This is where the middle 40% crawl out from under the blanket as they realize the bogeyman the 30% were shrieking about is just shadows on Plato’s walls. Soon, we will be 70%, and the 30% will have difficulty sustaining their illusion when they find themselves in the minority.
These are the exact ratios laid out by Mattias Desmet about Mass Formation. 30% ultra brainwashed cult, 40% soft middle and 30% unable to brainwash. The un-brain-washable 30% finally turned the soft 40% and now the only thing the cult can do is screech like the Wicked Witch of the West. Buh bye.
Yep, that’s where I got the percentage, and a recent poll (I can’t remember the specifics) showed the 30% mass formation percentage was *dead-on*. Mattias says 13% of the hypnotized will never emerge from their hypnosis, but eventually the others should awaken from their slumber.
It's pretty extraordinary how spot on these numbers have been. About 30% of people jabbed up their young kids and this must also be the same % that answers positively when asked about Brandon in the polls. I guess eventually that real number will be 13% which sounds about accurate.
I know—eerie. It makes me wonder how Mattias came up with those percentages and if these are the same ratios we see in mass delusion events throughout history.
I listened to a lecture by A Huxley from approx. 1962. He stated that about 20% of the population was naturally very susceptible to hypnosis, while in contrast about 20% are essentially immune from hypnosis. The remaining 60% could go one way or the other depending on the circumstances. I found this quite interesting as it is a similar ratio to the percentages asserted by Desmet in regards to the mass formation theory.
Also the exact ratios in politics. There's always that 30% that Xiden, and 0bama before him, could never lose, no matter how insane, and during elections, always the 40% in the middle, who can't figure out what they believe.
...and ethical and honest as well - I donated and they refunded it last week. I wouldn't have minded if they had kept it. Our moronic pm still hasn't lifted any federal mandates, but they tried hard, and hopefully exposed him as the idiot he is to those people who blindly support him.
At least when Trudeau and neonazi C. Freeland (sic) jumped the gun on freezing bank accounts, it spooked the country and will make it harder to implement their digital cash/ID matrix without serious pushback.
I have a feeling it's coming for you guys soon. As for the US it must stop all job shot mandates and border crossing restrictions. This is not Berlin on the northern border (we all k now the southern border is wide open)
I know - it is hilarious - my brother in law had to jump through hoops - talked to numerous individuals and filled out an 11 page document - twice - just to be able to drive into the States for a couple of hours as part of his job driving train employees across the border - and you see all these people flowing over the southern border, getting cell phones, etc.
History has shown that middle 33% to 40% are the swing votes. During the American Revolutionary war in late 1776 New Jersey was a perfect example of this. As Washington retreated the state went strongly Loyalist. After the Trenton & Princeton wins New Jersey swung back strongly Patriot. All in a few months. Throughout history the middle 1/3 of the population are opportunistic and play it safe during a crisis, "they go along to get along".
Now that the soft middle is slowly blinking and stirring, we need a strategy to keep their eyes focused on what's real. Other wise, they WILL slip back into mass formation. It's inevitable. Sheep need to be lead. So what are we going to do?
I wrote this article a while back, proposing some things. Because if we don't refocus this soft middle, you can be damn sure the overlords will. Again.
Those numbers seem roughly correct to me, which is why I don’t think those of us who opposed draconian measures were in the majority early on. That middle 40% fell for the con early on—believed everything Fauci and the CDC told them—and so joined the fanatical 30% in steamrolling over the rest of us. They have only gradually awakened from their nightmarish delusions.
Like the isolation duration that has been shrinking as businesses squeal. It never prompts the logical question, as to how the original edict was legitimate if it can be halved in new diktats. Or how the 'Gold Standard' PCR test that wasn't a test somehow isn't what we were told, but is still used. Or continued mask usage, despite a century of evidence to the contrary. Or any of 100 inconsistencies.
Well over 30% of colleagues seem like true believers, still. I would say 70% or more. They are universally believers of anything the MSM pumps into their heads. Or they are all pretending? Seemingly, the ability to critically process information has been blocked or degraded. 2+ years of 24/7/365 psyops of unprecedented intensity have broken minds around this globe. Many will never recover. Others will choose to never wake up, since the pain/shame will be too much.
And my biggest concern, linked to your last sentence, the complex of control has not been disassembled. In fact various budding authoritarians have stated how silly it would be after spending so much time building their digital prisons to simply take them apart. Just in case. Freedoms have been erased. Laws have been written or amended. Protests have been made illegal. The boa constrictor has only loosened for an instant to reposition for the next squeeze. For the next act we will go from 0-60 in the blink of an eye, while distracted by the latest theatre from Europe.
So that is why we can't rest until every last vestige of their Agenda is burned out. It will take time. It will take hard work. But this is existential. They mean to kill most of us. Not to save the planet, but because they are monsters.
Once we put those monsters down we can turn our attention to cleaning up our planet and establishing balance with it.
There is something about that 30-40-30 ratio that is fundamental to humanity. Otherwise it would not keep appearing. Maybe someone, somewhere can explain it; I'm an engineer and not a sociologist -- I observe patterns but can only explain them if they occur in a framework I understand. But, this pattern repeats again and again -- it's not a coincidence.
Short version: our memories are naturally and continously being unconsciously edited to help us fit in with our social groups.
Longer ramble:
The swingers if I may call them that does not perceive their swing at all. Memory is not something fixed and immutable for any of us, but is continously edited to fit with our sense of self and our various notions of reality.
Of course, if one works in a harder area such as engineering that also means greater exposure to factors that can't be edited or rationalised - the load bearing characteristics of a certain kind of cement in a given fram at specific place are what they are no matter perception or values.
But if one works in a softer area, one where perception may indeed be truth even (journalism, politics, entertainment, arts to name a few), or is just working to put food on the table - a proletarian - that editing function may become stronger. Especially if it is needed to fit in or "go along to get along" as someone put it. Being part of the group is more important than being right which is also an instinct for all pack or herd animals and on top of that we also have leaders - authorities who derive justification and legality from both position ('the boss is the boss because the boss is the boss') and actions ('he's the boss so he is right: he's right so he is the boss').
So what does this wind up as? That the notion "we have always been at war with Eurasia" is not a concept made up by totalitarians or invented by Orwell so much as it is simply a very human pattern of unconscious adaption to changing circumstances, and the spontaneous unconscious editing of memory to fit the new truth as to fit in and avoid cognitive dissonance.
Of course, I'm no psycho-logist or psychiatrist (if anyone with that background reads, please correct any outright errors) but I do have 25 years experience of teaching, often problem kids, JDs, and adults with HFA and/or 'alphabet diagnoses', and since their problems largely stem from lacking fully functioning instincts for howto "do normal" intuitively, I've had had to read a metric ton of material on the subject of the human mind - so hopefully I'm not too off the mark in my rambling above.
30 corresponds with the percentage of people that have personality disorders and other mental disorders (about 20) with the reamaning 10 being radical leftists.
And yet, that authoritarian 30% is doubling down--they are in for such a rude awakening.
