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The Quora Files
Taking the approach that Elon Musk took on his release of the Twitter Files, I am going to propose that it is reasonable to assume that all social media platforms are haunted by the same systemic zeitgeist as pre-Musk Twitter, Facebook, Google TikTok and YouTube. Also citing federal rule 406:
Rule 406. Habit; Routine Practice
Evidence of a person’s habit or an organization’s routine practice may be admitted to prove that on a particular occasion the person or organization acted in accordance with the habit or routine practice. The court may admit this evidence regardless of whether it is corroborated or whether there was an eyewitness. https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_406
As this rule codifies modus operandi as legal precedent, it will surely suffice as a valid technique for assessing the habits and routines of social media organizations and commentators on such platforms.
The bottom line to the findings of the Twitter Files is that the corrupt administrative state (FBI, CIA, NSA, Justice Department) in collusion with the corrupt DNC leadership, in league with the corrupt mainstream media propaganda system colluding with the corrupt social media platforms established a despotic cabal that has disparaged the US Constitution. In particular the First Amendment of the Constitution. This article proposes that all major social media sites are captured in the same manner as Twitter, and our focus will be Quora, a social debating site that serves a global audience participation that has a corporate home base in the US like most of the others mentioned so far.
Quora's headquarters is listed as 650 Castro Street, Mountain View, California.
We know from the Twitter Files that the FBI was involved in monitoring the users of the platform and have people shadowbanned and their tweets deleted. More investigation has shown that the other social media platforms are infiltrated by government agents as well, Facebook. YouTube, Google are all part of these covert operations.
To assume that Quora would somehow be uniquely different is foolish. Quora moderation makes the same despotic decisions as we have seen on these other platforms. It is obvious there is government interference on Quora.
Our first example of a Quora commentator as a suspect agent of the administrative state is John Cate. https://www.quora.com/profile/John-Cate-2
John Cate is likely an agent of the administrative state probably an FBI informant.
The following ‘Quora Answer’ is where I encountered Mr, Cate the first and last time. The reason it was the last time is because the first question I asked, Cate blocked me from posting on the answer.
I asked what evidence he had that “Trump is a right-wing authoritarian populist who is too uneducated to actually understand Fascism” And pointed out that ‘Trump had graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1968. He became president of his father's real estate business in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization.’
Cate replied that if I was going to spoil his genius answer with a stupid comment I could at least spell his last name correctly. And when I attempted to answer that I found I had been blocked from commenting there any further. That it was so abrupt was my incentive to check out his profile on Quora. There I discovered the evidence of a person with total arrogant hubris, a pathological lack of decent manners and an unapologetic Bidenista Neo-Marxist, Uber-Liberal Democrat. All the hallmarks of a cognitive infiltrator of the Cass Sunstein ilk, and a likely state agent.
Left the Republican Party in 1999.Jan 12
I’ll probably ruffle everyone’s feathers with this response. And if you know me, you know I hope I do.
In present-day usage, “Fascist” tends to be a term used by ignorant and/or uneducated Americans to mean “person with political and/or social views I disagree with.”
The term has lost its true meaning with most people and is simply used as an epithet now. The fact that partisan followers of both major parties call their opponents “Fascist” is all you need to know.
Fascism is a political ideology based on authoritarian top-down government, autarky, and a corporatist economy based on the concept of dirigisme. Government policy in a Fascist state may have a system of either cultural (Classical Fascism) or ethnic (National Socialism) nationalist beliefs. Fascists are people who advocate for such a system of governance.
You will find that roughly 99.46 percent of the people who parrot the word “Fascism” don’t have the first clue about what autarky, corporatism, or dirigisme are.
If you see someone calling someone else a Fascist, and the person they are calling one does not self-identify as a Fascist (Fascists will tell you they are Fascists), then you would probably be best off tuning out the person making the accusation.
Trump is a right-wing authoritarian populist who is too uneducated to actually understand Fascism, although he clearly studied Mussolini’s public speaking style at some point and emulates it. Other than that one thing, he is a lot closer to Idi Amin than he is to Mussolini or any other actual Fascist. And Biden is nothing but a garden-variety neoliberal. There are, in my reckoning, plenty of good reasons not to support either. But they have nothing to do with Fascism.
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First of all 25.2 views is a preposterous number that is surely the result of a Quora-bot algorithm that is used for “special Quorans” of high repute, as Mr. Cate certainly is.
John Cate
Freelance Public Relations Specialist, Bethel, NC.
https://www.quora.com/profile/John-Cate-2
“Public Relations” is another term for ‘propaganda’ according to Edward Bernays, Walter Lippmann, and Jacques Ellul, all experts on Modern Propaganda
A Review of Lippmann's "Public Opinion"
http://www.fromthelabbench.com/from-the-lab-bench-science-blog/a-review-of-lippmanns-public-opinion
From John Cate’s profile page:
All of my content on Quora is free. If you see something of mine shared behind a paywall, I did not authorize its use. If you are unable to read it and wish to, PM me.
I'm a professional journalist with 29 years of experience in that profession, and an amateur (and self-educated) history buff and computer engineer. In fact, those are subjects I prefer to write about, along with talking about my miracle wife Kayrenne Walker, but I usually end up discussing politics here. My political views are mostly libertarian, civic-nationalist and American federalist. I am a never-Trumper, but also never a Democrat.
I’m 49 years old, a resident of North Carolina for the last 34 years, and a non-denominational, non-literalist Christian who has answered many questions on the subject. I am presently doing a combination of journalistic and media relations work, and have been since the late winter of 2020, around the time the COVID stuff began.
I joined Quora sometime in late 2014 and first became prominent here in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, where I endorsed the Libertarians.
I was frustrated and borderline disgusted with Quora's policies for quite some time, but I made my peace with it and they seemed to have made their peace with me. I guess driving 182 million views of Web traffic will do that for you. At one point I tried to leave and was talked out of it. I said my last words on the matter here: On TW’s, Mods and Mötley.
If you're interested in my political views in a nutshell, read these three posts:
John Cate's answer to What's your most controversial political opinion?
John Cate's answer to Is direct democracy the only kind of democracy or is the form of government in the United States also a kind of democracy? (Explains why the USA is NOT a democracy, and why you should be glad it is not.)
As far as the section here where it asks you what you know about, I'll leave that to my readers to decide.
A member of the “Million Upvote Club” as of 2 July 2018: John Cate's answer to Are you in the million upvote club? Now close to four million. And as of June 2020, the 28th most-viewed active member in the site’s history. Haven’t seen a ranking since then.
Something worth reading before delving into my answers:
John Cate's answer to What should new Quora users know about you before commenting on your content?
My PolitiScales results:
Fatherland? A rather Nazi like phrase!
A Dissident in the 21st Century
There is nothing that sounds more like a totalitarian term to me that the phrase, “Homeland Security”. It reminds me of “der Fatherland” as spoken by the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s. And the Orwellian name of the PATRIOT Act simply boils my frontal cortex. On September 11, 2001 I woke up in a hotel room in Tarzana, California.
I had driven there from my home in San Diego the night before for a job interview at Stan Winston Studio in Van Nuys. I was a special effects artist for film, I had worked for Stan many times before. I had the hotel ring my room to get me up in time to get ready for the upcoming interview, I took a shower and dressed and the casually went down stairs to the room where they served a complimentary “continental breakfast”. I poured a cup of coffee and grabbed a couple of jelly rolls and sat down at table, I took a couple of bites of a roll and took a sip of coffee I nodded to the only other person in the room. Then motion caught my eye across the room, a TV set was on set high on the wall in front of me. There was a newscaster speaking silently and a strange scene looping in an inset behind him, an airplane was crashing into the side of a building.
I called out to the guy in the room, “do you know how to turn the sound on that TV?” I asked. He looked up and said he did and reached out in front of his plate and picked up the remote and clicked the sound on. Even though I could now hear the announcer speaking, I still couldn’t figure out what was going on. So I asked the guy there, He said, “Oh! Haven’t you heard? Airliners crashed into both towers of the World Trade Center in New York this morning”. I was dumbfounded...what the hell could this mean? He said, “they think it is an act of terrorism. My mind was spinning. Should I go to the interview? What were the immediate implications of something like this? I finished my coffee and went back up to my room. I made a call to Stan’s studio. I asked if I should still come in for the interview. I spoke with Shane Mahan whom I had known for years. He said yea come on in, we have a skeleton crew here today, John and I are here. So I got my stuff together and headed over.
I was more distracted than they were. They seemed to be taking the event in New York very lightly. I was there about a half hour. I was anxious to get back home. I had listed to the radio in the car on the way to Stan’s and there was news of an air travel ban. I wanted to get out of the Valley of the Dolls before all traffic was banned...maybe martial law would be enacted soon. I didn’t want to get stuck. It was already weird. There were literally no cars on the road!I had made arrangements to have lunch with a friend there that day, but as I cruised down the eerie empty streets an impulse sent me to the nearest freeway entrance and I was on my way back south to San Diego. The strangest car drive I have ever taken. There was not a single car on the freeway. The only car I saw on the drive home was one car coming the other direction somewhere near Long Beach. I was driving 80 and 90 miles per hour all the way. I didn’t see a single cop car either.
All the way home I listened to the radio. That was when I heard the term “homeland” for the first time. It was on everyone’s lips, and the term “al Qaeda” the name ‘bin Laden’ and ‘Terrorism Experts’ were like the words to a new pop song that morning. This was prefab talking points, everyone had gotten the same memo. This was propaganda, heavy and deep. I was in a state of wonder. The world had just changed permanently, I could feel it.
Once home I got on the computer looking for the immediate reaction on the web. The first thing I read was from a family in New York who told of their son in the Navy that was aboard a ship on its way to the middle east. He had emailed his parents saying something must be up because their orders had suddenly changed from going to the Persian Gulf to returning back to New York Harbor post haste. The main thing is that this message was sent at around 3AM the morning of September 11, 2021. Hmm???
I also dug the old portable TV set out of the closet in the bedroom. I hooked it up and got a channel that was reporting on the events in New York. It seemed that all channels were reporting on the “Attack on America”
About an hour later the reports on the first tower collapsing came in. Helicopter views of the remains and such. Around 20 minutes later the second collapse had happened and was caught live on television. This collapse was shown from several angles from various networks combining their reports.
As I watched the collapse I jumped up yelling at the TV set “IMPOSSIBLE!!!”. There is no possibility whatsoever that the collapse of that building was caused by the crash of the airplane into its side. I had seen that event over and again in replays that morning. It was obvious that the vast majority of the jet fuel had ignited outside of the building in a huge explosive fireball. Both buildings stood close to an hour after the hits. There was another reason for the buildings total collapses. And I was going to find out what that was.
WW- 1:14 – February 2, 2023
My report on 9/11 after a complete year and a half analysis: