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That is the polite phrase. For some privileged evangelists the fan base is quite large and can grow larger with the right attitude. https://www.rojakpot.com/reiner-fuellmich-covid-grand-jury/amp/

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I sent some info to Reiner. Like Glenn Greenwald from years earlier he was not in the least interested despite it addressing one of his questions, who from Germany was involved in the YGL group. For Glenn it was evidence of the corruption of a NZ PM which he clearly showed later he was not only uninterested in but shitty for a peasant even bringing it up.

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The hand is out on Substack and the appeal is from the all American character in Melville's Confidence Man. Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?”

― Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man

Not a call for organized global resistance. Not a unified voice. Lots of shout outs and glad handing and breaking scientific information that Francisco Franco is dead and Vaccines kill and Covid just a figment of the Chinese imagination running away again like a stray Ox. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pAMfzHPKejg&feature=youtu.be

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I think there's a term for it, grifting.

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Jun 6, 2022Liked by Richard Seager

Waste of money, he's demented

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I tend to agree, he sounds like he needs some psychiatric help, or maybe he just needs 20 years on catching up on how the world works.

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How do you word it then?

"sounds like he needs some XXXXX help"

What is XXXXX?

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Illuminating lawsuit. We never saw the twitter censorship until Berenson's lawsuit. It wasn't happening for years before or anything. Guy makes six figures on Substack a month, and hundreds of thousands from his books. What if he loses? Suckers everywhere.

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Jun 6, 2022Liked by Richard Seager

I wondered that, if we contribute, and he gets an outrageous judgement, it seems a little... Should at least refund people's donations, right?

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They never do this for donations. Somehow we were tricked into donating to people who are wealthy.... cause they "pretend to be on our side". Meanwhile he badmouths cannabis etc. Its really crazy that he gets this credibility, despite being so wrong on other things.

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Yep there aren't too many on Substack who make enough money to justify the effort. Mine doesn't get anywhere near and based on my stats I'd need about 30k subscribers to change that (about 600 times more than I have). But I think Igor Chudov was saying the same about his substack the other day and he must be in the 1,000s of subscribers. Figure you need fame from outside to bring enough here, or alternatively it's a bit of a sham and there's a few billionaires around subsidizing only some substackers.

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Is Elon donating.

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