All of us here know the every argument against this mere snippet so I won't list them now, I'll just let the insanity speak for itself. Here's Francis Fukuyama in the new Harper's:
“While liberal societies agree to disagree about final ends, they cannot survive if they are unable to establish a hierarchy of factual truths. This hierarchy is created by elites of various sorts, who act independently of those holding political power. Scientific journals will not publish studies that have not passed peer review, and responsible journalists have systems for checking facts. No system is foolproof, and all are capable of bias. But they are not deliberately engineered by the elites who oversee them to disempower or manipulate ordinary people.”
This is very funny but how could the author himself believe what he's written when it contains such gems as 'a hierarchy of factual truths' ? So glad you read this crap so that I don't have to. Really taking one for the team there.
When that 30% can control media, most of the government, state elections commissions, etc...I am not so sure. Personally I think the "shrieking" is coming from a lot less than 30% (probably not even 1%). The appearance of so many is the result of "oh my party says I should shriek and the 1% are shrieking so I guess I better join in the shrieking" lack of thinking.
I'm in CA. What the response of 2020 showed from where I sit is that a few can control the many once single party dominance is allowed.
Whether it is or isn’t scarcely matters as giving up isn’t an option. So we must follow the Stockdale Paradox and believe we will ultimately triumph while being acutely aware of the realities on the ground:
“The Stockdale Paradox is a concept, along with its companion concept Confront the Brutal Facts, developed in the book Good to Great. Productive change begins when you confront the brutal facts. Every good-to-great company embraced what we came to call the ‘Stockdale Paradox’: you must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, and at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
I have said "Never give in. Never give up to them." To them.
Of course, we need to keep believing. Hoping.
Keep being informed. Keep informing.
However, we need also to be realistic and sensible. Look for patterns and momentums; and don't get excited over any little phantom development or victory. "They" play for keeps; and they are extremely cunning and experienced.
Rush figured that out 40 years ago. He did three hours a day, every day, and basically invented the talk genre. Funny, the left has never succeeded in talk radio, probably easier to hide this fact in podcasts.
Or capturing their pontifications from 6 years ago and putting them side-by-side with their current bloviating claptrap. That was priceless.
Now on to other observations...I am imagining Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka with his half smile looking on as Gatito Malo Malo readers open their internet dictionary to decipher "demesne of didactic dictators."
Cats don't really talk that way people. I have two and I know this for a fact.
This is becoming a meme: you can't just let people "do anything they want". If you let them choose, they'll "do anything they want". It's chaos if people "do anything they want". It's selfish if people "do anything they want". I'm seeing this pop up everywhere. It's nauseating.
Excellent article at American Thinker yesterday discussing the difference between the progressive and conservative definitions of 'democracy'. In the conservative democracy the individual is allowed to choose from all options, and free speech is encouraged so that all options are known. In the progressive democracy you may only choose from options that are approved by the elites, and free speech is curbed to ban discussion of the unapproved options.
“Democracy” that DumocRATS are always bleating about, as in “saving our democracy” (e.g. Mon rule) v. Democratic REPUBLIC (e.g. natural, individual rights) which I wish more conservatives would use
Or more correctly, a Constitutional Republic. The only thing 'democratic' about the USA is (supposed to be) elections -- one person, one vote. Note how that is the one thing the Democrats DON'T want to be democratic. Hmmmm... Gato's been right all along (feigning surprise)...
I suspect that 'they' don't "hate" freedom, so much as fear it. If I am free to hold, and express, any opinion, I might might disagree with "them". And, perhaps, horror of horrors, I might ignore them. Completely. As if they were of no consequence. Whatsoever. Which is what really scares them!
Totally nauseating. Infuriating! This mantra was used against the trucker convoy in Canada by a couple “friends” of mine. Oh shit all these people wanting freedom are gonna just go out and cause chaos doing anything they want!!! Seriously?! People who’d like some autonomy over their own choices and lives just whirl around knocking everyone and everything over I guess?!
Your comment about medals reminded me of the Participation Trophy mentality and how it has affected a large segment of the population. Young children, and their teachers, and by extension, their parents, were taught - and accepted - that it is better to be one of the group than to stand out, or be exceptional, in any way. Conformity in behavior, equality in outcome. (Maybe the transgender excitement is similar to the mask mandate being lifted -- their desire for free expression has been so repressed they'll celebrate and join any exercise that permits it.)
The participation trophy mentality of the past twenty to thirty years is a big contributing factor in the soft and weak-willed generation that demands the government keep them "safe" from Covid and looks to the government as replacement parents. That's a big part of what brought us into the covid hysteria and perpetuates it.
That's so true. It also has contributed to the resurgence of communism. Kids getting a trophy and praise when they do poorly becomes troublesome when they get into the real world. As adults they still expect to get rewarded for being average or incompetent. In their minds, they don't suck it's the system that is rigged. Therefore capitalism is wrong and communism is right. Of course their own inflated sense of themselves isn't why they can't succeed, that never crosses their mind.
Which explains why there are so many "Help Wanted" signs given the poor work ethic exhibited by so many of working age. Government school education indoctrination.
“He (Musk) seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.”
Boot evidently believes true democracy requires silencing people and preventing them from participating in the political process. No doubt Kim Jong-un, leader of the “Democratic People's Republic of Korea” would agree.
Omg, my thought too: newspeak, so disappointing that most are only familiar with the "big brother" concept, most don't know where does it come from. There is so much in his works relevant to our lives today it would help open people's eyes.
Doesn't fit the context. Florida...land of the "hanging chad election" nightmare. Florida judge with husband named Chad strikes back against the deep state!
Wow, that Urban Dictionary is so way off that I'm thinking it's on purpose. "Chad" is much closer to the definition posted below by Frank:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chad which is a good history of the origins of the meme. That meme definition still seems to be true, but based on the twitters I've come across, "chad" seems to have become more of a way to symbolize male strength and masculinity in general (and not just physical strength either - it includes a masculine way of looking at things).
Yep probably the 2015 Urban dictionary had a better definition of it. The origins are 4chan. Also common on Reddit, the Apes (superstonk) for example are prone to using it occasionally.
I had this thought two years ago as I was packing up my beautiful San Diego home near the beach to put on the market (to get the hell out of the insanity). What if California never went blue? What if the media convinced people California went blue? What if the elections have been rigged since 2000s (or longer) and it became a self fulfilling prophecy? People are told their peers are these liberal nut jobs so they start to think they need to be, as well. Liberals move into the state and then it actually does become liberal. But all along, no one really supported any of the ideas. They were just too chicken shit to say anything.
If you define and manage your actions based on your political ideology, you’re going to end up looking very foolish (especially if you’re a leftist nut job). Wearing a mask for two+ years because some government overlord told you to makes you look like an idiot. But wearing a mask for two+ years, getting an untested vaccine and being angry at others for not doing so after you’d spent the previous 10 years maligning pharmaceutical companies for their profit gouging just makes you look like a complete imbecile and sheep.
Well, there was an analysis some months ago about 2020, which said that more people voted in CA than the total number of eligible to vote. Not 'registered' but 'eligible.' By something like 7.7 mil -- Brandon 'won' by 5.5 mil. I no longer have the link unfortunately.
So Trump actually had 2.2 mil more real votes than Brandon -- yes, it has been going on for a long, long time. The myth that CA is 'deep blue' has been created and perpetuated by Democratic shenanigans. They just exported it to the rest of the country in 2020, because the election was 'too important to lose.'
