To the extent that our views are vindicated in the mainstream, we will never receive due credit for having them first. More likely, they will be used as a cudgel against us.
Look at the framing in the monologue: it's a "drug cartel" (right-wing coded) when they want you to be skeptical of it but "the science" (left-wing coded) when they want you to trust it. But while the pharma companies obviously wanted and pushed for the vaccine to be mandatory, they weren't the ones who who actually made it mandatory. That was all the "scientists" and bureaucrats they made bobblehead dolls of and sang songs of praise to.
Eventually I suspect the narrative will converge on the following chain of events:
Trump put tremendous pressure on pharma to release a vaccine on an "unreasonable" timeline
Pharma resorted to shortcuts and deception to do so. They will find a scapegoat who may have either forged some data or perhaps made an ambiguous statement in a document that was misinterpreted. Given the sheer volume of documentation required for anything that crosses the FDA's desk it is a certainty they can find something that fits the bill.
The scientists and bureaucrats were "deceived" by pharma. Pharma may pay a fine that ends up being a small fraction of what they made by the vaccines being put on the mandatory schedule
That is the most straightforward way the "villains" can remain villains and the heroes can remain heroes.
we will never receive due credit for having them first. More likely, they will be used as a cudgel against us.
So what? I haven't been in this fight for more than a decade to get my "due credit." The Gamergate name is cudgeled into the dirt, but Kotaku has been sold and resold for less and less each time, Disney has written VICE down into literal worthlessness, massive layoffs are sweeping through not just games journalism, but the media at large, games journalism itself is widely acknowledged as dead, with YouTubers taking over as credible reviewers, and not only has it become mainstream to talk about media corruption, but it has become mainstream to believe that Epstein didn't kill himself and that a cabal of wealthy elites conspire to control world events.
They may well try to spin a narrative like the one you presented, but that honestly hasn't gone that well for them.
Maybe you don't care that you personally receive your share of the credit, but it's politically useful for your side to receive (collective) credit for being right.
Because receiving the credit for being right (and being right for the right reason) is one of the things that grants your side the moral authority to enact its will if it has the power to do so.
Clearly our enemies understand this, as they attempt to focus group narratives to steal that credit away from us.
A fair point, but that's indeed happening. The pro vaxxers that haven't gone into hiding are getting ratioed all over Twitter, of all places -- and I assure you real life is going worse for them. (Feel free to make an account and help rub it in their faces; it's fun.) They went completely all in on the coof, and now the freaking New York Times is forced to run op eds headlined "The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?" The Atlantic is running pieces asking for "pandemic amnesty." They are spinning narrative after narrative, but it's never been less effective. They even tried to say they shot down a UFO, for God's sake, and that died after like a day.
The time has never been riper to humiliate our enemies and claim our credit. Fuck it, when this is all over, I'll take my medal with the rest of you ;)
To the extent that our views are vindicated in the mainstream, we will never receive due credit for having them first. More likely, they will be used as a cudgel against us.
Look at the framing in the monologue: it's a "drug cartel" (right-wing coded) when they want you to be skeptical of it but "the science" (left-wing coded) when they want you to trust it. But while the pharma companies obviously wanted and pushed for the vaccine to be mandatory, they weren't the ones who who actually made it mandatory. That was all the "scientists" and bureaucrats they made bobblehead dolls of and sang songs of praise to.
Eventually I suspect the narrative will converge on the following chain of events:
That is the most straightforward way the "villains" can remain villains and the heroes can remain heroes.
So what? I haven't been in this fight for more than a decade to get my "due credit." The Gamergate name is cudgeled into the dirt, but Kotaku has been sold and resold for less and less each time, Disney has written VICE down into literal worthlessness, massive layoffs are sweeping through not just games journalism, but the media at large, games journalism itself is widely acknowledged as dead, with YouTubers taking over as credible reviewers, and not only has it become mainstream to talk about media corruption, but it has become mainstream to believe that Epstein didn't kill himself and that a cabal of wealthy elites conspire to control world events.
They may well try to spin a narrative like the one you presented, but that honestly hasn't gone that well for them.
Maybe you don't care that you personally receive your share of the credit, but it's politically useful for your side to receive (collective) credit for being right. Because receiving the credit for being right (and being right for the right reason) is one of the things that grants your side the moral authority to enact its will if it has the power to do so.
Clearly our enemies understand this, as they attempt to focus group narratives to steal that credit away from us.
A fair point, but that's indeed happening. The pro vaxxers that haven't gone into hiding are getting ratioed all over Twitter, of all places -- and I assure you real life is going worse for them. (Feel free to make an account and help rub it in their faces; it's fun.) They went completely all in on the coof, and now the freaking New York Times is forced to run op eds headlined "The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?" The Atlantic is running pieces asking for "pandemic amnesty." They are spinning narrative after narrative, but it's never been less effective. They even tried to say they shot down a UFO, for God's sake, and that died after like a day.
The time has never been riper to humiliate our enemies and claim our credit. Fuck it, when this is all over, I'll take my medal with the rest of you ;)