tl;dr: The Salvation Army used donor money to publish a CRT book. Among the usual CRT racism, there was a section that asked White people to make a "sincere apology" for past historical grievances. Obviously people complained. The Salvation Army then doubled down, and claimed that they were only following the Bible.

Newsweek of all places has a balanced article about it:

https://www.newsweek.com/salvation-armys-donors-withdraw-support-response-racial-wokeness-initiative-1645658

In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” - Theodore Dalrymple

Found this local news report from Central Ohio claiming that volunteer numbers in the region are down 50% this year. The Salvation Army claims they won't even get half of their fundraising without volunteers. Local news, of course, does NOT mention the anti-White bullshit that probably caused the decline.

Newsweek of all places has a surprisingly good article about it. tl;dr: SA used donor money to produce a guide called "Let's Talk About...Racism." The guide demands that White people "repent and apologize" for racism. Beyond being blatantly racist, this has absolutely nothing to do with the SA's mission of helping people out of poverty.

https://www.newsweek.com/salvation-armys-donors-withdraw-support-response-racial-wokeness-initiative-1645658

A friend of mine has made it his mission to go to every White bellringer this season and tell them that the SA wants them both to apologize for being White. The first bellringer he talked to claimed that my friend wasn't the first one to complain to him that morning about the White apology bullshit.

The bullet could have gone through the first person and kept traveling until it hit the person behind the first victim. It's possible, although this incident is sketchy as hell.

Maybe the production person stumbled across some pedo activity in Baldwin's trailer and needed to be silenced. Alec Baldwin has the temperament that I find this scenario believable.

Newsweek recently started reporting culture war stories that previously used to only be reported in the alt-media and right-leaning social media. I'm not sure if this new change in direction is for clickbait reasons, or if it's legacy media simply trying to get ahead of headlines inconvenient to the narrative.

They're setting up a two-tier society where those in power don't have to wear the masks, but the help and the rest of us must cover our faces around them.

I've definitely noticed the pet food shortage ever since the crisis started in March 2020. I always buy the same stuff from Chewy, and sometimes they are out-of-stock for weeks at a time. I looked into what was causing the pet food shortage—an aluminum shortage. They don't have the cans to package the pet food.

The beverage aisle over the past few months has ranged from "picked over" to "bare." The liquor store is also picked over. The reason? Bottle shortage.

The center store grocery aisles still have inventory, but no shelf depth. I can still buy everything on my shopping list, although the aisles look consistently picked over.

Here's the LGBT calendar visualized. LGBT gets two full months, plus three full weeks, plus random days throughout the year.

https://i.imgur.com/TyRzoML.jpg

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_awareness_periods

The simple answer is that they don't care about the money. The entire purpose is to demoralize and destroy cultural symbols. In the New world Order, there can't be any cultural symbols or art or any nostalgia for the "old days." This is why they are hellbent on destroying everything from James Bond to Star Wars to Dr. Seuss.

simply shut down; or will react aggressively.

It's the primal Fight or Flight instinct kicking in. Their brain interprets your information as the equivalent of a physical threat and reacts accordingly. I don't believe they have conscious control over it.

That's because Brett Weinstein is controlled opposition. He knows damn well what's going on. He's just not permitted to say it.

Jar Jar...

1. Media doesn't report the 99% survival rate. The CDC cleverly hides it. You can't easily send someone a nice neat ".gov" link or article from an "approved" source with a nice neat 99% survival rate quote.

2. Even if you manage to convince someone about the true survival rate, they then revert to "muh long haul COVID." Long haul issues are the real concern, not the puny death rate! They genuinely believe that if you catch COVID, then you'll be permanently disabled.

I'll hand it to the Left, they know how to organize and plan.

The Left is backed by billionaires, foreign governments, and intelligence agencies. The Right isn't even permitted to non-violently protest at the Capitol without being tossed in jail indefinitely. It's not an even playing field, we all know it, and that's why people are reluctant to stick their necks out fighting this tyranny. We haven't reached the point where people are willing to risk everything.

When employers push crap like wearing masks for hours, CRT struggle sessions, and pressure to vaxx, then I do not blame one single person for taking the government check and opting out of this nonsense as much possible. Some employers deserve a labor boycott.

I'm glad the NFL finally confirmed that they're all faggots.

OP, I'm feeling rather down about the current state of the world, too, so I'm in no position to give advice. But I will say this much...they want us depressed, demoralized, and ultimately dead. The biggest F-U we can give them is to continue living to our fullest each day. That can be tough to do when you're feeling like crap, but even simply existing is enough to make these people asshurt. Don't make their job easier by giving up.

Take your pick:

• Depopulation agenda. More gays and trannies = less plebs reproducing.

• Big Pharma. Trannies are lifelong customers of pharmaceuticals, plus multiple surgeries ($$$).

• Weaken and emasculate men. Already explained in previous comments.

• Psychological warfare meant to break everyone else down. "That man is a woman" is the 2020s version of "2+2=5." This quote explains it better than I can:

In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. ― Theodore Dalrymple

I support this. Let Christians have the rainbow again, and let the alphabet people have a chaotic, shit-stained mess of flag. The farther and uglier their flag gets away from an orderly, beautiful rainbow, the better.