Things are absolutely off the rails, here. The camps they’re building. The fact that you literally cannot apply for a job, now, without “the vaxx”. The fact that the few “celebrities” and famous people who held out have now been coerced, for fear of losing their jobs (Sam Frost, David Reynolds, the Carlton AFL player, etc), the fact that restrictions ARE GETTING MORE EXTREME, for the unvaccinated, as more people get “jabbed”.
The talk of boosters, and how THEY will be mandated next. The ever-changing media narrative, and the gaslighting, such as “it was always meant to be this way”, particularly on state funded sources. The fact that the very worst conspiracy theories about all this, HAVE ALMOST ALL BEEN PROVEN TO BE TRUE. The demonization, the violent rhetoric, the threats to prevent us from travelling interstate (INCLUDING TO OUR HOMES), or to literally remove our healthcare. It is, on the whole, absolutely fucking terrifying…
It’s seriously getting to the point where I don’t think this society can survive, like this. They’ll either kill those of us that resist, or we’ll have to fight back, by all means necessary. It’s fucking insane.
Even LockdownSkepticismAU on Preddit is turning, as I’ve said before… They’re beginning to become weirdly resigned to it, and weirdly aggressive towards anyone who dares suggest that resistance is absolutely necessary. Or, at least, some posts there have become that.
But it’s not just online. At my doctor, I get insulted for not being “double jabbed”. At the hospital, they sneer and mock me. Even when I was LITERALLY GOING FOR MY FIRST DOSE, they mocked and verbally abused me for “taking so long”…
Go to cafés, sometimes they’ll be ranting about “plague rats”. Go to visit family in the nursing home, they’lol tell you how they plan to lock you out, and mandate boosters. Even my psycho abusive parents have started turning the screws now…
What the fuck is going on??
I hate to seek reassurance, like this, but seriously, it’s… Beginning to feel like I’m in a cult, and I’m one of very, very few I can see who is actually even QUESTIONING this shit, let alone actually calling it out…
I’m not sure I can go on like this.
If my Uni mandates vaccination, even for online classes,that may very well be it, for me, I think…
Or if I literally can’t even travel interstate, or go to the hospital, or visit my grandfather in the nursing home. Those are red lines. If those get crossed..? I’m not quite sure what I’ll do, but I fucking won’t stand for it, I’ll say that much…
Can’t live like that. Not in the long term. Masks and check-ins (plus “social distancing”, capacity limits and STILL many, many closed/shuttered businesses) are bad enough. 😞
Yes, they have.
The kool aid is called 'western mainstream media'.
I stopped watching TV circa 2006. I stopped watching western movies circa 2008.
I didn't do any of this consciously. They just stopped entertaining me.
Everyone who didn't tune out got turned into an NPC. The NUMBER ONE thing I find non-NPC's have in common is that they don't watch modern TV/Netflix/whatever.
It's pure brainrot propaganda produced by and for billionaires, to tell the population how to think.
Yeah, I neglected to mention that I don’t really watch the “news”, at all anymore…
I stopped much later than you, but it was, similarly, a gradual thing…
When even the local “news” became woke trash, and I saw the idiots I knew who went into “journalism” become brainwashed propagandists, as you say (two girls I knew, who went into radio as a “double act”, ended up severing both their friendship and their musical project, due to their publicly-funded media experience completely destroying the bond they shared when they went in… 😞), that… Was just about it, for me. And now I vehemently refuse to consoom any broadcast news, and pretty much any tv or movies, except for the occasional “old” thing…
I did, admittedly, watch Defiance (came out in 2008, I think, which is coincidentally the year you mention!!), this morning, with Daniel Craig and Liev Schrieber, about the Bielski Partisans in WW2, and I’ll watch the occasional generic crap like an animal-related show, or something about sport, or Doctor W(h)o-ke, or I’ll give Stacey Dooley a brief look-in sometimes, because she’s spectacularly hot, but other than that… I pretty much only watch live sport, and sport highlights, and even that is EXTREMELY, painfully woke, so I can only IMAGINE, from the snippets I see, just how utterly insane the rest of it is…
Watching TV people doxx their own current and former colleagues, or turn on them as “antivaxxers” is EXTREMELY concerning… 😒
The writing was on the wall for big journalism when the Internet became mainstream. It's a completely redundant profession that can't support itself without scandalous clickbait, and only hasn't died out yet because it's propped up by government/corporate/activist support and the addiction of the people still consuming it.
