I don’t know how I became so… “Blackpilled”. Where exactly my “skepticism” came from…
I’ve had a fucking tough life, and I’ve seen the dark side of “compliance culture”, and the medico-industrial industry. Or maybe I just have a natural “aversion to authority”, and bullshit rules, after being abused and bullied all my life. Who fucking knows? But regardless I am very much the only one in my entire extended family who questions this shit…
Tonight, I was forced into an extended family dinner, mostly to see my cousin, who has been living in the US (LA, now NYC), for years, and who I haven’t seen since 2016 or so… And also an uncle who I haven’t seen in some years.
Anyway, so the restaurant insists that you wear a mask, walking in, until you sit down… Utterly absurd, and even my v compliant father called it out.
Then comes dinner. Uncle (not the one who I haven’t seen in years) has brought his new “partner” along…
She is… Horrible. Going on about how “horrible” (poor) tenants are, and how they “abuse” her daughter, who works in property management, and refuses to fix their leaking apartments, in the shit part of town…
This is alarming enough. But then she somehow asks about my “vaccination status”. I say the truth, that I have had one dose. She goes absolutely off her tits… Calls me “dangerous”, and “immature”. “Irresponsible”, “cruel” and “stupid”. Tells me I am literally killing people in nursing homes…
I finally fucking exploded. This woman doesn’t know me. She has absolutely no right to give me an earful. Yet she escalates and escalates, and at one point I honestly thought she would fucking physically assault me, at the table…
I’m utterly disgusted by this. And so I fucking stand my ground. But then the rest of my family turns on me. She makes it about her. “Oh woe is me!” Literally said, “I’m not judging you, though you ARE irresponsible, but you’d better not be judging me for being TRIPLE VACCINATED!”
I literally didn’t bring it up once. Yet SHE was the “victim”. Fucking unbelievable… 🙄
Take out your phone and start filming, or at least recording the audio.
Such vile subhumans are not worth getting angry about. That is taking them seriously. What they really can't stand is being mocked and laughed at. You should ostentatiously not take them seriously. The reason she is calling you names is to make you angry.
If you're arguing with a lunatic, you are losing. A lunatic is self-refuting. All you need to do is to give it enough rope to hang itself.
That is a failure of deterrence. If it is obvious to anyone that any sort of assault will result in her being beaten to within an inch of her life, then you will never have to.
This is the strangest part. But I'm middle eastern, and family comes first - they will back you to the hilt. If an uncle's concubine abused me in any way - it would probably result in him breaking up with her. (Which is why it would never happen to begin with. Also, people in America are uniquely crazy about vaccines.)
I am not sure how to handle such a situation when the deck is stacked against you like this, at least in the aftermath. Maybe you can try to privately poll family members to see if they were quiet because they didn't want to get involved or because they supported the shrew.
Eugh, I had a whole reply written out, explaining it, but then lost it…
Essentially I think it comes down to “Shared suffering”, or “sunk cost fallacy”, as in, they’re all vaccinated, suffered the side effects, and they feel I should have to, too, unfortunately…
My cousin had to jump through numerous hoops to get back into the country, and then to get into the state. AND the booster made her really sick, too. Unfortunately I guess they all figure that “If we have to suffer, so should you”…
Sad, really… 😑
You know what’s weird (to me), though? I’m seeing the same attitude in LockdownSkepticismAU, now. Like, “We’re vaxxed and suffered, so should you!” And that’s in a community that’s supposedly “on our side”, even if it is a bit of a potential honeypot…
That honestly worries me more, if that is all that is left of “the resistance”, in Aus…
I doubt it. I am absolutely sure that at least 95% would still take the vaccine with today's knowledge. It is just pure fear and an attempt at feeling superior to others. Probably more of the latter - since if the triple-boosted concubine felt that you really were dangerous, she probably would not sit there to get yelled back at by you.
So did he join in?
You can be vaccinated and against a lockdown though. It is easy for them to convince themselves that the reason that there are lockdowns is because people 'refuse' to get vaccinated.
