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Commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall, President Trump, Musk tweets to topple the ideological Berlin Wall
纪念柏林墙倒塌、川普总统、马斯克推特推翻意识形态柏林墙

Never forget that or that (at least at this moment) we have platforms like Twitter (𝕏) which make it possible to force the government to be accountable to the people. 永远不要忘记（至少在此刻）我们拥有像 Twitter (𝕏) 这样的平台，可以迫使政府对人民负责。

During the health crisis, the UK has imprisoned thousands of citizens simply for questioning current social policies online.

This shows that-Franklin:
Those who give up basic freedoms to buy a little temporary security deserve neither freedom nor security.

健康危机期间，英国仅因在网上质疑现行社会政策而监禁了数千名公民。

本结明-富兰克林：
那些为了购买一点临时安全而放弃基本自由的人既不配拥有自由也不配拥有安全。

https://open.substack.com/pub/amidwesterndoctor/p/i-would-like-to-take-this-day-to-c7e?selection=0a9a2dc1-510e-4654-8dfb-dab7237c95ba

After hearing the 9 November broadcast, East Germans began gathering at the Wall, at the six checkpoints between East and West Berlin, demanding that border guards immediately open the gates. The surprised and overwhelmed guards made many hectic telephone calls to their superiors about the problem. At first, they were ordered to find the "more aggressive" people gathered at the gates and stamp their passports with a special stamp that barred them from returning to East Germany—in effect, revoking their citizenship.

However, this still left thousands of people demanding to be let through "as Schabowski said we can." It soon became clear that no one among the East German authorities would take personal responsibility for issuing orders to use lethal force, so the vastly outnumbered soldiers had no way to hold back the huge crowd of East German citizens. 听到 11 月 9 日的广播后，东德人开始在东柏林和西柏林之间的六个检查站聚集在柏林墙前，要求边防人员立即打开大门。 惊讶又不知所措的警卫们多次频繁地给他们的上级打电话询问这个问题。 起初，他们被命令找到聚集在门口的“更具侵略性”的人，并在他们的护照上盖上特殊的印章，禁止他们返回东德——实际上，取消他们的公民身份。

然而，这仍然让成千上万的人要求“正如沙博夫斯基所说，我们可以”。 很快人们就发现，东德当局中没有人愿意为下达使用致命武力的命令承担个人责任，因此寡不敌众的士兵根本无法阻挡大批东德公民。

Note: those events are very similar to the ending scene of V for Vendetta—and I suspect may have been the inspiration for it.
Before long, the guards yielded to those wishing to cross, citizens with flowers gathered to greet them on the Western side, people began scaling the wall, and by the end of the day, citizens began dismantling the wall. Over the next few months, guards gradually gave up on trying to stop this or repair the wall, and half a year later, official demolitions of the wall began. 注：这些事件与《V字仇杀队》的结局场景非常相似——我怀疑这可能就是它的灵感来源。
不久，守卫屈服于那些想要穿越的人，带着鲜花的市民聚集在西侧迎接他们，人们开始攀登围墙，到了一天结束时，市民开始拆除围墙。 在接下来的几个月里，警卫逐渐放弃了阻止或修复围墙的尝试，半年后，正式开始拆除围墙。

Breaking Mass Formations
V’s strategy for breaking apart the dystopian system he lived within was to:

•Bypass the society’s censors in order to expose the population to a message that emotionally resonated with them, and more importantly to show them that they were not alone (something Substack has also been invaluable for over the last few years). The speech at the start of this article is remarkable, both in that it cuts to the heart of the fear that maintains each oppressive system and because it, in many ways, is just as true for our current era as it was for V’s fictional world 打破大规模阵型
V 打破他所生活的反乌托邦体系的策略是：

