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@davidzweig: 1. THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE – By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy – By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed – By...…
I favor the drip strategy. People in this country are very forgiving, recover quickly, and prefer to forget all about extremely unpleasant episodes. This does us credit in many areas of life, but when accountability and societal change is needed, we don't want a quick blast from which people will be recovered by the time conditions are right to effect that change.
Look how long it took outright racism to disappear (for the most part) from the U.S.! It's only a "thing" now because MSM, including social media, keeps it alive.