WATCH: Read A Book – #SolutionsWatch
If you’re like the majority of the population in this post-literate age of TikTok videos and never-ending social media feeds, you don’t read books anymore. But you should. Join James for this simple and to-the-point edition of #SolutionsWatch on the value of physical books.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here andhere.
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/09/watch-read-a-book-solutionswatch/
If you’re like the majority of the population in this post-literate age of TikTok videos and never-ending social media feeds, you don’t read books anymore. But you should. Join James for this simple and to-the-point edition of #SolutionsWatch on the value of physical books.
Sources, shownotes and links – as well as audio versions and download options – can be found here. Previous episodes of #SolutionsWatch can be found here andhere.
Follow us on Telegram for regular updates & commentary...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/09/watch-read-a-book-solutionswatch/
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Forwarded from Edward Slavsquat
GOOD NEWS: The Sudzha pipeline has not been harmed by the ongoing peasant-slaughter in Kursk region, and continues to pump tasty Russian gas to the EU via Ukraine. In fact, pumping has increased 3% since Thursday, according to TASS. Let us pray for a 5% increase today. 🙏🙏🙏
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The Ardent Pipe Dreams of American Voters
Voters in the USA live in fantasy and probably always will. No matter how obvious it is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/10/the-ardent-pipe-dreams-of-american-voters/
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”
Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh
Voters in the USA live in fantasy and probably always will. No matter how obvious it is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/10/the-ardent-pipe-dreams-of-american-voters/
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“Eating Ze Bugs is Vegan” – What the rise “ento-veganism” REALLY means
The latest “Dude, eating insects is so hip and cool” article dropped this week, this time from The Guardian, and with a little twist thrown in.
It’s pushing the idea of “ento-veganism”, that is to say “vegans” who won’t eat animals…except insects.
Or, what we used to call non-vegans.
It’s just another step in the redefining of language as needs must, yet another front in the war on words.
They are shifting the meaning of veganism from saving animals to being “sustainable”. The philosophy of “ento-veganism” is apparently to “do the least…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/11/eating-ze-bugs-is-vegan-what-the-rise-ento-veganism-really-means/
The latest “Dude, eating insects is so hip and cool” article dropped this week, this time from The Guardian, and with a little twist thrown in.
It’s pushing the idea of “ento-veganism”, that is to say “vegans” who won’t eat animals…except insects.
Or, what we used to call non-vegans.
It’s just another step in the redefining of language as needs must, yet another front in the war on words.
They are shifting the meaning of veganism from saving animals to being “sustainable”. The philosophy of “ento-veganism” is apparently to “do the least…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/11/eating-ze-bugs-is-vegan-what-the-rise-ento-veganism-really-means/
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We Should Know Better
How unnatural does it need to be before we humans realize this environment is not one in which a human animal will do well in, yet alone even survive? It seems that we should, by now, be very aware of this, but few people seem to be.
And even if we are aware that our environment is slowly killing us, what can we do about it? We can’t very well up and move to Mars (no matter what Elon Musk might say), nor would that solve it.
I have had many clients over the years who are trying to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/12/we-should-know-better/
How unnatural does it need to be before we humans realize this environment is not one in which a human animal will do well in, yet alone even survive? It seems that we should, by now, be very aware of this, but few people seem to be.
And even if we are aware that our environment is slowly killing us, what can we do about it? We can’t very well up and move to Mars (no matter what Elon Musk might say), nor would that solve it.
I have had many clients over the years who are trying to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/12/we-should-know-better/
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American Theocracy: Politics Has Become Our National Religion
Politics has become our national religion. While those on the Left have feared a religious coup by evangelical Christians on the Right, the danger has come from an altogether different direction: our constitutional republic has given way to a theocracy structured around the worship of a political savior.
For all intents and purposes, politics has become America’s God.
Pay close attention to the political conventions for presidential candidates, and it becomes immediately evident that Americans have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into worshipping a political idol manufactured by the Deep State.
In a carefully choreographed scheme to strip the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/13/american-theocracy-politics-has-become-our-national-religion/
Politics has become our national religion. While those on the Left have feared a religious coup by evangelical Christians on the Right, the danger has come from an altogether different direction: our constitutional republic has given way to a theocracy structured around the worship of a political savior.