•绕过社会的审查，让人们接触到与他们产生情感共鸣的信息，更重要的是向他们表明他们并不孤单（Substack 在过去几年中也发挥了无价的作用）。 本文开头的演讲非常引人注目，不仅因为它切中了维持每个压迫制度的恐惧的核心，而且因为它在很多方面对于我们当前的时代来说和 V 的虚构世界一样真实

Unfortunately, in most cases, people will not be that guy, because even if they disagree with what is occurring, they are terrified of the consequences of speaking out. This is highly problematic because as fewer and fewer people speak out, totalitarian leaders can tighten the range of acceptable discourse. As history has repeatedly shown, that censorship can rapidly increase (e.g., consider what’s happened over the last decade in the United States—particularly since 2020), and before long, create situations where things each citizen believed they had an unquestionable right to criticize can easily land them in jail or worse.
Note: this happening to my family in Nazi Germany is a large part of why I’ve invested so much of my time in speaking out against things that I feel are just not right.
As V’s campaign escalates, more and more people become comfortable speaking out against the injustices they see, until eventually a national talk show host decides to risk his career (and life) by speaking out against the regime: 不幸的是，在大多数情况下，人们不会成为那样的人，因为即使他们不同意正在发生的事情，他们也会害怕说出真相的后果。 这是一个很大的问题，因为随着越来越少的人发声，极权主义领导人可以收紧可接受的话语范围。 正如历史一再表明的那样，审查制度可能会迅速加强（例如，考虑一下美国过去十年中发生的事情，尤其是 2020 年以来），不久之后，就会出现这样的情况：每个公民认为自己拥有无可置疑的批评权利的事情可以 很容易让他们入狱或更糟。
注：这件事发生在我在纳粹德国的家人身上，这在很大程度上解释了为什么我投入大量时间来反对我认为不对的事情。
随着 V 的竞选活动升级，越来越多的人开始坦然地公开反对他们所看到的不公正现象，直到最终一位全国脱口秀主持人决定冒着职业生涯（和生命）的风险公开反对这个政权：

Last year, I was reminded of that scene after a top producer who had been at Fox News for a decade decided to forfeit his career so he could speak out against the creeping totalitarianism he was witnessing in the United States. 去年，一位在福克斯新闻工作了十年的顶级制片人决定放弃自己的职业生涯，以便能够公开反对他在美国目睹的极权主义，这让我想起了那个场景。

This act of civil disobedience in turn was preceded by Biden giving a eerie speech where he demonized those who didn’t vote for him (something which would typically be unacceptable in an democratic republic), and did so in a manner which perfectly mirrored the dictator from V for Vendetta.
Note: Biden’s speech juxtaposed with the fictional dictator’s speech can be viewed here. 在这种公民不服从行为之前，拜登发表了一场怪异的演讲，他妖魔化了那些没有投票给他的人（这在民主共和国通常是不可接受的），并且以完全反映独裁者的方式这样做 出自《V字仇杀队》。
注：可以在此处查看拜登的演讲与虚构独裁者的演讲并列。

That speech from in turn was eerily similar to Biden’s 9-9-21 speech where he made numerous false claims about the COVID vaccines (which were known at the time to be false) which he then used to justify inciting hatred against the unvaccinated. 那次演讲与拜登 21 年 9 月 9 日的演讲极其相似，他在演讲中对新冠疫苗提出了许多虚假声明（当时已知这些声明是错误的），然后他用这些声明来煽动对未接种疫苗的人的仇恨。

Free Speech
One of the most important lessons many of us have learned from COVID-19 is the critical importance of free speech—after all, had mass censorship (which often dovetailed with professional repercussions for speaking out) not been enacted, it never would have been possible:

•For the people responsible for COVID-19 (e.g., Fauci and Hotez through their gain-of-function research) to have been allowed to take control of America’s response to the pandemic.

•For an unscientific, non-sensical, and incredibly destructive pandemic response (e.g., the mass lockdowns) to have been inflicted upon the Western World.

•For dangerous and unproven protocols (e.g., remdesivir) to be effectively mandated in hospitals across America.

