"For a long time, there have been two types of people: lockdowners and anti- lockdowners. A day is coming when there will only be people who never supported lockdowns. Some of those will deny that such a thing as a lockdown ever happened." - Dr. Bhattacharya back in May.
Yes. As I understand it, in the years after France was liberated and WWII ended, the number of people who claimed to have been in the Resistance was far greater than the actual number.
In reality, most people kept their heads down, complied, and did what they were told, while a fair number collaborated with Vichy and the German occupation, either for ideological reasons or in an attempt to give themselves an advantage over their fellow citizens. Many known collaborators did not fare well in the aftermath.
My French Godmother WAS part of the resistance but would never talk about it, not even to her husband or kids. "It's in the past", she'd say. My mother and I tried to convince her to write a book about it but she refused. Her stories died with her.
Unfortunately, they did that to a number of women who were merely suspected or accused of having relationships with German officers or soldiers. But of course there were many false accusations and misunderstandings, and the retributions got out of hand.
"Some people say that time heals all wounds, as if the passing of each year helps make the sharp edges of life go smooth. But I can't help but feel like these are the sort of people who trade in useless platitudes and mollifying adages, people who’ve led relatively pain-free lives and haven’t been introduced to life’s brutal compromises and forfeitures."
I also want to say, in regards to this poignant paragraph,
that until I lost my brother, father, mother, and sister within a span of five years, I didn't understand loss and grief at all.
Really enjoyed and shared your essay. Thank you for the personal story as well as the beautifully presented facts and figures. We will remember the human toll as we all carry it with us. So many ways to suffer. Take care.
It was important that we filthy unvaxxed not burden "the US medical system" with our health needs. Those heroes needed time to practice their dance routines for TikTok.
Now who's gonna "burden" the medical system, what with all their clots, strokes, heart attacks, dementia, cancers, and several dozen other serious conditions? I sure as hell ain't interested in paying for it with my tax $$. Pfizer, Moderna & Astra-zeneca and all their 2nd tier BigPharma partners got multii-billions of cash for their poisons. We have to take it ALL back from them before we hang them...
Somebody with a famous Twitter account should tweet something like "if you got COVID after getting vaxxed, you should be denied medical treatment" and let's all grab pop corn and watch the left implode.
Watching lib heads explode is always fun, but I don't think I agree about denying medical care for all vaxxed people. I'm somewhat in favor of witholding any public assistance type funding for it though. Medicaid, but not Medicare. The old folks paid into their pensions, so it's not our tax $ there. However, truckoads of our tax $ has already been mis-used on covid and I don't want to see any more of it spent on anything else "covid" - except public trials and appropriate punishments of the guilty. If someone who voluntarily poisoned themselves instead of refusing, and can afford their own medical care, I don't think it should be withheld from them, unless they're one of the "Lockdown-Larrys" or "Mask-Karens" who was involved in the illegal enforcement of those policies against the rest of us.
I don't think Fabes55 was advocating denying anyone treatment - just to put it out there to see how much they like being dehumanized and targetted. I could be wrong but I didn't read it as he(?) would ever deny anyone treatment.
OK, maybe I misunderstood. If it's just something to say to provoke them with on Twitter, that's a bit different. But who knows, there could still be a silver lining. If they get mad enough they might just go ahead and stroke out and be done with it, - also a way to avoid"burdening the system" :)
Cmon silly. Don’t ya know they are developing a special therapeutic for Long Covid? Don’t laugh. My guess it should be rolled out within the next several months. They are testing it on a dozen lice as Intype this!
Has anyone else ever noticed how much the progressive left uses the word "y'all"- a vernacular they are statistically unlikely to actually be using in their local, colloquial speech in real life- when scolding dissenters?
bush started that, and (as with the pronunciation 'nook-you-ler') soon they were all doing it. I used to like the word 'folks.' now it makes my flesh crawl...
I say "humans." I think that encompasses all the pronouns. But for those who identify as aliens (space, not border hoppers), screw you, you're on your own with your triggered feelings.
