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Brilliant Robyn.

Now, the next step is - to get more people reading your missives. It's not right only 11 have liked this.

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Thank you for your kind words! I'm very happy for you to share this around your network. Since Twitter declared war on Substack, I'm not getting nearly the same reach with my posts.

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Oh, I do share your posts. Copy/paste it into an email and then take out hunks of bullet points along with your/others full link. The bullet points catch the attention of those that I send it to & THEN they'll often click link and read full story. Otherwise, even though well educated, they will often not read real long missives. I love detail. Some don't.

Do you read MWD's stuff? MidWesternDoctor. I do the same with his posts.

Good stuff Robyn

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That's a great approach. Thank you for taking the time to do this. You're so right - it's probably only the minority of us who love the nitty-gritty, while most don't have the patience or attention span to wade through thousands of words of text (although I do my best to make it an entertaining read!!!).

I do read AMD, although I find he's a little sloppy with his assertions sometimes, and doesn't take kindly to being asked to provide evidence!

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Great response.

AMD? who's that? :-) I'm boss here and I say we call him MWD. Joking of course.

Yes about the attention span of the masses. And even the uber educated masses. But, not to worry; by breaking them down in bullet points (sometimes it's almost as long as your/MWD's posts - that's the funny part) for some reason they'll all read it (the bullet points).

Two reasons for this (maybe):

* Easier on the eyes in bullet point format?

* And maybe the brain absorbs it all better in this format?

Just thinking out loud.

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I defer to the Big Dogs of COVID-resistance Substack (like Steve Kirsch) on naming conventions 🤣 but your complaint has been placed in a queue and will be dealt with by the next available operator.

I'm with you on the bullet point thing. That's something I've learned from prepping slide decks for presentations. I used to commit the mortal sin of having big slabs of text on my slides. I've managed to whittle that down to short sentences or even phrases, but when it comes to writer-ly formats like Substack, my old habits kick in.

Another thought: reading on a screen is much harder on the eyes than reading printed material, which is why web designers advise having plenty of white space in between text. Bullet points are a natural extension of this text-to-white-space ratio.

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May 5, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter

How do you find the time to write such thorough articles, Robyn?!?! :-)

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As you may have noticed 🤣 I was particularly highly motivated to do a thorough job on this one, in both senses of that phrase! It actually took me twice as long as most of my articles. But the paper was just so appalling that I wanted to dismember it in a very comprehensive way. Consider it open peer review!

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May 5, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter

Technology and science are entirely different things, so progresses in technology should never be claimed as evidence of scientific evolution. The fact few people know this is evidence we are indeed in a dark age of human thought.

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I believe there has been a deliberate conflation of science and technology to obscure the present dark age.

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May 14, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter

Yes I think that's true, not sure about 'slide' but that's probably the most accurate word to use:-) Have you ever written a stack article about Fluoride, you know, the deadly poisonous toxic waste product that gets dumped into our water supply?

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May 14, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter

Nice article, great stats. I watched this fluoride doco today, sheds more light on the entire sordid mess, https://www.brightu.com/

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Thanks for the share. Will add it to my watch list!

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Ah, Locke and Rawls - takes me back to Philosophy days at uni. Now I see what all that discussion was really all about - pity the two authors you gleefully, and rightfully, excoriate miss the point so spectacularly. Theirs is nothing but a simplistic morality tale.

Spot on, by the way, about Ukraine and the proxy war waged by NATO and its satellites like Australia. I'm doing a Stack on 'Covid' and 'Ukraine' (working sub-title: 'Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v') and you will be quoted (because you have put the key issues so succinctly and wickedly and saved me some brain-time).

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It's a damn shame that the way that philosophy is taught in most institutions obscures the real purpose of it. I did 6 weeks of a BA at Sydney Uni in the late 1980s, studying Philosophy, Government and Economic History. I dropped out largely because I couldn't see any practical use to which I could put what I was learning. I don't place all the blame for this on my lecturers (I honestly think that most kids should take a gap year after completing high school) but I do think they all could have done a better job of linking their subject matter to the lived reality of their students.

I'm amazed at how well-read the Founding Fathers of the US were, despite most of them receiving very little formal schooling. The contrast between the lively intellectual climate of late eighteenth century America and the mind-numbing banality of our own times couldn't be more stark.

I'm looking forward to reading your stack on Ukraine. Just as with the scamdemic, I smelt a rat as soon as the Russian invasion began and the Western media chorus all began repeating the same talking points. Mark Crispin Miller began carrying 'alternative' perspectives on his substack from early on, and I learnt a lot about the ethnic cleansing in the Donbas region from these reports. Scott Horton provides the most thorough and balance analysis of any that I've encountered. He's vehemently anti-war, and critical of Putin for succumbing to Western provocation, but he's meticulous in documenting everythign that the US and NATO have done to undermine Russia's military and economic security since the Cold War (supposedly) ended.

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Yes, those mid-afternoon Philosophy tutorials could be quite somnolent - and not just back in the Jurassic Period when I was doing them but apparently now, as well, judging by the lack of ethical principle shown by uni students of the Covid generation.

Ah well, back to my 'Putin apologetics' stack.

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At least my Philosophy lecturer wasn't openly trying to convert his students to various postmodernist ideologies!!!!!

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May 5, 2023·edited May 5, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter

But wait, there's more!

Do we all get a free set of steak knives once their stupidity has exhausted us?

And how come there are only three official collective nouns for politicians? Did they censor the rest?

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You might just be inclined to plunge one of those steak knives through your own heart before this series ends, just to get relief from the stupidity 🤣.

I'm sure some of the other collective nouns for politicians were not considered family-friendly.

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May 5, 2023·edited May 7, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter

Bring on the stupidity!

We who are about to die from laughter - and possibly a steak knife, salute you!

https://youtu.be/0TU_JL47QLM

I think I prefer the steak knife option.

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May 5, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter

Well written Robyn, brilliant! The 'academics' and journals who write and publish such blatant lies and trash cannot possibly believe their own rhetoric. They are either suckling members of the Billy G eugenics club or just paid shills bending over to take their monthly paychecks, either way they are disgusting and not deserved of the title 'human being'.

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I strongly suspect that they actually do believe their own B.S.. Academia is effectively a cult. Almost all of those who don't believe in the cult's dogmas have been drummed out of it, so those who remain reinforce each other beliefs in a giant intellectual circle-jerk.

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At least cults tend to destroy themselves, the trouble is what they take down with them. (Haha, 'intellectual circle-jerk', haven't heard that one in a while:)

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Cults always create a tremendous amount of damage. I'm cautiously optimistic that we're reaching tipping points on other fronts of this full-spectrum war (e.g. the growing backlash against the transgender insanity, and the dawning realisation by many jabbed people that they were had), and while academia will no doubt drag the chain, eventually even they will be forced into confronting the reality that they've become invested in denying.

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May 8, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter

There certainly does seem to be growing opposition to some of the insanity. I’m more concerned about what is hidden and festering below the surface. The globalism bulldozer continues inching forward. A little Monday morning pessimism for you😊

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I see what you're seeing - the ongoing momentum of the multipronged globalist attack (is there a word for an octopus-bulldozer hybrid???) - but the upside of this is that they're tipping their hand. The more obvious their ploys to grab control become, the more people in the 'moveable middle' begin to slide over to our side.

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