•For safe and effective (but off-patent) COVID-19 therapies to have been effectively outlawed across America.

•For dangerous, unproven and ineffective vaccines to have been mandated upon the world despite a deluge of warnings against them.

This in turn caused many to realize that free speech threatens the entire Western power structure. Since our country has enshrined freedom of speech into the Constitution, we in turn have seen a variety of creative tactics used to undermine that right such as labeling dissenting narratives as “hate speech” or “harmful misinformation,” while simultaneously giving a pass to any false or hateful claims which support the existing narratives.

This is completely unacceptable, and my sincere hope is that the events of COVID-19 were such a strong shock to the citizenry that they will catalyze a return to liberty. To a degree, this appears to have happened as many topics that only a few years ago were completely unacceptable to discuss (e.g., antidepressants causing mass shootings or vaccines causing autism) are now entering the cultural discourse. In short, it appears that the anonymity the internet provides is effectively serving like the Guy Fawkes masks from V and providing a way for those who do not want to follow the societal insanity to safely do so and red-pill those around them.
Similarly, in a recent article, I stated my support for Musk’s endeavors. My primary reason for supporting Musk was his decision to buy Twitter and make it a functional free speech platform. Beyond the fact I believe this changed the course of history, I saw the changes it created happen in real time and I have no doubt it completely changed the cultural discourse by letting censored topics become widely discussed. Yesterday, he Musk a powerful interview with Joe Rogan that made a very strong case (the details of which I believe many are not aware of) that there’s been a global march towards censorship and that Musk’s actions with Twitter was one of, if not the primary thing that’s stopped it thusfar: 言论自由
我们许多人从 COVID-19 中学到的最重要的教训之一就是言论自由的至关重要性——毕竟，如果没有实施大规模审查制度（这通常与言论自由的专业后果相吻合），那么言论自由就不可能实现 :

•让那些对COVID-19负有责任的人（例如，福奇和霍特兹通过他们的功能获得性研究）能够控制美国对这一流行病的反应。

•西方世界采取了不科学、无意义且极具破坏性的流行病应对措施（例如大规模封锁）。

•在美国各地的医院中有效强制执行危险且未经证实的方案（例如瑞德西韦）。

•安全有效（但专利到期）的 COVID-19 疗法在美国已被有效禁止。

•尽管针对疫苗的警告层出不穷，但危险的、未经证实的和无效的疫苗仍被强制强加给全世界。

这反过来又使许多人意识到言论自由威胁到整个西方权力结构。 自从我国将言论自由写入宪法以来，我们又看到了各种破坏这一权利的创造性策略，例如将异议言论贴上“仇恨言论”或“有害的错误信息”的标签，同时为任何言论提供通行证。 支持现有叙述的虚假或仇恨言论。

这是完全不可接受的，我真诚地希望，COVID-19 事件对公民造成如此强烈的冲击，从而促使他们重获自由。 在某种程度上，这种情况似乎已经发生，因为许多几年前还完全不可接受讨论的话题（例如，抗抑郁药导致大规模枪击事件或疫苗导致自闭症）现在正在进入文化话语。 简而言之，互联网提供的匿名性似乎就像 V 中的 Guy Fawkes 面具一样有效地发挥着作用，并为那些不想追随社会疯狂的人提供了一种安全的方式，让他们可以安全地这样做，并向周围的人注射红色药丸。
同样，在最近的一篇文章中，我表达了对马斯克努力的支持。 我支持马斯克的主要原因是他决定购买 Twitter 并将其打造成一个功能性的言论自由平台。 除了我相信这改变了历史进程这一事实之外，我还看到它所创造的变化是实时发生的，我毫不怀疑它通过让审查的话题得到广泛讨论而彻底改变了文化话语。 昨天，马斯克对乔·罗根（Joe Rogan）进行了一次强有力的采访，有力地证明了（我相信很多人都不知道其中的细节）全球范围内正在向审查制度迈进，马斯克对推特的行动即使不是最严重的，也是其中之一。 到目前为止阻止它的主要因素是：