It's the carpetbagger attempting to look like one of us. They are so folksy when they are trying to get us to follow them. 'Oh, I am smarter than you dumb hicks and better in various other ways. But I can talk the way that I imagine you do, so follow my superiority'
The dregs of Northern USA have been coming to Georgia trying to convince us they are elite, my whole life. It is sad and pathetic. The assumed and unearned superiority makes you want to reach down their throats and rip their vocal chords out.
The carpetbagging fuckers are still trying to kill our Southern freedom loving ways. They have captured some of the larger cities already. I'm talking to you Atlanta.
As a native, I sadly have to report the same for Charlotte, Asheville, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Durham,, etc... Thankfully, I live way out in the county where I don't have to see/deal with that shit on a daily basis. (yet)...
It would be fun if they switched to "dawg" or "bro" or some other grunt.
It's an old thing too. Not just on stage with the "Mick and Pat"-routines of yore but in commericals and other media too.
Some dialects and accents are used for designating someone as stupid/clever (or evil - the eponymous fat racist sunglasses-sporting southern sheriff of too many movies to count comes to mind). We have the exact same thing here.
If Good then flat "rikssvenska" (no accent, no slang, lots of PC neologisms, typical of state media).
If Evil then scanian. If backwards the northlander. If even more backwards then ... and so on.
If doubleplusgood, use non-white female moslem actor with heavy accent and very poor swedish.
I have a weird speech affectation where I call people "boss," like, "hey, boss, can I get a coffee?"
Some years ago someone told me I was appropriating black slave speech. I was so dumbfounded by this that I, of course, had to say, "well, shit, sorry, boss."
I don't know where I picked it up. I don't think it was from hanging out with 19th century slaves.
Anyway, I also called my actual bosses at work "boss," and it only drove the woke ones crazy (they didn't like "sir" either).
One of my high school teachers (special advanced public all-girls high school in the 1950s), when someone addressed her as "ma'am," used to say, "Don't call me Madam; I'm just one of the girls." We thought that was really cool and funny at the time -- but I wouldn't advise saying it to your daughter! 🤣🤣🤣
It was only last week when The Science (aka Fauci) was out there pointing fingers at the "unvaxxed." Of course, he wants people to look at anything other than the gain of function research. Still, I'm glad to be past the active persecution phase and into the tweet-deleting and pretending that it's different when Xi does it phase. No, these twits don't have the requisite self-awareness to learn, but at least they stopped threatening to throw me in a camp. At least for right now.
That said, and while I wholeheartedly support pulling receipts, I am losing interest in further debate with those whom I already defeated. Someone said, "anger is an acid that does more damage to the vessel where it is stored than to the surface onto which it is poured." Or words to that effect. I have spent far too long, pissed off. People still wearing masks. Pissed off. Places, like the U.S. still requiring vaccination to enter. Pissed off. Friends of mine still believing in the vaccine. Pissed off. Fauci, and the rest of his band of assholes, not admitting they were wrong. Pissed off. I figure the time has come for me to stop being angry about being right! I have adopted a point of view of bemusement, and yes, even forgiveness in some cases. The evil bastards, like the aforementioned Dr. pFauci deserve none. They deserve derision and frankly, jail. They will likely get neither. They are beyond my reach anyway. As for the rest of the folks I know, I will just shrug and nonchalantly realize they were fooled. And, be glad it wasn't me! #YMMV
Here in Oregon, pharmacies are required to have their customers masked. A lot of pharmacies are in grocery stores. People (unmasked) are walking by people (masked) standing in line for the pharmacy. Make it make sense!
