They lied about the reasons to go in to Iraq, why wouldn't they also lie about Syria to get the war they want? -- Also this exact "sarin gas" foot in the door was tried in both 2013 and 2016

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[–]itsaname42 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Lol... cannabis was actually a pretty big part of my awakening as well, I got to college and all kinds of people were smoking, and actually I became extremely angry about the war on drugs and D.A.R.E. (that program was such a joke, looking back on it now) because of ethical/moral reasons as well as the fact that smoking is the only thing I have ever found that helps to alleviate the utterly debilitating migraines that I get - I have to basically lock myself in a dark quite space for 1-3 days when I get one; smoking doesn't change that, but it does make them much more bearable. Pharmaceuticals, on the other hand, have never done anything for me. It really blew my mind that so many people in the US are locked up for years over this plant. Well... it blew my mind until I learned the exact wording of the 13th Amendment anyway, abolishing slavery except as punishment for a crime. It really is quite the system they have going; between the war on drugs, where they are playing both sides of the field with the CIA bringing them in the country and selling them to fund black ops budgets, while the police confiscate them along with all of the assets of the people (since property is guilty until proven innocent), then throwing the people in jail to fuel the private prison industry and use these 'criminals' for what is effectively slave labor (and the don't even have to pay for room and board costs, since the taxpayers are footing that bill) and all the while big pharma is making insane profits as 'legal' drug pushers with all of the opiates the sell, when in a lot of cases cannabis would be both more effective and less expensive (for a lot of medicines other than opiates as well). Arrg... I could rant about this all day, there are so many corrupt industries that only function the way they do because of marijuana being illegal (petroleum products, paper, alcohol, etc, etc.)

I'm just thankful the internet isn't completely controlled yet; the only way things are going to change is to wake up the sheeple - if the 99.9% would realize how badly we are being screwed by the 0.1% I truly believe we would start to see massive changes overnight. I do think we are starting to get there though, and actually I think that is a factor in why we are seeing such a huge push with Internet censorship and 'fake news', they are trying to make it seem like 'truthers' are a crazy fringe, but it seems like most of the random people I talk to in real life are becoming more and more aware of what is really going on. There is, however, the problem that most of these people believe that they are part of a small minority and that they might be a bit crazy for thinking the way they do - it seems the mainstream propaganda has been fairly effective in that regard. So I think one thing we should start to focus on as a community is not just waking people up, but also to make people aware of how many people out there are already 'awake', because when people think everyone else is going to think they are crazy if they talk about this kinds of stuff it is a big roadblock keeping the 'truth movement' (or whatever you want to call it) in the shadows and out of common public dialog.

Apologies for any typos, on mobile.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I had a VERY similar awakening path as you.

but also to make people aware of how many people out there are already 'awake'

I agree. There are so many awake people who mistakenly think they're alone, an island by themselves, in a sea of people who think otherwise. When in fact, many people feel that exact same way, and are just too afraid to communicate it. Which in turn creates the public appearance that people don't hold that opinion. So we have to each individually, and as a group, overcome our fear of crossing social boundaries and say what we really mean. But when the economy is this bad, people tend to prioritize making money and self-preservation over pushing social boundaries, which is partly why I think the boundaries have shrunk since 2008, because they haven't been challenged, because people on the whole are too scared and have too much to risk.

[–]itsaname42 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think you are exactly right; I don't really have any qualms about expressing my views, and lately it seems more common that people will be hesitant to discuss this kind of stuff at first, at least until I break the ice a bit, but then quite often it's like opening the floodgates; whereas a few years ago people didn't see to feel like the subject was taboo as much, but were a lot more likely to dismiss or ridicule what I was talking about. Although nowadays it seems that people who have never heard about any of it are a lot more likely to listen with an open mind; the public facade of TPTB definitely seems to be cracking.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hadn't quite thought about it that way, but now that you say it I've seen the same kind of trends. It is interesting to see how the public's approach to this type of stuff is evolving, and how the propaganda evolves in response.