For all intents and purposes, politics has become America’s God.
Pay close attention to the political conventions for presidential candidates, and it becomes immediately evident that Americans have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into worshipping a political idol manufactured by the Deep State.
In a carefully choreographed scheme to strip the…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/13/american-theocracy-politics-has-become-our-national-religion/
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BEST OF OFFG: “Free speech, censorship & the right to be wrong…”
Republished as part of our ‘Best Of’ series, revisiting some of OffG’s Pre-Covid editorials – either because they help remind us of important realities easily overlooked nowadays, or because they take on added significance in a ‘post-covid’ world.
Catte’s article has taken on a new context and new significance in the age of censoring “Covid disinformation”. A reminder that free speech means all speech – including unpleasant, ignorant or mistaken views – if it means anything at all. An automatic pick.
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Do we have a responsibility to silence views we consider morally repugnant or simply untrue?…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2021/10/12/best-of-offg-free-speech-censorship-the-right-to-be-wrong/
Republished as part of our ‘Best Of’ series, revisiting some of OffG’s Pre-Covid editorials – either because they help remind us of important realities easily overlooked nowadays, or because they take on added significance in a ‘post-covid’ world.
Catte’s article has taken on a new context and new significance in the age of censoring “Covid disinformation”. A reminder that free speech means all speech – including unpleasant, ignorant or mistaken views – if it means anything at all. An automatic pick.
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Do we have a responsibility to silence views we consider morally repugnant or simply untrue?…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2021/10/12/best-of-offg-free-speech-censorship-the-right-to-be-wrong/
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WHO Declares Monkeypox a “Global Emergency”…again
The World Health Organization has officially declared “Mpox” (formerly monkeypox) a global emergency…again.
Speaking to the media less than an hour ago, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced:
This is the second time in two years the WHO has declared monkeypox a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (PHEIC). It was originally labelled such…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/14/who-declares-monkeypox-a-global-emergency-again/
The World Health Organization has officially declared “Mpox” (formerly monkeypox) a global emergency…again.
Speaking to the media less than an hour ago, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced:
“The detection and rapid spread of a new clade of mpox in eastern DRC [Democratic Republic of Congo], its detection in neighbouring countries that had not previously reported mpox, and the potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,”
This is the second time in two years the WHO has declared monkeypox a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (PHEIC). It was originally labelled such…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/14/who-declares-monkeypox-a-global-emergency-again/
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WHO Declares Monkeypox a “Global Emergency”…again
The World Health Organization has officially declared “Mpox” (formerly monkeypox) a global emergency…again.
Speaking to the media less than an hour ago, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced:
This is the second time in two years the WHO has declared monkeypox a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (PHEIC). It was originally labelled such…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/14/who-declares-monkeypox-a-global-emergency-again/
The World Health Organization has officially declared “Mpox” (formerly monkeypox) a global emergency…again.
Speaking to the media less than an hour ago, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced:
“The detection and rapid spread of a new clade of mpox in eastern DRC [Democratic Republic of Congo], its detection in neighbouring countries that had not previously reported mpox, and the potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,”
This is the second time in two years the WHO has declared monkeypox a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (PHEIC). It was originally labelled such…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/14/who-declares-monkeypox-a-global-emergency-again/
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Stabbings to Show Trials: 9 Simple Steps to Criminalize Free Speech
In the wake of the Southport attack and ensuing riots, we wrote that the agenda had become clear – it was about attacking free speech.
Little did we suspect how quickly they would move, and how brazenly authoritarian they would become, culminating in quite literal show trials for facebook posts:
All while the so-called “liberals” are applauding and spouting phrases they don’t realise they’ve been hypnotised into believing through endless repetition.
“Tolerating intolerance just leads to more intolerance in the end.”
“Free speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences”
“It was never an absolute right”
If it wasn’t obvious…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/15/stabbings-to-show-trials-9-simple-steps-to-criminalize-free-speech/
In the wake of the Southport attack and ensuing riots, we wrote that the agenda had become clear – it was about attacking free speech.
Little did we suspect how quickly they would move, and how brazenly authoritarian they would become, culminating in quite literal show trials for facebook posts:
All while the so-called “liberals” are applauding and spouting phrases they don’t realise they’ve been hypnotised into believing through endless repetition.
