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Thanks for not shying away from Rumble as a "right wing platform". True, it leans conservative for now, but any emerging platform will lean one way or another. Free speech is free speech, and platforms that celebrate that should be rewarded with more and varying speech.

Rumble grew two sizes with this news today, along with Tulsi's announcement.

I am freaking thrilled. Now go get Tiabbi, and on to Scott Horton, Bill Maher, Jimmy Dore, to name a few.

Im a conservative and welcome honest liberal voices who welcome open debate.

This is America. Thumbs way tf up!

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The so called liberal media has become very authoritarian on just about everything. They provide little room for discourse, and this really took hold during the Trump years when many left wing sites lost all sense of objectivity and took up the cause of the democrats. I no longer trust them at all, and never bother to to go to those so called left wing sites. They make a big pretense out of being liberal, but they are not. Dogmatic and controlling is more like it. Jimmy Dore has his own show which is his form of rumble.

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I love Jimmy Dore show !

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I like it too! This may be shocking to certain people around here. His phone calls are great!

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best part of his show!

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BRUTAL FRANK’S BAR & GRILL

On the outpost between ‘civil society’ where political correctness reins despotic, and a neo-anarchist state of the free mind. To quote Jim Morrison, “out here on the perimeter we are stoned immaculate.”

Here there is no interest in “transhumanism” – just in the idea of remaining human, remaining sane, and retaining individuality. Here it is understood that we control our own emotions; that to be insulted one must allow a cutting remark to have it’s effect. The insult ‘taken’ is how you make your own pain of it.

Here there is no belief in lasting consensus – community is an ever shifting and morphing myth based on false notions of stasis.

Here there is no prophesy, just a continuum of a timeless state of wonder. [1≡∞]

The Prime Question

What does it mean to be well adjusted to a pathological society?

https://thedissedent.page/2021/08/04/brutal-franks-bar-grill/

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BRILLIANT.

And that is one of my all time favorite quotes.

You are correct.

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Thank you Kay. I really appreciate that.

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EXCELLENT POST. YOUR VERY BEST ONE EVER. Krishnamurti: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." I have yet to disagree with anything ever transcribed from him. K did not write books ever.

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I used to listen to talks by Krishnamurti on KPFK in Los Angales when I lived in So Cal. He was an amazing lucid speaker.

I adjusted the terminaolgy, so didn't feel I could put his name to my version.

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O lucky you to have found him when he was alive. One deep regret I have is not going to NYC to see him when I could have. I didn't know he was. there then. Same just happened here when Temple Grandin was in Springfield to speak and I only saw it in the newspaper after she was gone. I think they think she is dangerous. She is too.

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As they say,what does it mean to be sane in an insane world ...

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Nietzsche didnt know either.

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I heard Leary long ago. That night at Princeton in a smallish space he talked about UNSANE. So neither sane nor insane but be unsane. Foucault's Madness and Civilization his first major book makes crystal clear that madness is not a deviation from normality. "Normality becomes defined OUT of madness." About 400 years ago in Europe everyone was walking around together and then came the Great Confinement. Capitalism was replacing Feudalism and the State became aware that an obedient laboring force would be required to produce products. The first assembly line. I have images but it sort of looks like open above horse stalls without doors or walls where people now made things. In the UK it was the Enclosure Act. Capitalism demanded "normal" as laborers and now the population was considered valuable rather than masses of people to keep in order and punish. Anyway read Foucault on this as it is gripping as he traces the genealogy of madness. So those who would not or ever fit into capitalist production were confined and so "madness" became a mental diagnosis to be examined and eventually treated in various ways. Foucault's genealogy of this time points out the inversion now of madness being "not normal" instead of normality being the deviation. (In our present time of insane govt, we see that insane is becoming normalized, and intellectual genius is beyond the fence of toleration these days and is censored in a number of fields.

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"I heard Leary long ago."--Janet

I met Timothy Leary in Terminal Island Federal Prison. We were sitting at a table in the outside lunch and visiing area. The manager of my rock band, Steve Eastwood was serving a three year sentence there for a drug charge (conspiracy to sell amphetamines ( lot of them!)

Vick Morrow, the actor, and John C. Lilly (dolphin guy) were at the table as well. Leary was holding coiurt and telling hilarious stories, and making predictions about the future... and SMILING!!! He was as happy as if he were on a stage in a huge autotorium.

Leary was quite the personality.

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Good post! Not familiar with Foucault, but it has long occurred to me that deviation form the "norm", however that is defined, must either be stigmatized in some form or "medicalized" and "treated", often with drugs. I remember in my overnight shifts in the ER decades ago, when the "crazies" would come in - If I had time I would listen to them and found, not infrequently, that if I could understand their frame of reference, they made sense within that frame - i remember one fellow, that given his sense of humor, the difference between him and Robin Williams was that Williams had an agent - both were troubled souls, but Williams was lauded, this poor guy was out there by himself.

Native Americans, If i understand correctly, often treated what we would call "crazies" as seers, and made a place for them

I have thought that if I were rich, i would be called "eccentric", but not being so I am just "crazy" ...

Have you ever seen Lily Tomlin's "A search for Intelligent Life in the Universe"? I recommend it :)

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Me too!

