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I just saw a Yahoo headline:
“Vaccine hesitancy now almost wholly a GOP problem”
Most of us know that the phrase “vaccine hesitancy” is propaganda, mind control, whatever you want to call it. As a meme has it (probably with a naughty word), something like, “I’m not hesitant–I’m just not XXXX getting it.” I found the meme on the leftist UK off-guardian.com, put there by a US person with fairly clearly leftist pedigree. You and I know that plenty of non-voters or Ds aren’t getting it unless they are forced to get it or given it surreptitiously. Among these, clearly, are many blacks who have ample reason for skepticism. This headline was intended to push the falsehood that “We all have gotten it except for a minority of backward holdouts, and we know who they are. They are white nationalist/supremacist redneck racist GOPers. They need to be marginalized.” There are other undercurrents IMO such as making R voters defensive so that they will support their identity as R to enable R vs D divide-and-rule to continue as a distraction from main issues. An amusing undercurrent is that the headline is profoundly racist in that it ignores how in particular blacks are pretty clearly not rushing to get the shots.
The headline is clearly untrue. We are used to headlines that are clearly untrue. I think it is a good project to ask yourself when you became used to seeing obviously untrue headlines as a routine. Was it actually earlier than you realized? Also, are some of the media that you think of as reliable playing you in subtle ways while making valid or somewhat valid points about those groups you do not like? Frankly I am inclined to see something akin to disinformation or divide-and-rule almost everywhere I look.
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I have read the assertion that towards the end people in the USSR were putting their TVs in the window faced outside, volume up.
Is one of the reasons people in the “West” do not catch on (that’s the way I see it anyway) because there are outlets that seem to voice their perspectives — after a fashion — in a way so as to foster divide-and-rule? For example, so as to make Rs dislike the Ds, ‘conservatives’ the ‘left’, this ethnic group that, etc by creating false oppositions? This is not a new idea BTW. You’ve read it before. Is it maybe more real than we realized?
(Gee, for some odd reason I don’t see too many corporate-sponsored demonstrations against oligarch privilege for some reason, or billionaire-sponsored “libertarian” seminars worrying about “capitalism” and “free” this or that that funnels capital to billionaires who strengthen the State and their own grip on it.)
The person who probably posted the meme I mentioned, a prolific meme-poster (“S Cooper”, apparently from NJ or something like Rockland County NY), clearly is of leftist origins. However he has recently been posting, as have been so many, that the right-left distinction is increasingly meaningless or at least detrimental.
One meme he likes to post is a picture, maybe a century old, of US Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs, with a superimposed quotation from Debs to the effect that it isn’t right for oligarchs to have the power to control people’s lives when they don’t have to work at all, as other people struggle just to survive (I’m sure it’s put better). Interesting to me is that “SCooper” recently put this meme up, once again, but this time as an illustration or addendum to a comment that we all — right, left, in between — are in it together if we want some control over our lives, that some arbitrary right-left division is unhelpful — that many of different persuasions share being seemingly helpless playthings of those who have almost limitless resources.
(I’m not so keen on artwork from the 19th century he likes to post, of the Austrian minister of war hanging from a lamppost, 1848. I hope violence and retributions can be avoided all the way around. Peace and reconciliation, dialogue are good.)
Certainly wish some nice dissident oligarchs, interested in peace, nonviolence, harmony, and consensual change, would start help throwing wrenches in the propaganda machine and with it all its potential for death and violence. Anyone out there?
Good stuff Karl. You’re making me think back more than sixty years ago when I was about ten. I read an article in the newspaper saying that because people were becoming more and more sedentary, people would soon be born without legs. I told my father this and he told me not to believe everything I read. More recently the lies perpetuated by governments, the MSM, the judiciary, etc. regarding 911 have led me to question everything that is even remotely political.
Exactly! Divide and conquer.
When they say the uneducated are least likely to get jabbed they try to marginalize us. No one wants to be considered uneducated.
A college education does not equate to critical thinking. It just means that one has had stuff spoon-fed to them and regurgitated. It’s up to that person to decipher through the BS.
Jab hesitancy is equated with critical thinking in my mind, period! Blacks are using their minds as they should. I applaud them. Our white population is incredibly dumbed down.
Interesting story. Last Provincial election in BC, Oct 24 2020, I went to our local polling station. I had looked up in advance and noticed that there was no mandate for mask
wearing. I knew what was coming. Walked in and the greeter, who I knew, asked me to wear a mask and offered me one. She is a retired surgical nurse. I told xxxx that she knows better about the effectiveness of masks and walked in without. In retrospect I should have taken a few for stubborn entry points and put them in my pocket. Everyone before had acquiesced and did not challenge her.
As I walked through the door, the young couple behind me was heard to say, the old guy said we don’t have to wear a mask. They were very happy and followed me in.
Ahead of me was a well known retired Conservative Senator. She and her husband glared at me from behind their facial rag. I smiled back. F..k um, idiots.
Many people think we are American, thinkers not sheeple. I consider that a compliment. Our dog, Hudson, is a rescue from Tennessee and he doesn’t take kindly to idiots.
I envy you Americans who still have the refuge from tyranny.
Well Played Columbia