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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

1 year

Hi folks, I'm on Twitter - finally!

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Mattias Desmet

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1 year

Dear friends, Last week I was invited to give a short speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. In many respects, a speech in the European Parliament is a speech in the beating heart of one of the institutions at the forefront of the processes that I (we) have criticized

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Dear friends, Things are getting quite interesting in the mainstream media. Here and there, something real is seeping through the omnipresent facade. I read in an opinion paper in The New York Times (author: Maureen Dowd) that Biden was removed from the presidential race

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

1 year

I've known @DrAseemMalhotra 's work for more than 10 years now. His quiet and determined truthfulness is an oasis in today's propaganda desert. Grateful that I could finally meet the man behind the legend.

Dr Aseem Malhotra

@DrAseemMalhotra

1 year

A wonderful evening in Antwerp in the company of one the most important figures in understanding our misguided response to the covid pandemic. So much in common with author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism, Professor Mattias Desmet. Solution to this horror? Speak the truth 👊

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

2 months

Dear friends, A so-called 'false flag' operation is coming to light at a record pace. The media initially wanted us to believe that 'the Russians' blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. Anyone with any ability to critically distance themselves raised an eyebrow. The Russians blow up

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Mattias Desmet

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6 months

Can you believe someone wrote this 70 years ago? 'By means of ever more effective methods of mind manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms - elections, parliaments, supreme courts, and all the rest - will remain. The underlying substance will

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Mattias Desmet

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We are moving at record pace from the stage of indoctrination and propaganda to the stage of terror.

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Mattias Desmet

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1 year

Some people make a difference in this world - spent a great evening in Ghent with professor @DrJBhattacharya , one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

This is the essence of the psychological process that is going on in the world right now. On the one hand we see the emergence of masses, a globalist mass united by a propagandized, ideological opinion, but also counter-masses united by other fanatical narratives. On the other

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Mattias Desmet

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5 months

Here you go people. Aldous Huxley quoting Eric Fromm (Brave New World - Revisited). It’s about normal people: ‘The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our

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Mattias Desmet

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6 months

Dear friends, yesterday I arrived in Iceland, for a lecture about my book on totalitarianism. I am often abroad for that reason, but Iceland is one of a kind. This morning the window of my hotelroom showed me the scenery below. The quiet of this frozen, volcanic world is a

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Mattias Desmet

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7 months

Last Monday, I had the honor of being invited by US Senator Ron Johnson to engage in a panel discussion held at the US Senate, titled 'Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel: What Are They Hiding?'. You can find my speech here:

My Speech at the U.S. Senate

Last Monday, I had the honor of being invited by US Senator Ron Johnson to engage in a panel discussion held at the American Senate, titled 'Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel: What Are...

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

1 month

Please read Zuckerberg's letter from the beginning until the end. How the new censorship works.

House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@JudiciaryGOP

1 month

Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things: 1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans. 2. Facebook censored Americans. 3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story. Big win for free speech.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

3 months

Dear friends, A few reflections are emerging in the quiet air of the summer evening. It was a historic day. Julian Assange is once again a free man. Or is he? What does freedom mean if one must pay for it with a coerced confession of guilt? This is what I read in the fading

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

1 month

Dear friends, I am busy writing my next book and I like it. A short contemplation today. You know it already: After Google/YouTube will have to testify under oath in court for suppressing content regarding the attack on Trump (and other undemocratic election manipulation), Mark

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

8 months

As I observe the media's reactions to Tucker's interview with Putin, I rarely witness such widespread panic when someone is finally granted the right to speak. I would say: don’t forget to listen.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

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Dear friends, my publisher Chelsea Green just informed me that my book The Psychology of Totalitarianism is now available in paperback version. And I want to use this occasion to thank all the people who recommended my book: Eric Clapton: "Mattias Desmet’s [theory of mass

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

2 months

From my latest article on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games: It shows cultural maturity when there is openness and room for peculiarities regarding sexuality, a space where a person can realize themselves as a singular sexual being. But the woke spectacle we saw at the