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I use to watch Jimmy, but got tired of his calling out TYT and Ana all the time. Who watches TYT now anyway? Such a waste of TIME.

But truthfully, I also stopped watching because he bought into the Rona narrative and pushed the jab.

There were several of us who deeply cared for Jimmy and sent him info on the experimental jab and that it was dangerous.

The day he went to get the nab, he MOCKED those of us who begged him not to, as conspiracy theorists and that he didn't want to hear it from us..

I mean isn't that typical shit lib behavior?

And THEN he goes on Rogan and talks about the side effects that still bother him to this day after he got both jabs.

NO acknowledging that many of us were RIGHT, truly cared for him and that this is exactly what we had hoped he would avoid.

I lost just a little respect that day.

Jimmy plays it safe. In my opinion, he is not challenging shit libs on issues that are of critical importance to millions of Americans right now

It will take awhile longer for people to realize that we will NOT vote our way out of this, because our elections are rigged...er, uh "fortified", that a 3rd party that Jimmy promotes, is long past its sell by date and will never be allowed by shit libs and as the jack boot comes down harder on Americans with vax mandates that are killing 10's of 1000's and have injured 600,000 more, MORE Americans will die including CHILDREN (4,000 have Multi system inflammatory syndrome and 2000+MYOCARDITIS from this jab that's also killed 40 children thus far) as this killer jab is approved by the FDA (Its on a EUA right now and clinical trials will not end until 2023!!), within the next month, school aged children, kids who are not at risk for Rona (Common cold) will also be mandated to take the jab

This will only accelerate deaths and injuries in CHILDREN..

Will that be when Americans start opening their eyes?

No, the only way out of this is REVOLT.

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He was wrong about the vaccine, just like Trump was. That does not mean we should shun him or his show. We all make mistakes and the people who decide to get the vaccine voluntarily should not be vilified. Those of us who reject the vaccine should be respectful of their choice and the vaccinated should do likewise. Do not let the ruling elites divide us.

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"No, the only way out of this is REVOLT."--Kay

It is a damned shame, but I think you are right.

Another crying shame is that so many people are falling for the sinister propaganda about the jab...and particulary the insidioua program to shoot little kids up with this poison!

MAD SCIENTIST RULE THE WORLD

Pathological Maniacs Creating Biological Weapons For Culling the Human Herds

Covid 19 and Anthony Fauci Dossier

https://thedissedent.page/2021/08/13/mad-scientist-rule-the-world/

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The proof that someone is a decent comedian is that you see the humor in what they have to say even the underlying point they are making is one you disagree with. It's how you know Jon Stewart is a comedian and Trevor Noah isn't.

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Foucault: "Socialism leads to the GULAG. Capitalism leads to the CAMPS." Find another way.

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Camps were not a byproduct of capitalism but of government control, ala socialism or fascism and communism (both forms of socialism).

Am very interested however in seeing a direct example of capitalism leading to camps.

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Go argue with Foucault. Lots of luck with that.

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"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences."--Carroll Quigley

[TRAGEDY & HOPE]

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Gulas and Camps are Feudalism of a particular barbarian kind

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Indeed.

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They are the corporate media — God willing, soon everyone will call Glenn and his fellow trailblazers for real journalism the “mainstream media”.

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Left wing media which I use to rely on for news lost their sense of objectivity, during the Trump years. I use to read posts and they were not even discussing Trump, but some unrelated issue, and suddenly they would interrupt themselves to scream, so to speak, Trump is a fascist. Reputable, at least at one time, left wing writers just lost it, and they lost me and a whole bunch of people.

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I Hope so, but Coco I doubt it.

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"They are neither new nor liberal." Varoufakis

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I am now a card carrying member of DiEM 25. And Varoufakis is a real economist. He is reaching beyond Europe so I was able to get an account in the US.

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O lucky you. I recently read his #AnotherNow and admired it. Well thought out THIRD alternative to capitalism versus communism. "Markets!"

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...We call it Neo-Liberalism. It's a very distinct variant of liberalism. And, yes, "it is evil."

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Varoufakis says, " It is neither new nor liberal."

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ÜberLiberal descibes it for me. Or Neo-Marxist. The same sinister animal.

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Marx? Dont throw out the baby with the bathwater.

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Marx...a baby? meaning a good thing? What the fuck are you talking about Janet?!?!?

Your admiration of Foucault is baffling enough.

But Marx? That would be a turd in the bathwater.

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Well Suzanne if you liked what I said you will love Varoufakis and everything he says. He takes no prisoners. Obama falls down on his hands and knees after Varoufakis makes fun of him. He is brilliant, sexy, a man that is a REAL feminist and to die for. Married with 2 daughters he writes books for.

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Neoliberalism is an economic term. Here is Encyclopedia Brittanica's short definition of neoliberalism:

"Neoliberalism, ideology and policy model that emphasizes the value of free market competition. Although there is considerable debate as to the defining features of neoliberal thought and practice, it is most commonly associated with laissez-faire economics."

It has nothing to do with political liberalism.

