OK so this past weekend I found myself in conversation with a polite, friendly, and apparently well-educated, shall we say, European of the usual urban "normie" persuasions. He started saying how he was terribly concerned these days about misinformation, most especially misinformation on social media, and that what we really need now is …
OK so this past weekend I found myself in conversation with a polite, friendly, and apparently well-educated, shall we say, European of the usual urban "normie" persuasions. He started saying how he was terribly concerned these days about misinformation, most especially misinformation on social media, and that what we really need now is a committee of authorities to determine what is information, so that the misinformation can be kept out of the public realm. I said, rather mildly, well, you might not like the conclusions of the authorities should one day the other party, the one you don't like, win the national elections and then appoint their own authorities to said committee. I could have cut the shock in the air with a plastic knife. I do believe that this obviously obvious obviousness had not ocurred to him. I then directed the conversation towards more pleasant and less cognitively challenging subjects, such as housepets. Meow.
Maybe the winning strategy would be to whisper ominously, “you know, soon the Orange Satan may get to decide what’s ‘information’…” But remember how all the pundits decried the ‘Trump’ vaccine? “Oh, who would take it? You’d be crazy…lalala “ then a very very short time later “anyone who doesn’t take it is insane!” In that moment it was evident that a crazy train was barreling down, unstoppable. Actual reasoning ability itself was just…gone. Usually there’s more of a time lag between flip flopping, and more effort to finesse the lies. It’s rather scary when the message is “none of this has to make even an iota of sense”. Quite frankly, the absurdity makes me question the very nature of reality.
Well if the masks worked we wouldn't have needed the vaccines, and if the vaccines worked we wouldn't have needed the masks, and if the vaccines worked there'd be no point to having the vax passports, and if the vaccines didn't work (and in fact they don't work) there'd be no point to having the vax passports. I know the camps are there. It's very ominous. I don't think the excuse to herd us in there has to make logical, human sense, it just has to work.
Stay at home because you don't want to be the bad guy who spreads this deadly virus to granny, unless you need to protest for something the regime approves of, in which case, well, just forget what I said two seconds earlier.
It simply does not seem to occur to them that "the other guys" might, or actually WILL, at some point, be driving the bus. And will be applying the same restrictions on speech, or thought control - in a manner they will find most inconvenient.
This failure, (or inability), to consider reality is one of the many symptoms of the loathsome disease we label 'socialism'.
"you might not like the conclusions of the authorities should one day the other party, the one you don't like"
There are levels of support for fascism that include at least "But I'm one of the Good Guys!" down through the belief that they'll be The One Holding the Whip.
I tend to think most Misinformation Malefactors tend toward the latter.
OK so this past weekend I found myself in conversation with a polite, friendly, and apparently well-educated, shall we say, European of the usual urban "normie" persuasions. He started saying how he was terribly concerned these days about misinformation, most especially misinformation on social media, and that what we really need now is a committee of authorities to determine what is information, so that the misinformation can be kept out of the public realm. I said, rather mildly, well, you might not like the conclusions of the authorities should one day the other party, the one you don't like, win the national elections and then appoint their own authorities to said committee. I could have cut the shock in the air with a plastic knife. I do believe that this obviously obvious obviousness had not ocurred to him. I then directed the conversation towards more pleasant and less cognitively challenging subjects, such as housepets. Meow.
Maybe the winning strategy would be to whisper ominously, “you know, soon the Orange Satan may get to decide what’s ‘information’…” But remember how all the pundits decried the ‘Trump’ vaccine? “Oh, who would take it? You’d be crazy…lalala “ then a very very short time later “anyone who doesn’t take it is insane!” In that moment it was evident that a crazy train was barreling down, unstoppable. Actual reasoning ability itself was just…gone. Usually there’s more of a time lag between flip flopping, and more effort to finesse the lies. It’s rather scary when the message is “none of this has to make even an iota of sense”. Quite frankly, the absurdity makes me question the very nature of reality.
I'll tell you what would've been terrifying is if the masks and the vaccine actually worked.
we'd be in the camps
Well if the masks worked we wouldn't have needed the vaccines, and if the vaccines worked we wouldn't have needed the masks, and if the vaccines worked there'd be no point to having the vax passports, and if the vaccines didn't work (and in fact they don't work) there'd be no point to having the vax passports. I know the camps are there. It's very ominous. I don't think the excuse to herd us in there has to make logical, human sense, it just has to work.
Boy that is haunting...."it just has to work".
True
Stay at home because you don't want to be the bad guy who spreads this deadly virus to granny, unless you need to protest for something the regime approves of, in which case, well, just forget what I said two seconds earlier.
I’m still waiting for an answer on this one myself. None of the vaxxholes have a word to say.
It simply does not seem to occur to them that "the other guys" might, or actually WILL, at some point, be driving the bus. And will be applying the same restrictions on speech, or thought control - in a manner they will find most inconvenient.
This failure, (or inability), to consider reality is one of the many symptoms of the loathsome disease we label 'socialism'.
Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!
"you might not like the conclusions of the authorities should one day the other party, the one you don't like"
There are levels of support for fascism that include at least "But I'm one of the Good Guys!" down through the belief that they'll be The One Holding the Whip.
I tend to think most Misinformation Malefactors tend toward the latter.
Good gambit. But would you speculate amoung friends that a Trump presidency will defund much of the Federal censorship efforts, or just refocus?