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This is Lesson One of a three-lesson Mass Media: A History online course from James Corbett.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/the-media-conspiracy.html

I'm pretty sure this monkeypox outbreak is just a psyop to keep countries from exiting the WHO like many are already considering.

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Historically—as during the days of the classical #gold standard—central banks maintained stocks of gold to facilitate the conversion of gold-backed national currencies. Those days are long gone.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/the-federal-reserve-does-not-own-gold.html
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There is no clear distinction of legal vs. illegal anymore, all that matters is who you pissed off, and are they more powerful than you are.
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I think the real "test" from the pandemic wasn't so much "did you take the shot?" as it was "did you act like an authoritarian fuckwit, on the internet, that will be on record forever?"
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A quite recent echo of one of Kafka's more bizarre literary creations can be found, I believe, in the experiences of two of the top participants in this summer’s Paris Olympics.
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/the-kafkaesque-phaseout-of-the-pandemic-penal-colony.html
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According to a recent report, 39 percent of Americans have been forced to skip meals so that they will have enough money to make their housing payments…
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/08/vast-stretches-of-america-are-so-depressed-that-they-look-like-something-out-of-a-horror-movie.html

@souldessin What can you even do with dial-up these days? Many websites are half a gigabyte in size now.

@beardalaxy Backrooms just reminds me of the office level in CounterStrike and getting sniped once you enter the next room.

@souldessin In that case, satellite internet is your only option.

@beardalaxy I don't care if those pedo allegations were fake. The fact that he had a 18+ SnapChat and Tumblr blog for nudes is just creepy.

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@PurpCat @Forestofenchantment It really kicked into gear when TDS was kicked off of virtually every hosting provider, domain registrar, and CDN to the point that they had to go Tor-only for a while. I was a huge advocate for ZeroNet at the time and was hoping for a mass adoption, but that never happened (and thankfully it never happened because ZeroNet is really unsecured).

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@Forestofenchantment (that was the date of the infamous cville rally that led to internet crackdowns and mass psychosis online, especially in the furry scene).

I know people who really went crazy afterwards because they were jacked into fear porn, it was a proto Floyd shitshow.

>Get ready for late-night walk.
>Mosquito truck drives by and nukes the entire neighborhood

And people wonder why a kid dies from leukemia in our town every year. Why can't they just have the lamp posts also act like bug zappers? That sounds like a better solution than to just spray poison across town.

@PurpCat @beardalaxy I never had a problem using a non-gmail account for contacting people or signing up for websites. No joke, I used a firstname-lastname email address on cock.li (the have a few SFW domains) to apply for jobs, a few years back. Nobody saw the connection and I was never rejected for using such an email address. It only became a problem when my Dad busted me for it because he wanted to see my emails.

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The internet died on August 12th 2017 and we have been living in the ashes of it for years.
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