Pluralistic: It's still censorship (even if it doesn't violate the First Amendment) (22 Sep 2025)

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It's still censorship (even if it doesn't violate the First Amendment): Communications monopolies create single points of failure.
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Hate the player AND the game: But above all, hate the crooked ump.
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Blue Cross of Louisiana doesn't give a shit about breast cancer: They owe $421 million for denying 91% of charges for breast reconstruction.
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Private-sector Trumpism: Monopoly, facial recognition and property rights all add up to a private system of government.
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Musk steals a billion dollars from low-income Americans and sends it to Intuit: Forcing you to pay Turbotax to send data to the IRS that it already has is the DEFINITION of government inefficiency.
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It's not a crime if we do it with an app: How Big Potato and the other food cartels did greedflation and got away with it.
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America's richest Medicare fraudsters are untouchable: When you're famous they let you do it.
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