I hear you and agree to a large extent! However, I now view masks as a shibboleth, signifying passive obedience versus the result of either intense study--my excuse--or active evil and/or virtue signaling. I can experience bemusement without relegating wearers to any category, including "fool." #Shrugs
Speaking of bemusement, Sam Bankman-Fried trotted out the word "shibboleth" in the Vox "interview." I now feel sorry for the word, and suggest it needs to recuperate by being used only in its classic Hebrew sense for at least two years before being returned to the active roster for modern usage. That's sort of what happened to "nuance." Unfortunately, "nuanced" is still on strict bed rest due to wanton over usage - exploited like orca and dolphin at aquarium shows.
In the immortal words of Carrie Fisher: “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ” Still, I struggle with it all the time and often can't contain a lip curl when I see someone masked. I don't want to continue to feel this way, and hope to learn to get past it.
And that truly baffles the medical industrial complex. Maybe they can devise a "beautiful vaccine" to counteract the baffling SAD side effects of the "beautiful vaccines." I'm sure they're on it "at the speed of science!"
This is electronic equivalent, 80 years on, of donning a disguise and hopping a freighter from Hamburg to Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, or Montevideo. Or heading up the U.S. space program.
People of profound innate decency always find it hard to see the true worst in others.
Forgiveness is a weapon against the good. Some things are unforgiveable on the human plane. If one believes in a higher realm where absolution might be granted, let the Big Grantor in the Sky remove from the Big Tandoor as the proprietor determines appropriate.
For us down here--no, I don't want vengeance, delicious as it is. Justice is hard to obtain and people are never made whole again. Let the receipts do their necessary work and keep 'em in fireproof safes.
But how do we keep receipts of strangers? I don't even know how to take screen shots and I suspect most of the crazy stuff--and there was plenty of it--has already been taken down by the lockdowners.
Well, sir, let's first get you over the hump of learning to take screenshots! It's too simple for you to not know how it's done. A quick google search of your device + "how to screenshot" should do the trick. On my iphone 7, you press the power button and the home button at the same time; image goes straight to Photos.
What you describe goes far beyond cognitive dissonance.
It ventures into the realm of living in a shared fantasy (something delusional narcissists are trying to do ALL THE TIME).
It is is a form of gaslighting (something narcissists are expert in).
They tell lies, not only to the rest of the world, but to themselves as well, to such an extent that they do not live in reality, as they believe the lies they tell.
It should not be confused with Cognitive Dissonance, as that is just a fancy word for rationalizing reality eg. "those grapes (that i cannot reach because they are too high up on the vine) probably taste like crap anyway" (you just eliminated your desire for the grapes by assuming they taste like crap).
What the Jersey changers are doing is more accurately "Gaslighting".
They are lying, they know they are lying, but they are lying so much that they believe that their lies will be perceived as being true.
So keeping the receipts and confronting them EVERY TIME is a great approach, but this must be done to such a degree as to point out to them that they are actually delusional.
Its a tough job, but diminishing their credibility (with extreme cruelty) is the only way to inflict narcissistic injury on them.
I just heard a segment on NPR (yea, I know but I like to listen to opposition propaganda) that the most popular word definition search on google is gaslighting. I take this to be a good sign.
"For a long time, there have been two types of people: lockdowners and anti- lockdowners. A day is coming when there will only be people who never supported lockdowns. Some of those will deny that such a thing as a lockdown ever happened." - Dr. Bhattacharya back in May.
Do not let them memory-hole the human toll.
https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/a-sad-soul-can-kill-you-quicker-than
Yes. As I understand it, in the years after France was liberated and WWII ended, the number of people who claimed to have been in the Resistance was far greater than the actual number.
In reality, most people kept their heads down, complied, and did what they were told, while a fair number collaborated with Vichy and the German occupation, either for ideological reasons or in an attempt to give themselves an advantage over their fellow citizens. Many known collaborators did not fare well in the aftermath.
My French Godmother WAS part of the resistance but would never talk about it, not even to her husband or kids. "It's in the past", she'd say. My mother and I tried to convince her to write a book about it but she refused. Her stories died with her.
Didn't they shave the heads of known collaborators?
Loving the collaborator shaved head concept...
Especially on all those nasty, ugly Karens.
