I’m a bit behind so apologies if this has already been posted. Reading it enraged me all over again. I’m left wondering if that feeling will ever go away at the same time that my instinct says it’s best that it never does.
From the article:
“The dancing nurses represented a new evolution in what Annalee Newitz calls “weaponized narratives”—stories designed not to inform or persuade but to destabilize and demoralize.”
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One more thought -
I may have fallen victim to the carefully-constructed narrative if I hadn’t found Free Republic decades ago, and the Q threads in particular in early 2018. There are very few places on the internet where what we see and read receive the rigorous critical review that happens here every single day. Opinions get a pass, as they should, but posts suggesting facts are probed for “sauce”. There’s a comfort in knowing you can absolutely rely on people to be honest and to hold you accountable, similar to how strong, engaged and loving parents are a secret comfort to most teenagers. I think that makes our collective morale quite hearty and made us less likely to succumb to the “weaponized narrative”.
I like to think that I could have withstood the psychological war waged against me without all of you, but I really don’t know. All of this is a long-winded way of saying THANK YOU to each of you who helped me keep my sanity through the ugly covid years and helped me to know that I was not ever alone in the information war against me/us. You have my eternal gratitude.
No one discusses this stuff because it scratches the surface of the idea that a significant number of guilty parties are going to eventually need to pay for it with either the permanent loss of their comfortable freedom or their lives…
“the dancing nurses”
Thank you, I would not have seen that if you hadn’t posted it. I will send it on to others so maybe they will understand how they were manipulated throughout the whole covid ordeal.
I get used to get so frustrated watching exactly what the article described happen to friends and some relatives. They bought into the manufactured fear and urgency so strongly there was no getting through to them.
We see it now with the crime in major cities, i.e. Pritzker walking in Chicago while saying crime there is no worse that what is normal in a major city. Senators saying Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for the covid vaccine and claiming it saved millions of lives. Economists saying inflation was not caused by excessive printing of money and government spending and that the economy is strong. Democrats claiming that illegal immigrants strengthen our nation’s economy and communities. Climate change formally known as global warming, transgenderism, foreign aid, and “our democracy” all lies meant to confuse, distract and demoralize the American citizen.
It just seems to be relentless and endless, a constant fight to bring the truth to light.