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It's being said more and more lately, but I'll say it again, right and left isn't the dividing line; it's supporters of freedom of speech and thought against the budding authoritarians.

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The Liberal Borg Cube is TERRIFIED. The population is no longer acting like dogs in a Pavlovian experiment. People like Russell scare the World Economic Forum's Borg Cube because he's an actual liberal who believes in freedom of thought and free expression, in contrast to the terrible slogans and empty platitudes used by the Borgs to subvert any kind of nuanced discussion or honest conversations.

At this point, the oligarchy and their technocratic elite’s blindness has reached biblical proportion, almost guaranteeing that they have sown the seeds of their destruction (at least for now). Because they view human beings like beasts to be herded, controlled by threats of punishment and reward, pain and pleasure, the human response to tyranny, typified by the Canadian truckers, has come as a genuine surprise, so much so that the Canadian Prime minister was whisked away after declaring the Canadian Freedom Convoy a “fringe minority” only a few days earlier. As “fringes” become majorities and once unknown individuals become world-leaders, so “the last will be first and the first will be last.”

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There are so many politically homeless people now it's like we're living in LA. They show they're not capable of objectivity by when they do this. It's a feeble minded person who when you provide facts and evidence their only retort is "racist", "transphobic", etc.

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Yeah, well I used to be called a libertarian or social liberal/fiscal conservative. Called myself that and was referred to that way by my progressive writer friends. Now anyone who doesn't think exactly like they do who dares to question the left or make a health decision on their own is a "right wing white supremacist" and an "insurrectionist." And of COURSE, a racist. And must be demonized and cancelled, unfriended, and never published again. But I'd rather be called a "right winger" than a progressive fascist socialist CRT racist which is who they are now. Maybe we should start viewing that as a compliment. Here is an example I love. My husband's cousin is a progressive. He picked my address off his brother's email (where they were hounding us to get vaccinated) to which I responded with my reasons why I didn't want to do that. I had never talked to this guy before, but he told me I was not capable of critical thinking and should get vaccinated. I should "go with the science." We have been fighting now for several months. And he finally said, "you are opinionated aren't you, and very anti-science." I said, "YOU emailed me and told ME and told me I should get vaccinated. I did not email you and tell you NOT to get vaccinated. Because guess what, I MIGHT be wrong and don't want that responsibility for other people. But HOW DARE I think for myself and have an opinion for my OWN health and family that diverges from the propaganda science or what YOU think I should do. I'm opinionated? Opinionated my ass." I said. How dare I think for myself and make my own decisions on my health? Right? And of course that makes ME a fanatic. This is how they think. We should all follow consensus like sheep even when there is no long term testing, injuries and people are dying. And they don't WORK, possibly increase infectivity and do NOT stop transmission. This should have been rolled out for high risk people only and then been given with informed consent. They are making such a mess of this country. I haven't heard Russell Brand before, but obviously many many people who believe in freedom have differing views, but we have THAT in common. We believe in debate and freedom. And that is where the new dividing line resides. People I don't agree with on everything like Tulsi, (Matt), Bill Maher, Joe Rogan, and more are people I realize I share much more in common than any particular fiscal issue. Thanks, Matt, for carrying on with the cause.

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The entire playbook of modern progressives consists of slapping a bad-sounding label (racist, transphobe, right wing, etc) on any person they don’t like and then attacking the label, with the goal of discrediting the person as a person rather than engaging with their ideas.

This is because they know their own shitty ideas cannot survive open debate, which is why they must silence any opposition.

But thanks in no small part to people like Matt, the bloom is off the rose and people everywhere smell their bullshit for what it is — the attempted and soon-to-be-failed cancellation of Joe Rogan is the canary in the coal mine.

Just as the madness of McCarthyism passed, so too will the madness of the Church of Wokery.

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The mainstream media aren’t left wing, they’re elites.

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Bari Weiss is right wing? Bahahaha.... I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but jeez there has been a lot of effort to go after this guy (Rogan) and I can't help but think maybe our government is behind it.

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Progressive: “Everyone has the right to MY opinion!”

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The omnipresent use of 'right wing' now is yet another example of the Decline and Fall of Language. Words mean whatever the woke corporate totalitarians (WCT) want them to mean. I wish they (the WCT) would all move to New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles, build a wall around themselves, and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

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If you don't bow down to the narrative, you're right-wing. Sort of like how we were unpatriotic for going along with Iraq. Reality has nothing to do with it.

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You know, it's almost like George Orwell was right...

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Censorship has gotten more ominous. Now a person can be considered a terrorist if they spread disinformation. Check out this bulletin from Homeland Security published yesterday. https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-february-07-2022

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Feb 9, 2022·edited Feb 9, 2022

The list of who they consider "right wing" is more illuminating. more instructive, and more hilarious than anything else.

Rationality and open dialog, regardless of what is said is apparently "right wing" now? Isn't that supposed to be a liberal stance?

Many I dont know, but some are incredibly laughable.

Sam Harris? Brett and Eric Weinstein? Tulsi Gabbard? Heather Heying?

Apparently the ability to think for yourself and have your own opinion is now "right wing".

Bigot (definition): One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of anyone who differs.

Hilarious...

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"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." --- Came across this the other day, it's from the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Here, off the top of my head, are just a few raving lunatic right-wingers that Joe has interviewed:

Cornel West, Ep. #1325;

Richard Dawkins, Ep. #1366;

Jon Stewart, Ep. #1498

Peter Boghossian, Ep. 1191

and some guy named Matt Taibbi, Ep. #1745

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Matt's rundown on the generational change in journalism happened in a lot of professions. It's like the anti-union sentiment I hear from people that had their education paid for by their Teamster dad or mom. Never mind their parents saw a three fold increase in wages in 10 years that made it possible.

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