Like Fauci’s daughter!!!
Unfortunately, they did that to a number of women who were merely suspected or accused of having relationships with German officers or soldiers. But of course there were many false accusations and misunderstandings, and the retributions got out of hand.
Perhaps the ones who were caught.
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
You are a talented writer and deep human being. Best to you as you continue to endeavor to find meaning and joy in your life.
Thank you, that's really kind of you.
"Some people say that time heals all wounds, as if the passing of each year helps make the sharp edges of life go smooth. But I can't help but feel like these are the sort of people who trade in useless platitudes and mollifying adages, people who’ve led relatively pain-free lives and haven’t been introduced to life’s brutal compromises and forfeitures."
I also want to say, in regards to this poignant paragraph,
that until I lost my brother, father, mother, and sister within a span of five years, I didn't understand loss and grief at all.
I would second that. Plus, he has such a cool name.
So true. Denial is the final stage of every atrocity in history.
Just following orders comes to mind.
Off-topic comment to Brad (begging boriquagatoan indulgence):
Just read your piece. Well said; you are not alone. I hope it has reached many readers.
Really enjoyed and shared your essay. Thank you for the personal story as well as the beautifully presented facts and figures. We will remember the human toll as we all carry it with us. So many ways to suffer. Take care.
It was important that we filthy unvaxxed not burden "the US medical system" with our health needs. Those heroes needed time to practice their dance routines for TikTok.
Now who's gonna "burden" the medical system, what with all their clots, strokes, heart attacks, dementia, cancers, and several dozen other serious conditions? I sure as hell ain't interested in paying for it with my tax $$. Pfizer, Moderna & Astra-zeneca and all their 2nd tier BigPharma partners got multii-billions of cash for their poisons. We have to take it ALL back from them before we hang them...
Somebody with a famous Twitter account should tweet something like "if you got COVID after getting vaxxed, you should be denied medical treatment" and let's all grab pop corn and watch the left implode.
Watching lib heads explode is always fun, but I don't think I agree about denying medical care for all vaxxed people. I'm somewhat in favor of witholding any public assistance type funding for it though. Medicaid, but not Medicare. The old folks paid into their pensions, so it's not our tax $ there. However, truckoads of our tax $ has already been mis-used on covid and I don't want to see any more of it spent on anything else "covid" - except public trials and appropriate punishments of the guilty. If someone who voluntarily poisoned themselves instead of refusing, and can afford their own medical care, I don't think it should be withheld from them, unless they're one of the "Lockdown-Larrys" or "Mask-Karens" who was involved in the illegal enforcement of those policies against the rest of us.
I don't think Fabes55 was advocating denying anyone treatment - just to put it out there to see how much they like being dehumanized and targetted. I could be wrong but I didn't read it as he(?) would ever deny anyone treatment.
OK, maybe I misunderstood. If it's just something to say to provoke them with on Twitter, that's a bit different. But who knows, there could still be a silver lining. If they get mad enough they might just go ahead and stroke out and be done with it, - also a way to avoid"burdening the system" :)
That's exactly what I meant...and an interesting way to unburden the system!
Oh- so now who’s the meany?! LOL
🤣🤣🤣
🤯 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Cmon silly. Don’t ya know they are developing a special therapeutic for Long Covid? Don’t laugh. My guess it should be rolled out within the next several months. They are testing it on a dozen lice as Intype this!
Spot on! It's only fair.
💥
🙌
Absolutely well-said, El Gato Malo! NO Covid amnesty.
Nope, nein, nyet, uh-uh!
Has anyone else ever noticed how much the progressive left uses the word "y'all"- a vernacular they are statistically unlikely to actually be using in their local, colloquial speech in real life- when scolding dissenters?
I wonder if it's a racist dog whistle?
Yes. It has overtones of "folks" so fondly used by B.O. Hmmm...
That's "folx," fascist.
Or 'volx', as in wagen. As in Hitler, much to Alyssa Milano's chagrin.