So anyone who wasted their time and money on a journalism degree is either already a woke activist or had no idea what they were getting into and would regret it if they accepted the truth. They are the most brainwashed because they have to be.
I'll qualify that statement though if you have 1st hand witnessed "legacy" media lies first hand, you can still watch it from time to time, just to see what they are lying about. I saw the lies in the Gulf Coast oil spill back in what 2008/09/10 ? Whenever it was. I learned the media truly does lie. Now anytime they report something that interests me, I seek out the truth. So many don't know the truth can be found if you just try to look.
Indeed, once you're fully awake to it, the programming no longer works. You can look at it, and instead of seeing what they want you to see, you just see the falling matrix code.
Yes, it has got to be weird being the "odd man out". Even here in the US in a red state, where a lot of people are like me, there are still a large number who have had that Kool Aid and it is like, What? Why do you act and think like this? Even if you acknowledge that Covid is bad, and the vaccine helps, Covid is not that bad. The vaccine is not that good. It is really bizarre. A lot of lost souls. I just wonder how did they get so lost.
I'm in a red state (although a purplish area) and I get weird looks if I call the vaccine "disappointing" which is about as objectively true as a statement can be. Even ignoring the heart shit it's like people have forgotten that the vaccine was supposed to give immunity rather than just maybe keep you from dying.
Agreed, but the vaccine doesn't even do that good of a job keeping you from dying. It is thoroughly disappointing. This is why I really don't want my kids getting the vaccine. There is actual risk from them where Covid really is almost 0 risk ,but so close to zero there are many other issues that should create much more concern.
We are a backwater.
Look at our natural history, Aborigines were here for 40k plus years untouched by the rest of the world. Didn't invent the wheel.
Our flora and fauna is unique, because we are untouched. And it also can't deal with any invasive plants or animals.
Geopolitically we have to follow the power of the day, The UK and then America and who knows after that.
Culturally, "She'll be right mate"
As a country we exist to be the final proof of "Good times create weak men"
The country has been isolated which breeds weakness in all forms. Our greatest military mythology is Gallipoli and perhaps Tobruk, both defeats.
Of course the country swallowed this hook line and sinker, we have no capacity to do anything else. I'm in the same boat re vaccination, unless I can bribe a nurse, there's no point standing because the tall poppy gets the Australian treatment. it's viscerally disgusting to be a part of.
All I can do is sandbag and obstruct as best as I can.
Go boneless when they try and take you away.
Have you seen the movie They Live?
You're Roddy Piper.
The world is under a spell of some kind.
In my opinion Australia in general have this uncomfortable crowd mentality. Ironic they seem to have prided themselves as anti-authoritarian and individualistic but they are more conformist than they care to admit. That's probably the reason why I find all the australian channels to be largely the same thing. Only channel that was worth something was SBS because every now and then they had some interesting documentaries. But no, that conformist mentality was why it succeeded to enact a law, it is illegal to own firearms.
Kool-aid would be fine. It's the Flavor-aid you need to watch out for.
When I was a child, I used to complain that my neighbor Timmy got to do cool stuff, and my mother used to say "If Timmy next door jumped off a bridge, would you?"
Now, she's looking at people jumping off the bridge, and going "ohh, gotta get in on that bridge jumping off thing, all the neighbors are doing it."
You ARE in a cult. Papa Nurgle bless you. You are. But not just one. You've got two cults going down there at the same time. Because you've got the fascism cultist AND the Nurgle cultists. The government-must-have-more-power believers, and the disease worshippers. And their goals while not coinciding, are similar enough they're working in tandem.
I mean, if there's Kool aid in the water, then you check the water supply. Have you been using a filter and bottled water?
Koala-Aid.
A very clever psychological program has been implemented against Western countries.
It's been done many times before to get people to demand tyranny. This time around, I think the speed of communication provided by the internet is both helping and hindering the process.
You caved are now got jabbed? You deserve all you get, coward. Lie down and take it.
In Australia...it's becoming more and more "they fuck you from birth, they fuck you in life and then they fuck you in death."