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Sonja's avatar

In 2001, I was a recent immigrant to the US and a law student. A friend of mine, a son of a military attaché in the American Embassy in Moscow i.e. a spy, told me that 9/11 was an inside job. I thought he must have had a drinking problem. Then I got a job at the US Treasury and observed how everyone knew that a financial crisis was in the making and no one did anything to prevent it or mitigate it. I did not know that the American government would be willing to destroy so many of its own people. Sixteen years later, after reporting my manager to the union, which is a protected action by the American federal law, I was fired from my job and had a plenty of time to watch YouTube videos, now all removed, showing towers' speedy fall that defied the laws of physics. So, after seeing one psyop, you can see others. My sister in my home country does not believe there are psyops.

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Pete Ross's avatar

Most excellent questions and also the underlying premise is worth a query now as well: ""Is the original no-virus gang (Bailey's, Cowan, et al) just a bunch of rodeo clowns" cuz lately they sure acting weird. Maybe they were gaining too much traction - the no-virus narrative starting to outpace the overall Truman Show script - so the psyop managers got them to overreact so as to cut their wings a bit?

Or maybe they just got weird cuz it's hard not to get paranoid and then overreact to a perceived threat to one's activism/business model? But they acting in concert as a gang of LARPers would.

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As for what's the most effective debate strategy to counter the pernicious narrative of flying viruses, I doubt that focusing exclusively on the issue of virology lacking proper controls will achieve better results. Steve Kirsch (who definitely knows better) would just retort: "We don't need all that since we already literally HAVE THE SEQUENCE!" And so on.

The bottleneck in this contagion debate seems to lie somewhere else, as when confronted with the question: "How do you know there's viruses flying in and out of the holes in your head?", the people almost uniformly reply: "Well, what else could it be? What else could making all the people sick? Of course it's a virus! Look here at this picture of the virus." And so on.

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If 911 happened today I think I would say to myself: "that looks like a controlled demolition, I wonder if even the planes are real people inside". Something like that.

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