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99% of RTE subscribers are new since this article, and it's one of the more important articles I wrote during the early going.

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Mathew, I am very impressed by your reading and apprehension of the history of China. The medical tyranny employed by many western democracies can be described very well by the scheme of calling-deer-is-horse as a litmus test.

The “success” of Democrats and RINOs in the US is their audacious resort to rampant lawlessness while getting away with their crimes.

A friend of mine said that the US is as hopeless as Communist China. I agreed. I still wonder why Hillary Clinton and the criminals in the FBI and Fauci were not arrested and prosecuted under President Trump ( I know Trump made a few mistakes when he walked in the COVID trap)?

The US is over, barring a coup before further deterioration.

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Feb 19, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

We have been witnessing those among us pointing at deers and calling them horses for the last three years, and it is obvious our government is taking note of those who refused to do it. The teachers whose fingerprints were sent to the FBI are just one example. I wonder, as a nurse who has been fired, have they too taken note of me? Because I most definitely refused to call that deer a horse!

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Feb 19, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

With the benefit of hindsight, this article is more easily digested today. Your foresight in writing it is commendable.

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Good article. Reminds me of safe and effective

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When the game isn't science, i.e., calling a deer a horse, don't let yourself be bound by the rules of science.

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Feb 21, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Thank you Matthew,😁👏🏻. 🤔You are indeed a very skilled teacher.

Learning from UK,I think you ruffle the feathers of some of the Med Freedom community , because you are highly intelligent and your mental dexterity allows a deeper insight.

I hope the personal attacks have ceased, and your support groups are helping you.❤️

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This was fabulously instructive. The gestalt of what I think I know shifted in a good way.

All government lies are ultimately a loyalty test; a filter to determine who will be selected for and who will be selected against.

The more falsehoods produced and the faster they flood the commons, the greater the rate reasonable people and healthy devotion to the truth, good faith and good will are reduced in force, effect and practice.

So thus the way is cleared for the normalcy of tyrancy and the promise of its spoils.

Welcome to the modern harvest. The human harvest but for the illusions of the day has changed very little.

Sondheim may have said it best:

"The history of the world, my sweet, is who gets eaten and who gets to eat."

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Excellent and timely!

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point to a deer and call it a horse, call a man a woman and a 'chest feeder' and a 'birthing person'... uhn. And say you nay to this distortion, YOU are now marked for removal. Thus dies a society and a culture...and yes, sanity.

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Very good.

The art of defeating a tyrant. In reverse, the art of sustaining a tyrant, and using this story as an example, we would see those who called the deer a deer killing in that moment both Zhao Gao and Er Shi, and those who chose to follow the lie, and then installing a puppet emperor, like and old and demented eunuch, and control everything militarily from the second rank. In that case, the tyrant being sustained is not a person but a system.

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I suspect that the genetic advantage of calling a horse a horse arises when a group is ravaged by a foreseeable disaster. Afterwards a larger proportion of those who saw what was coming are more likely to survive than those who pretended there was no problem. Laocoon and his sons died for daring to suggest that the Trojan Horse was a scam but those Trojans, who quietly heeded Laocoon, left town that night and lived to breed another day. Back in the day, catastrophes like the sack of Troy were probably not all that uncommon.

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Never teach your children to play "follow the leader".

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It’s a good test, I suggest using it in your daily life. However, eliminate from your circle those who call it a deer.

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So those I see calling a deer a horse are demonstrating their loyalty to The Regime. And by calling the deer a deer, I'm outing myself as preferring Truth. Hmmmmm...

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