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S'funny... I was listening to the AMA episode of Pitchfork Economics podcast (strongly reccomend it) . On it, they defined 'neo liberalism' just as you did in your comment here. I've been 'awake' re politcs and the whole she-bang only since '15 and yet did not realize until just yesterday that 'neo-liberalism' has NOTHING to do w/ any left leaning political ideology at all. To rebrand laissez faire principles with such a term is deceptive at best and Orwellian at worst.

Language and by extension thought itself is being mutilated.

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How you speak and how you label determines how you think as it determines YOUR reality. Go back to Sapir-Whorf and begin there. Orwell is now just sound-bites.True tho but still cliches people utter meaninglessly

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Like I said, we _call_it_ neo-liberalism...

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Varoufakis:"Neoliberalism is neither new nor liberal.

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Yes, that's just what we call it - rather like neo-conservatism.

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Donald J. Trump

August 12th, 2021

Why are RINOs standing in the way of a full Forensic Audit in Michigan? The voters are demanding it because they have no confidence in their elections after the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election Scam. Michigan’s Republican State Legislators should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this horrible situation to happen. In particular, the incompetent RINO Majority Leader, Mike Shirkey, and Senator Ed McBroom. Maybe McBroom is really a Democrat who could not otherwise get elected in Northern Michigan. Our great Michigan voters will not stand for Republican Senators not to act on the Crime of the Century!

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I can only assume that the chemical cocktail laughingly called a COVID vaccine has turned every white man into a eunuch and the so-called Republicans in Michigan no longer have the balls to stand in the way of the totalitarians and oligarchs that now run society. It will be interesting to see their reaction once American armaments, drones, and missiles destroy the Kabul embassy and make Saigon look like a happy retirement party.

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Hmmm - Covid itself will perhaps accomplish the "eunification" of the populace ...

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Biden was freaking out yesterday, literally begging the Taliban to leave the embassy alone.

**U.S. Asks Taliban to Spare Its Embassy in Coming Fight for Kabul

The demand seeks to stave off an evacuation of the embassy by dangling aid to future Afghan governments — even one that includes the Taliban.**

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/us/politics/taliban-afghanistan-us-embassy.html

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Imagine the coup the Taliban will score when they destroy the American embassy with weapons left behind by the USA. I doubt they will respond positively to Biden's begging.

Most of the mistakes made by the Confederates in the American Civil War had to do with their unwillingness to chase the Union troops when they were routed. I suspect the Taliban has learned from history and I would not want to be one of the spies stationed in the Kabul embassy, today. It is sad to think of all the Afghan translators who trusted the US as an ally.

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This situation happened twice before with Dems theft of 2 primaries from Sanders

People don't know because they don't WANT to know.

So many times in history that if Americans actually stood up against rigged elections, assassinations and the inside job that was 9/11 , our country would be a completely different place today. Worship of sociopathic politicians and putting our heads in the sand with each abusive episode out of any of them..

We've simply put up with too much abuse for too long.

There are 1000's of examples of this

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"Commies are the best when it comes to infiltration"--Rene212

So true...remember I LED THREE LIVES? Did you know that was Lee Harvey Oswald's favorite show when he was a kid? (his brother said so in an interveiw)

Yup!

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LOL!

In Oregon we have had vote by mail for 20 years and just can't seem to get rid of Democrats. Hmmmm

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Depends on the state -- in my state we regularly have Repubs running as Dems.

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Ah yes, letting people be - including the people who manipulate the airwaves to "influence" us to adopt the stuff that makes them the most money and get the most power ..

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That hasn't been my take on on the left. Before it went off the rails they had my support, now they support and adhere to ideas that seem extreme, and during the Trump years shifted their alliance to an anti-Trump stance. They were equally complicit with the democrats in trying to oust Trump from office, and I perceived that as dangerous, scary and very authoritarian. That we now have to rely on alternate news like substack reflects just how authoritarian our country has become.

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Please, this "identity" of the "Left" with Ds and the MSM is a bunch of 'bunkum" ... The Ds and the MSM are corp organs, the left, at least the honest left, IMO, are not ...

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Bunkum? Greenwald talks about his experience with the Intercept, where they refused to let him publish a non-flattering piece on Biden just before the election. Why? They took sides because they wanted a Biden win. That's why he left the Intercept and is on substack. Many on the left wing sites aligned themselves with the democrats out of their hatred of Trump and lost all sense of objectivity. There is a video clip of Risen and Scahill being at odds with Greenwald due to his demanding proof of Russia-gate. I could on, and even reference more egregious non-journalistic positions taken by the so called left when Trump was in office, but I won't. I'm happy that you missed four years of the so called left acting like asses.

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I think you are barking up the wrong tree - I thought Russiagate was BS from the get go - Clinton was a lousy candidate who ran a lousy campaign, but instead of doing any introspection - had to blame her loss on somebody else, and "the Russians" have been a convenient bogeyman for decades - And Trump, who from the very beginning, had intimated that the only way he would lose an election (remember, his biggest insult was always that someone, McCain, because he got captured, folks who died in the wars, was a "loser" and there was no way, that he, DonaldTrump, could ever be a "loser"), was if the game was rigged - Sorry, but they are 2 peas form the same pod ....