We also say " folks" here in Ga...yll are starting to rile me.
Ffs..I swear...if you demean " yonder"..
Ah reckon you want to bless their heart. :)
😂
You might be missing my point.
I virtually promise you the person who wrote that tweet does not say "y'all" or "folks" in their daily speech in real life.
Ok... I had read it as 'those of us who Did...'
Thanks for the clarity.
I thought you were joshing. I love this group. Everybody is welcome to say what you will; we'll clear it up lickety split.
I cringed every time he said it
bush started that, and (as with the pronunciation 'nook-you-ler') soon they were all doing it. I used to like the word 'folks.' now it makes my flesh crawl...
I actually make a specific point to say "people" instead of "folks" because for some reason they're triggered by "people."
I say "humans." I think that encompasses all the pronouns. But for those who identify as aliens (space, not border hoppers), screw you, you're on your own with your triggered feelings.
It's the carpetbagger attempting to look like one of us. They are so folksy when they are trying to get us to follow them. 'Oh, I am smarter than you dumb hicks and better in various other ways. But I can talk the way that I imagine you do, so follow my superiority'
The dregs of Northern USA have been coming to Georgia trying to convince us they are elite, my whole life. It is sad and pathetic. The assumed and unearned superiority makes you want to reach down their throats and rip their vocal chords out.
The carpetbagging fuckers are still trying to kill our Southern freedom loving ways. They have captured some of the larger cities already. I'm talking to you Atlanta.
As a native, I sadly have to report the same for Charlotte, Asheville, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Durham,, etc... Thankfully, I live way out in the county where I don't have to see/deal with that shit on a daily basis. (yet)...
I'm a transplant, after following my now husband here. It was like I'd finally found Home.
It would be fun if they switched to "dawg" or "bro" or some other grunt.
It's an old thing too. Not just on stage with the "Mick and Pat"-routines of yore but in commericals and other media too.
Some dialects and accents are used for designating someone as stupid/clever (or evil - the eponymous fat racist sunglasses-sporting southern sheriff of too many movies to count comes to mind). We have the exact same thing here.
If Good then flat "rikssvenska" (no accent, no slang, lots of PC neologisms, typical of state media).
If Evil then scanian. If backwards the northlander. If even more backwards then ... and so on.
If doubleplusgood, use non-white female moslem actor with heavy accent and very poor swedish.
Sa'course itza dawgwizzel!
I used to like y’all and folks. My Canadian guy calls me “folksy” in my Americanness. I take that as a compliment.
But now I hear the woke have culturally appropriated the terms and I cringe.
I love how this thread exposes it! I feel validated 🤣
I have a weird speech affectation where I call people "boss," like, "hey, boss, can I get a coffee?"
Some years ago someone told me I was appropriating black slave speech. I was so dumbfounded by this that I, of course, had to say, "well, shit, sorry, boss."
I don't know where I picked it up. I don't think it was from hanging out with 19th century slaves.
Anyway, I also called my actual bosses at work "boss," and it only drove the woke ones crazy (they didn't like "sir" either).
Reminds me of how my 13 year old daughter has taken to calling me Madam. I’ll let her carry on.
She’s only verging on woke and I’m hoping I still have time to disrupt! I waded briefly myself…
The pendulum Will Swing!!!
One of my high school teachers (special advanced public all-girls high school in the 1950s), when someone addressed her as "ma'am," used to say, "Don't call me Madam; I'm just one of the girls." We thought that was really cool and funny at the time -- but I wouldn't advise saying it to your daughter! 🤣🤣🤣
Madam is way better than ma’am anyway. So much more mysterious and dignified!
Hey! "Will Swing" is my pornstar name!
It's terribly condescending.
"Greetings, fellow rednecks and/or rural blacks!"
