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<p class="card-text line-clamp-3">Paramount Skydance’s sprawling media empire will get a major boost if the deal is approved.</p>
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<p class="card-text line-clamp-3">The tech billionaire’s AI technology is ushering in a dystopian Big Government as he races to beat his political opponents to the end times</p>
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</div></p><p>Literacy &amp; good health gives longevity, ie time enough to learn. The wealthy do all they can to reduce longevity in the poors.<br /><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/dan-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://www.</span><span>vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/da</span><span>n-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents</span></a></p><p><div class="card col-md-9 col-lg-6 position-relative link-preview p-0">



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</div></p><p>Health care austerity &amp; cost-cutting are eugenics schemes poorly disguised. </p><p><div class="card col-md-9 col-lg-6 position-relative link-preview p-0">

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<p class="card-text line-clamp-3">The Conversation The Trump administration’s overhauling of the decades-old childhood vaccination schedule, announced by federal health officials on Jan. 5, 2026, has raised alarm among public …</p>
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<p class="card-text line-clamp-3">Tucker Carlson’s sycophantic interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, and his subsequent praise for Russia’s subways, supermarkets and cheeseburgers, was not journalism. It was propaganda.</p>
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</div></p><p>Tucker Carlson's "Just Asking Questions" technique is just one example. <br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://</span><span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_m</span><span>anagement_theory</span></a></p><p>These narratives are funded &amp; amplified by people like Elon Musk &amp; Putin.<br /><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/09/05/tenet-media-russia-rt-tim-pool/" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://www.</span><span>washingtonpost.com/style/media</span><span>/2024/09/05/tenet-media-russia-rt-tim-pool/</span></a></p><p><div class="card col-md-9 col-lg-6 position-relative link-preview p-0">



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</div></p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116370838712062479</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116370838712062479</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[npars01@mstdn.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:54:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to @wdlindsy on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:49:00 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>3/</p><p>We must also recognize how The Moneyed manufacture idiots in bulk.</p><p>Precarity &amp; economic duress produces an electorate too busy surviving to engage in democracy. Perpetual endebtedness &amp; high unemployment for example.</p><p>Constant disinformation to engender FUD &amp; TMT creates a group that has had their amygdala hijacked so badly they vote against their own self-interest. <br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt" rel="nofollow noopener"><span>https://</span><span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_un</span><span>certainty,_and_doubt</span></a></p><p>Trump's Iran threats are just the latest example. </p><p>FUD started as a marketing campaign tactic &amp;....</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116370816429531313</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116370816429531313</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[npars01@mstdn.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:49:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to @wdlindsy on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:43:32 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>2/</p><p>Such people are of utility, sometimes unknowingly. </p><p>Charlie Kirk flunked out of college, as did so many broligarchs like Zuckerberg. </p><p>Steve Bannon still ignores how his maladaptive social skills killed his Hollywood writing career &amp; ousted him out of Trump’s inner circle.</p><p>Bannon, Kirk, &amp; Miller are stuck in adolescent rage &amp; unable to self-reflect, learn, &amp; grow. They never realize their blameshifting is manipulated and put to use by the wealthy. They're useful but not trusted.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116370794904636824</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116370794904636824</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[npars01@mstdn.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:43:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to @wdlindsy on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:39:46 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/alex_p_roe%40mastodon.world">@<span>alex_p_roe</span></a></span> </p><p>The idiots of the Epstein class buy idiots for public office, after years of grooming.<br />Pedophiles do that.</p><p><div class="card col-md-9 col-lg-6 position-relative link-preview p-0">



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</div></p><p>The idiots fostered by Koch Network were manufactured &amp; groomed to be dumb</p><p>The Federalist Society grooms lawyers for decades</p><p><div class="card col-md-9 col-lg-6 position-relative link-preview p-0">



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</div></p><p>Example: the wealthy seek unhappy &amp; unsuccessful people in their formative years &amp; immerse them in a system of public corruption &amp; radicalization.</p><p>1/</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116370780067551088</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Npars01/statuses/116370780067551088</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[npars01@mstdn.social]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:39:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to @wdlindsy on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:47:58 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p><span><a href="/user/npars01%40mstdn.social">@<span>Npars01</span></a></span> Human beings, aside from being viciously violent, are exceptionally slow learners. Makes one wonder how long such a species can survive. We might already be living on borrowed time and we (OK, not all of us, but far too many) love being led by idiots.</p>]]></description><link>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/alex_p_roe/statuses/116370576377814471</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/alex_p_roe/statuses/116370576377814471</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[alex_p_roe@mastodon.world]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:47:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to @wdlindsy on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:37:56 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p>2/</p><p><div class="card col-md-9 col-lg-6 position-relative link-preview p-0">



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