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Robb Goes Places's avatar

this is really the slowest form of suicide, like lying on the track and waiting for the train to kill you. Except this time it takes years, and the train is your own rot and stagnation

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Charles Rover's avatar

I unsubscribed, but I subscribed again anyway. I also receive unsolicited articles, but I don't know the authors. Without some of the independent truth-tellers who only exist here, Substack would always have been a terrible place...

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Ben Shaprio's avatar

Sorry to hear, Dr. P. A lot of topics I wanted read about were already answered in previous posts by other users or AI bots or restacks or random archives. Is Substack gatekeeping and surpressing most of its authors so as to promote a few chosen ones? Absolutely. Is it a Ponzi scheme? 100% accurate! Do people stay nevertheless? Yes. Just throw them $5 and they be happy and write whatever you want them to. Works every time. Gig economy.

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Troy  Skaggs's avatar

I spend a lot of time in the woods. Lucky to have a few of North America's original acres of old growth forest to trek through. Majestic trees Dr. P.

In areas where the original forests have been cleared, the crops have been exhausted and land lays fallow, the Japanese Honeysuckle will crowd out every native plant and ruin the ground. It's disgusting. I won't even mention the grape vines of European origin trying to drag down the Oaks, Maples, syc

Sycamores and Walnuts. Here's my observation.

In about seven generations the invasives will be gone. Just a guess. I spend a lot of time in the woods.

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Justin Good's avatar

Hey Dr. P, congrats on getting your Substack back. I am happy for you, hope you can retain it. I am a long time reader of your work.

I started a Youtube channel 16 years ago, and because I wrote and created videos on occultism and secret societies that got quite a lot of attention, they shut me down by shadow banning my channel, way back before shadow banning had a name.

I never recovered, and have yet to be able to get over 300 subs because of it. If they want to stop you they very much can and will.

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Thanks. What a horrible situation. And you probably still expect them to lift the shadow ban some time in the future, right? They won't. You will have neither views nor growth, yet you stay on their platform. Why, we are being conditioned for that lifelong abuse! T

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pigz's avatar

I was waiting for somebody to write about the Substack scam on Substack! Finally! Thank you!

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Welcome!

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

NEW Substack is a pyramid-Ponzi scheme. It’s oligarchic (rule by the few), static, entirely inflexible, and designed to funnel millions of readers to a select few channels. 😱😱😱👉https://thorstenjpattberg.substack.com/p/i-was-no-1-on-substackthen-this-happened

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Sabertooth's avatar

Your websites, social media profiles, X, Substack... cannot grow, Never. You are not on “the internet”. The real internet is a military application. It's over.

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Thanks for your kind support. More and more hideous schemes come to light. My last 2 years of "conversations" with SS Substcack turn out to be AI chatbots.

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Bumble Bees's avatar

Pretty unreal, Matrix stuff-like existence.

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Yes. It is much worse than we thought. More on it, later! T

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Marcel Proust's avatar

Some fine trolling

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Guy's avatar

I don't know enough about Substack, I only support individuals, but I read somewhere about Twitter that the administrators Elon Musk fired after the takeover had to sign horrible non-disclosure agreements. No known whistleblowers exist. Social media always is, for mathematical reasons, some form of snowball/pyramid scheme. YouTube, Spotify, Twitch. Try joining Wikipedia as a late editor, and you'll see what the pyramid scheme end game looks like. You're not going to get to edit anything at all. Horrible. Thanks, Dr. P!

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Yes. And those who came first to the City built huge castles, hired militants, and protect what they think is now FOREVER THEIRS! Best! T

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Ajex Dugin's avatar

I‘ve reading this channel for over six months it is brilliant

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Thanks, Ajex! Very nice thing to say! Best! T

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FrancisN's avatar

It is hard finding a good therapist after this

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Haha!

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Umesh Kumar's avatar

This is Perfect iron Cuts iron!!!

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Yeah. Nothing ever changes. We are powerless. Best! T

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Ani from Singapore's avatar

Protect this man at all costs

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

I SAY! Best! T

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