(note that if Trump wins CA in 2020, it's game over. Red landslide of historic proportions.)
We've been living through an Ascher experiment on a mass scale, gaslit by actors into saying, and often perceiving, that the short line is the long line. It's a cognitive hack that works quite well on social animals that apply group heuristics to reality testing. Only problem is it takes massive resources to sustain - gotta pay all those actors and make sure to silence every voice that disagrees, because even one guy speaking up breaks the spell for the marks.
So now here we are, on the precipice of the preference cascade. Same thing that ultimately brought down the Soviet Union, when the average Russian realized his low opinion of the politburo was in fact the opinion of the average Russian. The tide is coming in, and the Sand Tower of Babel won't stand against all that water.
FJB smells more like the Year of the Four Emperors to me. Guy clearly can't hold on for very long - he's falling apart and everyone hates him. Waiting in the wings in the direct line of succession are equally despised and equally incompetent figureheads.
This is why they are desperate to stop Musk from buying Twitter. Suddenly the manipulation would be out there in the open and the world would see there was no Wizard of Oz, only a geek behind a curtain.
To say nothing of the consideration that, because this was an actual ruling against, and not a quiet expiration of, masks, it weakens precedent for the future - which is what I am actually concerned about.
In Common Law… formerly the basis for the US Constitution, but these days its anyone’s guess… precedence is very important in law. You are right the ruling does create a precedence, a legal precedence, so it gives a legal basis for challenge for future attempted reintroduction of masks and/or may deter the attempt. Expiration of a rule does not preclude its resurrection five minutes later without any concern for legal due process.
I am confused. Sounds rather like the TSA behaved in a way to make it seem like it was "a quiet expiration of masks" - there was no reference to the judicial ruling; but rather just "The TSA has announced ..." - sounds to me like they are keeping their options open. The legal action becomes moot - no hard set ruling was achieved; and it can be ignored should the TSA decide differently during the next "surge" or "wave" - pick your imagery.
The ruling voided - that means makes it not legal - the TSA rule. It had no option but to comply. If it had failed to remind the rule or tries to reintroduce it, it would/will be in contempt of Court.
I believe Philadelphia instituted mask mandates for indoors just a few days ago and there is another "Covid conference" coming up in September which has the goal of getting more jabs in arms.
Once again, you beautifully articulate the feelings of the moment. It was so hard to watch my fellow airline workers continue to wear a mask until they had permission to take it off. But now that it’s off, we are all brought together with open arms and smiling faces. They’ll realize that the masks caused health problems themselves, caused no small amount of anxiety, and dehumanized others. We will never put on masks again.
Cristina, I hope you mean that. I really do. Because there will be another 'emergency' and it won't be masks, it will be something else. But it will be important for us to object and refuse.
"They’ll realize that the masks caused health problems themselves"
I'll never understand this. I've worn a respirator, which is far more restrictive than a loose surgical mask, five days a week for eight hours a day and experienced no issues. I'm not for mandatory mask mandates, but I wonder about the health of people who can't comfortably wear a mask.
I’m very interested in learning more about the respirator that you’re wearing, and for what line of work.
We wore cheap Chinese-made blown polypropylene masks that may have contributed to inhaled microplastics. We also wore them constantly for up to 14 hours a day (flight attendants) and the pilots got lucky and were able to go without while in the flight deck. We wore them in altitudes of up to 8 thousand feet each day, going up and down in altitude multiple times a day. We wore them in all types of weather, from muggy thunderstorms to dry desert. We had to constantly worry about electrical or chemical fires, and how wearing masks would prevent us from smelling them or donning our emergency equipment to fight said fires.
I find it condescending when medical professionals told me many times throughout this pandemic ‘well I wear it, why can’t you?’ We never signed up to do our jobs in masks. The risks were never fully thought of when they forced them on us, and we are just starting to see the harms done.
I have been demeaned, banned, censored, ostracized, and disallowed in grocery stores, hardware stores, big boxes, and even some clinics because I never cowed to The Overlords, mocked the masks, and remained a PureBlood.
I don't want this to just slink away.
I don't even want retribution.
I want political and criminal revenge to every perp that had anything to do with this scam.
Even that gottdamn obese, pink-haired, millennial Spirit flight attendant with the nose ring who walked through the cabin every 10 minutes for 2.5 freakin' HOURS, scolding everybody "mask over the nose."
I agree. We should set the record straight and make an example out of this for future reference. The ones responsible for this entire hoax should be brought to justice and sentenced to jail for life. This should not go unpunished.
Brilliant, BRILLIANT post Gato. I freaking love the crying Karens on the plane. PLEASE tell me that was your creation, and if it was not, I'm still so glad you posted it.
While I'm so happy about this, especially since I'm flying again in two weeks, it's still so disheartening to see that it's only because everyone else is doing it that the dominos are falling. I know wars are long and the battles are back and forth, but for this to happen now, TWO full years and one month since the insanity gripped us, despite mounds of science and precedent that masks never worked, is still a little discouraging. I would have thought the general population would have abolished this to smithereens something like 1 year and 11 months ago.
CNN Business notes "Alaska Airlines said some of its passengers who were banned from the airline during the duration of the mask policy will continue to be prohibited from its planes."
Freedom isn't free and early adopters always pay the highest price. I was one of the last to begrudgingly wear a face covering to get groceries, and admired the few who never did and got away with it. But a ticket would have been really inconvenient. Especially as I would have felt obligated to fight it. I never pay tickets right away, mostly on merit always on principle. In the end only one was handed out in my town, perhaps as an example or perhaps a function of the police chief's ego.
All this to say I don't think I'm in the soft ~40% middle, but going along to get along seemed valid the first 12 months. Now I see masking as a small lie that's really hurting some, mostly kids, and refuse to be complicit. So that's the obvious mechanism for compliance as I understand it and I think we have to be careful where we draw the line in the sand. My guess is refusing to ever mask up again would fly with less than 10% of folks.
I don't think you should uncork the champagne just yet. There is another "covid conference" coming up in September and one of the primary goals is to get jabs in arms. I imagine demanding face diapers will be part of it. I'm also thinking that "they" have had two years to watch the guinea pigs reaction and so they may have refined some of their methods.
This is why it's always worth speaking up; there will be others who can't or won't for whatever reason, but at least they know they're not alone.
Also, your mere existence annoys and horrifies the Bad Guys, which is fun, and drives them to make mistakes and say the quiet part out loud.
When the current woke wave hit my law school, lots of people quietly thanked me for speaking up, even some who didn't agree with me but who didn't like the creepy totalitarian vibe from the other side. Not that I was especially brave -- I was going to law school as a mid-life dilettante so I had nothing to lose. (And it's hard to be intimidated by kids half your age with zero experience of the real world. Not so much Red Guards as "Mean Girls".)
That’s why I like Musk. While he may be no hero he has a cheeky way of poking the lefties, smiling all the while he’s doing it. He’s a triggering genius extraordinaire.
Enjoy! Was on a 3 hour flight a few weeks ago. The flight attendants were generous with the snacks. Ate and drank the whole time. Minnie bottle of wine, sip, , sip, , sip. Congrats on your mask free flying!