Additionally, at the very end (which essentially summarizes the key points of the interview), Musk concluded by saying his primary motivation was for all of this his children to being able to grow up on Mars—which while somewhat of an eccentric motivation, is much better than what typically drives the super-rich (a never ending desire for more money and power). 此外，在最后（基本上总结了采访的要点），马斯克总结道，他的主要动机是让他的孩子能够在火星上长大——这虽然有点古怪，但 比超级富豪的典型驱动力（对更多金钱和权力永无休止的渴望）要好得多。

Note: another major point V for Vendetta made was that when the dictator rose to power, he cracked down on undesirable minorities (e.g., homosexuals), and then gradually increased the umbrella of who his secret police could target until everyone was living in fear. This is a common tactic used by totalitarian governments and why every person who has survived those regimes emphasizes that is it critical to have a society that does not persecute unpopular minorities. Currently, we are seeing a more obfuscated variant of it being utilized where the DEI mass formation has led to anyone deemed to be “intolerant” or “anti-science” to be publicly punished by the society. However, once you look past the surface, it is the exact same playbook (and hence why I feel it is so reprehensible Biden vocally encouraged the country to target the unvaccinated and incited the medical community to deny essential care the unvaccinated—which in some cases killed them).
A prelude to COVID-19
One of the most fascinating aspects of V for Vendetta was its foreshadowing of COVID-19. For instance in this (4:41) scene, the film explains how an engineered virus was produced and then deployed upon the population so that a fascist government could take power in order “to protect” the populace from the virus: 注：V字仇杀队提出的另一个要点是，独裁者上台后，对不良少数群体（例如同性恋者）进行镇压，然后逐渐扩大秘密警察的打击范围，直到每个人都生活在恐惧之中。 这是极权政府常用的策略，也是为什么每个在这些政权中幸存下来的人都强调，拥有一个不迫害不受欢迎的少数群体的社会至关重要。 目前，我们看到它的一个更加混乱的变体被利用，DEI 的大规模形成导致任何被认为“不宽容”或“反科学”的人受到社会的公开惩罚。 然而，一旦你透过表面看过去，就会发现这是完全相同的剧本（因此我觉得拜登如此应受谴责，拜登口头鼓励国家以未接种疫苗的人为目标，并煽动医学界拒绝为未接种疫苗的人提供基本护理——在某些情况下 杀了他们）。
COVID-19 的前奏
《V字仇杀队》最引人入胜的方面之一是它对COVID-19的预示。 例如，在这个（4:41）场景中，影片解释了如何制造工程病毒，然后将其部署到民众身上，以便法西斯政府能够掌权，以“保护”民众免受病毒侵害：

Since the pandemic started, we’ve seen more and more evidence that (in addition to grabbing power) many of the key players in the pandemic (e.g., Fauci, Hotez and Gates):

•Had the foreknowledge COVID-19 would happen.
•Were directly involved in the risky lab research that created the virus (e.g., by funding it).
•Were directly involved in producing questionable countermeasures for a SARS pandemic prior to 2020.
•Did everything they could to dismiss any links to the lab origin theory (which has now essentially been proven).
•Did everything they could to spread fear of the virus in the national media and censor anyone who threatened their narrative).
•Profited immensely from the pandemic.

Note: I have provided numerous sources to substantiate the all of the above assertions throughout this Substack (the only exception being that I have not found proof Gates funded GoF research).

Despite these shocking parallels, I do not believe that V’s author had the foresight to predict COVID-19 (e.g., I have friends who have worked with the author of the graphic novel the film was based upon and they do not believe Alan Moore had any ties to the Deep State or its English equivalent). Rather, I believe Moore was using a rather common motif (theme).