“Tolerating intolerance just leads to more intolerance in the end.”
“Free speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences”
“It was never an absolute right”
If it wasn’t obvious…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/15/stabbings-to-show-trials-9-simple-steps-to-criminalize-free-speech/
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Hungry Landscapers
Some days we wake up in dream memory of a Gainsborough landscape with the soft light promise of a sweet warm day in the sun and the green fields with the majesty of trees and faraway mountains and the gentle lowing of cows in the distance and we’re draped in silk and flowers and feathers and jewels glittering and we feel the lush of love’s longing lingering…
And other days we wake up in a dream memory of an Hieronymus Bosch painting and it appears as though some wee human-like creatures have built a torture chamber in our abdomen…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/16/hungry-landscapers/
Some days we wake up in dream memory of a Gainsborough landscape with the soft light promise of a sweet warm day in the sun and the green fields with the majesty of trees and faraway mountains and the gentle lowing of cows in the distance and we’re draped in silk and flowers and feathers and jewels glittering and we feel the lush of love’s longing lingering…
And other days we wake up in a dream memory of an Hieronymus Bosch painting and it appears as though some wee human-like creatures have built a torture chamber in our abdomen…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/16/hungry-landscapers/
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Hungry Landscapers
Some days we wake up in dream memory of a Gainsborough landscape with the soft light promise of a sweet warm day in the sun and the green fields with the majesty of trees and faraway mountains and the gentle lowing of cows in the distance and we’re draped in silk and flowers and feathers and jewels glittering and we feel the lush of love’s longing lingering…
And other days we wake up in a dream memory of an Hieronymus Bosch painting and it appears as though some wee human-like creatures have built a torture chamber in our abdomen…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/16/hungry-landscapers/
Some days we wake up in dream memory of a Gainsborough landscape with the soft light promise of a sweet warm day in the sun and the green fields with the majesty of trees and faraway mountains and the gentle lowing of cows in the distance and we’re draped in silk and flowers and feathers and jewels glittering and we feel the lush of love’s longing lingering…
And other days we wake up in a dream memory of an Hieronymus Bosch painting and it appears as though some wee human-like creatures have built a torture chamber in our abdomen…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/16/hungry-landscapers/
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The World of Deception
I swear it didn’t used to be like this. I don’t remember thinking everything I looked at wasn’t real, but instead some sort of grossly manufactured “perfection.”
That’s how it is now, the world we are allowed to see is largely fake, and as technology masters the art of deception, it will only get worse.
Of course, we can blame a lot of things for this, first on that list is AI. But now not just AI art, but AI video, AI news, AI novels, AI everything. We can also obviously blame marketing and advertising for much of this…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/17/the-world-of-deception/
I swear it didn’t used to be like this. I don’t remember thinking everything I looked at wasn’t real, but instead some sort of grossly manufactured “perfection.”
That’s how it is now, the world we are allowed to see is largely fake, and as technology masters the art of deception, it will only get worse.
Of course, we can blame a lot of things for this, first on that list is AI. But now not just AI art, but AI video, AI news, AI novels, AI everything. We can also obviously blame marketing and advertising for much of this…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/17/the-world-of-deception/
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Yay! Go Russia and its anti-globalist crusade for humanity! 🔽
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Forwarded from Edward Slavsquat
The Gamaleya Center has unveiled the world's first "genetically engineered drug" to protect against the monkey pox scourge. It's safe and effective! https://medzdrav.info/2024/08/15/v-tsentre-gamalei-sozdana-pervaya-bezopasnaya-vaktsina-ot-ospy-obezyan/
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Body or ‘Soul’
Along the high street where I live, there is an advertisement on the side of one of the bus shelters. It features a woman, heavy-set and pictured from behind.
The text reads Get Your and then On Board, placed so that the woman’s ample posterior lies between Your and On.
Get Your Ass On Board?
Get Your Butt On Board?
The small print reads Get Your Bum On Board.
Bum. Gentler than Ass and Butt. The kind of word that we use with children. Nothing sinister, then.
Unless we recall those Corona emojis which festooned…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/18/body-or-soul/
Along the high street where I live, there is an advertisement on the side of one of the bus shelters. It features a woman, heavy-set and pictured from behind.
The text reads Get Your and then On Board, placed so that the woman’s ample posterior lies between Your and On.
