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Jun 9Liked by Diane L. Gruber

Farcebook is like high sugar-content foods. It’s addictive. It’s a nice way to communicate but it has become a look-at-me-and-all-my-wonderfulness platform.

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What? Do you mean their isn't any one thing you want to tell to your 500 closest friends, such as what you ate last night? Without Facebook, you'd have to phone 500 people to tell them you're going to bed now.

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Jun 9·edited Jun 9Liked by Diane L. Gruber

I was notified by Facebook that a post I made this week was removed because is contained "partially false" information. The post was not identified, but what about the accurate information in the post? This is cunning censorship. With respect to Biden's dementia that's been obvious to us for about five years, Facebook's recommendation is -- DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EYES.

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Jun 9Liked by Diane L. Gruber

Yes, of course they hide anything negative about Bidenzheimer’s. And THAT is why I have never used Facebook and why I have always referred to it as FARCEBOOK! Pass FARCEBOOK along every day.

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I stopped using FB in February 2021, too depressing. But, started again in July 2022 in order to distribute my Substack articles. I can tell from the analytics that my articles do get read via FB.

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Please spell correctly. It's FASCISTBOOK. I stopped posting there in 2022 after my third "violation", which got me a month-long suspension. I presumed that after my next one, Zuck would suspend my account indefinitely, after which is no longer be able to even observe the posts of friends & family who still blithely continue putting $$ in Zuck's pockets by providing him with free content.

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From a friend of mine: "I was banned from Facebook permanently without posting anything. Which led me to conclude they had read my emails because I never posted political stuff on facebook or anywhere else. And they probably knew my YouTube viewing."

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Interesting.

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Two weeks ago I made a one-sentence polite comment about Biden's dementia on the comment section of a Youtube video and was banned for 6 hours. It isn't just Facebook.

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Geez!!! Don't they realize that it is too late?

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I dunno. There are probably still some Democrats still with eyes closed and hands over their ears, chanting, "LALALALALA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

They all know Obama is running the country, so they don't worry about Biden.

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My cousin, unfortunately, is one of those with eyes and ears covered. He recently sent me an email saying "goodbye" because he HATES that I am writing articles on topics he doesn't want to know about. He wants no more contact with me.

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I lost quite a few long-term close friends when I didn't vote for Obama. They never came back. They drank the Koolaid.

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The hatred toward Republicans had been building in the Portland area for some time before Trump arrived on the political stage. In November 2016 it exploded.

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Not like children. Like subjects of a totalitarian state.

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