It’s a she, but honestly, nah… I thought she might, but I really think she was more surprised to see me arc up so much about it.
I’m not the kind of person to actively yell “I’m unvaccinated!!” in an environment like that, or to get openly angry, unless someone really pisses me off (as this women did, when she kept pushing and pushing), partly because when I rage, I really, really rage…
I don’t think my cousin had ever seen me stand up like that before, lol. I usually just suck up whatever bullshit my family says, and brush it off. But that strategy clearly hasn’t worked, and besides, this bitch pushed too far, lol…
But nah, cuz really just demanded to know “Why?”, and “What’s your stance on it?”
I tried to answer (to my cousin), but psycho bitch (uncle’s partner) just yelled over the top of me, and told me everything I said was wrong… So I basically just told her to shut the fuck up, and that I didn’t give a shit what she thought, and left it at that, lololol…
Stupid bitch then wouldn’t even look me in the face, after that, and didn’t even say goodbye when we all parted ways! 😂
My cousin waited for me, in the restaurant, after the whole rest of my whole family bailed, while I was taking a piss. I guess that says something. She’s a decent person, I think. Better than the others, anyway. 🤷🏻♂️
But I’m used to that sort of… Lack of consideration, from the others. I’ve been left behind while they all got taxis home, before, without me, lol.
Yep…
At least you got under her rotting skin.
Weird family.
It’s funny because after all that, each family member (minus me) went out of their way to “out-woke” each other, and to virtue signal about how “awful” Australian history is, and how “we aren’t taught about how bad it all is”, lol…
I just rolled my eyes, and largely kept my mouth shut. Then I went to the toilet, and when I came out, they had all left the building, and only my cousin stayed behind to let me know where they went…
Fun times. 🤷🏻♂️
Literally unironically yes. If the ABC claimed it was “necessary”, my parents, and at least one uncle who was present (partner of Karen) would support that, no joke… 😑
I think we had to watch that, too, at a similar age… I honestly zonked that whole section of curriculum (I don’t think my school had to obey the national curriculum, at least at that point), but I do remember that much, too…
I don’t think I felt guilty, after it, either. More just horribly sad, lol.
My mother, incidentally, is retraining to be a teacher, as her mid life crisis… As part of the teaching unit, she brought home some of the woke “localized” materials they are expected to teach…
It was… Frankly alarming.
Odd how they focus on only the sob stories, and completely ignore the good stories of “positive interactions” and/or “cultural preservation”…
Funny that. 🤔
What did Howard say? A “black armband” view of history? That’s my family to a fucking tee. Peter Garrett-listening, latte-sipping, ABC and SBS-viewing, China-loving, immigrant-worshipping morons.
Not that all those things are necessarily bad, but you get the idea, in combination, lol…
We're controlled by sydney and melbourne. The southern hemisphere mecas of hipster and karenism.
^^This.
If you get out of the cities, there might, might be a bit of that left, but in the state capitals (where this was, but not Mel or Syd) - yeah, it really is hipster shithole + Karen central territory, lol…
Canberra has too much influence too, IMHO…
It’s even more “hipster” and “woke” than Melbourne, for the most part, because the very worst Mel wankers move to Canberra, and get cushy public service jobs there, for the most part… 😑
Unfortunately I think that has been a myth for quite some time... At least in the cities. We're really, really not like that anymore, and I suspect we haven't been since before I was born, lol...
Unfortunately, these days, Aus pretty much makes "rugged individualism" illegal, lol. You really can't even go off into the bush and just... Disappear, even. The state won't let you, lol. Unless you own a massive property yourself, and don't tell someone who will dob you in, maybe. But really, much like New Zealand... Freedoms and individual... Ability to live as you wish, let's say, are few and far between...
Unless you're a woke degenerate, or the parent of a "child drag queen" (yes, really), in which case, Australian society will not only support you, but actively promote your "lifestyle", these days, lol...
Sad fucking times. :-/