Ha. If we ever get off the ground. 3 hr delay at this moment but at home thank God and not hanging around the airport. Flying is no fun these days. A real effort and my travel agent friend says it’s a nightmare with schedule changes and new rules all the time. She lost 80% of her income in 2020. But seeing family is at the end of this day.
Anyone look at some of the replies on twitter to the videos? There are some fools out there clinging to their masks for dear life wishing we'd do the same
Please note that there are many trolls active on Twitter trying to discredit anyone who goes against the government policy. These trolls are probably being sponsored by your own sweet government.
Looks like United and American Airlines are clinging to their face thongs to the bitter end. I suspect when they see their ridership plummet, they will dance to a different tune.
As Lincoln said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
After 2 years of being played for fools, more and more Americans are waking up. Now it’s only the liberal coastal elites, the Karens of the world, the "agitariat" you discussed in your previous posts, that remain as true believers of the mainstream COVID narrative.
I also wanted to share an essay I found recently which examines government and corporate policies during the pandemic leading to this encroaching tyranny. From a variety of different angles (legal/policing/education/etc.), all under the same umbrella. With their primarily white liberal elite supporters as their bought-and-paid-for "scientists" and "experts".
Gerad Rogue's long essay - omitting the fact (he omits too many facts!) that Caucasians did not start slavery, as slavery is a human institution since the dawn of time; that enslavers enslave people of their own races, as did the Europeans, and slavery in Africa of blacks enslaving blacks remains rampant to this day. Rogue is full on CRT/SEL and his essay is tedious racism in itself. I'm not getting insight on the tyranny all are being subjected to and suffering under from Rogue's essay at all.
When a friend first sent me the essay, I had the same thought as you, that this was identity politics. But reading further revealed that his ire is really reserved only for liberal moral busybodies (in fact he explicitly supports the trucker protests and the white working class, though this is only written towards the end of the essay). So I'd have to disagree w/r/t CRT, I think the author is closer to Thomas Sowell's POV: a black/non-white fighting for freedom and liberty.
Hmmm... well, a mix. The largest part is focused on Caucasians and slavery and that its pernicious to the present day, with no particular balancing. I'll admit I got almost through it, I'll go back and finish it. Thanks.
For sure, not saying I agree with him 100%, and his tone does verge on the extreme in some places. But overall my perception is that he's similar to someone like Thomas Sowell. As he examines white liberal racism in the context of opposing lockdowns, vaccine mandates, etc.
Versus the Nikole Hannah Jones (NYT's 1619 project) types, who are indeed pushing CRT ahistorical garbage, and worst of all force-feeding it to our children.
Also, thank you for teaching me about the acronym "SEL", I hadn't heard about that before, and it led me down a rabbit hole of what kids are learning today. The only acronym my kids need in school are the 3 R's!
Thank-you for saving me having to read it. I paused at "colonization" and was thinking better of reading. I'm glad I paused, as what you had to say, was what I thought it was.
Well… now you come to mention it. Slavery was banned throughout the British Empire in 1833. The only White owned black slaves were in the West Indies so why all of the Empire?
“ The most popular story I've heard about my great-grandfather was how he successfully confronted officials of the British colonial government after they seized some of his slaves.
The slaves were being transported by middlemen, along with a consignment of tobacco and palm produce, from Nwaubani Ogogo's hometown of Umuahia to the coast.
My great-grandfather apparently did not consider it fair that his slaves had been seized.
Buying and selling of human beings among the Igbo had been going on long before the Europeans arrived. People became slaves as punishment for crime, payment for debts, or prisoners of war.
The successful sale of adults was considered an exploit for which a man was hailed by praise singers, akin to exploits in wrestling, war, or in hunting animals like the lion.
Igbo slaves served as domestic servants and labourers. They were sometimes also sacrificed in religious ceremonies and buried alive with their masters to attend to them in the next world.
Slavery was so ingrained in the culture that a number of popular Igbo proverbs make reference to it:”
This is where the middle 40% crawl out from under the blanket as they realize the bogeyman the 30% were shrieking about is just shadows on Plato’s walls. Soon, we will be 70%, and the 30% will have difficulty sustaining their illusion when they find themselves in the minority.
These are the exact ratios laid out by Mattias Desmet about Mass Formation. 30% ultra brainwashed cult, 40% soft middle and 30% unable to brainwash. The un-brain-washable 30% finally turned the soft 40% and now the only thing the cult can do is screech like the Wicked Witch of the West. Buh bye.
Yep, that’s where I got the percentage, and a recent poll (I can’t remember the specifics) showed the 30% mass formation percentage was *dead-on*. Mattias says 13% of the hypnotized will never emerge from their hypnosis, but eventually the others should awaken from their slumber.
It's pretty extraordinary how spot on these numbers have been. About 30% of people jabbed up their young kids and this must also be the same % that answers positively when asked about Brandon in the polls. I guess eventually that real number will be 13% which sounds about accurate.
I know—eerie. It makes me wonder how Mattias came up with those percentages and if these are the same ratios we see in mass delusion events throughout history.
I listened to a lecture by A Huxley from approx. 1962. He stated that about 20% of the population was naturally very susceptible to hypnosis, while in contrast about 20% are essentially immune from hypnosis. The remaining 60% could go one way or the other depending on the circumstances. I found this quite interesting as it is a similar ratio to the percentages asserted by Desmet in regards to the mass formation theory.
Wow, sounds fascinating. Do you have a link?
I believe so. In the late eighties I learned this was the case during the revolution, America’s.
Also the exact ratios in politics. There's always that 30% that Xiden, and 0bama before him, could never lose, no matter how insane, and during elections, always the 40% in the middle, who can't figure out what they believe.
I'm guessing that 30% who are the Kool Aid drinkers are probably all liberal arts majors. They believe in "The Science!", but not actual science.
Funny, that was the break down I learned of those for, against and undecided during the US revolution. Seems to be so on just about everything.
Yes I sense those numbers are appropriate benchmarks too. The widespread and enthusiastic support for the Truckers' Convoy was the first big reveal. See https://nowick.substack.com/p/paging-the-forty-percent
Great example! My heroes:
https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/profiles-in-courage-the-canadian
...and ethical and honest as well - I donated and they refunded it last week. I wouldn't have minded if they had kept it. Our moronic pm still hasn't lifted any federal mandates, but they tried hard, and hopefully exposed him as the idiot he is to those people who blindly support him.
At least when Trudeau and neonazi C. Freeland (sic) jumped the gun on freezing bank accounts, it spooked the country and will make it harder to implement their digital cash/ID matrix without serious pushback.
I have a feeling it's coming for you guys soon. As for the US it must stop all job shot mandates and border crossing restrictions. This is not Berlin on the northern border (we all k now the southern border is wide open)
I know - it is hilarious - my brother in law had to jump through hoops - talked to numerous individuals and filled out an 11 page document - twice - just to be able to drive into the States for a couple of hours as part of his job driving train employees across the border - and you see all these people flowing over the southern border, getting cell phones, etc.
History has shown that middle 33% to 40% are the swing votes. During the American Revolutionary war in late 1776 New Jersey was a perfect example of this. As Washington retreated the state went strongly Loyalist. After the Trenton & Princeton wins New Jersey swung back strongly Patriot. All in a few months. Throughout history the middle 1/3 of the population are opportunistic and play it safe during a crisis, "they go along to get along".