Get Your Ass On Board?
Get Your Butt On Board?
The small print reads Get Your Bum On Board.
Bum. Gentler than Ass and Butt. The kind of word that we use with children. Nothing sinister, then.
Unless we recall those Corona emojis which festooned…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/18/body-or-soul/
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Who Owns America? Oligarchs Have Bought Up the American Dream
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/19/who-owns-america-oligarchs-have-bought-up-the-american-dream/
“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear… They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying.…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/19/who-owns-america-oligarchs-have-bought-up-the-american-dream/
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Monkeypox – Here come the vaccines…
The Monkeypox outbreak version 2.0 is progressing along predictable lines, gliding smoothly from the “declare emergency” phase to the “vaccines for everybody” phase.
The first step is to outline that Mpox 2024 is totally different from Monkeypox 2022. How have they established that?
The same way they do everything else – they just say it, and trust the scale of their reach and weight of “authority” to do the rest.
CNBC goesthe direct route:
Got that? This isn’t like that…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/19/monkeypox-here-come-the-vaccines/
The M
The first step is to outline that Mpox 2024 is totally different from Monkeypox 2022. How have they established that?
The same way they do everything else – they just say it, and trust the scale of their reach and weight of “authority” to do the rest.
CNBC goesthe direct route:
The mpox strain spreading now is different from the one in 2022
Got that? This isn’t like that…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/19/monkeypox-here-come-the-vaccines/
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From Agrarianism to Transhumanism: The Long March to Dystopia
We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agri-food chain.
The big data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose their model…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/20/from-agrarianism-to-transhumanism-the-long-march-to-dystopia/
“A total demolition of the previous forms of existence is underway: how one comes into the world, biological sex, education, relationships, the family, even the diet that is about to become synthetic.”
Silvia Guerini, radical ecologist, in ‘From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology’ (2023)
We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agri-food chain.
The big data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose their model…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/20/from-agrarianism-to-transhumanism-the-long-march-to-dystopia/
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Fascism 2.0 – The changing face of social media censorship
Facebook make only about £34 a year from the average customer in the UK – a little under £3 a month (and that’s before costs) so clearly there is no head-room or motivation, for a human level of customer service or attention. The user is not the customer; rather, they are the product whose data is sold to advertisers.
Thus, users do not have a direct customer relationship with the platform. The network is not directly incentivised to “care” about the user before the advertiser. And no matter where you lie on the spectrum between “free speech absolutism” and…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/21/fascism-2-0-the-changing-face-of-social-media-censorship/
Facebook make only about £34 a year from the average customer in the UK – a little under £3 a month (and that’s before costs) so clearly there is no head-room or motivation, for a human level of customer service or attention. The user is not the customer; rather, they are the product whose data is sold to advertisers.
Thus, users do not have a direct customer relationship with the platform. The network is not directly incentivised to “care” about the user before the advertiser. And no matter where you lie on the spectrum between “free speech absolutism” and…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/21/fascism-2-0-the-changing-face-of-social-media-censorship/
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How (and why) they sell X as a “bastion of free speech”
Donald Trump is back on the app formerly known as Twitter. After almost four years in the “Truth Social” wilderness he sat down with Elon Muskfor a 3-hour conversation.
On our side of the pond, Musk is taking every opportunity he can to troll Keir Starmer’s government, comparing the UK to something from 1984 (accurately, it must be said).
During the Olympics, he chimed in with criticism of controversial Algerian boxer Imane Khelif for being a “man beating up women”.
Wherever there is controversy, Musk (or the PR intern running his X account) appears to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/22/how-and-why-they-sell-x-as-a-bastion-of-free-speech/
Donald Trump is back on the app formerly known as Twitter. After almost four years in the “Truth Social” wilderness he sat down with Elon Muskfor a 3-hour conversation.
On our side of the pond, Musk is taking every opportunity he can to troll Keir Starmer’s government, comparing the UK to something from 1984 (accurately, it must be said).
During the Olympics, he chimed in with criticism of controversial Algerian boxer Imane Khelif for being a “man beating up women”.
Wherever there is controversy, Musk (or the PR intern running his X account) appears to…...
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https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/22/how-and-why-they-sell-x-as-a-bastion-of-free-speech/
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