I don't like the idea of it being required, but there's silver lining. The tools and strategies used to make it seem like everyone agrees with crazy stance X won't work anymore. Mass hypnosis loses a strong weapon used against the people for a long time. "Fake" accounts have been shifting public sentiment like a stealth assassin for too long.

turning off a manipulative megaphone that converts citizens into mind zombies doesn't sound like the worst thing to me. I'll likely not use it, but I can't condemn if for what it may be able to do.

Loved him in person of interest, back before it became reality we actually live in.

He's been mostly blacklisted ever since doing the passion of Christ movie iirc.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this. Seeing where things are now and how crazy everything is, I often wonder how much I was indoctrinated into accepting in youth that previous generations tried to warn of.

A simple thought experiment I went through a long time ago -

"Ok, so if I put myself inside of one of these twisted dark minds, where would I go to inflict the largest damage possible in the shortest time possible?"

An armed community never came to mind. Always seemed pretty simple to me.

Yep. Entire scenes in movies were changed to avoid the twins being shown. No accident.

I like his videos. Helps to get people thinking critically while keeping some guard rails on so you don't just believe everything you are told.

The end-of-shoe recaps are pretty solid imo

Indeed! Here's to hoping the truth prevails :)

Apparently Fox has an entire OpEd file on him, so I guess his ability to speak freely will depend on how clean his file is and if he even cares.

A world without evil is a world we can't learn to be better from. I've long since come to understand that there must be a darkness.

Put another way, a candle only holds value when the lights go out.

Or everything is going precisely to plan.

So two things.

1. Personally, I don't think it'll really happen at such a level as described. Who knows?

2. The law only matters if it is enforced. Is it?

We don't want them!

As the story unfolds I'm inclined to lean in your opinion's favor.

I do not believe him to be a bad person, but I do believe him easily swayed by his own pride and arrogance.

"Getting private individual's information is so hard, everyone is tight lipped and won't give us their personal details when we ask."

• Create social media and the members will post their private lives for free.

"Everyone is fighting lockdowns and we can't keep them stuffed in their own houses. This is getting hard to maintain."

• ???

I'm torn.

His audience are the people that have been left behind in society - especially in a time where men are demonized so heavily. He speaks the taboo truth about life, which pulls his audience in. He then upsells them "hope as a service".

Before I can say one way or another on his character, I'd have to know if he believes in the hope he is selling or if it's just a con to absorb profits from a mostly untapped audience.

Something never sat quite right with me about Tate. That doesn't mean I think he's a trafficker, but it wouldn't shock me if we learned his Bugatti addiction isn't just funded by his business ventures.

And then there is the other entirely real possibility - he pissed off the wrong evil people in power. His actions and reach are counter-narrative at such a level I'm surprised they haven't had a stronger takedown of him before now. Wouldn't be the first victim of that by a long shot.

I guess we'll see how it plays out.

It does not censor much because China wants the telemetrics on everyone - especially different viewpoints of the American political sides.

FWIW read their TOS sometime. They record everything from your device file names to keystrokes.

It wasn't long ago Pfizer lost one of the largest medical fraud lawsuits in America. Heralding their products after that doesn't make you an unwilling victim, it makes you an accessory.

I always thought the timing was suspect, but only started really believing it when Google started hiding links to details about it years ago.

My intuition tells me there is more to this story.

I feel like we need a died suddenly flair at this point.

I too remember those stories. I believe they were from around the era everyone was talking about Walmarts and other large buildings being turned into some kind of camps. Maybe slightly before.

Time flies!

I do not believe him to be a grifter at all. I do believe him to contain within him the capacity to be wrong about some things - no different from any other human.

I do value the role he has played for a long time, though.

I was in tech years ago (software engineer), and left in 2015. It was more the case at that time that many of us knew it was either keep our heads down or lose the ability to provide for our families. If you were ousted from any job in the area for the wrong reason - nobody would want to touch you. So it was either continue on in a mental prison or potentially give up on your career.

The mistake many of us made was in thinking we could lay low and not get involved. The truth is that eventually you will be given the option - sign the deal with the devil or be cast out. It doesn't matter how unimportant or small you believe your role is. That's when I left.

I can't say if this particular claim is true or not, but I did see this same scenario play out thousands of times and found myself in it as well. I was naive and didn't really track politics back then, but it'll come for you regardless of your desire to stay out of it.

Celebrities are mostly just pawns and fame junkies that do what the chess players tell them to do, lest their managers cut them off.