happening in the world. For that, you must take a walk
One of the biggest taxes is one that is not even called a tax — inflation. When the government spends money that it creates, it is transferring part of the value of your money to themselves.
My position of “no foreign aid” might sound extreme to some,
but I think it’s extreme to bankrupt our country and put future generations of Americans in hock to our debtors.
If we just print to solve everything:
1) why do we pay tax? Just print it.
2) why shouldn't you lever up if you're a billionaire? Too big to fail no.
3) what is "economic value" if the US Token can change the "amount of value"
Everything is an outright scam.