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MAA,

This needs to be required reading for today’s high school students. Your levelheaded replies to those that espouse freedom of speech as long as it’s speech they approve of are masterful! I was taught young by a Korean War, Cuba, and Vietnam combat Marine that our freedom of speech is precious. He saw firsthand how wavering from approved speech is treated by oppressive regimes. Thankfully, my best view of it was seen while patrolling the border wall between East and West Germany.

I’m a 60 years old 7th generation Texan, so in my lifetime I’ve been exposed to some of the most vile and hateful speech imaginable. In high school, that hate was most visible on some Thursday evenings at the corner of 3rd and Main. That is when and where a group of our local KKK members handed out flyers and recruited new members. My brother, best friend, and me would drive past a few times a year showering their hate with eggs. It was a guarantee that at school on Friday at least one of us was going to be in a fight with some of the guys we had egged; but that’s okay, we were standing for people too afraid to stand.

I believe in freedom of speech with no exclusions beyond incitement or fighting words, but those limitations should be severely restricted. Egging the klan back then wasn’t our attempt to halt their speech, it was merely a response. The yellow they wore home was a bonus.

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Wow, Tom! Thank you for this generous and thought-provoking comment! I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments.

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Feb 15·edited Feb 15Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

You wrote: "I will let Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Smith have the closing word since he articulated such a succinct response to your challenge"

https://substack.com/profile/97601739-rabbi-yitzchok-dovid-smith/note/c-15337093

Then again pasted the link at the end.

The Rabbi link is not working? censored?

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What’s your best way to wake-up those who don’t want to open their eyes?

Please share your most effective wake-up strategies.

The more the awakened, the sooner this nightmare will be over!

If the person doesn’t want to discuss injections, then food is a good start:

Why is food poisoning legal?

How Rumsfeld forced the approval of Aspartame.

Artificial sweeteners, MSG, PFAS, Glyphosate ... go organic!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/why-is-food-poisoning-legal

Then I’d follow with "Are you opened to see if the actual data matches your opinion?"

Then I start showing some of the shortcomings of the Pharma industry:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/system-failure-ai-exposes-zero-government

Then, show that every single person in the planet should be suing Pfizer for deliberately injecting an undisclosed carcinogenic monkey virus (SV40) into the cell nucleus of the clueless biohacked, as officially recognized by Health Canada !!!

If he doesn’t like the topic, I’d show this video (all you need is 10 secs in the middle, who doesn’t have 10 seconds for you):

https://odysee.com/@ImpossiblyWackedOutWorld:f/WTC-7-Free-Falling:8

(caveat about the beginning: pot destroys your brain + “Raises Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke”)

9/11: two "planes", yet the third tower (WTC7) imploded, free falling on its footprint like in a controlled demolition. It was out of reach, and all 7 World Trade Center towers needed to be rebuilt, not the closer towers not belonging to World Trade Center... and the “owner” took an insurance policy for the WTC against terrorism, just months before, when no one was taking them … he didn’t show up for work precisely on 9/11 … just as his 2 grown up siblings (they never skipped work before). The inside information about the FUTURE 9/11 event helped masons make trillions by shorting the stock exchange: the records were deleted by the SEC so they wouldn't be prosecuted !!!

Watch amazing short and more evidence here:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/911-2-planes-3-towers

Please watch all of this! Your life depends on it, because there's a plan to murder 95% of the global population by 2050… written on the masonic Georgia guide-stones: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 … ”:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination

- J6: The false flag operation of the fake riot was planned, incited and guided by FBI agents, who broke into the Capitol !!! The same mason-plot was copy-pasted to disband the insurrection against the stolen elections in Brazil! All intel agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA) were founded by masons and are run by them for their own nefarious goals.

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/j6-what-you-need-to-know

It's such a mason manual that they organized the same J6 play in Brazil when it was proven that the voting machines owned by mason Soros, were rigged:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-2020-american-coup

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/dominion-over-us

- At least since the 90s, vaccines are weaponized to reduce the population, for example:

1. Adding hCG to infertilize women: lab detected in 30 countries

2. Overpassing the FDA 10 ng limit to human DNA “contamination” by 2000%, thus causing neuro-damage (autism, asperger, tics, dyslexia in 29% of kids, etc.) and childhood cancer epidemic (n.b. leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas)

Check soundchoice.org or videos at bottom after this page:

100 wake-up videos:

(don't miss the 1st one, 10 min at 2x, an amazing tool to start a discussion):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/wake-up-videos

- COVID was designed as a primer for even more lethal COVID haccines:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-real-covid-timeline

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/not-vaccine-not-gene-therapy-just

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/what-do-bioweapons-have-to-do-with

- You’ll go nowhere and you’ll be happy:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/2050-youll-go-nowhere-and-youll-be

- It's genocide for depopulation:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depop-vaccines-no-myth

- Their main source of power apart from sin-empowered demons? NOT a coincidence that the USA left dollar convertibility to gold in 1971, precisely triggering the exponential government deficit coupled with the trade deficit and inflation.