Now that the soft middle is slowly blinking and stirring, we need a strategy to keep their eyes focused on what's real. Other wise, they WILL slip back into mass formation. It's inevitable. Sheep need to be lead. So what are we going to do?
I wrote this article a while back, proposing some things. Because if we don't refocus this soft middle, you can be damn sure the overlords will. Again.
https://bherr.substack.com/p/mass-formation-and-the-way-out?s=w
Great point. If only we had leaders who gave a crap about what we think... 🤔
Unfortunately YYR, we're the leaders. We've GOT to capture Journalism again.
I truly wish we had a actual opposition party right now. It would be pressing its advantage.
Unfortunately they are too busy helping with the Great Replacement and starting a hot war with Russia.
Skimmed the essay and comments. Looking forward to reading the rest.
Those numbers seem roughly correct to me, which is why I don’t think those of us who opposed draconian measures were in the majority early on. That middle 40% fell for the con early on—believed everything Fauci and the CDC told them—and so joined the fanatical 30% in steamrolling over the rest of us. They have only gradually awakened from their nightmarish delusions.
“In six battleground states, 66% of voters answered that they approve of how Fauci is handling Covid-19, versus 34% who disapprove.” 11/2020
“…only 31 percent of Americans see Dr. Anthony Fauci as a trustworthy source of COVID-19 information” 1/2022
The middle 40% have been very slow to wake up.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/11/02/2020-election-polls-voters-approve-more-of-fauci-than-trump-on-coronavirus.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10398941/amp/Only-31-percent-Americans-trust-Faucis-COVID-advice-dire-poll-administration.html
Blackpill time.
I'm not sure they really woke up, I think its more a case that they got fed up with the impact to their personal lives being disrupted for so long.
The 40% are and will remain docile, ignorant and easily manipulated again and again by a media and entertainment complex run by bad people.
Good point.
Like the isolation duration that has been shrinking as businesses squeal. It never prompts the logical question, as to how the original edict was legitimate if it can be halved in new diktats. Or how the 'Gold Standard' PCR test that wasn't a test somehow isn't what we were told, but is still used. Or continued mask usage, despite a century of evidence to the contrary. Or any of 100 inconsistencies.
Well over 30% of colleagues seem like true believers, still. I would say 70% or more. They are universally believers of anything the MSM pumps into their heads. Or they are all pretending? Seemingly, the ability to critically process information has been blocked or degraded. 2+ years of 24/7/365 psyops of unprecedented intensity have broken minds around this globe. Many will never recover. Others will choose to never wake up, since the pain/shame will be too much.
And my biggest concern, linked to your last sentence, the complex of control has not been disassembled. In fact various budding authoritarians have stated how silly it would be after spending so much time building their digital prisons to simply take them apart. Just in case. Freedoms have been erased. Laws have been written or amended. Protests have been made illegal. The boa constrictor has only loosened for an instant to reposition for the next squeeze. For the next act we will go from 0-60 in the blink of an eye, while distracted by the latest theatre from Europe.
So that is why we can't rest until every last vestige of their Agenda is burned out. It will take time. It will take hard work. But this is existential. They mean to kill most of us. Not to save the planet, but because they are monsters.
Once we put those monsters down we can turn our attention to cleaning up our planet and establishing balance with it.
Well written and I'm in total agreement.
Yes it will take time, a lot of time to turn this around and the fight for truth will be an eternal battle.
In fact that's probably the only useful thing to take from history apart from the interest in history itself.
Learning from history does not prevent society from repeating the same mistakes, that saying needs updating or needs to be retired.
What history teaches us is that we will always be fighting for the truth.
Astonishing that it took so long. It was so clearly evident for well over a year. Fauci contradicted himself many times over.
They still believed Biden, despite his lies being put on full display during the debates.
It's almost as if he didn't know which of his selves to believe...
better late than never! :)
There is something about that 30-40-30 ratio that is fundamental to humanity. Otherwise it would not keep appearing. Maybe someone, somewhere can explain it; I'm an engineer and not a sociologist -- I observe patterns but can only explain them if they occur in a framework I understand. But, this pattern repeats again and again -- it's not a coincidence.
Short version: our memories are naturally and continously being unconsciously edited to help us fit in with our social groups.
Longer ramble:
The swingers if I may call them that does not perceive their swing at all. Memory is not something fixed and immutable for any of us, but is continously edited to fit with our sense of self and our various notions of reality.
Of course, if one works in a harder area such as engineering that also means greater exposure to factors that can't be edited or rationalised - the load bearing characteristics of a certain kind of cement in a given fram at specific place are what they are no matter perception or values.
But if one works in a softer area, one where perception may indeed be truth even (journalism, politics, entertainment, arts to name a few), or is just working to put food on the table - a proletarian - that editing function may become stronger. Especially if it is needed to fit in or "go along to get along" as someone put it. Being part of the group is more important than being right which is also an instinct for all pack or herd animals and on top of that we also have leaders - authorities who derive justification and legality from both position ('the boss is the boss because the boss is the boss') and actions ('he's the boss so he is right: he's right so he is the boss').
So what does this wind up as? That the notion "we have always been at war with Eurasia" is not a concept made up by totalitarians or invented by Orwell so much as it is simply a very human pattern of unconscious adaption to changing circumstances, and the spontaneous unconscious editing of memory to fit the new truth as to fit in and avoid cognitive dissonance.
Of course, I'm no psycho-logist or psychiatrist (if anyone with that background reads, please correct any outright errors) but I do have 25 years experience of teaching, often problem kids, JDs, and adults with HFA and/or 'alphabet diagnoses', and since their problems largely stem from lacking fully functioning instincts for howto "do normal" intuitively, I've had had to read a metric ton of material on the subject of the human mind - so hopefully I'm not too off the mark in my rambling above.
I join with you. That stubborn 30%, why?
As I said, I see the pattern but I can't explain it. I wish I could...
30 corresponds with the percentage of people that have personality disorders and other mental disorders (about 20) with the reamaning 10 being radical leftists.
Yeah, but says who? Do you know how psychology was born in the armed services?
I’m really angry at those soft 40. It’s been a bitch out here on the 30 edge.
And yet, that authoritarian 30% is doubling down--they are in for such a rude awakening.
All of us here know the every argument against this mere snippet so I won't list them now, I'll just let the insanity speak for itself. Here's Francis Fukuyama in the new Harper's:
“While liberal societies agree to disagree about final ends, they cannot survive if they are unable to establish a hierarchy of factual truths. This hierarchy is created by elites of various sorts, who act independently of those holding political power. Scientific journals will not publish studies that have not passed peer review, and responsible journalists have systems for checking facts. No system is foolproof, and all are capable of bias. But they are not deliberately engineered by the elites who oversee them to disempower or manipulate ordinary people.”
LOL.
This is very funny but how could the author himself believe what he's written when it contains such gems as 'a hierarchy of factual truths' ? So glad you read this crap so that I don't have to. Really taking one for the team there.
When that 30% can control media, most of the government, state elections commissions, etc...I am not so sure. Personally I think the "shrieking" is coming from a lot less than 30% (probably not even 1%). The appearance of so many is the result of "oh my party says I should shriek and the 1% are shrieking so I guess I better join in the shrieking" lack of thinking.
