Welcome to the Matrix

Flopping Aces ^ | 10-30-20 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

The Matrix was a 1999 movie starring Keanu Reaves. Reaves' character Neo learns that his life isn't real. It is a simulation controlled by The Architect.

In The Matrix, the main character, Neo, became exposed to the fact that reality wasn’t what it seemed to be. He learned that the world as he knew it was actually a computer program which his brain only experienced as “real”. Once Neo broke through his mental limitations and confusion, he was able to become free of the computer program and see reality as it really was – a simulation.

Some of us now live in the Matrix.

Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and the left wing press are The Architect.

They are creating their own vision of reality. It's not real. Freedom and democracy are literally at stake. War has been declared against free speech.  Will Voegeli in City Journal:

On October 14, a New York Post story presented evidence that Hunter Biden had monetized access to his father, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The exposé, based on the hard drive of a laptop computer alleged to have been owned by the younger Biden, may or may not hold water. It is, however, worth noting that no one has ever explained what else, besides the prospect of a direct connection to the Obama White House, could account for Ukrainian energy firm Burisma’s decision to make then-Vice President Biden’s dysfunctional son a board member and pay him $50,000 a month.

The pixels had barely dried on the Post article before it generated, then became intertwined with, a controversy about the controversy. Within hours of its appearance on the newspaper’s website, two of the biggest social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, took steps to suppress the story. Facebook announced that, pending an independent assessment of whether the claims were accurate, it had adjusted its operating software to make it more difficult for users to share or discuss the article. Twitter went further, flatly preventing users from sharing the “potentially harmful” story. It also froze the Post’s own Twitter account, which has had no new entries for the past 11 days, as of this writing.

Alan Dershowitz:

"We're seeing free speech attacked from every corner: From the media, from the social media, from students, from liberals, you name it, we're seeing it attacked, and it's really, as you say, on life support,"

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"To get membership in the First Amendment club you have to actively support the right of people you strongly hate," he said. "If you're a Jew you have to be out there supporting the right of Holocaust deniers to preach their horrible evil in the court of public opinion. If you're African-American you have to be out there being able to defend the Ku Klux Klan or anybody else's right of free speech. You have to be willing to support the free speech of your enemies."

Despite the blatant censorship of conservatives by the Matrix, Sen. Ed Markey says the Matrix must do more to censor dissent.

However, U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) sees a different side:  he doesn’t think that big tech companies like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are doing enough to suppress certain content.

Certain content being conservative content.

A dark future awaits conservatives should the Matrix take control of the government. We would all face a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Robert Reich:

We need a form of truth and reconciliation commission precisely because our normal institutions have failed. We need to understand how that failure happened, who is responsible, and who should face justice. When a plane falls out of the sky, we don’t just shrug our shoulders and say, “Gravity has consequences.” We send in a team of experts to pick through the wreckage, figure out exactly what went wrong, hold people accountable, and make recommendations for future safety.

We send in experts after disasters not just for vengeance but to make people feel safe again. The “reconciliation” part of a commission is just as important as the “truth” part. We still have to have a society with these Trump people, and that can’t happen until we understand what they’ve done and feel measures have been taken to protect us from them again.

Toward this end, perhaps the main benefit of some kind of commission on accountability is that it would allow the American public to reckon with the abuses and violations committed not just by Trump but also by his many enablers.

The Matrix will allow you to publicly confess your sins and enact the proper punishment- Gold Stars on our shoulders and numbers following a "T" tattooed on our arms. I believe that Reich has brought this up a couple of times before, which would make this the Third Reich effort.

[ClearCase_guy]

The rabbit hole is deep
The rabbit hole is deep state

[jeffc]

Interesting take.

Where do I get my red pill. Or is voting for Trump my red pill (so I guess I already took it! YAY!)?

[z3n]

so silicon valley built a reality around everyone’s senses (rather than being stuck in pods with neural jacks) but no one is going to dial inside your matrix and get you unplugged. You have to unplug yourself from the digital matrix that shields you from reality.

Reality always was a bit sketchy anyway. Even before silicon valley we had big three broadcast networks, local news papers and a few dominant national papers, and the radio. Other then that, there was either word-of-mouth or “being there”

Filtering information is not a new concept. The old guardians of knowledge were actually fewer (and more powerful) than they are now but they were also much more subtle and clever about how they did it.

Twitter, Facebook, and Google can shadow ban, demonetize, and even out-right censor some sources, but the people can always overwhelm the system, and people can be awfully clever about skirting barriers when motivated.

[GOPJ]

Robert Reich:

We need a form of truth and reconciliation commission precisely because our normal institutions have failed. We need to understand how that failure happened, who is responsible, and who should face justice...

We send in experts after disasters not just for vengeance but to make people feel safe again. The “reconciliation” part of a commission is just as important as the “truth” part. We still have to have a society with these Trump people, and that can’t happen until we understand what they’ve done and feel measures have been taken to protect us from them again.

Toward this end, perhaps the main benefit of some kind of commission on accountability is that it would allow the American public to reckon with the abuses and violations committed not just by Trump but also by his many enablers.

Is this about as totalitarian as it gets?

[bagster]

#MemeWeek An oldie but a goodie from my personal stash. Tell me about your Red Pill experience pic.twitter.com/BLfhGF64or— 🎃Strider🎃 (@stridermemes) October 30, 2020

[Pajamajan]

When a plane falls out of the sky, we don't just shrug our shoulders and say "Gravity has consequences" we send in a team of experts to pick through the wreckage and find out exactly what went wrong, hold people accountable

Oh, does he (Reich) mean like Flight 800?

And now the Democrats want a Ministry of Truth.
Awesome... We're saved🙄

[veracious]

Globalist and their Bolshevik religion are waging war against YHVH’s (God) reality.

[Liz]

The man is deluded....bigtme.

[dirtymac]

So Neo went from being a democrat to a conservative (not necessarily a Republican i.e. Jeff Flake).

[subterfuge]

Robert the 3rd Reich! I AM a Trump ENABLER! COME AND GET ME!