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All ideas are fair game in the public square, but only fair criticisms are worth responding to. Bret is on the record as being a vociferous critic of lockdowns and mRNA transfections. He has shifted his position over time, openly discussing the available data and sharing his reasoning publicly. He updated with available data, as did we all. 95% of us went along with vaccines for a LONG time. You are strawmanning his positions and are clearly not taking his body of work into consideration, pulling a couple sentences out of thousands of hours on the record. Why?

That's just not truthful. Most criticisms that are piling on this week start with an assumption that he has some special knowledge that he didnt share - then works backwards to prove that point. That's not intellectually honest.

Although anons are absolutely necessary in this insane public square, it is not the same thing as being a critic with your full name hanging out in broad daylight. You know that. He is careful, and we will mistake careful for coy at our own peril.

I'm here as apologist because he has been an amazing voice in the wilderness for years, not just since covid, and has taught thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people how to think critically, carefully and independenty. I can say definitively that is not the voice of the establishment, that is the inverse of their goals.

He has been consistent in the almost 8 years that I have followed/listened to him and it breaks my heart to see this pile on. He is a big boy and I've seen a lot worse thrown at him, he'll be fine. But these critcisms hurt me and the legions of people he has brought his teaching skills to. Darkhorse doesn't pontificate are distribute conclusions, it teaches people how to navigate this shitshow of a wilderness we're in and that is worth defending.

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