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How dare that 70 year old man think for himself! Off to the gulag

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Ironically, one of the tweets Tycokinski liked was from Elon Musk; it features a venn diagram showing that we're currently living in 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1610416059940495363?s=20

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Unbelievable. What is it about these shots? It’s like a Jim Jones Kool Aid party.

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I'm sure you understand this, Alex, but they actually are fully aware of the principles of free speech. They have not forgotten them, they've rejected them. Free speech is their enemy. There are people who want a totalitarian takeover of this country. Free speech stands in their way, and must be eliminated.

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Why does any of this surprise you when you said you would vote for Biden over Trump? If the Dems win again in 2024 it will only get worse. So either come over to our side completely, or stop complaining about things like this.

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He should have been able to like your tweet whether you were wrong or right. In a free country, people are allowed to be wrong and people are allowed to change their mind. After all, Fauci has changed his position too many times for me to count. But I guess when you are The Science, that is allowed.

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THANK YOU! At 75 and a conservative Republican, I remember the campus 60s when "liberals" and "conservatives" had serious and frequent debates about things like the Vietnam war. Maybe I'm absent minded, but I don't recall anyone advocating censorship. If they haven't torn up or burnt every copy, maybe they should read America's Bill of Rights - just right one should be enough -if they need more forceful encourage perhaps read right two.

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Susan Sndyer deserves to be run out of town. What a empty Pulitzer prize winner. Bet she can't face the mirror every day.

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Good work to you and those that amplified your tweet.

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May 3, 2023·edited May 3, 2023

A NY native and former SF resident, I now reside in the Philly 'burbs. We're far enough away from the Karentocracy to make it tolerable, but It still pains me to see the daily Inquirers sitting in the driveways during my morning run.

Not surprising, these are the same folks who made their kids mask up during outdoor play well into the scamdemic. I don't know most of these subscribers, but I can sure as hell tell you who they voted for and how many Fauci votives are on their mantles.

The good news is that WSJ sightings are beginning to outnumber the Philly rag.

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Until folks like this professor stop apologizing and start defending their right to like whatever they want we continue to give them ground in all of ilus losing our inherent right to free speech.

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To repeat my comment to Matt Taibbi’s latest on the outrageous power trip the media has been on for far too long..” who the EFF to these journalists think they are?” ... calling for someone to lose their job and destroy their reputation because you as a political acolyte are carrying out orders for corrupt ridden Federal Health Agencies?!? This woman should have her press pass pulled!

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Cripes, I just liked this Stack!!! Woe is me! Come get me you underhanded, whiney sacks of moldy oatmeal. I’ll like whomever I like. May you rot at your computer.

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When the vast SILENCE of the "middle left" begin to speak up, we might see a turn of events. Until then, we're all targets of the extreme left when we speak of disagreement with their totalitarian perspectives. We live in a country full of spineless pansies on both sides of the proverbial aisle. There are no longer 2 parties, there is only one now. And that's because of people who "go along to get along" instead of speaking TRUTH to stolen power. We have no real statesmen left in the U.S. Bonhoeffer was SO spot on…and the clueless, ignorant, dumbed-down majority of Americans have no idea where we're headed.

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Back in the old days an editor like Ben Bradley would print the copy, read it, pour himself a glass of something brown, then find Susan and berate her until she packed her belongings in a box and fled the office in tears. Print journalism is dead. Long live substack.

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I am a former Philadelphia Inquirer reader! Cant stand it anymore.

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