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Maybe, just maybe Greenwald left his position at the company he helped found because he understood that they like many MSM outlets was controlled by gov't forces beyond his control. He now does not even reside in America. -- probably for his own safety.

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They didn’t just lose all sense of objectivity, they now take the position that journalists should not even try to be objective. The problem, as proponents of this nonsense like Nikole Hannah Jones will soon find out, is that you cannot wear journalism

as a skin suit while

actually selling something else, as your non-ideological readers will eventually figure out that you are duping them and abandon you. God willing,

Glenn’s efforts will accelerate this.

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SH, I cannot make out what you are trying to say in that blathering bebop yoou just posted.

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I am not surprised ...

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When I talk about the left I'm not really referencing the democratic party, but at one time they were very supportive of the working class and unions, but they made a sharp right with Clinton, but their shift right had already been going on for decades. I did believe Obama would move the party to the left, at least more so then his predecessors. However from the very beginning of his presidency I saw he was a lie.

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It leans conservative because other places have kicked them out. And that's why the "DNC left" media is now trying to cancel them.

Viva Frei & Robert Barnes is an awesome law focussed channel on Rumble. They are also one of the largest creators on Locals and have a good YouTube following.

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Thanks for the referral

I'll check them out

There is also a pathologist from The Mayo clinic on here that does an amazing job at describing the deadly spike protein pathogen jabs too..

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Despite his leftist philosophy, I have always enjoyed Bill Maher.... Not enough to subscribe to HBO, though. And it would be GREAT to see him and Jimmy Dore participating on Rumble. I just hope it becomes a civil discussion spot and not a place where every comment on every posting would be, "Yeah, me too". I just registered and I'm anxious to see Tulsi's comments. Despite her agreeing that reparations for 300-yr-old mistakes must be paid, she is a brave and outspoken voice for freedom.

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Bill Maher has proven himself to be quite perceptive in recent months..especially since the disaster of the Biden regime has unfolded. He certainly shows that he is a champion of free speech. Kudos to Maher!

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Maher has some good points. Dont throw out the baby with the bathwater.

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Reparations can come back to bite them. They will metastasize like cancer cells into victims all over clamoring for monies because............................well you get it now.

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I am a leftist but I have no problem hearing other points of view. I might learn something I didn't know.

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Left as in Eugene Debs? Left as in Rosa Luxemburg? Left as in Chris Hedges? Left as in Daniel Berrigan? Left as in........................start filling in the blanks. My head hurts from being banged on the boundary stone walls these days.

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Janet, Don't bang your. head. There are a lot of resources like Jacobin and Hedges. I have been a socialist since the age of 10 when I saw injustice all around me in school and in my daily life. I was never patriotic but when "under God" was added to the pledge of allegiance I ceased being one for good. My mother married an Alabama racist, my father, and she spoke to me several times about racism and how she didn't understand it. They had divorced and she put in it her will that I should never live with him. After she died in 1961, I got stuck with them anyway. I heard the N word all day long and about MKL's plot to bring communism to the US. From Joe Hill, striking miners and the IWW, about which there is an incredible book about IWW that probably is no longer available. In the '60s I was a member of SDS. My work life has been horrific. best job was a union shop at a continental can factory in Chicago. An elderly leftist co-worker brought me books to take home. You left out Emma Goldman! Today the minimum would be left like Denmark. Lucky you are not an immigrant facing a steel barricade on the southern border. Zenophobes and idiots run the country. I'm moving to Mexico permanently in a few months. Joe Hill "never died" and neither should we!

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Lucky you!-

If I could get out of this Neoliberal hell hole I would do it in a heart beat.

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Mexico and Bolano for you. You will love him.

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Me too..

Why does it seem that liberals and Conservatives switched values or something? Wasn't it the left that was anti war, pro freedom? Anti establishment and now pro establishment.

Maybe it's just me.

Anyway I find myself agreeing more with Conservatives but definitely not on everything. Still I appreciate their willingness to LISTEN where a shit lib just puts up the hand and shakes their head no.

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Yes both sides have inverted to the other. As Nietzsche said, "Choose your enemies wisely for you will become just like them."

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WI is the most socialistic state. And the most fascist.

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Absolutely. Hear, hear!

They need to form a bloc big enough that it just renders the MSM totally useless, a heap of garbage. It can definitely be done. YouTube and others will just be reduced to a worthless mound of mindless cat videos and superficial influencers.

Jimmy Dore, Peterson, Bill Maher, left/right, they should all join in to help create precisely the kind of balanced open debate everyone wants, rather than complaining that an outlet is more right or left. If you are compelling and can entertain people at the same time as you develop thoughtful ideas and meaningful discourse, then you shouldn't really be worried about whether the platform you are one is more left or right. What should matter is that it's a platform where people won't be censored on behalf of an increasingly totalitarian Orwellian state.

That should be the thing that tips the scale, whether you're on the right or left.

They are just beginning to rip off the mask. If people are worried now, well then they're going to be surprised at how much of the "unthinable" suddenly becomes thinkable right before their eyes.

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Great luck negotiating the Rumble sign in! Why do they need my birthdate and address. feels like they plan to send me ads through the mail and call me to see if I want their gadget.

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You didn't have to provide that info ....

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They ask for phone number too.