This is the Achilles’ heel of all nations: masonic and satanic secret societies counterfeit paper money and launder trillions with which they buy Banks, seats in the Federal Reserve (the only private run Central Bank in the world), political careers and parties, puppeticians, listed corporations, media, healthcare corporations and organizations, universities, foundations, judges, etc.:

Depopulation or EXTERMINATION? (finest quotes):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/depopulation-or-extermination

Confessions of illuminati, David Rockefeller (finest quotes):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati

Ex illuminati Ronald Bernard: how the world REALLY works

22 Aug 2017 Original in Dutch with English subs:

https://odysee.com/@QuantumRhino:9/Revelations-by-an-Insider--The-Ronald-Bernard-Interviews--Part-1-5:5

I've got the book he mentions in Dutch (pdf). Looking for translators or someone to volunteer to cut and paste in an automatic translator.

He's right on everything, except joining the Muslims just because he found many Jews within the top. There are many Christened people there as well. Anyone could become corrupted.

The way out of this mess:

1. Create an easy system for real money: private currencies/warrants based on real assets, goods, services, etc. (gold, corn, oil, distance/volume/weight transportation, labor human hour/minute, etc.)

2. Ban legal tender. Let the free markets decide which real-currencies/valuables/warrants they prefer to trade with

3. Ban paper-backed currencies (unlike real-backed ones of point 1.)

4. Enforce a Legal Banking Reserve of 100% of deposits (so banks don't create money based on air) and therefore there's no excuse for a Central Bank, because there would be no risk of bank-runs since all their loans are fully backed with deposits

Anything else you might think of?

Now, are you really ready for this?:

The full PLAN exposed:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-plan-revealed

16 laws we need to exit Prison Planet

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/laws-to-exit-planet-prison

President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”

If you are a mason or know a mason, ask him to ask his 33° master to put in writing and sign it, who is "the great architect" and that he is not Lucifer. If he refuses, then he’ll know who he is really serving, Satan: tell him to get out of masonry NOW. Sooner or later he’ll be required to trample on a cross to get to a higher degree.

Confessions of a former mason (Serge Abad-Gallardo):

https://www.ncregister.com/interview/confessions-of-a-former-freemason-officer-converted-to-catholicism

Confession of 33rd degree master mason - Masons worship deities/demons

https://rumble.com/v294ksc-words-from-33rd-degree-master-mason-rare-video-masons-worship-all-sorts-of-.html

Masonry's Satanic Connection

https://odysee.com/@HiddenTruths:c/Masonry's-Satanic-Connection:4

Masonry's Satanic Doctrine | From Their Own Books

https://rumble.com/v2wg24a-masonrys-satanic-doctrine-from-their-own-books.html

Do Freemasons Worship Lucifer? Evidence They Don't Want You To See

https://odysee.com/@John_4-14:a/Do-Freemasons-Worship-Lucifer%EF%BC%9F-Evidence-They-Don't-Want-You-To-See-%EF%BD%9C-Hidden-Agendas---Walter-Veith:0

Satanic Ritual Abuse and Secret Societies [1995] [VHS]

https://odysee.com/@thisworldworks:1/satanic-ritual-abuse-and-secret-societies-1995:3

Satanic Pedophilia Torture and Blood - Dark Satanic Secrets Revealed

https://odysee.com/@Gmail.com:52/822821884_Satanic-Pedophilia-Torture-and-Blood---Dark-Satanic-Secrets-Revealed:4

UNITED NATIONS LUCIFER AND THE LUCIFER TRUST

https://odysee.com/@dynosarus:c/UNITED-NATIONS-LUCIFER-AND-THE-LUCIFER-TRUST:4

Freemasonry: 100% incompatible with Christ

https://rumble.com/vs9mxb-heres-why-christianity-is-totally-incapatable-with-freemasonry.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nljuLLGpi3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL5BC-Xc50s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddWB4rcChhk

or rumble:

https://rumble.com/vf9zeh-freemasons-exposed.html

Obama pushing Freemasonry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn4RpgfPFn0

WARNING! Weaponization of vaccines:

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/vaxxed-v-unvaxxed/

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Jan 20Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

MAA, my 1st thought on reading this was WHY? Why did you continue to engage and why did you decide to share this with us. What were you hoping to get from your readers and what were you expecting from the people you were engaged with, in particular Dustin Du Cane.???

