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.
An I am grateful that you have so enriched our Q threads these many years.