But I won't pay 25 a MONTH to subscribe.

Way too expensive for me.

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-Said I needed to "verify" and they would send me a verification code - but my phone is a land line, so "texting" it was rather useless - don't know why they couldn't e-mail the code as they did the OK of the initial registration - so I am not "verified" - can't comment there and never got as far as "subscription" fees. I e-mailed them about the problem, but haven't heard ...

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Glenn G said if we were paying members with him here, we would be free there.

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Nice when we canget info to inform us on social media places.

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I used to want to see more stuff on U-tube - but when I tried to create an account - they required all that sort of info, and I said "fuhgeddaboutit"

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I was already a Rumble member...I do not recall any hassles getting my sub. I gave them my email and they verified it was mine and that was it.

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Well, yeah - to register was simple - but to those of us who do not have texting capability (what! who ever heard of such a thing, how primitive!) one, at this point, cannot "verify" it, which verification is needed to comment ...

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Our online friends are sharing that with us. I thank them so much. Now I will register.

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Yeah, they must have changed it, b/c yesterday the same thing Janet & Suzanne describe happened to me. They fail to mention that a lot of their form is optional. As it turns out, I went thru some of the process but when it got to home address, phone etc I bailed and yet still got my registration....

Turns out that the 'join up page' they default to is for Creators not viewers. Bad look.

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When I signed up on Thursday, I noticed Rumble did say that a lot of the form is optional, but perhaps they didn't say it conspicuously enough.

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I honestly didn't see it. I'm not giving them my phone # for verification either. Shit that's enough, y'know?

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Yeah, I know - I gave them a phone number, my land line, which is the only one i use - so when they said they would TEXT me a verification code that I would need to be able to comment - oops ... I e-mailed them about that, but haven't heard - so, frankly, the site is of little use to me if if I can't comment - just like so many others that are non interactive ....

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They may be protecting themselves by asking for info they really dont want nor care to ask for. Who knows?

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Things change very fast these days under totalitarian rule

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Agree. You can get any info you want if you have someone's birthdate. Fug that.

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Conservatives have changed their tunes a great deal over Trump. That wonderful Noom is it of South Dakota. Now I would vote for her any day.

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Yep, caught Tulsi's comment yesterday. :-)

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Thank you Glenn. I am so grateful for Substack and Rumble. You know, I don't remember voting for Pichai (google & youtube), Dorsey (Twitter), Zuckerberg (fb) or for that matter, Bezos (Wapo, and the man who silenced Parler)....Who are these people to dictate what we can and can't say and/or read? They have betrayed the implicit trust that we placed in them. We should all work hard to support the genuine free speech platforms in every way possible.

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Look at it another way. They ave revealed so much to us. The fact that they are political cowards who are fabulously rich from it. They lack all integrity. Does that mean to get so rich that's what you have to become. And even worse you forgot Gates and Fauci who were and are far far worse. They have given us the signs that capitalism is a failed social/economic system and that our "so called democracy" is simply a MASK concealing the REAL. A SPECTACLE an emperor without any clothes on. Pomp and Circumstance.

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I read recently that Epstein was a contact agent for CIA, and that is one of the reasons he was able to fly under cover for so long before this extreme perversions were finally revealed.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/79783/from-spook-air-to-the-lolita-express-the-genesis-and-evolution-of-the-jeffrey-epsteinbill-clinton.html

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No shit, Wonka. Keep us appraised as to what else you might be reading.

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This is an amazing and urgently-needed initiative. Thank you Glenn for truly igniting a Promethean fire under the asses of the imperial mouth pieces known as the MSM, and their oligarchical overlords.

Hopefully many more will join you such that you can build a block that causes the MSM to crumble, as if before our eyes.

The modern Gods of Olympus think they are infallible. They believe humanity is just a bunch of blank slates incapable of making any genuine creative leap or axiomatic change. Their misanthropic and Malthusian view prevents them from really seeing it any other way. We are just blank slates; no ideas which they do not sanction will ever be able to take off.

If the population is demoralized, it won't fight back. If the perception is that nothing can be done and the fight is over, then people become willing to think (and do) the unthinkable. But if they believe there is still a chance, that the fight is not over, and that it can be won, then those in power have a serious problem on their hands.

As the poet Shelley once wrote in his poem "The Mask of Anarchy":

"Rise like Lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number—

Shake your chains to earth like dew

Which in sleep had fallen on you—

Ye are many—they are few."

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Nice choice from Shelley.

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Nice quotes from Shelley. Thanks for remindiing me.

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David,

I love this article you have written:

Negative Capability: The Genius of Keats and Einstein

“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

– Leonardo Da Vinci

https://davidgosselin.substack.com/p/negative-capability-the-genius-of

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"simultaneity of eternity"....Yes! I ponered this hard and long in my youth, finally coming to a revelation I express thus: [1≡∞] -- One IS Eternity! The single moment of the eternal NOW.

Certainly not as elegant as a poem by Yeats. But an internal revelation of thinking that actually led to a spiritual revelation in my mid twenties. Something that attends my spirit constantly.

Of course it is right now.

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It will be right now, anytime you choose to read this again.

Now is the moment of power.