I'm in CA. What the response of 2020 showed from where I sit is that a few can control the many once single party dominance is allowed.
This is also where that 40% has always been part of the 30% who's been in opposition from the start.
Sadly, they wont even realise their change of opinion. They are against mandates. They have always been against mandates.
Want to p*ss one of them off? Show them a clip or a text of them going full tilt for more mandates. The cognitive dissonance is virtually physical.
Scamdemic from Day 1.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/germophobia-gym-class-showers-and?s=w
Thanks Mark! Great read.
Amen to that.
The question is, Margaret: is it too late? Timing matters. Ask any real doctor.
Whether it is or isn’t scarcely matters as giving up isn’t an option. So we must follow the Stockdale Paradox and believe we will ultimately triumph while being acutely aware of the realities on the ground:
https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/Stockdale-Concept.html
“The Stockdale Paradox is a concept, along with its companion concept Confront the Brutal Facts, developed in the book Good to Great. Productive change begins when you confront the brutal facts. Every good-to-great company embraced what we came to call the ‘Stockdale Paradox’: you must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, and at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
I have said "Never give in. Never give up to them." To them.
Of course, we need to keep believing. Hoping.
Keep being informed. Keep informing.
However, we need also to be realistic and sensible. Look for patterns and momentums; and don't get excited over any little phantom development or victory. "They" play for keeps; and they are extremely cunning and experienced.
💯
But, we're not fighting against the 30%.
Please let it be so, MAA!
"He's not going to encourage "free speech", he's just going to let people say whatever they want, which is not the same thing."
The working of the Leftist mind is a thing to behold...George Orwell nods...
and yet more proof that the cure for stupid is not censorship.
it's handing out megaphones, letting idiots have their say, and taking good notes.
Perhaps the long format conversations that, say, Joe Rogan has - more speech as opposed to less - are the thing people are craving after all?
Rush figured that out 40 years ago. He did three hours a day, every day, and basically invented the talk genre. Funny, the left has never succeeded in talk radio, probably easier to hide this fact in podcasts.
People have forgotten how to ignore other people. It can be done.
Or capturing their pontifications from 6 years ago and putting them side-by-side with their current bloviating claptrap. That was priceless.
Now on to other observations...I am imagining Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka with his half smile looking on as Gatito Malo Malo readers open their internet dictionary to decipher "demesne of didactic dictators."
Cats don't really talk that way people. I have two and I know this for a fact.
Absolutely.
This is becoming a meme: you can't just let people "do anything they want". If you let them choose, they'll "do anything they want". It's chaos if people "do anything they want". It's selfish if people "do anything they want". I'm seeing this pop up everywhere. It's nauseating.
Excellent article at American Thinker yesterday discussing the difference between the progressive and conservative definitions of 'democracy'. In the conservative democracy the individual is allowed to choose from all options, and free speech is encouraged so that all options are known. In the progressive democracy you may only choose from options that are approved by the elites, and free speech is curbed to ban discussion of the unapproved options.
“Democracy” that DumocRATS are always bleating about, as in “saving our democracy” (e.g. Mon rule) v. Democratic REPUBLIC (e.g. natural, individual rights) which I wish more conservatives would use
Or more correctly, a Constitutional Republic. The only thing 'democratic' about the USA is (supposed to be) elections -- one person, one vote. Note how that is the one thing the Democrats DON'T want to be democratic. Hmmmm... Gato's been right all along (feigning surprise)...
*mob rule 🙄
Well, that's basically "it", isn't it?
Really hate freedom, don't they?
I suspect that 'they' don't "hate" freedom, so much as fear it. If I am free to hold, and express, any opinion, I might might disagree with "them". And, perhaps, horror of horrors, I might ignore them. Completely. As if they were of no consequence. Whatsoever. Which is what really scares them!
Look, we were lost as a society when all the playgrounds got rubber-matted.
And… they are SCARED of freedom. Too much work, all the thinking, the self - responsibility, and the importance of truly inclusive
Thoughts and actions…
And someone might have to take responsibility for their choices that freedom brings. Oh my, we couldn’t have THAT, now could we. 😜
Totally nauseating. Infuriating! This mantra was used against the trucker convoy in Canada by a couple “friends” of mine. Oh shit all these people wanting freedom are gonna just go out and cause chaos doing anything they want!!! Seriously?! People who’d like some autonomy over their own choices and lives just whirl around knocking everyone and everything over I guess?!
This is what teaching collectivism in schools and in the news does to peoples' worldviews.
The amount of mental gymnastics going on is so astonishing I'm surprised no gold medals have been awarded yet
Your comment about medals reminded me of the Participation Trophy mentality and how it has affected a large segment of the population. Young children, and their teachers, and by extension, their parents, were taught - and accepted - that it is better to be one of the group than to stand out, or be exceptional, in any way. Conformity in behavior, equality in outcome. (Maybe the transgender excitement is similar to the mask mandate being lifted -- their desire for free expression has been so repressed they'll celebrate and join any exercise that permits it.)
The participation trophy mentality of the past twenty to thirty years is a big contributing factor in the soft and weak-willed generation that demands the government keep them "safe" from Covid and looks to the government as replacement parents. That's a big part of what brought us into the covid hysteria and perpetuates it.
That's so true. It also has contributed to the resurgence of communism. Kids getting a trophy and praise when they do poorly becomes troublesome when they get into the real world. As adults they still expect to get rewarded for being average or incompetent. In their minds, they don't suck it's the system that is rigged. Therefore capitalism is wrong and communism is right. Of course their own inflated sense of themselves isn't why they can't succeed, that never crosses their mind.
Which explains why there are so many "Help Wanted" signs given the poor work ethic exhibited by so many of working age. Government school education indoctrination.
Don't worry, they will make sure all the 'cool kids' get one.
This reminds me of Max Boot’s Orwellian Tweet:
“He (Musk) seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.”
Boot evidently believes true democracy requires silencing people and preventing them from participating in the political process. No doubt Kim Jong-un, leader of the “Democratic People's Republic of Korea” would agree.
‘… he’s just going to let people say whatever they want…’
But isn’t it nice when the opposition make your argument for you, so succinctly… and then can’t argue with you about it.
I know, right ? Crazy , in the nihilism of their echo chambers they cannot even comprehend their own voices!
They are their own reductio ad absurdum.
Omg, my thought too: newspeak, so disappointing that most are only familiar with the "big brother" concept, most don't know where does it come from. There is so much in his works relevant to our lives today it would help open people's eyes.
So much expertise in human nature being ignored
The judge's husband's name is Chad, a storybook ending.
Thank God I'm not drinking my tea as I read this...
This is where I feel stoopid; I'm not getting the reference...☺️
"Hanging chad" -- basis for the Florida election results dispute re: Bush win.
Nah, see my reply to Rich below. The young men who use it were not even born then or were children during that debacle.
I'm thinking this but maybe more reverential;
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chad&page=2
Doesn't fit the context. Florida...land of the "hanging chad election" nightmare. Florida judge with husband named Chad strikes back against the deep state!
I think it fits because it makes them the perfectly scorn-able couple for them's who intends to hate 'em...
