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John Kirsch's avatar

I'm a retired newspaper reporter living in Mexico City. Many expats here are very "bougie." They refuse to leave their colonial outposts in Condesa and Polanco.

Except to take an Uber to the airport on their way to New York or London.

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Tom Karnes's avatar

Of all the names you sighted, one and only one has a major problem, want a hint, Epstein's flight logs, drug addiction, video tapes...

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Dr Rosemary Faire's avatar

I'd guess more than one actually. If pHarma/biosecurity industrial complex has successfully run a global coup, does anyone think that they wouldn't use limited-hangout freedom/antivax movement leaders to channel the "resistance"? Anyone interested in this line of investigation should listen to Dr JJ Couey's experience-based deep dives into the likelihood of such ongoing interference with "concientización". https://stream.gigaohm.bio/c/gigaohm_biological/videos

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Johnny Dollar's avatar

Substack did give it a voice, but take a gander at those same "bougie' lefties who migrated here and their followers. They're thriving and the comments leave me to wonder if we made any inroads.

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Hiyahills's avatar

I misread 'a precious few exiles' as a 'a few precious exiles'. I like it :)

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Toby Rogers's avatar

💚

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WeepingWillow's avatar

I think this is just the urban/rural divide at work. Peasants are closer to the aristocracy than the financiers, bourgeoisie and proletariat, and this is the fundamental secret.

Peasant, aristocrat and clergy are on the same side, as the true landed aristocracy is an outgrowth of the peasantry, and the urban classes see all three as their enemy, hence their destruction when the urban classes became ascendent. Every peasant just wants to be a sort of aristocrat, not in the sense of power and vassals etc, but just in the sense of rural land ownership free of encumbrances.

The rural classes are also immune to the sort of propaganda that traps the bougie and the proletariat easily, because the message appeals only to the values of the latter. The aristocracy/peasantry and clergy have higher symbolic callings that can't really be touched in this life, and are usually willing to die for their symbols. The bougie and proletariat only really care about being fed, staying safe and keeping up appearances for their masters.

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erin's avatar

My impression of liberation theology is that it was always a marxist project, and those who were using it for liberation were hunted, and those who were using it for the usual marxist domination games went on, like the current pope. Am I wrong?

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Turfseer's avatar

A relevant song. THE JUDAS TREE. From Camelot to Cancel Culture—A Musical Chronicle of Progressivism Betrayed. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/the-judas-tree

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Suzanne Renard's avatar

Hi, Toby, I tried to leave a congratulatory note below your announcement ot 90K downloads of your PhD thesis. Can't get it to work. So here is what I wanted to say:

Congrats on this good news about your chef-d’oeuvre thesis, Toby! I’ve read it, talked about it, and passed it on to others. In underlining your brilliant insights, I found I was en route to highlighting the entire thing!

The obstacles you overcame in the process were no less than heroic. But it resulted in a towering achievement and gift to humanity.

I’m working on enticing my dear daughter-in-law who works with children with autism to read it. It will blow her mind.

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Lorraine Smith's avatar

Outsider dealings, with insider influence, very good post, what we called as kids the bogey man in the dark.

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john cyril preston's avatar

I appreciate your clear pithy notes.. this also gets to the point..the psyop shitstorm seems insane, unsocial media helps make it that way..Here in the UK the Vax fans are all over Zelensky like a post jab rash.. Speaking in person across the divide is a rare treat..and we need more of it...I am surprised to find my annoying songs going down well in pubs.. Non bougie people get it. Got it before me.. I bow to that. X

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FelisRufus's avatar

Do you follow J.J. Couey? What is your opinion of him? He is not a fan Bret. I used to darkhorse, but not any more.

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Toby Rogers's avatar

I do not follow J.J. Couey.

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FelisRufus's avatar

https://stream.gigaohm.bio/home

Here is his link. Just in case you never heard of him.

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Kat Bro's avatar

I like Bret. And Heather. What are the reasons for your change of views?

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FelisRufus's avatar

I followed them for three years. I even bought ivermectin based on what Bret said. I just like Couey's hypothesis that all vaccines are transfections. I also like his theory about the limited spectrum of debate. The two sides were are given with COVID is it came from a bat or it is GOF. It is neither. So that is where I am right now. Is Couey some one you follow?

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Dr Rosemary Faire's avatar

As a former biologist I find Couey's journey from academic biologist through lab-leak-proponent to RFK Jr assistant to exposer-of-freedom-fraud and complete antivax position to be credible and congruent. BTW he is not claiming the "all vaccines are transfections" - he refers to the mRNA jabs accurately as transfections (which are harm-producing with or without added extras like DNA contamination and nasty sequences), AND has come to the conclusion that the childhood vaccine schedule in America (and elsewhere) is DUMB because it involves intramuscular injection past the immune boundary (as Brandy Vaughan put it: "ingestion vs injection").

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Moon Memos's avatar

Thank you, you are among those who changed my perspective since 2020. I practice Chinese Medicine in the mountains and I wrote to MCM so he could record all the injuries I was treating.

We are more than our brains though. Our soul, heart, mind, whatever you want to call it is bigger than the brain, so even with brain damage there is hope.

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Toby Rogers's avatar

Well said. Thank you! 🙌

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Kat Bro's avatar

Thank goodness

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Rosalie's avatar

Hello Toby, your comments reminded me of a quote i've been fond of since the 90's "its no measure of success to be well adjusted to a deeply sick society". One of the areas i focus on is to 're-define the measures of success', from 'standard to living' to 'quality of life'. The latter encompasses all the intangibles, like 'how much love, trust, gratitude, generosity etc etc.. have you received/given in your life. From that perspective the 'privileged' live in desperate poverty.

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Vonu's avatar

You were qualified for bougieness by getting a doctorate in four years:-)

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Toby Rogers's avatar

I mean yeah, I was definitely in the bougie pipeline. But they always reject my membership application for some reason.

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Vonu's avatar

You aren't pretentious enough. :-)

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Lazaros Giannas's avatar

Hi Toby, do you have any link of a study that shows a casual relation, or even a likely casual relation, between COVID vaccines and damage of the regions of the brain necessary to process rational thought?

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Kat Bro's avatar

The Indoctrinated Brain book might have the answers you seek. I believe he says it's the hippocampus?

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Lazaros Giannas's avatar

Thanks, Kat. Could you guide me regarding the pages of the book? Let’s see what research Toby has in mind too.

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