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I second your point -- Greenwald is an accurate source of truth -- although I suppose the need to think for ourselves can lead to seeing exceptions to that.

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You and some others are the tip of a new and very sharp spear. Hopefully the manipulative and very dishonest corporate media outlets can be exposed and shamed into just going away. Probably not but over time they might be reduced to the statues of supermarket tabloids and be ignored by all but the most gullible among us. Good Luck. Subscription web sites are the future and the future in NOW.

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That is exactly what they have become. Supermarket Tabloids.

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The mainstream media has ALWAYS been worse than Supermarket Tabloids, which are merely silly stories about three headed babbies or being captured by space aliens.

The mainstream media is POLITICAL STATIST PROPAGANDA -- and has been so since 1948.

See;

Operation Mockingbird

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmockingbird.htm

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Every article Glenn, Taibbi, etc. write opens new eyes and drains eyeballs from the corporate media. Keep hammering away and one day the corporate media will either get back to real journalism (assuming that’s what they were doing before, which I now am somewhat doubtful of) or die from lack of viewers/readers.

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Not Me5,

The fact of the matter is that the mainstream media has been nothing but a propaganda organ for the national security state since 1948.

See:

Operation Mockingbird

In 1948 Frank Wisner was appointed director of the Office of Special Projects. Soon afterwards it was renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). This became the espionage and counter-intelligence branch of the Central Intelligence Agency. Wisner was told to create an organization that concentrated on "propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world."

Later that year Wisner established Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic American media. Wisner recruited Philip Graham (Washington Post) to run the project within the industry. Graham himself recruited others who had worked for military intelligence during the war. This included James Truitt, Russell Wiggins, Phil Geyelin, John Hayes and Alan Barth. Others like Stewart Alsop, Joseph Alsop and James Reston, were recruited from within the Georgetown Set. According to Deborah Davis, the author of Katharine the Great (1979) : "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles."

In 1951 Allen W. Dulles persuaded Cord Meyer to join the CIA. However, there is evidence that he was recruited several years earlier and had been spying on the liberal organizations he had been a member of in the later 1940s. According to Deborah Davis, Meyer became Mockingbird's "principal operative".

One of the most important journalists under the control of Operation Mockingbird was Joseph Alsop, whose articles appeared in over 300 different newspapers. Other journalists willing to promote the views of the CIA included Stewart Alsop (New York Herald Tribune), Ben Bradlee (Newsweek), James Reston (New York Times), C. D. Jackson (Time Magazine), Walter Pincus (Washington Post), Walter Winchell (New York Daily Mirror), Drew Pearson, Walter Lippmann, William Allen White, Edgar Ansel Mowrer (Chicago Daily News), Hal Hendrix (Miami News), Whitelaw Reid (New York Herald Tribune), Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star), William C. Baggs (Miami News), Herb Gold (Miami News) and Charles L. Bartlett (Chattanooga Times). According to Nina Burleigh, the author of A Very Private Woman, (1998) these journalists sometimes wrote articles that were commissioned by Frank Wisner. The CIA also provided them with classified information to help them with their work.

After 1953 the network was overseen by Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. By this time Operation Mockingbird had a major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies. These organizations were run by people such as William Paley (CBS), Henry Luce (Time Magazine and Life Magazine), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times), Helen Rogers Reid (New York Herald Tribune), Dorothy Schiff (New York Post), Alfred Friendly (managing editor of the Washington Post), Barry Bingham (Louisville Courier-Journal) and James S. Copley (Copley News Services).

The Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) was funded by siphoning of funds intended for the Marshall Plan. Some of this money was used to bribe journalists and publishers. Frank Wisner was constantly looked for ways to help convince the public of the dangers of communism. In 1954 Wisner arranged for the funding the Hollywood production of Animal Farm, the animated allegory based on the book written by George Orwell.

According to Alex Constantine (Mockingbird: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA), in the 1950s, "some 3,000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts". Wisner was also able to restrict newspapers from reporting about certain events. For example, the CIA plots to overthrow the governments of Iran and Guatemala.

Henry Luce, the owner of a large media empire, became a key figure in Operation Mockingbird. David Halberstam has pointed out in The Powers That Be (1979): "Luce's politics hardened in the postwar years and Time had become increasingly Republican in its tone. He had been stunned by Truman's defeat of Dewey in 1948. Then in the fall of 1949 China had fallen, the Democratic administration had failed to save Chiang, and that was too much; Truman, and even more Acheson, would have to pay the price. Time was now committed and politicized, an almost totally partisan instrument. The smell of blood was in the air. There was a hunger now in Luce to put a Republican back in power. It was as if Luce, between elections, stood as the leader of the opposition, a kingmaker who had failed to produce a king. The fall of China and the rise of a post-war anti-Communist mood had produced the essential issue to use against the Democrats: softness on Communism."

