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Watching

and others go off line, I’m changing tactics. I need to move to become unfirable and uncancelable. I can’t be vulnerable to my advertisers or even my employer if this pressure can be put on anyone at will. It’s time to accept saying FU requires FU money.

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Eric Weinstein

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I have been reluctant to put things behind paywalls and all that retail stuff, but I will now set something up to allow direct contributions. Many of you have asked me to do that and I didn’t feel right about it. Well that just changed. I really want Scott &

@slatestarcodex

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Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The individual is outgunned at all times. We cannot easily fight back. But this is ridiculous. So many great people gathered around

@slatestarcodex

. I want it back.

3:23 PM · Jun 23, 2020

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I’ve met

in San Francisco. Smart, shy and nice as could be. He’s got to be entitled to have a psychiatry practice with privacy sensitivity for gods sakes. The right and ability to earn a living is important.

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Brandon Hayes {Righteous is right}

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"The individual is outgunned at all times." Now explain why we ought to hold individualism sacred and denounce collectivism? You know collectives are being wielded against individuals, yes? And their recourse? Hire a lawyer... please. Let 1000 Nations Bloom.

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One mistake, you feel a shake and the whole world just lost another one. Your meaning's swallowed in the quake, and the chasm yawns. The chasm yawns.

bluefoodmusic.bandcamp.com

Sarchasm, by Blue Food

from the album Squaring the Circle

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We’ve already seen though they can always pressure payment processors and payment platforms to cancel anyway. Other than direct btc contributions I don’t know how to subvert his.

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Use their tactics. Call for the job of the NYT reporter. You have a big enough platform to affect real change at NYT. Tweet the email addresses of the appropriate editors along with a principled statement we can bombard them with. NYT has become trash. Time to take it back.

Thucydides Trap House

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yeah but dont fall into the trap of us versus them, in the real world its not like that, only online

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Can we show up at the house of who ever is coming after our side. The stalking can go both ways. Getting tired of power stooges feeling invincible

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I fully agree: I want

back.

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So why aren't we forming a collective to help and support each other? There are enough people such as your good self, free thinkers with reach and influence, to make a difference if you pull together, and you'd have support from thousands of others like myself.

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I hate to say it but if we want to be rid of this, we must vote against political correctness. There's only one way to do that and we might be lucky to have the option this time.

@ScottAdamsSays

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