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

It's everywhere in the newspapers, around the world: Elon Musk's drug use is worrying. Never think propaganda can't get nastier. Some people are really scared of free speech.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

My friends, happy New Year to all of you! Mattias

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@DesmetMattias

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There’s been speculation about why Pavel Durov visited France, particularly given that an arrest order had been issued against him there. Rumors now suggest that President Emmanuel Macron might have invited Durov to have dinner with him to lure him into a trap. At least, Le

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

This is crucial to understand: propaganda is not a historical coincidence, it is a structural consequence of rationalism. If you consider the psychological structure of our current society, it’s fair to say that propaganda is the major guiding principle. In a remarkable way, the

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

2 months

Quite dramatic if you jeopardize the health of your entire population to do a medical experiment and subsequently lose your dataset.

“Sudden And Unexpected”

@toobaffled

2 months

How Convenient - The vast majority of the Israeli government’s official data for Covid mRNA shot side effects has been “lost,” according to reports. Israel’s Health Ministry failed to review 82% of reports on side effects from Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The missing data was

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

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If you want to know how mass formation caused intolerance for dissonant voices looks like - read this.

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@JohnOBrennan2

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Exactly the right decision by the Brazilian court: Musk’s days of spreading disinformation and monetising hate are coming to an end. The digital disinformation militias will no longer be able to function. Now let’s see the European Union follow suit.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

1 year

A few days ago the Think Local festival was cancelled. I was one of the speakers. Apparently, the organizers were extremists. Please listen to this conference - do you hear extremists speaking? Or is the cancellation a manifestation of the intolerance of our ‘inclusive’ society?

Think Local

@WeThinkLocal

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Following the cancellation of the Think Local Festival in Ireland, the organisers gathered privately with friends, family and with some of our speakers, to issue a statement and to discuss what happened. #thinklocal #freespeech

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

2 months

New article. Yes, the opening ceremony parodied the Last Supper. And it would be nice if the media admitted that: The most remarkable thing, above all, is that the fact-checkers and woke enthusiasts indeed did not see that it was about the Last Supper. They even mocked those who

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

'The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood,

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

Is there a difference between a real and a digital conversation? Is there a difference between a conversation with a human being and a conversation with a sophisticated computer? I have spent fifteen years conducting research into (real) conversations between therapists and

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

10 months

Klaus Schwab will own everything and he won’t be happy.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

1 year

In this follow-up conversation with Dr. Gerard Casey and Sara Haboubi, we talk about the importance of truth-telling in a world plagued by propaganda and indoctrination, where thousands of United Nations’ Digital First Responders hunt down every dissonant voice on the digital

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

6 months

Here you go (credits to Annelies Van Belle for bringing this quote to my attention).

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

18 days

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

1 year

No joke - the United Nations recruited a small army of more than 100.000 (!!) 'digital first responders' in 2020. Their mission: silence every critical voice. We don't know who they are. Some call them 'ambassadors of truth', some might call them virtual brownshirts.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

Elon Musk embodies a combination of two characteristics that rarely co-occur: a fanatic belief in a materialist-rationalist, technological future for mankind and a courageous and genuine respect for free speech.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

1 year

Rumble’s response to Caroline Dinanage’s demand to demonetize Russell Brand - a fine example of Truth Speech.

Rumble 🏴‍☠️

@rumblevideo

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Rumble's response to the UK Parliament's letter to our CEO @chrispavlovski

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

3 months

Tucker not impressed by manipulative journalists. Enjoy.

Tucker Carlson

@TuckerCarlson

3 months

Meet the Australian media.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

In the preface of a book of Max Planck, Einstein claimed that it is a mistake to believe that science originates from supreme logical-rational thinking; it originates from what he called a capacity for ‘einfühlung’ in the object one investigates, which means as much as ‘a

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

The mainstream media regularly spread conspiracy theories - yes they do. The Chinese woman who claimed that the coronavirus escaped from a lab is said to be secretly working for Steve Bannon, Putin is said to have financed Trump's election campaign, the Russians are behind the

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

3 months

My latest essay : The de-souling of the world.

