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Twitter Blue Checks, Fake Kathy Hochul, and COVID Gaslighting
from The New Braveheart | The Tim Dillon Show #344 · #344
7 min
Tim discusses the chaos of Twitter's paid blue-check system including a fake satirical Kathy Hochul account, Stephen King donating his blue-check refund to charity, and pivots into a rant about being gaslit over COVID vaccine mandates and heart attacks in young athletes being downplayed.
- Fake impersonation accounts proliferate on Twitter after Elon Musk allows blue checks to be purchased for eight dollars.
- Tim explains Twitter's old verification system favored journalists and bloggers with minimal followers while excluding others.
- While people argue about blue checks, the country faces war with China and child hunger—a dystopian sign of national decline.
- Twitter is fundamentally a bad platform for meaningful discussion; in ten years on it, Tim has never witnessed one valuable exchange.
- Social networks launch promising connection and networking but devolve into people calling each other pedophiles and Nazis within a decade.
- Tim approves of Elon's decision to unban users who questioned vaccine safety and promoted healthy skepticism about boosters.
- Medical establishment now claims young athletes' heart explosions would have been worse if they'd had COVID, a shifting justification.
- Fauci and Trudeau are reversing course, claiming they never mandated vaccines or lockdowns despite intense pressure at the time.
- Unvaccinated people were treated like pedophiles at social gatherings, yet officials now gaslight the public by denying any coercion ever occurred.
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