I read this last night before going to bed and it percolated in my subconscious through the night. I woke up with this subject still on my mind.

Your conversation with Mr. Du Cane is a microcosm (one to one) of what the whole world is having, and probably always has: Who is right and who is wrong? Are both right, or are both wrong? Are there other points of view that have been left out that are equally valid or invalid, but many adhere to?

Whether Mein Kampf abused free speech or should be censored is a side issue to the discussion because such books and lines of thought are published all the time and don't rise to build movements that take over countries and create mass formation psychosis in large swaths of people. The times must be right for people to desire such concepts (usually due to economics, poverty, and oppression).

Karl Marx's writings "Das Kapital" "The Communist Manifesto" is an example of another of one that did. In fact, it influenced Hitler’s writings, but the writings of Marx had a far greater impact on the world, and still does. To censor Mein Kampf builds a far better case to have censored Marx's "Das Kapital" "The Communist Manifesto" from the standpoint of the death and destruction inflicted on the people of the world.

Ukraine vs Russia isn’t really about Nazis vs Former Communists (even though the Russians still are mainly allied with Communist regimes - Particularly China). It is far more about the much vaunted "New World Order" and the plans of the Globalists (WEF) vs individual nations and cultures. Talk about mass formation psychosis, censorship, and control!!! Add AI, lethal viruses (biological and computer) global depopulation schemes, and dumbing down people into compliant worker bees. Meanwhile, most of the governments, their agencies and media are compromised and controlled. Shit-O-Dear! Rinse and repeat until they get the result they are after.

We must examine how we think, because we all want to believe we are right and working for "The Greater Good". But are we? Are we arrogant in our assumptions about ourselves and others? Is our country / culture a, or the bad actor on the world stage?

Am I with the Israeli or Hamas? Both have valid grievances, and both have committed atrocities. Am I with Ukraine or Russia? Ditto. Now how do I stand on WEF /Globalism vs Nationalism? Would it be better or worse to have no countries or culture that are not homogenized into one cultural stew? But, with 80 percent of the people deleted because they are redundant. Gotta save the planet and its resources for the important elites so they can fly their private jets to all the best places, don't ya know.

There is a new book "The Indoctrinated Brain" by PD Dr. Michael Nehls that I just picked up. He talks about the autobiographical part of our brains where who we are - our history, concepts of culture, what we value, and belief resides. What is being done to erase and degrade that and remold us into the compliant people the powers that be and the powers that want to be have in store for us.

This book (which I have not yet been able to read) made me think about all the books I have read, and that Margaret Anna Alice has read and occasionally posts on her substack. How have all those books formed us into a major part of who we are, and who would we be if we did not have access to all those books. Would we be better or worse without all that erudition? Could we ever go back to a simpler life based in the natural world? We may find out. Just an EMP away or other natural or manmade catastrophe.

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Thank you for your thoughtful comment and questions, Swabbie Robbie.

“Why did you continue to engage”

This exchange took place last April, when I was less disciplined about responding to trolls. I have since become more surgical and hit the eject button as soon as it becomes clear there is no hope of penetrating their menticide.

That said, the initial effort to engage is worth making as I cannot tell from the outset how open-minded or hopeless the person is, and as you will see in Round 2, it is possible to help some people see and ultimately choose “dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/i/51525621/in-praise-of-dangerous-freedom). This helps not only one individual regain his sanity but also anyone who is eavesdropping on the conversation who may be persuaded by my arguments.

These dialogues occurred in the context of a highly visible thread about free speech versus censorship, and advancing the cause of freedom over tyranny is part of my mission and thus it made sense for me to participate in the conversation.

Remaining silent when censorship bullies are pushing an authoritarian agenda and allowing gaslighting to go unchallenged make it easier for the propagandists to achieve their aims. Exposing their logical fallacies and totalitarian views helps swing thinkers who are quietly observing see the harmful deceptions, and they may reconsider their views accordingly.

