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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

“Or is it all for show.”

It’s all for show. Musk is a marionette of the 3-letter crowd — a cutout for massive fraud perpetrated on the taxpayers. He’s a conman from “go” to “woah”.

By now, according to St. Elon, we were supposed to have:

Millions of self-driving electric taxis, the owning of which would be a license to print money

Convoys of electric trucks with 500+ mile ranges requiring only a single driver

Hype-R-Loop whisking people around at a thousand miles per hour (the Las Vegas incarnation hilariously bisected to make way for a train line, before being hauled off as scrap)

Manned missions to Mars

And of course, free speech saved, now and forever.

Yeah. Right.

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Exactly, Musk the Class A Con Man! A Con Man who receives hundreds of millions of dollars from the DOD (U.S. Government) in order to send satellites up in the air to surveil the world and spy on law abiding citizens as if we are all criminals! Welcome to the NWO and George Orwell 1984!

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

Tesla only exists today because of Musk's ability to harvest taxpayer dollars.

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Yup; however it was a way to capitalize and grow your portfolio in the stock market shell game! I unfortunately had a large stake in Tesla when it was $29/share it went down to $19/share and when it went back to $29 I panicked and sold it regrettably. I had a five year plan to hold it and caved in and sold it. That's OK! I am blessed in many other ways with an awesome wife who is priceless!

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

I am a woman (yes womb and all ;) how on earth can this be pulled as hate speech when you are A quoting a historical figure B there is nothing hateful in the words anyway. Daily I think I can’t despair further alas….

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Apr 25·edited Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

Best suggestion is consequences for the false reporters. They do this on purpose and get their followers to pile on. If they got a ban for doing so in bad faith, it would change everything. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the tweet. I run into this too, you mention something in history that they are supposed to 'hate' and they flip out. Doesn't matter the content. Just their virtue signaling needs. It's so stupid.

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

Apparently the phrase "Synagogue of Satan" is antisemitic, according to X's previously unemployed hairdressers now working on their X Rules Enforcement Division, Clown Division, Retard Regiment.

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

It's like the meme of some anti-pedo law headline and LGBTQ activists saying the law hurts them.

What an odd thing to say.

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Apr 25·edited Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

Dr. Briggs, please watch following video, https://youtu.be/8K5EEjHzOc8, with special attention to what Ms. Hazel sez starting at 0:14 - "This video is for educational purposes only". Every time you want to talk about Mussolini, that´s what you should declare: "This tweet is for educational purposes only", and you'll be okay. BTW, Ms. Hazel is NOT my niece.

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

Oh, that's a good one! Mind if I borrow that?

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Go for it! Spread the JOY!

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That was a great quote from Mussolini. He was not wrong.

P.D. James centers this phenomenon in the plot of her book, Children of Men.

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

Repeal the 19th Amendment!

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The idea of returning the vote to one vote for each head of one household in a Christian country is very appealing.

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

To paraphrase a traditional Jewish man's prayer: '... Thank you Lord for not making me a woman...' How is that for fascist?!

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Apr 25·edited Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

I'm so tired of snowflakes who think that them being offended is some sort of crime. Anyone who doesn't use the term "safe space" with anything other than sarcasm or derision needs to grow the fuck up.

I've been waiting years for Tesla to go bankrupt due to the stupidity of electric cars... it finally looks like that day may be coming.

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Apr 25·edited Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

William; Welcome to the New Normal!! Remember how that was played out on television ads in 2020? That is what they meant when they were distracting us with the Scamdemic!

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." -

Thomas Paine

A quote I recently saw " We live in a time when intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended "

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." --

Oscar Wilde

Musk claims to have fired about 80% of the people at Twitter. He still has another 18% to go.

Everyone who worked for those organisations, (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) have by self-decision been 'woke' idiots, as no one with self respect could join or stay at such organisations.

"Americans are so enamoured of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. -- Alexis de Tocqueville --"Democracy in America"(1835)

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

In civil law, guilt is assumed first. In criminal law, innocence is assumed. It's perverse, but that the way legal eagles fly in the States. Apparently in social media, civil law prevails.

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Apr 25·edited Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

What? They called you a fascist? That is nuts. These goofs need to take your class!

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

Well William it appears they have figured you out?

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

I realize this is off topic, but do you know who writes this? https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/the-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor

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Thanks, I thought it was really interesting, especially the comments about Lyndon LaRouche (about whom I knew literally nothing) and his ideas, which was basically EROI slightly before its time. It is impossible to even talk about economics without talking about energy, as you say, and classical economics, all developed since the dawn of the energy-fueled Industrial Revolution, has abundant and cheap energy embedded in its logic, even though economists don't appreciate this implicit assumption. In that sense, classical economics is fundamentally faulted.

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Apr 25Liked by William M Briggs

Even if Musk was a free speech advocate personally, he's still beholden to the various investors that pitched in to purchase X. That explains his early attempts to form an 'advisory board' with the ADL, etc. Then his choice of CEO. X is most certainly not a free speech platform.

As for the content, I dimly recall an article or two that described the societal impact of so many young males being killed off in WW1. It was significant, and, among other outcomes, led to a marked rise in lesbianism. Given how modern single white women treat pets as children, there's nothing particularly controversial in that quote. One can go on YouTube or TikTok and search for 'dog mom'.

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«When the reported tweet is found not guilty of criminal content, the person making the charge should be banned.»

This is Hammurabi law, by the way:

«If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.» (source: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp – in other translations the wording may be quite different but this is the most relevant as it involves «ban» :)

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I favor corporal punishment, of course. But it would be difficult to track down anonymous offenders. Not that it isn't worth trying.

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