Why Progressives are Leaving Twitter (X)
This Tweet sums it up:
A reminder that folks who are leaving Twitter are doing so not because they were not permitted to express their opinion, but because you *are* permitted to express yours.
This Tweet sums it up:
A reminder that folks who are leaving Twitter are doing so not because they were not permitted to express their opinion, but because you *are* permitted to express yours.
Jillian Michaels, who has gone from ‘having vaxxed the shit out of my children’ to exposing the lack of testing of the Hep B shot to Piers Morgan:
[RFK, Jr. insists on using the] gold standard research when it comes to vaccines and drugs, but particularly vaccines, because the research on those is not up to par. And I'm going to give you a perfect example. He wants randomized human randomized control trials. So if you look at hepatitis B, which is one of the most controversial vaccines for kids, because it's specifically for people who have risky sex and use needles, and you can test the mother to find out if she's negative before you vaccinate the newborn. So why does a child even need this?Well, ironically, after the drug companies were given blanket immunity in 1986 they added 48 more doses of vaccinations to the schedule. But let's look at hep B. What are the clinical trials that it goes through? I think your mind is going to be blown, and I encourage everybody to look this up. It's on the FDA website. They tested 147 kids in three trials, and they monitor them for five days. Does that seem
up to par? I don't think so. And then the second thing, and by the way, I can give you a million other examples, just like this one.
And the third thing is, he was tasked with dramatically improving the health of Americans. And in case everybody's missed it, we're on healthier than ever. 74% of adults are overweight or obese. We heard the diatribe all run through it one more time. We're more infertile than ever. Infertility rates are going up 1% every year. Autism, one in 34 kids. It was like one in 10,000 when I was a child. I mean, we could go on and on and on. Does rock bottom have a basement? I don't think so. There's a loophole in the FDA that lets 10,000 chemicals into our food, 9000 of which are banned in every other country of the developing world. I mean, my God, really, I think what you're seeing here is the absolute panic of big food, big farming, Big Pharma and big insurance, and for good reason, because it's absolutely corrupt. And I, for one, am so excited about this and I will do everything to help get this guy confirmed.
We should be questioning everybody, including our tribes and our selves and then make our choices based solely on the best evidence, especially for things we are "sure" of. That is our duty as citizens. We need to dramatically remake our intensely propagandized world. Rich/powerful people are often the puppeteers of "experts" and corporate media for their own benefit, not ours. When we disagree with others, our first question should be "Where are you getting your information?" That explains differences of opinion most of the time. Consider also Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
We live in a democracy. We don't have a priesthood here. We don't have high priests who are telling us, we're in charge of our own lives, and Americans need to do their own research. And, you know, listen, people say trust the experts. That became a mantra during COVID. I brought over 500 cases. and almost all of them involved in scientific controversy.My job is to read science, to learn it, and to be able to read it critically. In every case I've ever brought, there's an expert on that side and an expert on this side. When I brought them, when we brought them on Santo case, there were three experts from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale, and we had three experts from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale, and they were saying exactly the opposite thing.
Oh, you know, saying trust the experts to me. Makes no sense at all. Trusting the experts is a function of religion and totalitarianism, it is not a function of democracy. In democracy, we question everybody.
Clearly a false flag operation by the feds to attempt to put Trump in a bad light. Check the comments here for more . . .
Wikipedia: "A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party. The term "false flag" originated in the 16th century as an expression meaning an intentional misrepresentation of someone's allegiance.[1][2] The term was originally used to describe a ruse in naval warfare whereby a vessel flew the flag of a neutral or enemy country in order to hide its true identity.
Entertaining conversation illustrating this quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “[T]he test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." As Bill Maher argues, McDonalds tastes good even though it it not healthy food. BOTH of these things are true. Same thing for ice cream and many other foods. Most important these days, we can love other people even though we disagree strongly with some of their beliefs and opinions. Really.
But in modern times, many people are not admitting to things they know to be true because it is not approved by their respective tribes. We need to stop allowing emotions and social pressure to prevent us from saying things we know to be true. Only then will we be able to have meaningful conversations with each other.
As I've written repeatedly, embracing membership in a tribe reduces one's IQ by 50 points.
Additional note: I think Casey Means is courageous and brilliant. I highly recommend her new book, Good Energy.