Even if I fail to persuade the opponents or bystanders, speaking up on behalf of freedom gives comfort and courage to fellow dissidents, who may be encouraged to speak out when they see they are not alone (remember how just having one person acknowledge the reality in the Asch Conformity test gave test subjects the strength to stick to what they knew in their gut to be true: https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/are-you-a-good-german-or-a-badass).

“why did you decide to share this with us.”

It is important to document specimens of menticide to help those of us trying to awaken the sleeping understand their motivations and dismantle their arguments. Those engaging in similar discussions may be able to use some of the information and resources I share to help wake up others.

I share these exchanges fro the same reason I provide extensive receipts proving dehumanization (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/the-substack-censorship-wars-round-02 and https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-amnesty-demanders), collusion (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling), democide (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/what-caused-david-mirandas-death), crimes against humanity (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/wake-up-toolkit#%C2%A7depopulation-and-democide), and totalitarianism (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/wake-up-toolkit#%C2%A7totalitarianism-and-tyranny). When the propaganda wears off and the COVID kapos (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/eulogy-for-the-covid-kapos) start demanding amnesty (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-amnesty-demanders), we have records of their complicity that can be used to help enact justice and hopefully prevent history from repeating.

“Who is right and who is wrong? Are both right, or are both wrong? Are there other points of view that have been left out that are equally valid or invalid, but many adhere to?”

Framing the discussion as being about who is right or who is wrong focuses on the participants rather than the larger context of freedom versus tyranny. There are always differing viewpoints outside the false dichotomy issues we are typically presented with, and many of them are superficial distractions from the fact that people are being sociologically conditioned to prefer slavery to freedom (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/covid-is-over-if-you-want-it and https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/my-two-year-stackiversary-lattice). It is this conditioning I am seeking to reveal (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-covidian-a-time-travel) as it is only by becoming aware of the magic tricks (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-the-propagandized) that we have any hope of recovering from indoctrination (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-menticided-a-12-step).

Regarding the censoring of “Mein Kampf,” the simplest evisceration of his argument would have probably been to say that some killers use water to drown their victims, so should water be banned to prevent future drownings?

I agree re: your point about the influence of Marx’s writings and touch on that in an upcoming article so won’t belabor it here. I also agree with your assessment of Ukraine-Russia, Israel-Palestine, and other concerns you outlined.

The “greater good” is always used to drag the people to the bidding of the rulers as I discuss in this piece:

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-uk-government

I have already arranged to do a Dissident Dialogue with Michael Nehls and look forward to reading his book and engaging with him on his theories in the coming months.

Books do indeed form a major part of who we are, and the failure to read is one of the primary reasons for the demise of civilization we are witnessing—a phenomenon Neil Postman documents in “Amusing Ourselves to Death.”

Which books (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/favorite-reads) people read also matters as that shapes the quality of their thinking and character, but the act of reading itself is significant as well.

As Postman explains, the Declaration of Independence and Constitution emerged from an astonishingly literate culture, where farm boys would read books while plowing and Charles Dickens was treated as a superstar. Now, people have eight-second attention spans thanks to television and Tiktok, and they are incapable of nuanced thinking because they don’t read books.

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Jan 21Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

Thanks so much for taking such considerable time to reply to me. I formulated my questions this morning to try to cover the items the discussion brought to mind and help myself consider my own answers to them. As you pointed out, we are talking not just to the person, but to the whole audience of readers and commenters. I try to keep that in mind when I write a comment. Plus it opens the discussion up for others to add to it. I am looking forward to your interview with Dr Michael Nehls. I read the book for a couple hours today and really like it. + Naomi Wolf's foreword was a great introduction.

Neil Postman's “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” I remember that line from an song years ago and it struck me as profound lyric at the time.

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Jan 21Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

This indeed always gives me more hope, motivation, determination, etc, thank you!

Even if I fail to persuade the opponents or bystanders, speaking up on behalf of freedom gives comfort and courage to fellow dissidents, who may be encouraged to speak out when they see they are not alone (remember how just having one person acknowledge the reality in the Asch Conformity test gave test subjects the strength to stick to what they knew in their gut to be true: https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/are-you-a-good-german-or-a-badass).

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Feb 14Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

MAA - did I miss "round two"?

