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Comment · 5 years ago
If that's what you really think, I guess it's an indication of how well the story was suppressed. Does the part where Hunter explained that the long-standing arrangement was for Joe to get half of the loot ring a bell?
Comment · 5 years ago
Seems like it. I think I'm shadowbanned.

@dang Is that so? Why?

Comment · 5 years ago
Are you under the impression that there isn't a conspiracy related to the virus?

Did Klaus Schwab say "The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world"? Did the WEF say "To build back better, we must reinvent capitalism"? Did Justin Trudeau say "this pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset"? Did he repeat the words "build back better" and express support for such an effort? Did Biden and Harris say anything about that? Did Greta Thunberg? Did Cuomo? Did Pelosi? Did both Clintons? Elizabeth Warren? What about Johnson in the UK, did he ever express support for "building back better"? Jacinda Ardern?

The answer, of course, is that they all did, and far more rich influential bigwigs besides those. Do you suppose that they all simultaneously arrived at that wording independently?

Maybe you'd prefer it if we called it a "complex" theory? As in, the government wants more powers, the media wants endless crises to report on, the pharmaceutical companies want guaranteed income and protection from liability, leftists want to make sweeping changes to society and the economy according to their ideas about how the world really "ought" to work, etc.

Comment · 5 years ago
Well, the situation varies from place to place. What you're suggesting is definitely true to some extent. But other factors predominate sometimes, like a relentless taxpayer-funded fear campaign supported eagerly by the press, which loves to be able to report anything alarming. Some businesses are being put under by curfews, limits on what they can sell, expensive new requirements, and other forms of interference.

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