Imagine thinking you're informed because you watch controlled media. Imagine thinking you're better than, or smarter than everyone here because the media told you what to think about Q supporters and "conspiracy theorists". By and large, the folks here admit that we DON'T KNOW what's going on, but we're willing to consider possibilities not discussed by traditional media. Imagine thinking you're a beacon of tolerance, only to realize that your tolerance stops where others' differing opinions begin. Cognitive dissonance is one hell of a drug.
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I would look for a provocative post title and then write GA off as an echo chamber of deplorables who should be censored. These views are harmful to democracy.
That's better. Now back to CNN, Huffpo and Snopes to get those thoughts out of my head.
That the invite phone call Morphious makes to Neo. The red pilling is when you actually start asking questions that challenge your world views
I don't have to imagine, this week a woke friend had a taste of that on Facebook. A lighter version of it, albeit, but his response to that indicates what his response to a forum like this would be.
There was an anti-lockdown protest nearby, which caused a few stores in a mall to close for a few hours. One of the restaurant owners turned out to be woke, began virtue signaling to the local media about how awful these anti-masker anti-lockdowners were, how they felt mistreated when they started acting woke towards the crowd, and how "hypocritical" it was that the crowd that was supposed to "advocate for small businesses" was actually causing local businesses to close (for a few hours, with warning beforehand).
This sparked quite a debate on Facebook. Plenty of people saying the exact things our community say about the lockdowns and masks (without sources), and, a woke mob trying to drain our people of moral authority.
To the woke crowd, everything that the anti-maskers anti-lockdowners were saying must have sounded so divorced to reality. Particularly some of the more controversial claims (for which there's differing opinions on this forum, like, COVID-19 doesn't exist).
In reality of course, we know that most of the claims made by the anti-maskers anti-lockdowners are well supported & accurate.
Anyways, my woke buddy, his response to all of this was "I hope all of these people are being satirical". He took it as we were all "brainwashed", "wrong", "not following the science", and so forth.
Oh, and this guy was also saying during the "peaceful protests" that "looting ought not to be demonized". Tells you all you need to know about his level of wokeness.
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