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This is why I've come to realize that our leadership here in the States, the current regime, is not acting in a logical, material manner. Think about the TikTok ban that we keep hearing about. Assuming they could do ban TikTok, it would be a terrible parlay. It would be an absolutely terrible parlay because TikTok and social media are basically the largest release valves for revolutionary action in this country. You know how many people go on TikTok and they post a video about how the world sucks and they get some likes and some comments and then they feel better. Take that away from them. Instagram has already said that they're not going to have political content on their feeds unless you opt into it. This is the fundamental contradiction of capitalism. We are told that we have free speech, yet the FBI knocks on people's doors if you say the wrong thing. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But going back to the lack of materialism and materialist view of our leadership, you could see it all the time with, like you said, the Russia stuff. I think that some of the people in the upper leadership do really believe that Russia stole the election from Hillary. They're not acting in a materialist manner and this can be a problem for us because we're all about the materialist view and we're all about looking at things in a rational perspective. But if we're the rational ones and our enemy isn't, that could put our enemy at both an advantage and a disadvantage. Something to think about.