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Roger Beal's avatar

That article displays every incentive a normal and moral human family needs, to inspire their move OUT of California and INTO Florida (or Alabama, or Montana).

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daiva's avatar

Soi-disant link health inspector here: looks like yours has sprouted an extravagant tail. Chop it off at ?, it's safe & effective 😉 ↓↓

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/pelosi-attack-suspect-was-a-psychotic

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PS Won’t liberate the paywalled section though; though a browser add-on would 😇

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Sydney Seppo's avatar

Nicely put. I had to look up Soi-disant. Chop it off!

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daiva's avatar

Glad to serve! You *have* to radiate authority to engender submission 😇 Looks is all that ever matters 🤸

Looks like doesn't work too well though 😭

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Vonu's avatar

Does Michael Shellenberger require his commenters to pay for the privilege?

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Naomi's avatar

Your point?

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GenEarly's avatar

Having to Pay to comment obviously is Un-demoncratic, Comrade. Writers have that option on their material. Personally I like to comment freely and to pay as I see fit.

I would probably pay to comment here, but I'm retired on SS and prefer to watch my budget closely. Not complaining either, Quite Happy!

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Vonu's avatar

I'd love to thank Edward Snowden for his service to our republic, but I'll not pay for the privilege.

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Vonu's avatar

It is a question, not a statement of fact.

Those on substack who trap people into subscriptions that cannot be cancelled without telling them they can't comment unless they pay are First Amendment haters par excellence.

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David Cashion's avatar

I can't cancel my substack payments ?

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Vonu's avatar

I have yet to find an unsubscribe button on any of the must pay to comment forums.

Occasionally they appear off-forum, and I've used them when they did.

There should be a clear disclaimer on the subscribe buttons.

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John Bugni's avatar

Vonu, I can go on Substack and cancel all of my subscriptions at one time. You are uninformed.

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Vonu's avatar

Mark Twain was said to have something similar with “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do, you're misinformed.” I prefer being uninformed to being misinformed.

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John Bugni's avatar

That seems to be a good strategy, one I could agree with. my comment to you was because you said you couldn't find away to cancel your subscriptions.

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Vonu's avatar

Cancelling all of one subscriptions is anything but a solution to the problem caused by a platform that doesn't provide a satisfactory corrective to abandoning the forums of the few whose readers opinions are irrelevant if they won't pay for the privilege of sharing them.

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John Bugni's avatar

Perhaps. But it's the owner/author's right and choice.

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Vonu's avatar

You are confusing payments with subscriptions.

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Freebird's avatar

Tell Emerald that!

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Vonu's avatar

Emerald who?

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Freebird's avatar

Emerald Robinson’s The Right Way. She’s the reporter who was fired from Newsmax for not getting the vax, and maybe her outspoken views on it as well. She does seem to be a gutsy reporter that I could often agreed with, but it’s disappointing that she doesn’t allow unpaid subscribers to comment. The same for Dr. Robert Malone.

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Vonu's avatar

You'd think they'd both have sources of income that would make this chump change.

I haven't had a television since my last one was stolen in 1987, and I only saw about 5 minutes of Newsmax on Youtube before I turned it off.

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Naomi's avatar

I disagree.

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Vonu's avatar

“I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” is said to have come from Voltaire. It is not from Voltaire, the 18th-century philosopher, but it was a paraphrase from a biographer named Evelyn Beatrice Hall of what she thought Voltaire was thinking.

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Surviving the Billionaire Wars's avatar

Take your trolling somewhere else.

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Vonu's avatar

“I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” is said to have come from Voltaire. It is not from Voltaire, the 18th-century philosopher, but it was a paraphrase from a biographer named Evelyn Beatrice Hall of what she thought Voltaire was thinking.

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