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| cowgod | 06/19/25 |
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Date: June 19th, 2025 9:13 AM Author: cowgod (cowgod) Tim Ballard – The Mormon ex-CIA agent and founder of Operation Underground Railroad, who made it his mission to rescue children from sex trafficking rings. Despite actually going on dangerous rescue missions, he's been smeared by press outlets that frame him as a QAnon-adjacent crank or a Christian extremist, often ignoring or downplaying the real-world impact of his actions. Thomas Sowell – A black economist who rose from poverty in Harlem, taught at top universities, and produced decades of rigorous, independent scholarship. Because he dismantles progressive orthodoxies around race, education, and economics, he’s almost never mentioned in mainstream academic circles or honored like his ideological opposites. Brandon Straka – A gay former liberal who founded the “WalkAway” campaign encouraging people to leave the Democratic Party. Despite being openly gay and a civil rights advocate, he was vilified as a traitor, censored, and arrested after January 6 (though he never entered the Capitol or committed violence). Julian Assange – Whatever you think of his politics, Assange undeniably exposed real war crimes, government lies, and mass surveillance. Yet he’s been smeared as a hacker, a Russian stooge, and a rapist (charges that were dropped), and is now rotting in prison while mainstream journalists stay silent. Edward Snowden – Blew the whistle on illegal NSA mass surveillance of American citizens. Instead of being protected as a whistleblower, he’s living in exile and treated as a traitor by both parties, even as courts later ruled the surveillance was unconstitutional. Lara Logan – Once a top war correspondent for CBS, brutally gang-raped in Tahrir Square while covering the Arab Spring. She later began questioning mainstream media narratives and COVID policies, and was completely blacklisted. Tucker Carlson – Whether you agree with him or not, he gave a platform to dissident voices no other cable anchor dared to touch. For that, he was slandered as a white nationalist and deplatformed at the peak of his influence. Peter McCullough / Robert Malone – Respected doctors who raised concerns about mRNA vaccine safety and censorship during COVID. Rather than debating them, media labeled them disinformation agents and tried to erase their reputations. Dorian Abbot – A University of Chicago geophysicist who spoke out against DEI policies in academia. MIT rescinded his public lecture—not for anything in his scientific work, but because of his political views. James Damore – Google engineer who wrote a memo pointing out basic biological differences between men and women in tech career trends. Fired, smeared as a sexist, and made into a national pariah for saying what evolutionary psychology textbooks have said for decades. |