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Star Wars has always been about escape fiction with a light moral touch in a vast and expandable storytelling universe. In that fictional setting our imaginations can engage and reinterpret many things to create retroactive continuity to mask poor writing. But how does this affect our relationship with reality?

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Donald Trump is a bully who wants to feel powerful. His influence causes reactions that oppose him. In the middle of these forces arise opportunists looking to have their own movements rise in the cracks that form. Alberta separatists have risen to the chaotic occasion. How should we react?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cup
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2026/02/13/how-the-save-america-act-could-block-millions-of-eligible-voters/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-poilievre-leadership-review-9.7069573
De-certifying Canadian manufactured airplanes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPY2FomMo-g
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8ylqx0zw4o

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Dark City is a film about a secret reality that is being hidden from its residents. What does that look like? What does it lead to? How do we cope with divergent realities? These questions are explored in ep 135 of Truth Unrestricted.

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Part 2 of our Manchurian Candidate coverage dives into direct comparisons between the two versions of the film (1962 vs 2004) from the conspiratorial perspective. How does the realism affect the audience's viewing experience? How do the ideas carried by the films and by conspiratorial thinking affect our ability to navigate reality?

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Last week's episode (An Open Letter To Alex Hale) left some unanswered questions. Those questions are answered here.

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Quorac's Nov 8th Twitter space which is referenced several times in this episode. The relevant section starts shortly after the 2 hr mark.
https://x.com/AlteredEggoEgo/status/1987015544298701112?s=20

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I call upon Alex Hale @NBPTROCKS to ask Snowden Bishop when her podcast episodes featuring dangerous antivaccine disinformation will be removed from Spotify and iHeartRadio.

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The Manchurian Candidate has long been an idea separated from the film that created the term. The idea that a person could be reshaped and controlled as an assassin has long inspired conspiratorial thinking. So what other ideas from the film inspire these errant notions?

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Subjective reality is the mind's best estimation of what the objective world is. "Best estimation" is doing a *lot* of heavy lifting in that sentence.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_character_of_experience
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind