Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 54
Aug. 16th, 2022 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
As we move further into the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:
1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.
2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.
4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
Survey on political violence
Date: 2022-08-21 06:36 am (UTC)It is everywhere at this point...
Re: Survey on political violence
Date: 2022-08-21 06:09 pm (UTC)They are injecting their own base with top offs of rage and fear, and underneath that entire article poking at the readers is the fear of guns and white people with guns. it's trying to make all white folks seem like racists ("whites feel they are being replaced by immigrants" and don't believe elections are fair).
erika
Re: Survey on political violence
Date: 2022-08-21 08:50 pm (UTC)"The author and holocaust survivor, Victor Klemperer, identified two distinct styles of language that defined Hitler’s propaganda against the Jews: either “scornful derision” of the inferior race or “panic-stricken fear” of their threat to civilisation.
Anti-Russian propaganda over the past centuries has similarly produced two contradictory positions – disdain for Russians as an uncivilised and backward people, and simultaneously an immeasurable threat looming over Europe. A state of affairs described by one writer as "Russophrenia: the idea that Russia is simultaneously about to fall apart, and also take over the world."
https://www.rt.com/russia/561135-russia-nato-ukraine-propaganda/
Works for lots of people/places.
Re: Survey on political violence
Date: 2022-08-22 03:11 am (UTC)“History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.”
— Voltaire
Which gives me a certain hope because it is always the powerful and disdainful of “those” people who paint that image. That everyone else is “barbarians” Europe and England were quite prone to that line of reasoning. See Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden.”
So not shocked that Europe is beset by “savages” and “barbarians”
“disdain for Russians as an uncivilised and backward people, and simultaneously an immeasurable threat looming over Europe.”
Yep. Both are true. They are disdainful and terrified as Rome was by the Visigoths, and the Persians were by Alexander and the Mongols.
Re: Survey on political violence
Date: 2022-08-21 06:40 pm (UTC)Re: Survey on political violence
Date: 2022-08-21 10:19 pm (UTC)