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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2024-04-23 10:18 am

Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 142

Fauci laughsWe are now in the third year of these open posts. As the phrase "died suddenly" repeats in the mass media like a mantra, statistics for work days lost to illness and all-cause mortality mount up in heavily vaccinated nations, and more and more ugly facts about the official response to Covid spill out into public, we are entering what may well turn out to be the most difficult period of the Covid disaster -- the phase in which denial rises in lockstep with the death rate, and a great many people try not to admit what has been done to them by the people and institutions they trusted. It could get ugly, folks.

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. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

Sportsman of the year 2024

[personal profile] stubborn_ass 2024-04-26 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
Novak ‘NoVaxx’ Djokovic wins the 2024 World Sportsman of the Year.

https://twitter.com/DavidWolfe/status/1783297100119224547

I was quite pleasantly surprised by this development... that the narrative stranglehold has been broken to such an extent. I can only hope that it brings some closure of the tons of folks still suffering from PTSD (which we all do, just to different extents).

Re: Sportsman of the year 2024

(Anonymous) 2024-04-26 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks to me like, they are throwing some crumbles to the mases, for apeasement for some preasure release.

They are technically co-option and recuperation:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-option

Co-optation may refer to the process by which a group subsumes or acculturates a smaller or weaker group with related interests, or the process by which one group gains converts from another group by replicating some aspects of it without adopting the full program or ideal ("informal co-optation").


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

In the sociological sense, recuperation is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective

Re: Sportsman of the year 2024

(Anonymous) 2024-04-27 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
'We started off demanding the banks stop funding wars and ended up with a yogurt festival.'

Something like this?

Re: Sportsman of the year 2024

(Anonymous) 2024-04-28 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
We started with anti-war protests and we ended with Woodstock, freelove, drugs and rock-and-roll!

Something like this!

Re: Sportsman of the year 2024

(Anonymous) 2024-04-28 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test or I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night.

Yep.

The anti-V movement is too small to create 'embankment spill-over' diversions? OR IS Palestine the diversion???????????????????
I never thought of that before.



Re: Sportsman of the year 2024

[personal profile] stubborn_ass 2024-04-29 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Too many people dying... too much unusual illness... too few babies... weird/stupid traffic accidents galore/everywhere. Even the most obtuse or in-denial person has to feel that something is 'off' right now, as there's no way to avoid the some of the spillover effects in their social circles. We don't need a formal anti-vex movement per se.

As for the Palestine issue.. please note that the rest of the world is pretty much looking on in revulsion. Only in the western countries where the govts are still supporting Israel by default and decree, do we get planted misinfo (IMHO) that Soro is funding the campus protests, mucking up the picture. Did you know that there are protests in Japan too? Nary a peep in MSM, but think of it as pockets of conscience still existing in westery society. Unfortunately not enough at this stage to refloat a sinking ship.

Re: Sportsman of the year 2024

(Anonymous) 2024-04-29 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
I visit some conservative sites that were in solidarity over the V and mandates and 'woke' nonsense yet they've pretty much jumped on the zionist christian bandwagon.
I don't have a twitter account but sometimes you can 'horror-surf' through various accounts and what is going on (seen by a billion young people on tik tok & X) is beyond comprehension.

Re: Sportsman of the year 2024

(Anonymous) 2024-04-29 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
> they've pretty much jumped on the zionist christian bandwagon.

That's because is supposed to be like that, much of what stands for conservative in US is infiltrated by christian zionism.

And christian zionism, in Dune terms looks like misionaria protectiva:

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Missionaria_Protectiva





The Missionaria Protectiva was the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood's "black arm of superstition", responsible for sowing the seeds of superstition in primitive cultures, so that the Sisterhood could take advantage of them when those seeds grew to full-fledged legends. They were responsible for spreading the Panoplia Propheticus (myths, prophecies, and superstitions).

This "religious engineering" spread "infectious superstitions on primitive worlds, thus opening those regions to exploitation by the Bene Gesserit." Panoplia Prophetica provide the opportunity for a Bene Gesserit to later cast herself as a guide, protector, or some other figure in fulfillment of a prophecy in order to manipulate the religious subjects for protection or other purposes. These myths also exploit religion as a powerful force in human society; by controlling the particulars of religion, the Bene Gesserit have a manipulative lever on society in general. The Bene Gesserit also employ the Missionaria Protectiva to prepare the Empire for the arrival of the Kwisatz Haderach.



And reality beats fiction, if you sacrifice a red babby sandworm, and rebuild the 3rd intergalactic temple, then the Lisan-Al Gaib will come.

Re: Sportsman of the year 2024

(Anonymous) 2024-04-28 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't forget, in those same years, you also had a pandemic, the "Hong Kong Flu," with essentially the same infection fatality rate as Covid.

But you had Woodstock, not lockdowns and a massive propaganda campaign to push some shot.