Woke stuff has a high survival rate in the online world. The more wok it is, the higher it will rank in search engines, and the more visibl it will be on platforms that feature user-generated-content.

But that's because the big companies in the online world were making
tons of money. Now that competitors are coming up, taking away their profits, and non-Woke companies are taking away their customers, they
are starting to change their tunes.

I don't think there's been any improvement with Facebook. They let Trump back on because banning him was bad for business. But they still keep me blocked because that doesn't hurt their business or anyone else's. To me, it's woke to ban Aaron Thomas from Facebook. They don't want me sharing my Trump rally photos with my family and friends.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I don't think there's been any improvement with Facebook. They let
Trump back on because banning him was bad for business. But they still keep me blocked because that doesn't hurt their business or anyone
else's. To me, it's woke to ban Aaron Thomas from Facebook. They don't want me sharing my Trump rally photos with my family and friends.

I've learned to keep my political stuff low on Facebook.

But I see lots of people posting Democrat-negative political stuff without consequence.


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else's. To me, it's woke to ban Aaron Thomas from Facebook. They don' want me sharing my Trump rally photos with my family and friends.

I've learned to keep my political stuff low on Facebook.

That's smart. There are certain people and organizations that would treat you differently if they knew your political beliefs.

But I see lots of people posting Democrat-negative political stuff
without consequence.

My wife does it all the time. She even has back-and-forth political arguments with leftist business owners, but Facebook lets her say what she wants.

Maybe I'm too specific; I have a tendency to often bring up the subject of 3000 deaths along the US-Mexico border. The left hates when I talk about that. Maybe I let it slip on Facebook, but I just don't remember saying it on Facebook.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I've learned to keep my political stuff low on Facebook.

That's smart. There are certain people and organizations that would
treat you differently if they knew your political beliefs.

Oh, they know my political beliefs. But I guess my posts don't reach enough people for them to care.

Maybe I'm too specific; I have a tendency to often bring up the subject
of 3000 deaths along the US-Mexico border. The left hates when I talk about that. Maybe I let it slip on Facebook, but I just don't remember saying it on Facebook.

Facebook "fact checked" me several times during the scamdemic when I posted links to facts showing that the COVID Narrative was false. Then I got put into Facebook Jail for a bit. But that was the worst of it.

But Facebook was all over the place as to where the "line that should not be crossed" was. But now that we know that the Biden Regime was telling them what to censor, that makes sense.

Most of my political stuff is on X. The only time I got in trouble there was for not-quite-but-almost calling for someone to be executed. But they've been pretty consistent as far as "here's the line, don't cross it".


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Oh, they know my political beliefs. But I guess my posts don't reach enough people for them to care.

Maybe that's what Facebook don't like about me, because I had my wife on my friend list (her and only her) and she has hundreds of friends (several of them leftists) who could potentially see my posts. (I could have potentially corrupted their brainwashed minds.)

Facebook "fact checked" me several times during the scamdemic when I posted links to facts showing that the COVID Narrative was false. Then
I got put into Facebook Jail for a bit. But that was the worst of it.

Do they have a picture of you? My impression is that they just want a photo of everyone, and once they they think they have one, then they back off.

I was allowed on Facebook during the "pandemic" but they censored my conversation with one of my MAGA buddies in realtime. He was trying to share links with me and they blocked the links saying "the link being shared has not been verified so it has been blocked for your protection" or something like that.

Then I responded with some "hateful rhetoric" about Facebook and of course those messages were also censored. "Your reply doesn't meet our community standards.." lol

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

Maybe that's what Facebook don't like about me, because I had my wife
on my friend list (her and only her) and she has hundreds of friends (several of them leftists) who could potentially see my posts. (I could have potentially corrupted their brainwashed minds.)

They want to maintain that balance of "we don't like to look like we sensor, but we can't let your wrong-think impact too many people."

Do they have a picture of you? My impression is that they just want a photo of everyone, and once they they think they have one, then they
back off.

They never asked for one.

IHMO: Your whole "picture" thing was just extra hoops to jump through to harass you in the hope that you'll self-sensor.

I was allowed on Facebook during the "pandemic" but they censored my conversation with one of my MAGA buddies in realtime. He was trying to share links with me and they blocked the links saying "the link being shared has not been verified so it has been blocked for your
protection" or something like that.

"It's for your own good" is never an excuse from the good guys.

Then I responded with some "hateful rhetoric" about Facebook and of
course those messages were also censored. "Your reply doesn't meet our community standards.." lol

Like on Amazon when I correctly labeled 2 books on BBSs "woke nonesence".


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(several of them leftists) who could potentially see my posts. (I cou have potentially corrupted their brainwashed minds.)

They want to maintain that balance of "we don't like to look like we sensor, but we can't let your wrong-think impact too many people."

I see that clearly. Trump don't know about it, but someone should tell him. (Do you think he knows that Zuck is a certified POS?)

