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. 😞
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.