In one of the most memorable examples, in 2009 the eccentric dictator of Libya utilized his once in a lifetime opportunity to speak before the UN to criticize numerous aspects of the organization which included argue against exactly what transpired a decade later with COVID-19. 自大流行开始以来，我们看到越来越多的证据表明（除了夺取权力之外）大流行中的许多关键人物（例如福奇、霍特兹和盖茨）：

• 预知新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 将会发生。
•直接参与创造病毒的高风险实验室研究（例如，通过资助）。
•直接参与制定2020年之前的SARS大流行的可疑对策。
•他们竭尽全力消除与实验室起源理论的任何联系（该理论现已基本得到证实）。
•他们竭尽全力在国家媒体上传播对病毒的恐惧，并审查任何威胁他们言论的人）。
•从疫情中获益匪浅。

注意：我在整个子堆栈中提供了许多来源来证实上述所有断言（唯一的例外是我没有找到盖茨资助 GoF 研究的证据）。

尽管有这些令人震惊的相似之处，但我不相信 V 的作者有远见来预测 COVID-19（例如，我有一些朋友曾与这部电影所依据的图画小说的作者合作过，他们不相信艾伦·摩尔有任何预测能力） 与深州或其英语同等机构的联系）。 相反，我相信摩尔使用的是一个相当常见的主题（主题）。

最令人难忘的例子之一是，2009 年，古怪的利比亚独裁者利用他一生一次的机会在联合国发言，批评该组织的许多方面，其中包括反对十年后发生的 COVID-19 事件。
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Note: similarly, recently on Joe Rogan, Trump’s VP, JD Vance, shared that he (along with other prominent politicians who wished to remain unnamed) had gotten COVID vaccine injuries and that he felt there were serious issues in the FDA and how pharmaceutical companies were allowed to buy out the media that needed to be changed. In contrast, numerous prominent Democrats developed vaccine injuries but nonetheless continued to push the vaccines.
Having worked in the vaccine safety field for years, and over and over seen the immense suffering these products create, I thus feel I have an obligation to inform the readers here that a once in a lifetime opportunity has been created to “Make America Healthy Again,” as for decades, it was something I never imagined could or would happen.
Note: in contrast, the Harris campaign made being up to date on the most recent booster a requirement for working there (despite the fact it’s now clear they both carry serious harms and make you more likely to get COVID). This to me indicates that the medical policies her administration enacts will be as bad or worse than Biden’s.
Conclusion
While there are many aspects of V for Vendetta I appreciate (including many I am not sharing here because they spoil the movie), the specific reason its my favorite movie is because one scene near the end describes how, more and more, I perceive reality. 注：同样，最近特朗普的副总裁 JD 万斯 (JD Vance) 在乔·罗根 (Joe Rogan) 上表示，他（以及其他不愿透露姓名的知名政治家）因感染新冠疫苗而受伤，他认为 FDA 存在严重问题，以及制药公司如何应对 被允许买断需要改变的媒体。 相比之下，许多著名的民主党人都因疫苗受伤，但仍然继续推动疫苗接种。
在疫苗安全领域工作多年，并一次又一次地看到这些产品造成的巨大痛苦，因此我觉得我有义务告诉这里的读者，一个千载难逢的机会已经创造了“让美国再次健康” ，”几十年来，这是我从未想象过的事情会发生或会发生。
注意：相比之下，哈里斯竞选团队将最新的加强剂作为在那里工作的一项要求（尽管事实上现在很明显它们都会带来严重的危害，并使你更有可能感染新冠病毒）。 对我来说，这表明她的政府制定的医疗政策将与拜登的一样糟糕甚至更糟。
结论
虽然《V字仇杀队》有很多方面我很欣赏（包括许多我没有在这里分享的内容，因为它们破坏了电影），但我最喜欢这部电影的具体原因是因为接近尾声的一个场景描述了我如何越来越多地感知现实 。