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[–]Newzok 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The common take is that it's a test run for social credit type system and surveillance. I remained skeptical of the rona narrative throughout; the media campaign was too extensive, the artificial consensus too insistent. It felt like I was fed disingenuous information all along the way. And yet. A year in, for Christmas, I had to bite the bullet and take the vax, get a vax pass and go see my family that I hadn't seen since last year. An experience I found unpleasant, intrusive and extremely demoralising, not least because there was expensive mandatory bits but also how totalitarian it all was. Take the shot or you don't get to see your loved ones.

The brain fog the following days after the vax made me seriously skeptical as well. And then you hear the lady go "uh well, we didn't test for stopping the spread". Well? Did it help? Last I checked, this was all to protect the health services from getting overloaded but that was forgotten along the way. And the legacy media all go along, no dissenting voices, all one angle. Still a fucking blue warning on Spotify in case unapproved stuff is even mentioned. Who has any illusions about media integrity anymore?

It will possibly take years before we see the full extent of this. The lack of reporting on sudden deaths is suspicious, but then I don't know if this is confirmation bias, an actual increase in vax death or another psy-op. The bipartisan nature of American politics completely obfuscates the issue too, as it classes everyone into narrative-led groups, thus reducing positions to resemble bias. No constructive dialogue to be had.

/rant

[–]tiny-brown-mug 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I 1000% agree with you, man. I was most outraged when my elderly mother, with three shots of this stuff in her system, still contracted Covid and the virus nearly killed her. I was livid. Here's the demographic these shots were supposed to protect. Did they keep a retiree from almost dying? Nope.

A lot of people took the shot in good faith. We were all being told it was safe and effective, they weren't reporting on any side effects except the usual fever and muscle aches, and the conspiracy is just incredibly obvious at this point. And this sudden uptick in young adult and middle-aged deaths? All they can do is blame Long Covid, if they talk about it at all. And that's probably a part of it, sure. I can believe that. Covid's bad stuff. But so are these shots. They should at least look into it, but no one is. No one most Americans are going to get access to, anyway.

Excellent rant, Newzok. I agree. I do think we'll see a social credit system roll out by the end of 2023. At the latest. This would be a great opportunity to learn how the Chinese manage to live under their own system. I strongly suggest having two phones, one basically app-free, and the other for public use. Don't do or store anything controversial or sensitive on your phone. Stay off of social media. People have already lost their careers, families, and reputation over tweets. If that's not a social credit system, I don't know what is.

[–]Newzok 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The point about twitter hits hard. I never even considered it as a social credit thing but it's quite obvious. It shapes so much public discourse and outrage, somehow.

Will that change with Musk, I do wonder.

[–]tiny-brown-mug 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I know, right? It's basically no different from China's Weibo. They control the news, the discourse, they control which opinions or insights are vs. are not allowed... And if you say the "wrong thing" or "spread rumors" they can come for you, or your family. It's horrifying, but we have the same darn thing here, just under another name.

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

I stay the fuck away from it. Why creatives, authors, anyone bothers with it is beyond me. So much rage created, unique to how it operates too. I'll stay here on the fringes. Now, we have a veneer of freedom of speech, a veneer of freedom of the press, but don't you dare get real influence.

[–]tiny-brown-mug 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nope. And sites like this are way safer. Thank God this place in anonymous. It's nice. You don't get to "get famous in real life" but you get to freely share ideas, correct others, and get corrected. It's much healthier.

I agree that Twitter just encourages rage and premature fury. No facts, no hearing from the other guy, just outrage and baying for blood. It's disgusting. And people's lives literally get ruined. Not worth it.

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

Yeah I prefer it here or on smaller subreddits. I've noticed that with size comes astroturfing, it's almost a law of the Internet. Nudging your views here and there by implied consensus. Here we may get some kooky shit at times but it's been surprisingly civilised and informed. Maybe it's the class of people who feel unsatisfied with the state of things, I don't know.