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Although the architects of Militant Liberty did not limit themselves to cinema other "informational" techniques discussed included letter-writing and leader exchanges - they did attach particular importance to film production, reflecting the common assumption of Cold War western propagandists that the moving image was the most appropriate medium for "Third World" audiences. Among the several Hollywood personalities who volunteered their services for this program were eminent director and former OSS filmmaker John Ford; the cinematic embodiment of the American masculine ideal, actor John Wayne; and world-famous studio boss/director Cecil B. DeMille (who had already agreed to serve as film consultant to the recently created USIA). Along with a few other key studio players, such as Twentieth Century-Fox boss Darryl Zanuck, this group composed what Frances Stonor Saunders has called the "Hollywood consortium," an informal but powerful group of movie artists and moguls who shared the belief that (in the words of foreign market specialist Eric Johnston), "We need to make certain our films are doing a good job for our nation and our industry."

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmockingbird.htm

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Goes all the way back to Thomas Paine. The MEDIA is an IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARATUS FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF THE IDEOLOGY OF THE RULING CLASS. What is the point at critiquing it or fuming at it. It is like being furious at grass growing. It is designed to do exactly what it does and it is super effective at it. Would you get mad at your car for rolling downhill because you forgot to pull the emergency brake on it when you parked it on a hill? And why bother doing a historical analysis of it. Waste of time to spend your time doing andor reading it in terms of CONTENT which is irrelevant as McLuhan tells us.

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Janet,

Have you been doing psychedelics? What does Paine's 'COMMON SENSE' have to do with Statist Propaganda?

This spectaculary stupid use of McCluhan to dismiss content is astonishing and hypocritical as you use your own qwerty to type out the CONTENT of your nonsensical theories.

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Please spell McLuhan's name corectly.

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Why Janet? It is only *content*.

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Glenn, you should really start using archive.is links instead of giving WaPo and others clicks. Plus it helps protect against their "stealth edits".

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I just joined Rumble because of you!

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God bless you Glenn — best wishes for massive success with this project.

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Just subscribed to you on Rumble!

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Best wishes for this endeavor! I look forward to being a part of it!

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Thank you Glenn. Your analysis of deceptive slander by Bezos/CIA newspaper WaPo is outstanding.

Poor AI technology WaPo "journalist", Drew Harwell, there got a massive CIA assistance to concoct "his" article.

In the US there is still left unexplored the huge role of UK in concocting the lies and propaganda, e.g., the Russia-gate hoax, including Scripal and Navalny "poisonings" and US+UK fabrications of OPCW reports on Syria -- fully exposed by top experts at OPCW. Corporate media in both US and UK is FULLY integrated in secret services gigantic apparatus of our War party oligarchs.

Note how, in desperation and sensing the danger, DNC/CIA handlers instructed their "progressive" media servants e.g., TYT's despicable Cenk & Ana to go on maximally unhinged attack on the Gray-zone high-integrity team and, especially, on its truly outstanding and high-integrity journalist Aaron Mate.

Free the publisher of a century and leading free speech advocate, Julian Assange, tortured by the UK and US establishment

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Congrats. Keep up the good work. Eventually, the Washington Post will become the journalistic equivalent of Sears or Westinghouse some other industry leader that went by the wayside.

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Cool, this is so great! I am listening to your first Rumble broadcast right now. Substack plus Rumble is a great combo for those of us who demand free speech.

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Are you being notified of new articles published by Greenwald? I use to get notification by e-mail until the last 2 published articles?

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Yes Fran, I got the email notification this morning. I dunno what to tell you ???

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Thank you. I joined Rumble but will likely never upload anything. I just had my 73d birthday and believe it was my last. I don't have the strength or time to do so. You give me hope.

It leans "conservative"? I no longer know what that means. Conservatives and Liberals are little different in adherence to the principles of Western post-enlightenment liberalism. It's the loud-mouthed fringe on left and right that are illiberal.

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Mark Levin lowered the boom on 19 Republican Senators with this warning

On Sean Hannity’s show, Mark Levin ripped the 19 Republicans who voted for Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion spending bill for supporting tyranny.

The popular talk show host questioned how anyone could read a 2,700 page bill in just a matter of days.

Levin told the audience that “we choose liberty but the 19 Republicans in the Senate chose tyranny. Biden chooses tyranny and every single Democrat lockstep is for tyranny. How many people know what’s in that 2,700 page document that just passed today, with the 19 Republicans?”

Levin referred to these 19 RINOs – led by Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney – as the “Bernie Madoffs” of the Republican Party because they are con artists trying to fool voters into thinking they are fiscal conservatives while supporting Biden’s big-spending agenda, which is driving skyrocketing inflation.

https://patriotpulse.net/mark-levin-lowered-the-boom-on-19-republican-senators-with-this-warning/

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Mitch is now scared about the vote coming up

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You're frightening the legacy media - means you're doing something right. I was 30 years a reporter and editor and daily newspapers medium and major metro. They've been promoting mediocrity for decades, and are now seeing the results. Rather than adapt, they deny and attack.

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I don't see how Rumble is exactly a free speech platform after reading their Terms of Service (https://rumble.com/s/terms), the usual culprits are there:

"Rumble enables creators of Content to submit Content to the Rumble Service in accordance with the Agency Options set forth below. Under no circumstances shall the following be submitted to the Rumble Service:

7. Content or material that is grossly offensive to the online community, including but not limited to, racism, anti-semitism and hatred;

13. Any other Content or material that Rumble in its sole, unfettered, and arbitrary discretion, determines is undesirable on the Rumble Service.

