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It's called DARVO (Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender), and it's a favorite tool of philanthropaths, tyrants, and other narcissistic abusers:

• "How Narcissists Use DARVO to Avoid Accountability": https://www.verywellmind.com/protecting-yourself-from-darvo-abusive-behavior-7562730

"By denying their actions, attacking the person confronting them, and flipping the roles of victim and offender, the narcissist effectively redirects attention away from their own actions, often causing doubt in the victim's claims."

—Bayu Prihandito

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Mar 22·edited Mar 22

Think about your own family: depressing. Really your own spouse, children, close friends, colleagues , how many malfunctioned, and how many are now lying about it? Memory hole, yes?

This is one consequence of propaganda; we live in a sea of lies and education is the starting point of the lies. Your children are being abused right now, or should I say disabused of honesty, it is called school. They’re being taught what to think not how to think. Is it any wonder that they are so malleable as adults.

But also readers of this author are a highly selected group. This is our thing we care about truth . Our author is a skilful interpreter of reality. Something like 95% of people are disinterested in honesty and generally figuring it out . They would not read this author. It is not their thing, they don’t care . It is our thing we care which makes it worse.

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When the mainstream media and the ruling class decide to pick on a critical issue, it is usually for two reasons: first, the issue is serious enough and is affecting their interests, and therefore the narrative must be controlled to ensure that the results are in their favor. Second, in doing the former, the ruling class gets to strictly filter and manage the narrative on what needs to be said about any given topic; which ‘experts’ are given the stage to speak; and whose voices are excluded from debates, or even defamed and slandered, if necessary.

This Orwell 1984 T is perfect for these times: t.co/EKkMWeTAPG

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Wait - so pants are required?

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I was out in public in the Imperial Capital recently, and there is no shortage of people there who are still proudly on Team Mask.

I'm completely serious. People of respectable demeanor wearing COVID masks in public in 2024.

In my house we call them "Democrat Voters." Tragic.

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Gato, check out the documents FOIA:ed and released in Germany! Link to Die Fackel who's got an article giving a brief run-dwon and a link to HiDrive where the documents are collected.

In summary re: vaccinations and lockdowns, as professor Stefan Homburg put it:

"Over 2,000 pages showing that the 'pandemic' was all fraud. Highlights:

'High health risk' was not derived from data, but a political decision.

'Herd immunity' was seen as a mere narrative."

Or in other words, it was what we all said it looked like from the get-go.

When you can't get justice, vindication will have to do.

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Sheep and lions: Brilliant!

I cringe every time I see BG...

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I still get very upset about masks. Ironically, I originally thought “what’s the harm” in April 2020 - not wanting mandated but thinking people should be free to try things. Then in May had a medical event caused by my own trying of one and did more research and started hard core opposing the talk of mandates that was beginning. I had a respiratory specialist tell me that some people would suffer and that the ethics could be decided later. That conversation was in 2020 and I still haven’t forgiven that doctor for his thoughtless statements. (Nor seen him again)

Though now I just feel sorry for anyone I see masking still. It’s like they’re the ones who lost the ability to think the worst and the mask is a symbol of their ongoing fear and paranoia now. So I do feel sorry for anyone still masking.

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Love the witch meme

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I’ll never forget that meme going around “you get your health advice from” and it showed bill in a sweater with his floppy man bewbs

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The idea that there are sheep and wolves (or lions if you prefer cats:)) - a prey/predator analogy in society - is certainly a useful one, but for me it lacks a third distinct group - badgers. Folks like me, who were pretty chill ( until the #$%^ got out of hand): Not really interested in telling others what to do or how to live, but not interested in following the herd either. That all changes when you start pushing nonsense ideology or medical impositions etc.. Cornered badgers can get really nasty.

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Gates having mentioned wearing masks as reasonable as wearing pants only makes me think of, "Liar, liar, pants on fire".

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As the saying goes (paraphrasing Tacitus), "Victory has many fathers, failure is an orphan"

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They want grace. It’s not the best thing for me to say, but I want retribution, and consequences.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134429414/should-we-declare-a-pandemic-amnesty

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Odious, lying troll. He probably doesn't remember ever meeting Epstein, either.

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Thank goodness we have the receipts.

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