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...each one perfectly tailored to fit someone’s worldview.
"Propaganda has always existed. In ancient times, a town crier would climb on a stump and deliver whatever the ruler decreed. But at least everyone heard the same lies. Now we each get custom-fitted delusions, perfectly calibrated to our psychological profile.
"The algorithm has become our leash, and we mistake the length of chain for freedom.
"[Every customized opinion] belongs to someone who considers himself well-informed, rational, and awake to what’s really happening. Each one thinks the others are deluded, manipulated, or evil. Each one has evidence that supports his worldview. Each one feels like the protagonist in his own story.
"They can’t all be right. But they can all be wrong."
-- Brownstone Institute
The “Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom” was a law passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 1786 that protected the rights of its citizens to worship as they chose.
The bill was originally drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1779. Some years after the passage of the Statute, Jefferson wrote that during the earlier debate in the General Assembly there had been an effort to limit the protection to Christians. However, this effort was defeated, showing that, as Jefferson noted, “it’s protection of opinion was meant to be universal.” He wrote:
Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word “Jesus Christ,” so that it should read “a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion” the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of it’s [sic] protection, the Jew and the ...
In the face of reality, and in the presence of those who know the details of the destructive proxy war, the narrative of the media is worse than ludicrous:
Ukraine can win the war with just a little more American money and a few more guns.
Trump: “So I asked Orbán if Ukraine could defeat Russia.
"He looked at me as if I had said something very stupid. And he said that Russia is a huge country. They fight, that’s what they do. China beats you with trade; Russia beats you with war."
Having read the writings and speeches of Orban, I would imagine there was much more to Orban's answer. I think Orban would have reminded Trump of Putin's historic intent: defend Russian national security interests in way that would prove to Zelensky that an offensive and provocative war could never succeed. Ukraine had provoked and invaded Russia. Russia was determined to defend herself.
This Zelensky realized by day five, and was eager to get to the negotiating table to stop the ...