Wow, that Urban Dictionary is so way off that I'm thinking it's on purpose. "Chad" is much closer to the definition posted below by Frank:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chad which is a good history of the origins of the meme. That meme definition still seems to be true, but based on the twitters I've come across, "chad" seems to have become more of a way to symbolize male strength and masculinity in general (and not just physical strength either - it includes a masculine way of looking at things).
Yep probably the 2015 Urban dictionary had a better definition of it. The origins are 4chan. Also common on Reddit, the Apes (superstonk) for example are prone to using it occasionally.
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 Thank you!!!!!!!
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chad
Should I take offense? 😏
You're here, so--no.
I had this thought two years ago as I was packing up my beautiful San Diego home near the beach to put on the market (to get the hell out of the insanity). What if California never went blue? What if the media convinced people California went blue? What if the elections have been rigged since 2000s (or longer) and it became a self fulfilling prophecy? People are told their peers are these liberal nut jobs so they start to think they need to be, as well. Liberals move into the state and then it actually does become liberal. But all along, no one really supported any of the ideas. They were just too chicken shit to say anything.
If you define and manage your actions based on your political ideology, you’re going to end up looking very foolish (especially if you’re a leftist nut job). Wearing a mask for two+ years because some government overlord told you to makes you look like an idiot. But wearing a mask for two+ years, getting an untested vaccine and being angry at others for not doing so after you’d spent the previous 10 years maligning pharmaceutical companies for their profit gouging just makes you look like a complete imbecile and sheep.
It doesn’t make one *look* like a complete imbecile and sheep. They, in fact, *are* imbeciles and sheep.
Point received and accepted :)
Well, there was an analysis some months ago about 2020, which said that more people voted in CA than the total number of eligible to vote. Not 'registered' but 'eligible.' By something like 7.7 mil -- Brandon 'won' by 5.5 mil. I no longer have the link unfortunately.
So Trump actually had 2.2 mil more real votes than Brandon -- yes, it has been going on for a long, long time. The myth that CA is 'deep blue' has been created and perpetuated by Democratic shenanigans. They just exported it to the rest of the country in 2020, because the election was 'too important to lose.'
(note that if Trump wins CA in 2020, it's game over. Red landslide of historic proportions.)
We've been living through an Ascher experiment on a mass scale, gaslit by actors into saying, and often perceiving, that the short line is the long line. It's a cognitive hack that works quite well on social animals that apply group heuristics to reality testing. Only problem is it takes massive resources to sustain - gotta pay all those actors and make sure to silence every voice that disagrees, because even one guy speaking up breaks the spell for the marks.
So now here we are, on the precipice of the preference cascade. Same thing that ultimately brought down the Soviet Union, when the average Russian realized his low opinion of the politburo was in fact the opinion of the average Russian. The tide is coming in, and the Sand Tower of Babel won't stand against all that water.
Good comment. I hope you're right.
President Effjoe does give off a whiff of Tsar Nicholas II...
FJB smells more like the Year of the Four Emperors to me. Guy clearly can't hold on for very long - he's falling apart and everyone hates him. Waiting in the wings in the direct line of succession are equally despised and equally incompetent figureheads.
The easter bunny is apparently in the wings.
I’ll take what’s happening now. Deal with the maybe future—in the future.
Peak prosperity has a podcast on this. I’m listening right now.
This is why they are desperate to stop Musk from buying Twitter. Suddenly the manipulation would be out there in the open and the world would see there was no Wizard of Oz, only a geek behind a curtain.
To say nothing of the consideration that, because this was an actual ruling against, and not a quiet expiration of, masks, it weakens precedent for the future - which is what I am actually concerned about.
In Common Law… formerly the basis for the US Constitution, but these days its anyone’s guess… precedence is very important in law. You are right the ruling does create a precedence, a legal precedence, so it gives a legal basis for challenge for future attempted reintroduction of masks and/or may deter the attempt. Expiration of a rule does not preclude its resurrection five minutes later without any concern for legal due process.
I am confused. Sounds rather like the TSA behaved in a way to make it seem like it was "a quiet expiration of masks" - there was no reference to the judicial ruling; but rather just "The TSA has announced ..." - sounds to me like they are keeping their options open. The legal action becomes moot - no hard set ruling was achieved; and it can be ignored should the TSA decide differently during the next "surge" or "wave" - pick your imagery.
The ruling voided - that means makes it not legal - the TSA rule. It had no option but to comply. If it had failed to remind the rule or tries to reintroduce it, it would/will be in contempt of Court.
I believe Philadelphia instituted mask mandates for indoors just a few days ago and there is another "Covid conference" coming up in September which has the goal of getting more jabs in arms.
Once again, you beautifully articulate the feelings of the moment. It was so hard to watch my fellow airline workers continue to wear a mask until they had permission to take it off. But now that it’s off, we are all brought together with open arms and smiling faces. They’ll realize that the masks caused health problems themselves, caused no small amount of anxiety, and dehumanized others. We will never put on masks again.
Cristina, I hope you mean that. I really do. Because there will be another 'emergency' and it won't be masks, it will be something else. But it will be important for us to object and refuse.
Agreed, and I do. We the people have seen what power we hold, to fight for our freedom. The cat will not go back into the bag.
I sincerely hope and pray that you are right.
Mandatory jibjab for flightcrews are still on the schedule...
We continue to fight against those too. Usfreedomflyers.org
"They’ll realize that the masks caused health problems themselves"
I'll never understand this. I've worn a respirator, which is far more restrictive than a loose surgical mask, five days a week for eight hours a day and experienced no issues. I'm not for mandatory mask mandates, but I wonder about the health of people who can't comfortably wear a mask.
I’m very interested in learning more about the respirator that you’re wearing, and for what line of work.
We wore cheap Chinese-made blown polypropylene masks that may have contributed to inhaled microplastics. We also wore them constantly for up to 14 hours a day (flight attendants) and the pilots got lucky and were able to go without while in the flight deck. We wore them in altitudes of up to 8 thousand feet each day, going up and down in altitude multiple times a day. We wore them in all types of weather, from muggy thunderstorms to dry desert. We had to constantly worry about electrical or chemical fires, and how wearing masks would prevent us from smelling them or donning our emergency equipment to fight said fires.
I find it condescending when medical professionals told me many times throughout this pandemic ‘well I wear it, why can’t you?’ We never signed up to do our jobs in masks. The risks were never fully thought of when they forced them on us, and we are just starting to see the harms done.
Bam! Right on!
This was predicted 83 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKfvJiS35I8
I have been demeaned, banned, censored, ostracized, and disallowed in grocery stores, hardware stores, big boxes, and even some clinics because I never cowed to The Overlords, mocked the masks, and remained a PureBlood.
I don't want this to just slink away.
I don't even want retribution.
I want political and criminal revenge to every perp that had anything to do with this scam.
Even that gottdamn obese, pink-haired, millennial Spirit flight attendant with the nose ring who walked through the cabin every 10 minutes for 2.5 freakin' HOURS, scolding everybody "mask over the nose."
Yup. I’d like some thundering painful JUSTICE on these creeps.
That was surely just 'the chubby's revenge'?
I agree. We should set the record straight and make an example out of this for future reference. The ones responsible for this entire hoax should be brought to justice and sentenced to jail for life. This should not go unpunished.
Brilliant, BRILLIANT post Gato. I freaking love the crying Karens on the plane. PLEASE tell me that was your creation, and if it was not, I'm still so glad you posted it.
