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… 🙄
I don't normally say things like this, but you were right to explode at her.
Do not normalize abuse. That is precisely what this is. She's a predator and she is using her family to enable her and abuse you.
I wouldn't go just exploding on people all the time, but you do need to be very frank that you will not accommodate their attacks on you, and you won't tolerate shaming. You do have a right to push back and condemn her for trying, you don't want to normalize that behavior. As an Australian, your institutions are absolutely doing that.
I've learned something the hard way about these kinds of things. The truth is, it's always better to stand your ground and take the consequences. Always. I know that sounds crazy when that might risk even losing friends and getting fired.
But the truth is, you have to work as if you're facing that threat all the time (because you are). You have to have a savings to support you when you get fired. You have to have friends who are loyal enough to you not to abandon you at the drop of a hat. You do not want to work for people who would fire you for this crap.
The Left is self-destructive. When they explode, if you are one of the early ones, you get blown clear of the collapse.
Think about it. When the Left has killed it's largest numbers of people, they don't do it during war, they do it during peace. The largest numbers of dead are from the loyalists who did everything they were told. The phrase I've used repeatedly (and it's true), The Killing Fields of Cambodia are filled with party loyalists. The Rightist monarchists were literally forced into the sea. They fled to the US, Philippines, and Indonesia. And even though they lost their homes, their country, and all their worldly possessions... it was they who were better off, and none of their children were smashed to death against trees.
In the long run, the system is unstable. It will collapse. Everyone who went along with this will pretend they were never part of it and always opposed it. You will be the lucky one who will truly have a clear conscience. You didn't just go with the madness because everyone else did. As you hold your integrity, you'll be punished. In response, you'll become stoic. As you act stoicly, you'll be targeted for outrages and temptations that will work to hurt you in the long run. In response, you'll gain vision to understand the threat. Then you will gain temperance in your conduct.
In the end, you will be a man of integrity, stoicism, temperance, and vision. You will find yourself, nearly inadvertently leaving these freaks and predators behind. People will actually come to you because they will see you have incredible value as person. Your life will improve in surprising ways that you didn't imagine would happen, but you've disciplined yourself into doing anyway. Then when everything else collapses, everyone who recognized that you were right, and you were a morally right person, will come to you asking for advice. And you'll have to tell them what I told you.
The Christians do have a good phrase for this: Psalm 23:
Cheers for this. One thing though - it’s MY family, not hers… 😛
She’s just my uncle’s latest “girlfriend” (cringe). The like, third one in five years or so…
He goes through women more regularly than I do…
But yeh, so, toxic though they may be, I’m their “flesh and blood”… She’s just some Karen bitch plus one who was invited along I presume out of pity, and as “arm candy” for my pathetic middle aged uncle…
An interloper. Who had absolutely no right to blast me in front of family I hadn’t seen in years…
Honestly, in a sense it was good, because it made her look like a fucking psychotic retard. Knowing my uncle, she won’t be his “date”, when I see him again in a year’s time, and, morally dubious though it may be to do so, it gives me some degree of satisfaction that me holding my ground, and allowing her to implode like this, may have contributed, lol…
I wouldn’t say she was necessarily a “leftist”, though. More a horrifyingly elitist, tribalism snob, who had spent the previous ten minutes shitting on poor people who can’t afford rent, or to do up their rented properties, while bragging about her daughter moving to a resort city (the Gold Coast), while her daughter’s friend moves to New York to work for Coachella…
Yeah, I shut you not. A real “piece of work” if ever I saw one, lol…
Also said she would rather come face to face with a snake than a rat, which is, as an Australian, actually one of the dumbest things I have heard in some time… 🙄
Yeah… Ah, Karens…
Yeahhhhh. It might have been fair to say something along the lines of "shut the fuck up, you're not even family", but it would be more trouble than it's worth.
There's not really a difference. The ideology is mostly used as an excuse to enable bad behavior. Particularly the behavior you saw, which is why it's good to stand up to it.