<div dir="ltr"><div>I recently visited a tiny town in the western slope of Colorado. The small town does not have it's own newspaper, so from what I could tell the people read something called the Epoch Times. It appears to me to be blatant right wing propaganda. </div><div>It turns out that the Epoch times is at least partially funded by the persecuted Chinese religious movement called the Falun Gong. I don't know much about them other than that they appear to have a serious and justified problem with China. It suddenly makes more sense why the republicans in my circle are now so anti China. How did this chinese religious movement end up allying with the far right media machine? </div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Cody Smith</div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:09 PM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr">The "Freedom Phone" which is supposed to protect
your fragile conservative egos from the ravages of big tech,
turns out to be a $179 retail Shenzhen manufactured phone being
sold for $499 retail with a generous affiliate cut to the right
wing mouthpieces willing to promote it. And it's app store is a
skin over the google play store. <a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/freedom-phone-overpriced-smartphone/" target="_blank">https://www.xda-developers.com/freedom-phone-overpriced-smartphone/</a>
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<div>I wonder if there's a Guinness world record for number of
people in an abusive codependency?</div>
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<p>I dunno, it seems like by rough measure the entire third world
(under colonization at some level) and the entire first world
exploiting/extracting from them would seem to suggest order 8bn ?</p>
<p>I take your point re: Right Wingnut abusive co-dependency.
Where lies the distinction between codependency and co-evolution?
We have spoken here before about parasitic symbiotes. Have our
polarized right/left not somewhat co-evolved together and are also
in-fact codependent to some extent? The Right *needs* the left
to be someone they can "own" in the same many men use their
wives/children/subordinates/dogs as a place to shore up a thinning
ego?</p>
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