The de-souling of the world

I was walking through an airport in Lithuania in mid-April and stood in line at a coffee bar.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

4 months

This idea that we can be whatever we 'identify' with, how does it relate to the idea that homo sapiens can upgrade into Homo Deus?

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

And what might totalitarianism wish for - A happy New Fear?

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

Here is how I deal with mud-slinging. First, I search in the mud for the little bit of truth that might be in it. In my experience, as soon as you humble yourself and look for the little diamond of truth, you will no longer be so bothered by the mud.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

8 months

And this is the other side of Elon Musk: forerunner in transhumanism. Dramatic.

Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its first brain chip in human

Patient recovering well with signs of ‘promising neuron spike detection’, says startup’s founder

www.theguardian.com

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

1 month

Take a few minutes to read this. Helps you to understand certain aspects of the complex dynamical system we are living in.

Jeffrey A Tucker

@jeffreyatucker

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Thinking back on the Fox cancellation of @TuckerCarlson , I simply could not understand it at the time. He was the highest rated news show, beating all competition. Isn't that what networks want? Now it is very obvious to me. Look at the ads, not the ratings. That's what matters.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

5 months

A few paragraphs from my latest article ‘Suicidal Society’ - 'Upon a closer examination, the sentimental ‘protection of the elderly’ during the corona crisis was rather cruel and absurd. For instance: why were the elderly dying in hospitals not allowed to see their children and

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Mattias Desmet

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9 months

If you only love the Other if he resembles you, then you do not love the Other, but your own reflection in the mirror. And what you are experiencing is not love, but narcissism. And that's how we can see what a real group - a real “community” - is. A real group is not based on

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

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The masses of yesteryear (i.e. the crusades, the witch hunts, etc.) were physical masses – the masses consisted of a group of people physically coming together. The current masses, on the other hand, consist of individuals who, each in digital solitude, are infused by the mass

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

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How you treat your enemies during the revolution, will be exactly how you treat your friends after the revolution.

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Mattias Desmet

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2 months

Trump assassination attempt: the limits of the propaganda model. Excerpt: 'It is hard to ignore: the indoctrination and propaganda model is creaking and groaning at all its seams. The Veil of Appearances that is meant to hide all dirty laundry from the public eye is tearing left

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

Here is what characterizes healthcare in a truly humane society: the full respect for the unique psychological and physical characteristics of every patient. For instance, what the placebo effect clearly demonstrates is that the very nature of the human being necessitates that

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

9 months

The person speaking is usually quick to attribute the merits of speaking the words to himself. But that's not right. Without someone who listens sincerely, the words get stuck in the mouth of the speaker. The sincere listener is as necessary as the sincere speaker. Listening and

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Mattias Desmet

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Another one of Aldous Huxley. Excessive will-to-order (alluding to the Will-to-power of Nietzsche) is one of the driving forces behind totalitarianism: ‘It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous. Here the

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

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It is precisely this that makes us feel connected: Speech that reveals something that might make us vulnerable, that reveals something usually hidden behind the outer ideal image on which our Ego is based. This is where the phenomenon of resonance manifests itself, when someone

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

10 months

This brings us closer to an answer to the question: what is the remedy to the disease of totalitarianism? Can we do something about totalitarianism? My answer is simple and straight: yes. The powerless do have power. Nobody is powerless. And hence, every single one of us is

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

5 months

Beste vrienden, Stef Bos en ik gaan spreken. Soms spreek je met iemand en wenkt er in de woorden een wereld die werkelijker is dan de gestalten die je met je ogen waarneemt en de vormen die je met je vingers voelt. Soms klinkt er iets in de woorden van een gesprek dat je moeilijk

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

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And here's another essay of mine - Suicidal society.