While I'm so happy about this, especially since I'm flying again in two weeks, it's still so disheartening to see that it's only because everyone else is doing it that the dominos are falling. I know wars are long and the battles are back and forth, but for this to happen now, TWO full years and one month since the insanity gripped us, despite mounds of science and precedent that masks never worked, is still a little discouraging. I would have thought the general population would have abolished this to smithereens something like 1 year and 11 months ago.
That said, I celebrate. This is a major victory.
CNN Business notes "Alaska Airlines said some of its passengers who were banned from the airline during the duration of the mask policy will continue to be prohibited from its planes."
Freedom isn't free and early adopters always pay the highest price. I was one of the last to begrudgingly wear a face covering to get groceries, and admired the few who never did and got away with it. But a ticket would have been really inconvenient. Especially as I would have felt obligated to fight it. I never pay tickets right away, mostly on merit always on principle. In the end only one was handed out in my town, perhaps as an example or perhaps a function of the police chief's ego.
All this to say I don't think I'm in the soft ~40% middle, but going along to get along seemed valid the first 12 months. Now I see masking as a small lie that's really hurting some, mostly kids, and refuse to be complicit. So that's the obvious mechanism for compliance as I understand it and I think we have to be careful where we draw the line in the sand. My guess is refusing to ever mask up again would fly with less than 10% of folks.
We are winning Gato thank you for all you do❤️
I don't think you should uncork the champagne just yet. There is another "covid conference" coming up in September and one of the primary goals is to get jabs in arms. I imagine demanding face diapers will be part of it. I'm also thinking that "they" have had two years to watch the guinea pigs reaction and so they may have refined some of their methods.
This is why it's always worth speaking up; there will be others who can't or won't for whatever reason, but at least they know they're not alone.
Also, your mere existence annoys and horrifies the Bad Guys, which is fun, and drives them to make mistakes and say the quiet part out loud.
When the current woke wave hit my law school, lots of people quietly thanked me for speaking up, even some who didn't agree with me but who didn't like the creepy totalitarian vibe from the other side. Not that I was especially brave -- I was going to law school as a mid-life dilettante so I had nothing to lose. (And it's hard to be intimidated by kids half your age with zero experience of the real world. Not so much Red Guards as "Mean Girls".)
That’s why I like Musk. While he may be no hero he has a cheeky way of poking the lefties, smiling all the while he’s doing it. He’s a triggering genius extraordinaire.
Flying Delta today!!! Seeing some family I haven’t seen in 2 1/2 years. This mask thing just adds to the good vibes I’m feeling.
Enjoy! Was on a 3 hour flight a few weeks ago. The flight attendants were generous with the snacks. Ate and drank the whole time. Minnie bottle of wine, sip, , sip, , sip. Congrats on your mask free flying!
Ha. If we ever get off the ground. 3 hr delay at this moment but at home thank God and not hanging around the airport. Flying is no fun these days. A real effort and my travel agent friend says it’s a nightmare with schedule changes and new rules all the time. She lost 80% of her income in 2020. But seeing family is at the end of this day.
Sorry for your friends loss. It’s gotta be tough. No mistakes allowed in the travel agent business and now this. Hoping we get back to normal.
Anyone look at some of the replies on twitter to the videos? There are some fools out there clinging to their masks for dear life wishing we'd do the same
Please note that there are many trolls active on Twitter trying to discredit anyone who goes against the government policy. These trolls are probably being sponsored by your own sweet government.
Looks like United and American Airlines are clinging to their face thongs to the bitter end. I suspect when they see their ridership plummet, they will dance to a different tune.
On a United flight right now-no mask enforcement! Huzzah!
You could hand me the metaphorical keys to an Embraer 145 and I wouldn't take them if it was in United livery.
Maskdroids are still among us.
Substack needs to introduce the meme comment feature, stat
I have a meme for everything!
As Lincoln said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
After 2 years of being played for fools, more and more Americans are waking up. Now it’s only the liberal coastal elites, the Karens of the world, the "agitariat" you discussed in your previous posts, that remain as true believers of the mainstream COVID narrative.
I also wanted to share an essay I found recently which examines government and corporate policies during the pandemic leading to this encroaching tyranny. From a variety of different angles (legal/policing/education/etc.), all under the same umbrella. With their primarily white liberal elite supporters as their bought-and-paid-for "scientists" and "experts".
Link to the essay: https://geraldrogue.substack.com/p/medicalization-and-colonization?s=r
Gerad Rogue's long essay - omitting the fact (he omits too many facts!) that Caucasians did not start slavery, as slavery is a human institution since the dawn of time; that enslavers enslave people of their own races, as did the Europeans, and slavery in Africa of blacks enslaving blacks remains rampant to this day. Rogue is full on CRT/SEL and his essay is tedious racism in itself. I'm not getting insight on the tyranny all are being subjected to and suffering under from Rogue's essay at all.
When a friend first sent me the essay, I had the same thought as you, that this was identity politics. But reading further revealed that his ire is really reserved only for liberal moral busybodies (in fact he explicitly supports the trucker protests and the white working class, though this is only written towards the end of the essay). So I'd have to disagree w/r/t CRT, I think the author is closer to Thomas Sowell's POV: a black/non-white fighting for freedom and liberty.
Hmmm... well, a mix. The largest part is focused on Caucasians and slavery and that its pernicious to the present day, with no particular balancing. I'll admit I got almost through it, I'll go back and finish it. Thanks.
For sure, not saying I agree with him 100%, and his tone does verge on the extreme in some places. But overall my perception is that he's similar to someone like Thomas Sowell. As he examines white liberal racism in the context of opposing lockdowns, vaccine mandates, etc.
Versus the Nikole Hannah Jones (NYT's 1619 project) types, who are indeed pushing CRT ahistorical garbage, and worst of all force-feeding it to our children.
Also, thank you for teaching me about the acronym "SEL", I hadn't heard about that before, and it led me down a rabbit hole of what kids are learning today. The only acronym my kids need in school are the 3 R's!
Thank-you for saving me having to read it. I paused at "colonization" and was thinking better of reading. I'm glad I paused, as what you had to say, was what I thought it was.
Well… now you come to mention it. Slavery was banned throughout the British Empire in 1833. The only White owned black slaves were in the West Indies so why all of the Empire?
“ The most popular story I've heard about my great-grandfather was how he successfully confronted officials of the British colonial government after they seized some of his slaves.
The slaves were being transported by middlemen, along with a consignment of tobacco and palm produce, from Nwaubani Ogogo's hometown of Umuahia to the coast.
My great-grandfather apparently did not consider it fair that his slaves had been seized.
Buying and selling of human beings among the Igbo had been going on long before the Europeans arrived. People became slaves as punishment for crime, payment for debts, or prisoners of war.
The successful sale of adults was considered an exploit for which a man was hailed by praise singers, akin to exploits in wrestling, war, or in hunting animals like the lion.
Igbo slaves served as domestic servants and labourers. They were sometimes also sacrificed in religious ceremonies and buried alive with their masters to attend to them in the next world.
Slavery was so ingrained in the culture that a number of popular Igbo proverbs make reference to it:”
Whole article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-53444752
Very interesting aricle!
Yeah... but, white privilege, innit?