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VP, you may have been at one time left of center, but you are now on the right side of center. The left has gone so far left that it has become what it once hated. Congratulations for not falling down that hole yourself.

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I agree about the coverage...there are many who love to sniff for failure, especially of others. Here's hoping for all the best for him in his work!

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I disagree. The media is not left of center. They are mostly Far left of center. They have become intolerant of differing opinions. The markers are clear. Rather than engage in civil debate in an open forum they label people as racist, Marxist, authoritarian. They are unwittingly using the tools from those same ideologies.

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Dr Prasad, your unbiased approach to all topics is so refreshing in this day and age. So off topic but in any of my comments on your stacks, I have to include my request. You say you are left of center. Please, I would love to hear your convincing support for government run/sponsored universal healthcare (which I only assume you are for bc of your left leaning tendencies, I could be assuming wrong?). How would

It be affordable, not cause long wait times, not decrease quality of care provided and not decrease innovation in the world of research of disease and heath care? I would

love to hear a rationale mind explain this to me, and perhaps it would change my mind. I just don’t see it being practical or beneficial. I only ask because, again, you are logical

and practical (as well as uber intelligent) and I know you would not give a pie in the sky answer based on ideas of what utopia dreams are made of, as many far left liberals do. THANKS!

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“ Two, they just have a narrative they've constructed in their head, and they may or may not fully understand that the real motivation, but they are blindly chasing that narrative and ignoring any data that doesn't fit it. As such it is biased.”

I feel like we saw the same phenomenon recently on another topic, but I just can’t put my finger on it.... anyone?

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I dream of a day when Twitter is so popular that these virtue signaling advertisers try to come back on the platform. And Elon just tweets "NO" LOL.

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Thank you for this. I may try Twitter in awhile.

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Nov 26, 2022·edited Nov 26, 2022

Twitter and Facebook are the modern public square that could be treated legally as a public utility, and thus covered by the First Amendment. We have a legal process that handles fraud, liable, hate and incitement. Access to the public square should not be determined by "disinformation specialists" who seek to promote a particular narrative or ideology.

I think Elon Musk subscribes to the above. He deserves the support of everyone who cherishes free speech as the foundation of democracy. I'm ready to pitch in with $8 a month, if that's what it takes.

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Screenshot of the Eli Lily parody in case anyone missed it:

https://www.investors.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IT02_tweet-lilly-company-640x360.jpg

Even under Musk's new uncensored Twitter, Big Pharma cannot take a joke and got this deleted. It was well deserved. I had to pay $500 for a box of insulin for my cat!

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Without moving an inch, you have become center or even center right. The same thing happened to me with the emergence and subsequent domination of the intellectually bankrupt woke philosophy.

I still hold many of my left leaning views but I had a mental inflammatory reaction to Critical Race Theory.

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Totally agree. I’m shocked at how negative the reporting on Elon has been. It’s off the rails and hysterical. My only disagreement is that I think most media outlets are no longer left of center. They are far left. That’s why I now gets most of my news from substack authors.

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Elon is holding a poll on whether he should "step down" as head of Twitter. I just voted "NO" -- I'd like to see him stay on. Here's what I wrote:

https://twitter.com/paulsurovell/status/1604693041478250496?s=20&t=aBJFw501W1XFWIKsGE2kDw

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