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I quote this passage from John Milton's 1644 essay Aereopagitica a lot, because it bears repeating:

"Let truth and falsehood grapple. Whoever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?"

We need more grappling!

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A great quote, absolutely agreed, thanks!

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Who determines the truth?

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Truth determines itself.

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I am not informed enough to take a solid stance on Russia and Ukraine or even Israel for that matter….but I am learning.

Nothing is ever black and white as our media likes to portray it.

So I read….mull over what I read and then read some more.

I do not ever want to be an example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect🤔

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That's very wise of you, man. You're not that well-informed, hence you restrain from strong opinions on those issues.

What concerns me is that most people are completely uninformed yet babe very strong opinions on all of those issues. That's not natural and not that great.

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We merely quote gay commentators who use their free speech to outline the way trans activists have used the tactics of censorship to dominate the narrative and sideline gay issues and women's opportunities. And they are democrats.

Putin? What did Putin do under PRESIDENT TRUMP? What did he do under WEF Obama? Who financed Putin's attacks? Who came to England to try to scupper our Brexit vote? Seems to me President Trump could be both our answers

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Man, I agree with every word you said here.

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I remember how a distraught female NYT writer was saying that Substack should be banned. WaPo slogan “Democracy dies in darkness” needs to be rewritten “Democracy dies in Wokeness.”

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From their perspective, ignorance is paramount. They can have more people work in unison, at their demise. Any dissenting is considered a problem in their plan. The sissenters are shamed, ridiculed and/or punished for their questions or downright rebellion against the system. It is a time of brazen lies and audacious censorship to conceal their intentions. As a people, stand up and speak out. They are coming after us.

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Of course, free speech is paramount. It is a necessary pre-condition to a democratic society.

Most people don't realize that there are grave threats to free speech coming from Trump and the madmen of Maga:

https://davidgottfried.substack.com/p/we-must-defend-the-new-york-times

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The main threat to free speech is coming from DemoNrats who are pushing an open censorship in guise of 'fighting hate speech' and 'misinformation' when it's DemoNratic Party and it's minions determine what is hate and what is misinformation.

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