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Trump, Twitter, and Totalitarianism

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thomas buckley
Mar 19, 2023
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Ah, the Twitter Files…the gift that keeps on infuriating.

The nineteenth installment in the saga came out last week, showing incontrovertibly a clear and direct effort by various government agencies and the non-profits they fund to not only suppress opinions but also facts.

If those facts happened to show the maelstrom against COVID in a less than perfect way.

Shot side-effects?  Can’t let the public see that or they might be less likely to get the shot - https://reason.com/2023/03/17/researchers-pressured-twitter-to-treat-covid-19-facts-as-misinformation/ .

The internet scrubbing even targeted the idea of natural immunity, a concept that, when it comes to viruses, has never ever ever been challenged before.

If you’ve had COVID you are rather quite likely to have created the antibodies that will stave off another infection?  Can’t let the public see that or they might be less likely to get the shot.

Worried you may have trouble convincing people to get the shot?  Here’s a handy happy word list for your propaganda effort, created by the American Public Health Association –

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