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Everything is relative. Lawyers are going to make every site have broad discretion in who they can ban os they don't get sued, but they've been around for 8 years and the proof is in the pudding. Tons of people who can't get a platform anywhere else - including Trump - are there and free to say what they want while they get censored on almost every other platform.

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Greenwald misleadingly says "Lawyers are going to make every site" put potentially anti-freedom clauses into its terms of service. First of all, lawyers don't compel their clients. But more importantly, legal clauses that are systematically abusive against the consumer aren't inevitable: libertarians and the left and the populist right all realize this. When nobody besides neoliberals likes the status quo that lets corporations set whatever terms they like, an opponent of neoliberalism shouldn't take that landscape for granted.

As many have pointed out, online services have been known to get worse over time, so you can't just appeal to past performance with Greenwald's phrase "the proof is in the pudding"; that feels a bit like rationalization or dodging things, just like when he tries to put the blame on how lawyers are accustomed to working. What Greenwald is omitting is that there are better things that a good online service could do even today. A good online service could take a more moderate approach by supplementing the usual oppressive legalese with a promise not to take certain actions if opposed by a consultation of people from the user base.

The reason why commenters like Tim and others are pressing Greenwald on this is because they sense, reasonably enough, that Greenwald may be more or less the individual who is in the best position to help with it. It seems that, to whatever extent Greenwald shares these concerns, he is choosing not to speak out about them, which I find interesting; he's kind of rationalizing the concerns away when others express them. He says "Everything is relative", and part of what lies behind that not-very-expressive phrase is a lack of power, feeling that even speaking might backfire against him.

There is more power in an organization. I am implying that what might be called the sounding-off approach adopted by Greenwald and the communities around him reduces his power and ours, sometimes even reducing Greenwald's power to speak about terms-of-service problems. The Intercept is one example here; they're better than Greenwald's current corporate alternatives in making their readers confident that they will never commit some of the abuses allowed by corporations' terms of service. I believe, with some hindsight, that the Intercept could be steered in a better direction (thus, the excessiveness of Greenwald's trashing of it). But in general, I don't want Greenwald to rationalize away the issues that perhaps require an organizational approach to deal with.

Still, Greenwald doesn't rationalize all that often. He's right that Substack and Rumble are more or less an okay deal given what's available on the Internet in 2021. Beneath the veneer of rationalization, he and the rest of us want to force change to the neoliberal landscape and not just find a niche in it for sounding off; clearly, this is an organizational matter. As is obvious from the way I've written this post, I continue to learn a lot from Greenwald.

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Thanks for a detailed explanation

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Yes, they've updated their terms of service to include hatred, anti-semitism etc. right at the time of Trump joining Rumble (June 27th):

ToS Before 06/27: https://archive.is/rNQ73

ToS 06/27: https://archive.is/3dbJo

Anyway that may not be the main concern in the light of Canada's recent track record on free speech.

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Canada has become the swamp too. Worse in fact. But newer.

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What is Trump saying these days? Anyone?

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Thus far, he's using it broadcast all his rallies and TV interviews live but my understand is he may start using it for more soon.

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I get updated from Trump.org

He sends messages through an email connection that I get.

And yes Trump's rallies are big...just like in 2020.

I am hoping for a Trump--DeSantis ticket in 2024.

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Trump must not run. He must keep the GOP in his hands and promote those who can stop this mess which I do not thinkcanbe stopped. He must build a counter power and he cannot do that and hold office as well. He must find strong people to get in office at all levels. I do not think this is possible.

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Hard to trust someone that failed Assange and Snowden.

His lack of action was too much

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I disagree Janet. I want Trump back as President ot the United States.

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OK. The governor of South Dakota. Trump has done what I wanted him to do. Now let him build the GOP from a better position and find better people.

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You mention Trump, but I hope that Rumble's role will not be too much about hosting people who built their audience elsewhere. When up-and-coming people get their start on platforms outside the tech monopolies, including but not limited to Rumble, it's worth promoting them.

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Yes, it appears that Rumble claims an unlimited right to censor what they dislike. I will not defend bigotry, but I want to decide for myself which content is bigotry. I would hate to see Rumble crumble into a fake news outlet for the oligarchy, enforcing political correctness, like twitter and farcebook.

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That's their out if they need it.

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Somewhat off topic, an article in Wednesday’s NY POST discussed American Express indoctrinating their employees with CRT. Topics such as white oppression of people of color, white racism, you all know the whole race hustle. They invited that well known race hustler and racial extortionist Khalil Muhammad, great grandson of the founder of The Nation of Islam to teach all the racist whites at Am Ex which, by the way made 2.3billion in profit last quarter, about the racist and exploitative evils of capitalism. To make a long story short, I cancelled my AmEx card which I carried for 30 yrs. running up quiet a tab every month for my business. It’s my way of fighting this mindless indoctrination from woke corporate America. I hope that all you on here who have AmEx will consider doing so. Don’t just cancel. Tell them exactly why.

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This stuff can't be taught. I remember having diversity training on a job.

It more like clumsily trying to change people's minds. For me, an avid anti racist I couldn't stand it.

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Bravo!

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Will do!!

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