Did you know Zerohedge is banned sitewide on reddit? Posting links get instantly deleted

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[–]StillLessons 14 insightful - 5 fun14 insightful - 4 fun15 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

This saddens me, though it no longer surprises me. I've followed Zerohedge for information since 2010. The reason I read them is because I've consistently been accurately informed about subjects months/years ahead of the information showing up in other sources. The Hunter Biden story is the perfect example. As a ZH reader, I've been on this story since 2014, when Hunter showed up on the board of Burisma. My birth family - mainstream news consumers - found out about Hunter from me at that time. They would not have known about it except because I told them. Now look where we are.

It's depressing, because that's just one example. The people in the mainstream universe are incapable of acknowledging the absolute corruption of their premises, while places like Zerohedge have specialized in shining a spotlight on precisely that corruption. If ZH were wrong, that would be one thing, but time after time over the past twelve years, the cynical "conspiracy theory" take has been proven right.

I saw a great meme recently (maybe here on saidit? not sure) that we have a shortage of conspiracy theories in the west today, because they've all been converted to conspiracy fact. Zerohedge has been declared a "conspiracy theory" website. Exactly. And they have been proven right, way more often than they have been proven wrong. Within a few years of each story they are blasted for, they end up being vindicated.

I am profoundly disturbed that people continue to follow the mainstream storyline. Just how many time does the MSM/social media universe have to be proven to be literal "disinformation" before the average person can make the generalization that they are ALWAYS lying to us? Just how stupid has our population become?

This is why I keep coming back to SSRI's and related psychoactive prescription drugs. It looks to me like we have designed a generation of people hardwired to be incapable of skepticism.

I continue to read Zerohedge, and so far they continue to be on the right stories. When they appear to be wrong, I'll move on, but not yet.

[–]magnora7[S] 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Part of it is the education system too, designed after the Prussian schooling system, which was designed to create obedient soldiers after Prussia lost the Battle of Jena in 1806 due to poor obedience. Then they became super-obedient and prussia grew to a huge size and the model of schooling was re-tooled and copied for US schools, to make obedient workers for the industrial system. This system has been perfected. Education is 80% about obedience training, and 20% about learning.

But yes also the pills and drugs and tv and internet... a lot of people don't question things out of fear because they'll lose their jobs or friends. The real tragedy is how fragile people have become, which is probably because of a life of high comfort... hard times build strong men, strong men build good times, good times makes weak men, weak men make hard times....

Zerohedge has a right-leaning bias, but most media has a left-wing bias, so in reality it getting banned is just a matter of tribalism, rather than the matter of factual correctness the reddit admins assume it to be.