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I know it's very early but even after 1 week it's becoming quite clear what themes will play a central role in the Biden Admin over the next 4 years. If you strip all these different events down to their core essence you see a single strand emerge. And it's quite disturbing. 
First, you see a revolving door between the Administration and Big Tech alums who helped kill damaging stories about Biden during the campaign. Amazon, which destroyed contrarian Parler with the help of Google & Apple, suddenly decides to distribute the vaccine...
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The WHO, on the same day that Biden rejoins it via executive order, quietly issues changes to COVID test criteria which will drastically reduce the number of positive casesâŠ
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Politicos in California, New York, Michigan, DC, and Chicago, whoâve destroyed the lives of their constituents with brutal lockdowns, magically decide it's safe to reopenâŠ
/4 https://www.outkick.com/whitmer-michigan-biden/
/4 https://www.outkick.com/whitmer-michigan-biden/
Twitter then purges Antifa accounts now that their violence and ability to cause fear in everyday people are no longer useful and actually damaging to the Administration.
/5 https://nypost.com/2021/01/22/twitter-suspends-antifa-accounts-with-over-71k-followers/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
/5 https://nypost.com/2021/01/22/twitter-suspends-antifa-accounts-with-over-71k-followers/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
Their goal now is to sell you on the idea that things have gone back to ânormal.â After 4 years of being gaslit they temporarily take their foot off the abuse pedal to convince you it was your fault, after all, for not putting all your faith in the Elites in the 1st place.
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Now that youâve received your comeuppance you should be more pliable to the idea of setting up watchlists & reeducation camps. You should be happy when Big Govât & Big Tech team up to make sure no one with the âwrong ideasâ every holds power again.
/7 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1350871209332920322?s=20
/7 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1350871209332920322?s=20
Itâs for your own goodâŠ
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So what you see emerging is the eternal battle between collectivism and individualism. On the one side is Big Govât, Big Money, Big Media, & Big Tech (collectively, the Elites). On the other is those who believe in the dignity and rights of the individual.
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The reason the GME story has resonated with folks across the political spectrum is that it invokes a deeply American sense of fairness. The reaction to it may have exposed the most clear-cut line between the collectivist Elites and the individualists.
/10 https://twitter.com/pghowie3/status/1354915156199944194?s=20
/10 https://twitter.com/pghowie3/status/1354915156199944194?s=20
The visceral idea of individual rights is unique to American culture. While other places may try to imitate American style individualism, there is no other place in the world where collectivism is not deeply embedded in the culture and psyche of the population.
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A lot of credit goes to our Founding Fathers & the Constitution. But itâs also a product of this countryâs youth. We havenât been around long enough for the natural forces of corruption, decadence, and our human instinct towards conformity to strip away our exceptionalism.
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Arguably, it may have happened decades ago and we just didnât notice. Chomsky may certainly want to have a word on that.
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But itâs more likely that tech, which was supposed to allow decentralized participation by individuals in society, actually had the opposite result.
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Big Tech has actually herded our interactions into a couple of centralized platforms. Kind of like @thomaschattwill mentioned last week.
/15 https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1355227519524462598?s=20
/15 https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1355227519524462598?s=20
This was the final piece that had always prevented the Elites in this country from caging us under the yoke of collectivism. Big Media manufacturing consent, pre-internet, was never quite enough. With social media, we finally stepped into the cage ourselves.
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The French and Russian revolutions were both fomented by the Intelligentsia â educated elites who believed they could change millions of years of human nature & evolution through material conditions & social engineering.
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The Elites in Big Tech are a supercharged version of this. And their chumminess with Big Govât makes them even more dangerous. Orwell predicted this in 1984 with his vision of what Soviet & Maoist governments would look like with todayâs technology.
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Orwell's one error was assuming that the tech would be subsumed under the government umbrella. Here what weâre seeing though is the illusion of independence. How else do you dupe an individualist society to voluntarily submit to collectivism?
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Give them the illusion of choice and theyâll walk into the trap themselves. Like sheep to the slaughter.
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Iâm not sure what the answer to all this is. Thatâs probably for people much smarter than me. But itâs certainly not too late. And I imagine a lot of it will be going back to the foundational principles of this country and the Constitution.
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What I do know is that the best way to avoid an oncoming train is to see it in the first place. And if we open our eyes to whatâs happening we have a fighting chance.
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