Hey!! * gives GM the side eye*
It was only last week when The Science (aka Fauci) was out there pointing fingers at the "unvaxxed." Of course, he wants people to look at anything other than the gain of function research. Still, I'm glad to be past the active persecution phase and into the tweet-deleting and pretending that it's different when Xi does it phase. No, these twits don't have the requisite self-awareness to learn, but at least they stopped threatening to throw me in a camp. At least for right now.
If you live in New York State, where the troll governor is trying to get approval for camps, don’t let your guard down. I’m not
I do not. I live in the free state of South Dakota.
Noam,yes? Would y'all consider relinquishing her for the VP slot?
Haha, no way. 😀
At least for now...very prescient. We will always remember they thought this about us, and it means they will do it again, I’m worried for the future.
I read this earlier re: Fauci in court
https://brownstone.org/articles/faucis-7-hour-deposition-what-we-know-so-far/
Cognitive dissonance knows no bounds.
That said, and while I wholeheartedly support pulling receipts, I am losing interest in further debate with those whom I already defeated. Someone said, "anger is an acid that does more damage to the vessel where it is stored than to the surface onto which it is poured." Or words to that effect. I have spent far too long, pissed off. People still wearing masks. Pissed off. Places, like the U.S. still requiring vaccination to enter. Pissed off. Friends of mine still believing in the vaccine. Pissed off. Fauci, and the rest of his band of assholes, not admitting they were wrong. Pissed off. I figure the time has come for me to stop being angry about being right! I have adopted a point of view of bemusement, and yes, even forgiveness in some cases. The evil bastards, like the aforementioned Dr. pFauci deserve none. They deserve derision and frankly, jail. They will likely get neither. They are beyond my reach anyway. As for the rest of the folks I know, I will just shrug and nonchalantly realize they were fooled. And, be glad it wasn't me! #YMMV
well, i was raised on the clash, so...
I'm not working for the clampdown
No man born with a living soul
Can be working for the clampdown
Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall
How can you refuse it?
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
D'you know that you can use it?
Never underestimate the power of the court of public opinion! We are seeing it in action.
Like you, I’m no longer pissed off when I see people masking…I just shake my head and think “what ignorant fools”. They’re 1 if 3 things:
1. Trusting fools who believe everything they see/read on MSM & are just not up to speed, never having questioned all the ever changing narrative
2. Covidians who are totally in the cult & enjoy the virtue signaling
3. Going through chemo
Here in Oregon, pharmacies are required to have their customers masked. A lot of pharmacies are in grocery stores. People (unmasked) are walking by people (masked) standing in line for the pharmacy. Make it make sense!
Dontcha know that the covid cooties are well behaved and limit theselves to circulating only in the pharmacy area, hence the masks.
Yes, and apparently the virus flees from the sight or smell of food!
I hear you and agree to a large extent! However, I now view masks as a shibboleth, signifying passive obedience versus the result of either intense study--my excuse--or active evil and/or virtue signaling. I can experience bemusement without relegating wearers to any category, including "fool." #Shrugs
Speaking of bemusement, Sam Bankman-Fried trotted out the word "shibboleth" in the Vox "interview." I now feel sorry for the word, and suggest it needs to recuperate by being used only in its classic Hebrew sense for at least two years before being returned to the active roster for modern usage. That's sort of what happened to "nuance." Unfortunately, "nuanced" is still on strict bed rest due to wanton over usage - exploited like orca and dolphin at aquarium shows.
Jesus. This is why substack is awesome. Context!
Anger corrodes the vessel that contains it.
In the immortal words of Carrie Fisher: “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ” Still, I struggle with it all the time and often can't contain a lip curl when I see someone masked. I don't want to continue to feel this way, and hope to learn to get past it.
Word! My purpose in sharing was to offer what helped me "get past it." Carrie Fisher was correct. 🙏🏿
While I remain bitter rather than angry, I expect many of the Covidians to become SAD
And that truly baffles the medical industrial complex. Maybe they can devise a "beautiful vaccine" to counteract the baffling SAD side effects of the "beautiful vaccines." I'm sure they're on it "at the speed of science!"
