-Friend's hardcore vegan "save the animals" Obama/Biden 2012 sticker wife not taking the booster because she doesn't believe she needs it to be safe from the OMGFJB variant, and is starting to question "conventional medicine"
-Bernie bro "all corporations are evil" friend of mine is not taking the booster because "Pfizer is making too much money" and he is not going to help the bourgeoise (or some bullshit like that)
-Wife's pregnant friend was hounded and hounded to get vaccinated at her OBGYN, finally went to get it at some pharmacy, and the pharmacy tech kept asking her if shes sure she wants it, eventually broke down crying, left and decided not to
-Overheard conversation between shopper and cashier: cashier was maybe 18-22, female, talking to older woman in her 60s about the jab, the older woman tells her "Honey, you don't need it, no matter how much they push it on you" and she responds "I know, I don't think I'm going to get it"
-Friend of the family's son just graduated college, looking for jobs, interviewing at my place of employment, got to talking: basically all of his friends hate Biden, the ones that got the shot do not plan on getting the booster, they are all wildly conservative (and mind you, we all live in an upper class area in a blue county in a blue state)
I work in a semi-sales role, I talk to about 20-35 people a week, and just some observations from the last few months:
-Not all millennials are libtards, despite what the media tells you, and I would venture to say they are being pushed more and more right, they just want to be left alone and they hate tech censorship
-More people than you would believe are: unvaxxed (or no plans for boosters), believe the election was stolen, believe someone(s) running things behind the scenes, and even the lefties want Trump back
Don't believe the media, we are winning the war. Don't despair, they wouldn't be kicking and screaming so hard if they weren't desperate.
Lastly: I want to say thank you. To all of you. My wife is 8 mos pregnant, wanted to get the shot a couple times, and even though we don't have the best relationship right now, all of the posts and research you have provided helped me redpill the fuck out of her. She asks me almost daily now "Why are people giving this to their kids?" or "Why are people so stupid?". I hope this gives you a little more optimism.
Your post is timed perfectly, as I just read this:
"I think it’s important we all remember to be calm and patient when conversing with the opposing side. Kinda like we’re fishing, you know? We want to quietly reel them in.. not a good idea to start jumping around and swearing in the boat before you got them on the line. They want us divided. We can’t let that happen. We need them to come to our side. See below.. From Professor Mattias Desmet: It feels important to understand this information. It’s not easy to realise what's happened to our once intelligent and balanced, even conscious friends, but there is a hope and a solution. To work on the solution, it helps to understand the problem. Below is a summary from Professor Desmet, a leading psychological expert on tyranny and totalitarianism and how a crowd hypnosis forms. “Parents who are v - ing their kids so eagerly are stepping into the crowd consciousness called ‘mass formation’. This social change happens when there is or has been a period of free floating anxiety - and it is a step on the road to a totalitarian state. Totalitarianism always starts with a mass formation inside the population - it is not the same as dictatorship. In a dictatorship people obey out of basic fear of the dictator at the top. Totalitarianism is the opposite ..... people are hypnotized into obedience ‘for the good of the collective’. We see this mass formation finding a new solidarity together as a collective. It helps to provide a solution for their anxiety. The narrative and ideology around the pandemic and v has become ‘the object of anxiety’ where the free floating anxiety has found a target, an object. All they know is their anxiety is gone and they now have an answer to their anxiety and have new meaning and a new sense of solidarity. They are changed when this happens. They are not rational anymore and not thinking critically like they once did. This is why we all know once intelligent and compassionate friends that are now dumbed down and won’t listen to any different voices. They are intolerant and even cruel. In hypnotism the focus narrows and narrows until the subject cannot see outside their very narrow view of what is real. Mass formation needs four conditions to take place. This has now happened. The anxiety and lonely isolation many felt before the pandemic and during the pandemic found their perfect ‘object of anxiety’ and is solidly locked on to the pandemic and v narrative. They cannot be tolerant or allow dissent or different voices and don't want to even hear any questioning. If they wake up their ‘terrible anxiety’ will return. And the leaders of the mass formation cannot allow the mass to wake up either because when the mass wakes up and sees the true damage and loss, they will be angry at those that did the damage.” This is currently a social crisis. And we do have a part to play. Professor Desmet explains: “30% of people are deeply hypnotized. 40% are not, but go along with the crowd. If this 40% stop hearing dissenting voices of reason, they will unite with the hypnotized to go along with the plan. We are the last section, the 30% that cannot be hypnotized. We must keep speaking out. In totalitarianism when the last voices of dissent give up and become silent - the mass then starts committing atrocities for the sake of the solidarity and of the collective. The unhypnotized 30% are a mixed band of different groups and varied religion and politics. If we don't find common ground to unite we lose. And without the brave and continued voices of dissent those 40% fall. Professor Desmet says the hypnotism and mass formation he now sees is a condition clearly leading to totalitarianism. In a totalitarian state once normal people commit atrocities thinking they are righteous. If we unite the 30% who are awake and we stand together speaking every day to everyone we meet against the mass formation - against the narrative - the mass formation dissolves and the crisis is ended. You don't have to say a lot, just little things like: ‘none of this makes sense’ ‘the figures tell a different story’ say it to the cashier say it at the petrol station say it to the repair man say it to a policeman say it to a nurse go out of your way to say it.” Thanks and credit to Sarah Sophia Julian "
I used to argue with socialists a lot on reddit. I have found asking questions is an effective way of getting them to corral themselves into a corner.
“Oh, you believe all corporations are evil, how so?” “How would taking the 1%’s wealth solve the problem you say exists?” “If you believe x, what places if there in your society for someone that believes y?”
It works wonders.
People like you helped me leave socialism behind and engage my critical thinking.
Thanks for your work.
Thank you for sharing; it's very insightful.