It's not shocking anymore. The way the Covid-unvaccinated were treated (everywhere, not just here) was a real eye-opener. Makes one understand how the Nazis got as far as they did. There's something about human-nature that can be tapped into...a
conformity gene, an ancient instinct to survive by staying with the herd.
The absurd thing about these kind of reactions is that they come from folk who think of themselves as 'liberal open-minded caring' types.
Yet look at the comment below, and the
likes it got.
This here - in context of the
government putting pressure to deplatform Russell Brand's
anti-government content - is advocating
plain state-fascism. If tsubaki & anyone who agrees with him had their way, our only options going forward would be to trust authority and their '
reliable sources'. Anything and anyone against that would be labelled
unreliable & potentially dangerous and cast out of the public square.
After a decade or so of this kind of thing, we end up living in a fascist regime and most people either won't notice or even appreciate it.
This is the deeper context behind the Russell Brand Sex Scandal, these coordinated campaigns are orchestrating the reactions of people like we see here: the posters in this thread enthusiastically sharing Twitter links of the latest alleged deviant behaviour, further hammering
the message, while not considering the bigger picture. These posts are celebrated, which encourages more of the same...further making counter-views appear alien, unwelcome and even inflammatory.
This was the playbook with Assange, and I bet many still think he's a bad 'rapist' despite all that's happened since.
On Russell: while I accept he may have some serious questions to answer as regards to his previous sexual encounters, the timing & establishment-coordination is extremely suspect.
@those who think he timed his anti-establishment shtick to coincide with the beginning of investigations against him: yous may not be aware this 'shtick' has been his philosophy for many years:
Whether you think he's talking bollocks or not, he's been talking about these things (
"alternate political systems" = anti-establishment) for at least a decade. Just that a decade ago he didn't have millions of followers and meaningful cultural influence on judging the next vaccine-campaigns and UK/US-elections.
The GOT community has gotten too echo-chambery to consider things like this. Waste of time for me now. Sadly, elsewhere online is also full of echo chambers. I've been banned from lots of places, so at least we can say GOT is officially more tolerant than most (even if its community is not). Twitter, for all its issues - incoherent discussion being one! - may now be the most balanced debate-platform out there.
I'm not dropping the mic, just gonna wistfully put it down and not touch it around here again.
See yous in another life, brothers