At least some decent AGs let Fauci have his day in court. Let's see what happens.
https://brownstone.org/articles/faucis-7-hour-deposition-what-we-know-so-far/
YMMV?
Your Mileage May Vary
Thanks! 70 year old appreciates learning some new!!!
Sun-Mew and the art of Purr never gets old.
It's easier to delete evidence than to admit they were wrong (and evil). It takes a responsible adult to do that...
The symbol of the denial is Trudeau, last week testifying (lying) that he had never called antivaxxers names.
Special bonus points for him saying that protest in order to change public policy is 'worrisome' after kneeling in the BLM protests.
But those were "peaceful" protests, unlike the truckers protests 😒
Anyone show him the "racist, misogynist, white supremacists... who stand with the swastika" clip?
This is electronic equivalent, 80 years on, of donning a disguise and hopping a freighter from Hamburg to Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, or Montevideo. Or heading up the U.S. space program.
People of profound innate decency always find it hard to see the true worst in others.
Forgiveness is a weapon against the good. Some things are unforgiveable on the human plane. If one believes in a higher realm where absolution might be granted, let the Big Grantor in the Sky remove from the Big Tandoor as the proprietor determines appropriate.
For us down here--no, I don't want vengeance, delicious as it is. Justice is hard to obtain and people are never made whole again. Let the receipts do their necessary work and keep 'em in fireproof safes.
I'm never forgetting what people I know said/wrote.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/should-those-who-supported-lockdowns
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/ill-never-forgive-the-coronamaniacs
But how do we keep receipts of strangers? I don't even know how to take screen shots and I suspect most of the crazy stuff--and there was plenty of it--has already been taken down by the lockdowners.
Well, sir, let's first get you over the hump of learning to take screenshots! It's too simple for you to not know how it's done. A quick google search of your device + "how to screenshot" should do the trick. On my iphone 7, you press the power button and the home button at the same time; image goes straight to Photos.
Funny. We're going to lose the culture war due to our refusal to use Google for one of its original purposes - to learn to use electronics.
Instructions can also be found on YouTube. (I hope they’re not owned by Google, or I just Milano’d myself...)
Amnesty NO
Reparations YES
now you're talking!
Where do i get a card that declines COVID treatment? That could be a lifesaver!
"Remdesivir?...ah,I see. None for you then,swine!"
Please, please don't throw me in the briar patch!
Never underestimate denial and shame. The audacity is asking for amnesty! Never forget!
https://changeandevolve.substack.com/p/special-issue-41
Gato:
What you describe goes far beyond cognitive dissonance.
It ventures into the realm of living in a shared fantasy (something delusional narcissists are trying to do ALL THE TIME).
It is is a form of gaslighting (something narcissists are expert in).
They tell lies, not only to the rest of the world, but to themselves as well, to such an extent that they do not live in reality, as they believe the lies they tell.
It should not be confused with Cognitive Dissonance, as that is just a fancy word for rationalizing reality eg. "those grapes (that i cannot reach because they are too high up on the vine) probably taste like crap anyway" (you just eliminated your desire for the grapes by assuming they taste like crap).
What the Jersey changers are doing is more accurately "Gaslighting".
They are lying, they know they are lying, but they are lying so much that they believe that their lies will be perceived as being true.
So keeping the receipts and confronting them EVERY TIME is a great approach, but this must be done to such a degree as to point out to them that they are actually delusional.
Its a tough job, but diminishing their credibility (with extreme cruelty) is the only way to inflict narcissistic injury on them.
I just heard a segment on NPR (yea, I know but I like to listen to opposition propaganda) that the most popular word definition search on google is gaslighting. I take this to be a good sign.
That would depend upon whether they are seeking knowledge on the topic or instructions in its use.
"...they believe that their lies will be perceived as being true"
It doesn't hurt to have a compliant mass media as a tailwind.
Mass media is the enabler. Also, lets them actually believe that their bs is actually true . It contributes to their psychosis, and makes them worse .