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    On the other hand…

    It’s canon in DC comics that Batman runs a website called “Bruce Wayne Is Batman.” It’s a bit like ‘birds aren’t real’ and the Caped Crusader does it to hide in plain sight.

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      That’s genius. Also a good way to keep tabs on potential stalkers. Stalking the stalkers?

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    This is odd to say when the YouTube algorithm has been proven to push right wing propaganda.

    The concept of “conspiracies” is a bit off. It’s not a “conspiracy” when Bezos kills the Washington Post’s endorsement of Harris, or fires journalists who criticize him. YouTube doesn’t need to remove a video if the algorithm never shows it to anybody.

    It is kinda crazy to imagine a secret cabal of rich people who surreptitiously run the world, rather than the well known cabal of rich people who openly run the world.

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      Meh, I kinda get it. Like who has more power, Trump or the Walton family? The latter is fairly in the background. Sachlers were (and are) getting away with the opiate epidemic.

      Sure there is a level, where it’s only seeing shadow men, but Bill Gates, Musk or Bezos as a final boss seems anticlimatic. I do subscribe to the deep state idea, but I see it more like powerful people trying to keep their power, but it’s more of a random walk than an orchestrated psyops.

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      It is kinda crazy to imagine a secret cabal of rich people who surreptitiously run the world, rather than the well known cabal of rich people who openly run the world.

      The cabal of rich people who run the world were a hell of a lot less open about it before tech billionaires came onto the stage.

      Do we actually know the rich billionaires running the world, or do we just know the owners of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook? (And then Warren Buffet is there too)

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      This is odd to say when the YouTube algorithm has been proven to push right wing propaganda.

      This is not a conspiracy. The conspiracy is saying YouTube does this because they are right wing company.

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        YouTube pushes right wing content because right wing goals benefit their owners. I don’t know how you define “right wing company”, but what else would you call a company that promotes fascists and strictly polices leftists?

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          but what else would you call a company that promotes fascists and strictly polices leftists

          That last part is relevant, because thats not what YouTube does and what makes it a conspiracy

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    The fact that I WAS ABLE to find the YouTube video just PROVES ISM tHE ENliGhtENEd one!

    I’m surrounded by simpletons 😮‍💨

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      The fact that I can’t find the the YouTube video just PROVES the government is covering everything up!

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      By this logic, Holocaust in Germany didn’t happen as it’s illegal there to deny it. I get your point, but it’s flawed

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          It’s not illegal in most of Europe. If you say it in most of Europe in polite company you’ll get punched most likely, but you won’t get arrested.

          It’s literally only Germany which have made it illegal for the fairly obvious reasons

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              …led him to openly espouse Holocaust denial, specifically denying that Jews were murdered by gassing at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

              David Irving | Wikipedia

              I don’t get why there are people denying this when so much has been recorded and with the large amount of witness testimony

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              Wow David Irving is a twat. Here’s a poem he wrote for his infant daughter

              I am a Baby Aryan
              Not Jewish or Sectarian
              I have no plans to marry an
              Ape or Rastafarian. 
              
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          Denying is maybe illegal but questioning it is not.

          So get your facts straight.

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    9-11 was a joint effort by America’s allies like Saudi Arabia and Israel and people in the intelligence department to create a false flag event to push us into a 20 year war for absolutely fucking nothing now the United States is supporting a genocide so at this point I would think that anybody who is a serious person would have got a fucking clue. Now there is a video of Julian Assange talking about what this was all about. See, we don’t win wars. We use them to bleed the tax bases of Europe and the United States. To weaken the powers of democracy, so now we live in a world of monopoly. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s capitalism. Believe it or not, I don’t care. You’re gonna feel the pressure eventually. The war in Ukraine is an attempt to separate capitalist Russia from Europe. Europe is on its knees like dirty dogs, groveling to the American Empire, which really doesn’t offer them much of anything. While Russia offered them cheap gas. Now all these capitalist societies can eat my ass, but still. I mean changing your framework, being relative, telling the truth, paying a fucking attention, I mean getting a fucking clue, these are all things required to really assess the situation. And this is why sometimes memes come off a little limp dicked.

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    There’s a UFO person who has been around for a long time who claims they were offered a billion dollars to shut up.

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      Anyone willing to pay a billion dollars to keep a secret secret, is also willing to kill someone who does not take the billion dolar bribe

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      And that’s how you know for sure they are full of shit, or at the very least schizophrenic.

      If I saw aliens, and some dude in a suit hushed me with a billion dollars, I’d be living on a yacht the next day.