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t done saying the opposite of that. That they won't be able to do art. And why? So all caps guy seems pretty drunk. Morning drinker looks like. Anyway, yes. I would go further. Jack Dorsey says we're going to lose free will because the algorithms will effectively program our brains. That's a reasonable frame. But I would go further to the next level of awareness and say that free will is an illus…

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world of lies about everything is if people on both sides have the same version. So if Fox News and CNN say the same thing, that's much more likely to be true. If only one of them says something is true and the other says it's not true could go either way. But if there are people on both who say something's true or not true, that means something.

For example, even CNN's legal analysts and lots of other Democrat legal people said that Trump's Stormy Daniels hush payment trial was pure lawfare and that if it hadn't been Trump, nobody would have brought the case. Now if only Fox News told you that or only Breitbart, you'd say to yourself, maybe true, maybe spun. But if you hear it from the legal analysts on both sides, exactly the same, that's a real good indication that you're seeing something true.

So now you have Fox News ran an article today about Snopes pointing out that you know the Fox News approach has always been that it's been fake. So now you have Fox News agreeing with Snopes and Breitbart's Joel Pollak also writing about this also noting that Snopes is now in conformity.

So just keep this in mind, right? The tent pole, in other words, the most important structure in the tent, the tentpole hoax that got Biden elected is now known by both the left and the right to be based on a hoax.

But have I ever told you about the hoax funnel where once you debunk a hoax, people don't say, oh, I guess you got me. You're totally righ

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t and I'm totally wrong and now that I see the evidence of that. They don't. They back up to a related hoax that had nothing to do with the original and they try to claim that the related thing is the thing. For example, when Russia collusion fell apart, the Democrats didn't say, oh god, I guess that was just a big old hoax. No, they said Paul Manafort went to jail for giving some internal pollin…

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