Suicidal Society

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@DesmetMattias

1 year

If the state has to protect children from their parents, parents have to protect their children from the state:

The state can raise your child better than you can

A column by Mattias Desmet, published in the Dutch magazine Doorbraak

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If we fall prey to the illusion that rationality can grasp the essence of life, the inevitable end goal of humanity is Harari's Homo Deus.

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In 2020 the United Nations recruited over 100.000 (!!) so-called 'digital first responders'. Their mission: silence every critical voice as fast as possible - here's my substack:

The UN’s Digital First Responders – or The UN’s Virtual Brownshirts?

I found it hard to believe at first, but the United Nations website leaves no doubt about it: the UN recruited more than 100,000 ‘digital first responders’ worldwide during the corona crisis. Melissa...

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@DesmetMattias

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The man who makes no mistakes, usually doesn't make anything at all - Phelps or someone else.

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@DesmetMattias

9 months

@RWMaloneMD My dear friend, all we need is just a little patience.

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Mattias Desmet

@DesmetMattias

2 months

Here you go people. I had the honor of having a podcast with Vinnie Colaiuta, former drummer for Frank Zappa, considered one of the ten best drummers of all time. Great talking with you @vinniecolaiuta

Vinnie Colaiuta

@vinniecolaiuta

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Join the conversation with Dr. Mattias Desmet @DesmetMattias and I on Rumble!

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'If facts hurt your feelings, you need new feelings, not new facts' - Rickey Gervais. There is something to be said about this in times that are both insensitive and oversensitive.

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The limits of the propaganda model: Germany issued arrest warrant for Ukrainian over Nord Stream bombing. #Continuetospeakout .

Germany issued arrest warrant for Ukrainian over Nord Stream bombing, reports say

The suspect was able to evade the arrest warrant.

www.politico.eu

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@TuckerCarlson You made my day.

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Artificial Intelligence makes our lives easier. Maybe. But it has some hidden consequences. The digitalization of society is the breeding ground for digital depression. It makes people vulnerable to propaganda and lonely mass formation:

Digital Depression and Lonely Masses

A Substack by Mattias Desmet

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@dirktheuns Dankjewel, Dirk. En ik heb mijn babyvelletje al een tijdje achter mij gelaten ;)

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@TuckerCarlson We are moving at record pace from the stage of indoctrination and propaganda to the stage of terror.

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New substack: The desire for technocracy – or technécracy?

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@Garyhelpyouwin Thanks. I might need that article :)

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@DrAseemMalhotra Likewise, Aseem - what a pleasure to talk with you, my friend!

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Chatcontrol - surveillance wine in safety bottles (according to Meredith Whittaker).

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@veen_els @IGJnl Beste Els, ik las net je post en een paar van de reacties van je collega's. Ik wil je in alle eenvoud zeggen: dankjewel voor wat je deed, en je bent een mens naar mijn hart. Mattias

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Mattias Desmet

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@Ayaan And this is an addendum to the first article:

Yes, the Olympic ceremony parodied The Last Supper. And it would be nice if the media admitted that.

I briefly return to my last essay on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, particularly to the parody of Da Vinci’s Last Supper. As you know, quite a few people found that parody blasphemous and...

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@DesmetMattias

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@robinmonotti Thank you, Robin, for your thoughtful and nuanced review of my book. Looking forward to meet you next month ar the congres in the UK! Mattias

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@dirktheuns @Knack @vrtnws De meeste factcheckers zijn piepjonge mensen, zonder enig epistemologisch besef, die niet zien dat de menselijke ervaring fundamenteel narratief van aard is. Ze gaan kritiekloos mee in een mainstream verhaal waarvan ze zelden of nooit echt de verhouding met de feiten In vraag

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@flagellan @jonarch09360769 That's a good one. I didn't say that.

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@p_ppieter Thanks.

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@MartinTruther Thanks. I knew the name but never read his work. I'll do it now.

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