Woof. Okay. I have a few hours of time so I'll wade in.
I'll state the first axiom with regards to conspiracies - the more people have to be lying to you, the less likely a conspiracy exists.
For example, the idea that Officer Sitnick was killed by capitol protesters - initially the lie started with 5-10 people who were all connected politically and then spread massively through media dog piling.
But the SECOND the 11th person (medical examiner) showed up, the thing collapsed.
If you think that 50 million medical professionals are lying to you, separately, in separate countries, with separate governments, and a large series of entirely different life experiences, then you may be addicted to conspiracy theories and have lost sight of any form of truth.
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That "losing sight of truth" is a core goal of the overarching destruction of Western Civilization. A Republic cannot function when all forms of decision making support structures are thoroughly discredited.
You don't trust your politicians - because they have been roped into so much shady shit only a fool would trust them.
You don't trust your media - because they have finally tossed off the clown makeup and are just standing around in their serial killer garb waiting to kill your way of life, your traditions, and your children's minds.
You don't trust your pharmaceutical companies - because they will do anything to make money. If you made a drug that killed 50% of the kids that took it, and it was enormously profitable, and legal, very few companies would pass up marketing it. I'm looking at you right now, Purdue.
You don't trust your doctors - because they have been thoroughly compromised by the pharma companies. And because it IS possible to control a host of doctors through the actions of smaller and more politicized organizations like some of the medical journals.
You can't trust ANYONE - because of the things they have done as a group. So you don't. Trust. Anyone. And the forces of evil win.
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This destruction of trust - and of trustworthiness - is intentional. Communist systems destroy trustworthy systems for decision making because they erode the power of the state.
The Western Democracy is founded on one core principal over all others. TRUST. We trust each other. We trust that our doctors won't kill us just for fun. We trust that our teachers aren't raping our kids. We trust that our police won't just shoot us because the McDonald's ran out of coffee.
As such, ANYTHING that reduces that trust will be hyper magnified.
For example, 600 people or so a year are killed OR injured in road rage incidents. Nationwide. There are 137 million cars on the roads in the us. A plausible number of times a car is driven on a road in the USA per year would thus be 41.1 billion times.
That means every 68,500,000 times someone gets in a car...someone is injured in a road rage incident.
Yet how many people here are shitting their pants over "road rage" and looking at everyone as if they are sketchy road-serial-killers?
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So instead, don't necessarily view what is going on as a giant "conspiracy." What you are seeing instead is the operation of a Communist "cultural imperative."
This mechanism is distinctly separate from a conspiracy, and if you have to have a frame of reference back to a conspiracy to wrap your mind around it, its a distributed form of conspiracy-like operations that could best be summed up as a culture war.
It is intentional, hence the reason it has the feel of a conspiracy. But its vastly more dangerous because its adaptive, distributed, and has no central actors to neutralize to eliminate the threat.
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I came within sight of death with my bout with COVID. I could clearly see it, I knew for a fact that this sickness I had was different than any others in my life. I firmly believe in COVID as a real disease, with a low mortality rate, but still solidly real.
Right now deaths during the COVID timeframes seem to be up about 500k per annum, and that number usually stays pretty static year over year. Some of those deaths are under-treatment deaths, and some are added stress deaths due to employment situation/etc. But not all.
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I won't be getting the vaccine. I won't be getting it because I value the independent and free nature of our nation, individualism, and a willingness to embrace freedom even when paired with danger.
I met the woman last week who gave me COVID with a certainty of 90%. She was on oxygen still. 75 years old. She was almost in tears when she asked if I had gotten COVID yet and I told her I had gotten COVID from her most likely - and I told her flat out that I wasn't in any way upset with her and that she was exercising her American freedom to assemble when it happened. And so was I.
I also won't be getting it because its the first model year car right now - a vaccine like no other we have ever seen. One that had only ever failed in dangerous ways before being rushed to deal with COVID. I feel that an honest doctor would answer "things look very promising but we don't know for sure yet" not "FUCK YEAH GET THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW NOTHING BAD COULD HAPPEN EVER!"
If this vaccine shared a similar situation with Smallpox and its vaccine, I would have gotten it. Well established technology, a very static disease, an excellent chance at herd immunity, and a high fatality disease on the other end of the phone? Sign me up now. Even though the smallpox vaccine isn't without risk either.