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Yep, and thanks for asking, Ryan! Here 'tis:

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/the-substack-censorship-wars-round-02

P.S. Maybe make sure you still have notifications enabled for me? Seems the Big Tech email providers have been disabling those for a lot of my readers without their knowledge lately.

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Feb 15·edited Feb 15Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

I'm anti-communist, anti-fascist, anti-nazi and anti-financialist. Never wasted my precious time reading garbage like:

- Mein Kampf

- Das Kapital

- The Communist Manifesto

- Ayn Rand (banning the native Americans)

Yet a quick search on Google, didn't submit any quote from those souces inciting physical violence or genocide.

If that is true, why should they be censored no matter how much I or anyone could despise them?

Note: if you find quotes, please share by answering this.

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Feb 14Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

Thank you. Will do.

Sometimes I think it's the stinking Substack app...

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Jan 21Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

I some of the same thoughts. It became painful to read. I am glad I did though

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Jan 20Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

A lot of wonderful thoughts in there. Thank you for sharing all of this!

BINGO:

MAA:

Thank you, Noah. In case you haven’t noticed, the true fascists (convergence of corporations, governments, and organizations) have already centralized power. They are the ones calling for censorship of free speech because it is the only way for them to suppress damning information about their corruption and life-threatening actions being shared by dissidents. They are the true threat to humanity—not the handful of disgruntled misanthropes keyboard-warrioring in their mother’s basement -------------------------------

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Jan 20Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

I said to myself at some point that this is the saddest conversation I read in a wile just a paragraph before you said it. There are far too much to disassemble here that I will try to do in a post of my own.

There is a scary lack of historical context in just about any of the examples used. Germany, Ukraine, Rwanda (even Covid)

The foundation of the difficulties of communication is a difference in the perception of reality; whether we are looking at facts and reality or narratives and judgments. I will expand on this :)

.....on another subject... I was hoping you would notice my mentioning you in my last post on AI...

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Sounds like we’re on the same wavelength, Zork, and thank you for reminding me about your post! I had tabbed it off but have been so busy trying to finish up articles lately that I haven’t been able to get to my umpteen thousand tabs not to mention comments and correspondence.

Please do alert me if you wind up writing a piece on communication challenges stymied by different perceptions of reality—it is a topic well worth exploring!

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Jan 21Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

This is what I posted in Notes.

So thankful MAA! I am learning and understanding that censorship is always the tool of the authoritarians.

“We are all adults, and everyone has the right to access the content and make determinations based on their own critical thinking, research, and vetting criteria. It saddens me when I see people not only willing but eager to outsource their thinking to others.”

This is the crux of the argument for me.

Peter Nayland Kust: “Myself, I am a libertarian. My desire to live and die a free man.”

Anyone who takes the time to read this article has to know that “civil discourse,” or “nice polite speech,” clearly isn’t free speech?

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Based.

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Feb 11Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

Throughout your debate with Mr. Du Cane, I felt my frustration level rising. I have engaged in far too many similar debates - ones where my opponent repeatedly infers (or outright states) that he/she is far more educated than I (without, of course, knowing my level of education or depth of knowledge on a particular topic), and that I am clearly too uneducated or uninformed to understand their superiority. (As a female who has a career in an extremely male-dominated profession, nothing can raise my hackles more rapidly.) I have also lowered my tolerance for these types of arguments over the years and hit the ‘eject’ button earlier. I will admit that I occasionally still find it fun to toy with them a bit and watch their frustration level soar because they cannot make me submit to their obvious superiority. 🤷‍♀️ (Much like you did with Mr. Du Cane, which was kind of enjoyable to watch/read.)

I don’t have anything to add to your excellent points, but I hope all your readers take this statement of yours to heart: “Even if I fail to persuade the opponents or bystanders, speaking up on behalf of freedom gives comfort and courage to fellow dissidents, who may be encouraged to speak out when they see they are not alone…” THIS is so important. Far too many people (I was once one of them) feel adrift and alone. Our friends/family have allowed themselves to be persuaded by our media and the ‘elites’ that anything other than full-throated approval of the narrative du’jour is proof of ignorance - rather than proof of the critical thinking skills that can be so lacking. Knowing that we are NOT alone when we find ourselves swimming against the tide is incredibly valuable - not only at a personal level (though that is certainly true), but at a societal level. For that, I am so grateful for people like you, Jeff Childers, et al. They cannot silence all dissenting voices anymore, no matter how much they wish to make it happen. Please keep fighting the good fight!

