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 The truth: Julian and people like him are a threat to their activities. They want to get rid of it. 
 Decided today that I'm going to write my own nostr relay. I'm not happy with the existing options, and I think it would be fun + good for the community if I wrote my own. 
 It’s crazy how much “misinformation” is 100% true. 🤔 
 In the 1960s you get called a commie for saying that nothing happened in the Gulf of Tonkin. In 2003 you get called a saddam apologist for saying that Iraq had no WMDs. In the 2000s and early 2010s you get called a therocrat for saying Iran ha no nuclear weapons program. In the 2010s you get called an 'Assadist' for pointing out the chemical weapons lies in Syria.

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 Democracy (in the rare case that it's honest) is just lowest common denominator mob rule. Most of... 
 Things keep getting worse for the average person but we are supposed to believe that we're the ones choosing who's in charge and how our society is run? Democracy is a big fat lie. 
 Personally, I believe that the world should be run by Gough Whitlam 😁 
 I started playing Cities Skylines this afternoon. Great game. Reminds me of simcity.  
 Epoch Times is run by the far-right cult Falun Gong, which is funded by the CIA. I trust horoscope readings more than I trust Epoch Times.

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 They're funded by the CIA.