From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Dec 24, 2025 at 12:39:23 PM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
      
   > On 12/24/2025 2:31 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>  Here we have Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Union   
   >> Commission,   
   >>  describing free speech as a virus and censorship as its vaccine...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/2003722056895008769/pu/v   
   d/avc1/960x540/q1VxfH-uBO5h6Irs.mp4   
   >   
   > I heard nothing about censorship.  Maybe I got a censored version...   
   >   
   > Even after fighting through her soporific delivery, I didn't come to   
   > grasp "pre-bunking" as a meaningful catchphrase.  'Vaccination', though,   
   > could be an apt analogy for pre-exposing people to the disease of   
   > demonstrable bunk.  Unfortunately, unlike most other diseases,   
   > misinformation is an ailment quite comfortable to many.   
      
   Here's Ursula during a visit to Finland, telling protesters in the audience   
   that they should be happy to be in a country where they're allowed to protest   
   because in Russia they would be arrested for protesting... even as police move   
   into the crowd and arrest the protesters.   
      
      
   https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/2003829896439541760/pu/vid/   
   vc1/576x1024/vCN0UN86M1u-Vv8q.mp4   
      
   Can't make it up.   
      
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