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I sympathise. I have had a conversation with a man this year over vaccines who stated and I quote:

“Trust me, I’m more than qualified to comment on how vaccines work.”

And

“But with respect with a discussion of vaccines, I think it’s fair to say that I’m a little more qualified than a building surveyor.”

He never actually gave any information about himself except for saying he was the same age as me. I did ask him but he never answered.

Regarding Dustin, with a name like Cane I imagine he likes beating people! There was another Cain who beat his brother Abel to death...

One anagram of Dustin du Cane is 'id a dunce nuts'. I dare say he just can't being what he is. :)

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A molecular biologist named Emma said similar things to me. Throughout our interactions she made it clear that her view of reality was far superior to mine, not being a molecular biologist.

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The trouble with such as these specialists is they don't see the wood for the trees. Or perhaps I should say body for the cells. Too much time looking at the micro and not observing the macro as it were.

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Kind of like beavers.

beavers have a very unique and specialized set of skills which work well in an aquatic environment. Yet, if you move them to the top of a skyscraper they will still try to build a dam. Their specialization does not lend well to a new environment. They would also have trouble building a dam on an ocean's shore.

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At this point, don't we all attend these debates fully expecting to be confronted with the ad hominem attacks and condescension?

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Absolutely. I’m loaded for bear at the start, and have to be careful how I say things, because I *still* have hope I can make one tiny crack that might help them break through - but it quickly becomes apparent whether they are actually open to real discussion or if they are just so full of themselves they only want to beat you down with their ‘superior intellect’.

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That is my thought as well. The idea is not to "win." As if this was an option. We went through years of BS, we were censored, ostracized, and some of us no longer speak to parts of our family. But yes, there is hope for cracks. I hope to disrupt. I don't take a block as a win, but I do take it as a response. I take someone who hides my replies not as a win, but on the idea that he thinks what I have to say is "dangerous misinformation" which means...it is something he knows he cannot think about. Like the Blue pill in the matrix...just keep the fiction coming.

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Jan 24Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

Madame, I read this from start to finish. It made my head hurt, and not because I cannot use big words and understand concepts. There is a fundamental disconnect with many people. These people yearn to outsource their safety and feelings to beknighted "others." They cannot seem to process that these "others" seek these roles because they are psychopaths and want to be in control. I will think for myself and take responsibility for my own life.

Oh yeah, you are a treasure.

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Jan 23Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

I shared your article to X and while it posted fine it says you must be subscribed to read the article. While I understand that your work is awesome and you deserve to be paid, many people want to see the quality of your work prior to subscription. This is how I discovered your substack. I am paying for your valuable time and research. I think you might gain from offering an opportunity for a free reading.

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Thank you for sharing and your kind support, Tunis! I realize it's kind of buried because it's at the very end, but I have a note about paid subscribers enjoying early access to this particular piece, which I will be unlocking for everyone later (I haven't decided on the specific date yet as it depends on when some other pieces are ready, but it should be within the next week). All of my formal writings are available for free, and this will be, too. I just decided to offer paid subs advance access as a little perk.

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Tunis, I wanted to make sure you realized this post is unlocked now if you would like to share it :-)

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Jan 20Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

Whew! Free speech is the only thing we have.

And basically that is has been crafted to be silenced even more. Wearing mask is a symbolic

Gesture to censor your mouth.

Nazis operation Paperclip 📎 is being fully

Implemented here and across the world.

One must think for themselves reading and gathering what is really happening.

Even so seems most people gladly surrender

Free speech and self critical thinking for

Becoming sheep in safety.

Lao Tzu “ Good men don’t argue”

But when you know something is true, out of concern you share your discoveries and people

Close down. Most people do. Then they will argue

Their point or simply change subjects, never finding a satisfactory closure.

Let them who have ears hear.

DAVOS summary more censorship, we are the enemy.

WHOs solution not better health but silence from anyone who dares ask questions.

Free speech is worth fighting for. It ought not be

Fought for, since it is a God given right.

Nazis in Ukraine and Putin has every right to

Reclaim lands and protect borders and dismantle every bioweapon lab.

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Jan 21Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

MMA I am honored by your presence!

I don’t write often but when I get a chance I do. Attempting to read everything

While being away more from the matrix.

Thought about the abuse you spoke of, reading your dialogue with

Mr

Why is it people attack

Then bicker argue

I imagine this is common, when you put your blood in ink on line and share thoughts.

Hoping some day we can have more open forums brainstorming

No censors

I was on GAB I was shocked at the

Cruel things people said about a comment I made!