IHMO: Your whole "picture" thing was just extra hoops to jump through to harass you in the hope that you'll self-sensor.

They think (probably correctly) that lots of people care that much about their access to Facebook. just not this guy.

Then I responded with some "hateful rhetoric" about Facebook and of course those messages were also censored. "Your reply doesn't meet ou community standards.." lol

Like on Amazon when I correctly labeled 2 books on BBSs "woke nonesence".

That's so hateful! <jk> Where's the hurt feelings button? :)

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I see that clearly. Trump don't know about it, but someone should tell him. (Do you think he knows that Zuck is a certified POS?)

Without a doubt Zuck's a cuck.

IHMO: His "donation" to Trump was more of a "please don't put me in jail".
But Trump has bigger fish to fry and keeping people like Zuck scared is a good thing.

They think (probably correctly) that lots of people care that much
about their access to Facebook. just not this guy.

A lot of people do care. They used Facebook as a platform to make money. Deplatforming them is like getting kicked out of the coffee house when you need a place to work.

They probably thought you were one of those people (for some strange reason - but the Left has always had a problem with facts).

Like on Amazon when I correctly labeled 2 books on BBSs "woke nonesence".

That's so hateful! <jk> Where's the hurt feelings button? :)

On Amazon, that button is labeled "turn off his ability to leave reviews."


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IHMO: His "donation" to Trump was more of a "please don't put me in
jail". But Trump has bigger fish to fry and keeping people like Zuck scared is a good thing.

Zuck said that "The Biden administration made me do it" but yea right. He colluded with them; he wasn't victimized by them.


He probably thinks that by donating that he's holding a door open.

That's so hateful! <jk> Where's the hurt feelings button? :)

On Amazon, that button is labeled "turn off his ability to leave
reviews."

That's smart of them (half-smart.) They'll still take your money. Facebook don't even want my money.

Don't worry: I'll fill in for you on non-woke reviews on Amazon. Maybe my air filters seemed a little like they were made by DEI hires, or something ;)

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

Zuck said that "The Biden administration made me do it" but yea right.
He colluded with them; he wasn't victimized by them.

Oh, without a doubt.

He probably thinks that by donating that he's holding a door open.

Keep your friends close. But keep your enemies closer.

That's smart of them (half-smart.) They'll still take your money.
Facebook don't even want my money.

We don't generate enough revenue for them. Between the Brave browser (with a built-in ad blocker) and me blocking every ad that pops up, I doubt I generate enough revenue for Facebook to care one way or another.

Amazon, on the other hand, lost a good customer and probably more when I told everyone I knew about what they did to me.

On top of that, one of the bit needs today is some thing to replace the "gatekeeper" function of publishers.

It used to be that publishers functioned as a sort of gatekeeper. They would only publish books that (they think) would probably sell well (i.e. they were at least pretty good). Today, anyone can publish. So we have tons of ebooks and, as the saying goes, 90% are crap. But we can't find the 10%. Amazon had the opportunity to be the way we tell what's crap and what's not, but if they won't let people leave bad reviews, that won't work.

Don't worry: I'll fill in for you on non-woke reviews on Amazon. Maybe
my air filters seemed a little like they were made by DEI hires, or something ;)

I buy so little on Amazon today, it would make no difference.


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Speaking of books, I read a lot. Most of my books are older books now (Think of stuff from Project Gutenberg). But every so often I get a
newer one in my queue. So far, the newer books are batting 0. I delete it soon after I start it. They just aren't very good.

Life is too short to read bad books.

I'm not much of a book reader but I agree. Reviews on books could save people a lot of time. I'd hate to reach page 100 just to find out that I'm reading a woke book.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

Life is too short to read bad books.

I'm not much of a book reader but I agree. Reviews on books could save people a lot of time. I'd hate to reach page 100 just to find out that
I'm reading a woke book.

You'll see that it's work by page 10, for sure. :)

But I don't want to pay $30 for a Woke book.


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Quoting Ron L. to Aaron Thomas <=-

Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

Life is too short to read bad books.

I'm not much of a book reader but I agree. Reviews on books could save people a lot of time. I'd hate to reach page 100 just to find out that
I'm reading a woke book.

You'll see that it's work by page 10, for sure. :)

But I don't want to pay $30 for a Woke book.

I am a gun owner and was interested in reading about how the AR-15
came to be. So I got a book called "The American Gun, the story of
the AR-15".

Good thing I picked it up at the library instead of reading the
glowing reviews on Amazon (although there were some real reviews
rated at 1 star, most of them were glowing).

Within reading the prologue, I could tell this book was written by
people who want to ban guns. The first part follows how Eugene
Stoner came up with the weapon. The last 2/3rds are devoted to
hysterical liberals who want to ban the bad things. One of the 1
star reviews notes that "the writing is so slanted, they were
suprised it didn't slide off the table when they set it down."

If I would have went by the reviews and purchased this because I
wanted to know more about the AR-15, it would have been a waste of
money due to the liberal slant of the writers.

Have a great day!


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