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Marky-Mark is close with his Uncle Sam.

"On February 4, 2004, the same day Lifelog was shut down, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his dorm room at Harvard University. The timing has fueled speculation that Facebook might be a continuation of the Lifelog project, rebranded under the guise of a social networking site."

https://mestuff.substack.com/p/darpas-lifelog-and-facebook

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Hmm, it occurs to me that I've acquired the habit of recycling comments stored in my chaotic Wordpad archive here-- as if the Soapbox were my Goodwill, and I drop by every few days with another armload of vintage items that I think still have high resale value. 🤔

Be that as it may, your meme/graphic referencing Tuskegee prompts me to again give dishonorable mention to this scamdemic tidbit:

In April 2021, Obama, Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley recorded a PSA encouraging Americans to get the "COVID vaccine(s)"; this PSA was made to counter Black Amerika's reported sane and sensible aversion to getting jabbed. The Tuskegee atrocity was/is considered to be a significant cause or impetus for so-called "vaccine hesitancy". Ya thnk? 💉 ✋🏿

Accordingly, in the PSA Obama actually offers revisionist counterspin to construct a sort of reverse moral or lesson to the Tuskegee atrocities: Obama sententiously and superciliously explained that the true crime was that the medical authorities withheld the medicine desperately needed by their seriously ill subjects.

“'It wasn’t that they made them sick by giving them medicine, it’s that they didn’t give them the medicine they needed… If the medicine is available we need to take it', said Obama.”

This typical rhetorical sleight-of-tongue is obscene, abominable, and reprehensible: classic Obama; to use his own phrase "the old okey-doke". Apart from that, how can this supercilious pitch be reconciled with Obama's ironclad personal precept that it's always best to look forward, not backwards?

Oh, right-- I should've realized that it's also best not to "look backwards" at Obama's previous statements and positions, especially for the sake of exposing vile, self/overclass-serving hypocrisy.

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I'm passing on a reaction to Zuck's makeover that resonated with me. It was in a comment somewhere, maybe here, but I can't recall the source.

The commenter pointed out that Curly Top Zuck-- or whatever you call his permed or teased new 'do-- sporting a gold medallion made him look like a Roman emperor. I think it's true enough; all he needs is a laurel wreath and a toga to complete the ensemble. This is not praise-- think "Caligula". 😠

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