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 Bill Gates gave $50 million to an entity supporting Kamala, made it a "dark money" contribution so nobody would know.

His ex-wife and kids are also using their own millions for Kamala.

Gates was spurred on by fellow multi-billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/elections/bill-gates-future-forward-kamala-harris.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UE4.2YJR.QxJmbCQFzj6u&smid=url-share 
 So many people who claimed free speech as one of their top causes, if not their main one, have been silent - or even supportive - of the vast censorship of Israel critics since Oct 7 in the West.

Since Oct 7, the most common US campus censorship has been pro-Palestinian voices:

https://bird.makeup/@yanisvaroufakis/1779138753061068918 
 The Canadian government, armed with one of the world's most repressive online censorship schemes, announces that all "online streaming services that offer podcasts" must formally register with the government to permit regulatory controls:

https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications/news/2023/09/crtc-takes-major-step-forward-to-modernize-canadas-broadcasting-framework.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7W-rnyW8AAorPO.jpg 
 Not only is corporate media like @The Associated Press predictably running hit pieces on Rumble for its crime of not obeying censorship orders of the neoliberal establishment, but British media outlets are explicitly threatening that Rumble will be banned from the UK under its repressive new law: 

https://bird.makeup/@timcast/1706291293746585960

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F633eusXAAADJVo.jpg 
 Here's the person whom the absolute dumbest people on this website today are claiming is "right-wing": Russell Brand.

Their brains are completely broken, binary, and stunted, incapable of understanding that one can understand the world beyond Mitch McConnell v. Nancy Pelosi.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6KfhZEWMAANS9V.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6KfjyAXQAAo39A.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6Kfjx-XUAAQ3N2.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6Kfjx9WQAAw7Aq.jpg 
 Other than a need to show that Trump was wrong and Fauci was right:

Can anyone explain the quasi-religious need of liberals to blame the COVID pandemic on what they say is China's filthy, primitive, unsanitary food markets rather than on dangerous US-funded research in Wuhan?