Think filters are important but viciousness being cruel is way overboard.

People are brave brazen behind screens

We are old enough to know face to face

Bullies were at least known

Quite sure they will amp censorship

But looks what’s happening

They lose in the end!

Soo they give everyone a cell phone

Do they can track us like sheep

But censor everything truthful

They own google

FB

Don’t own X

So let’s

Think of all the people who put their lives on the line for our free speech

And to have these vampires suck our every word dry

Stitch our lips

To Silence

Is why we can then achieve totalitarian control

DAVOS who commence

They want us dead

Gee I had that same thought about them

Net zero o the 1%rs

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Aww, you're very kind, James, and I appreciate your relevant insights!

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Jan 20Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

I'm anticipating more than just 2 rounds 😉

It's all just so transparent, the most interesting part to me was the overt extortion attempt talking about going to stripe. Is it edgy to say I don't think payment processors should be allowed to decide what's said, or what businesses are allowed to exist?

The correct mechanism is the law. In Canada many of the content they're objecting to is illegal.

While I'm opposed to how speech laws can be weaponized, at least you have a trial and some due process...in theory. This creates a problem because the USA actually has free speech protections, which is what these people are trying to circumvent.

I'm concerned that this whole debacle is a mechanism to drive people into the hands of CBDCs. If private companies can't be trusted (they probably can't) to be fair, secure, and private when it comes to financial transaction freedom and privacy then the logical conclusion is getting the state involved. (https://www.commondreams.org/news/public-banking-act). Of course the government like the corporations will still censor all the same, but most people won't be affected so it will be harder to get a coalition of people to actually care about financial transaction freedom and private.

I'm very troubled by this because the right to speak and the right to make a living are both prerequisites for a functioning liberal society. We are seeing those prerequisites being chipped away consistently over time, and when you raise the alarm they call you fascist.

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All I know is, in my book, the first person to call the other person a name has ceded the debate. They have admitted that their argument is predicated upon the fact that they think so little of you that they call you names.

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Quite right Jimmy.....hang on, have I just ceded this point? :)

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Feb 6·edited Feb 6Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

Who is using Substack to call for mass genocide for crying out loud? Challenging harmful medical procedures that are being foisted on an unsuspecting public by cronyism is the opposite of fascism or genocide.

When I read insane things like that in forums or comments I am inclined to block or scroll past. No point in answering someone who is Hell bent on thinking of me as a Nazi or White Supremacist no matter what. Those who favor censorship don't see it as surrendering their own rights to free speech because they (wrongly) think the totalitarian behemoth is their pet and will always do their bidding. Because they wear white hats and only the EVUL NAZIS wearing black hats, opera capes and twirling long mustaches will get censored/canceled they have nothing to fear.

Yep. My black and white hat metaphor was intentional. Dustin completely lacks self-awareness. Probably has no humility or sense of humor either. Control freaks and raging egotists tend to be that way. Especially when you throw totalitarianism into the mix.

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Jan 30Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

Hi, MAA I don't seem to be able to find your note from last week or so, posted about the owners and or staff of SubStack where we can support/appreciate the user- positive efforts through unsustainable censorship. To show appreciation.

Thanks Margaret.

ORION

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Jan 30·edited Jan 30Author

Aww, thank you for checking, Orion! Here is that post along with the link to the comments where you can leave a note of thanks:

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/on-fearing-freedomplus-thanking-substack

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/on-fearing-freedomplus-thanking-substack/comments

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Jan 31Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

Much appreciated 🥰!

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Thank you for your tireless efforts to defend free speech. It always amazes me how short-sighted that people can be in their attempts to control others. Political winds shift and the methods that you have allowed the government and other institutions to impose upon your enemies are now ripe for use in oppressing the ideologies with which you identify.

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Feb 6Liked by Margaret Anna Alice

MAA, you possess incredible patience, resilience. I would have early on tossed Dustin Du Cane "Gay kaken ofn yahm". Chris Martenson at Peak Prosperity has taken a closer look at the medical-science fact-chokers at the NYT. How young and scientifically illiterate they are.

I can't remember where I read it, but in the age group 18-39, 54% think we have too much free speech. (I might be mistaken on the numbers.) And in a Christmas letter from my college buddy, former Student Body President in the late 60's, his last words, vote carefully and beware of fake news. This means do not read substack. I'm the only one in about 20 who declined the jab.

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