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Apr 12, 2021Liked by David Farrier

Funny and depressing, poor Dylan having to read that for a day. The art of delegation is a wonderful thing. So much in the world that is harder to get through because people believe these steaming piles of bs. Someone I know has been offered the covid vaccine but won't take it as listening to similar grifters in the UK. That's the scariest thing, this flavour of idiocy is everywhere. I really hope governments ramp up science education after this, because these people don't have the most basic grasp on how their bodies work, weather systems, the limitations of technology and very basic physics. Also lol doomscrolling in bed and dropping phone.

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Apr 12, 2021Liked by David Farrier

Well at least the Q nutters taught me one thing and it's that the CDC website has a zombie preparedness page and it's pretty good so let me link it for youhttps://www.cdc.gov/cpr/zombie/

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Apr 12, 2021Liked by David Farrier

The 'more knowledgeable than the experts' post. Just wow.

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Apr 12, 2021Liked by David Farrier

I totally understand why you could not bring yourself to view those sites & apps etc! I admire your fortitude even writing what you do! One wonders if the conspiracy theory stuff would have grown so quickly had it not been for the social media phenomena or the coronavirus pandemic? I have already read a summary of one paper that had labelled these followers as lacking in cognitive ability (to question and check before believing) and IQ. Wonder if there will be more corroboration of this? If its true, at least we could predict the likely rabbit hole divers and do something to stop them ruining their lives?

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The level of desperately determined delusion (ie the three D's) is as sad as it is alarming. People are also willing to pay these scammers to indulge in these fantasies. Unfarkingbelievable........ The work you and Dylan do is worth so much more than you know. There is so little actual truth reporting out there, and the 'spin' on so much of it does my head in. So.... Mega gratitude you guys... And its why I will proudly wear my webworm tee shirt far and wide!

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Apr 12, 2021Liked by David Farrier

Love how jacinda got both a "bad" and a "very bad" option for that super legit leadership comparison hahaha

Its so sad, you just imagine if these people actually put their efforts towards something non insane. The world could be amazing

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Sacred Geometry? Are they now using Dreams in the Witch House as reference material?

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Apr 14, 2021Liked by David Farrier

Putin for New Zealand PM??!!

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Apr 13, 2021Liked by David Farrier

Last week I heard that "black threads" were "in the masks" and "they get into you and you can see them move under a microscope"...from someone that hadn't heard of margellans before. I thought "surely not" - but there it is: Freedom Village. This person told me in a revelatory rush of excitement, another piece in the proof we're all at the hoof of great evil - and they seemed really happy about that. They didn't know that Freedom Village is a Billy thing, they'd previously abandoned their support for him. Way to capture the unwitting.

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Apr 12, 2021Liked by David Farrier

It was nice to see in the news the other day that old Billy got one of his 'conferences' shut down for a short while because the facility he wanted to use, a cafe (privately owned), realised who they were going to make money out of. Of course the usual free speech bollocks came out, nothing about right of refusal. Unfortunately another cafe was found close by and the power point presentation went on. Down here in Christchurch he seems to have rather decent following, a bit sucky really.

Isn't 'Sacred Geometry' just another name for the building skills that date back to when only a very select few had access to various mathematic and building knowledge.

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Apr 12, 2021Liked by David Farrier

Ron Watkins - caught (virtually)! Huge interview with Cullen Holden on the latest QAnon Anonymous podcast, very interesting. Sacred geometry?

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In the United States, the relatively newfound love for Putin and Russia as a whole by the Right Wing nuts stems from Russia being the last all white (or mostly white) Superpower on Earth. They fanboy Putin for blatantly assassinating political dissidents and cavorting with young women. Russia has changed so much in the past thirty years, that I feel sorry for poor Elizabeth Jennings from The Americans, the Russia she fought so hard for is long gone and in it's place is a Conservative government that is closely aligned with the Orthodox Church.

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Just skim read latest spinoff release and was quite disappointed with this paragraph:

‘But its psychological toll is a different story. Though Healthline and the New Zealand Medical Association said they didn’t have enough data to comment on this story, anecdotal evidence is that beeturia reduces thousands of New Zealanders to quaking remnants of their former selves every year.’

https://thespinoff.co.nz/food/26-09-2018/psa-you-are-not-dying-you-have-eaten-beetroot/

How did the author actually get ‘thousands’ - is it just some kind of extrapolation? Or just it happened to me, my mate bob also had it, put the call out on my Twitter feed, therefore 1,2, miss a few, thousands are worried unnecessarily ....?

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You can take a bit of a look inside 'freedom village' without signing up, cause the posts are public e.g. community dot freedomvillage dot me/posts/2834 (url deliberately broken by me).

Change the number to see another post. Many numbers are missing, which makes me think heavy deletion is happening.

You can click on Terms and Privacy at the bottom of any of those pages to find out that the site is run by Tiamara Williams, Christchurch candidate and ?deputy leader? for NZ Public Party, or is that NZ Freedom Party, or Advance NZ or whatever.

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