I had a guy I've known for 30 years, share a link with a group of us buddies during COVID, that was of an interview between a show host and a lawyer, both of were complete unknowns to me. The lawyer was claiming that he represented a whistleblower from one of the pharma companies making the COVID vaccine. The whistleblower claimed that the pharma was intentionally creating the vaccine to kill people and the justification was something about eliminating witnesses or something. I don't remember exactly the reasoning, but it didn't make sense to me at the time and I do remember questioning him (the guy who shared the link) about a company making a product that kills its consumers. Seemed like a bad business model.
In retrospect and over time...one of the things that maybe is more concerning/baffling than him believing this and sharing it with others...was that....out of the 6 people on the e-mail...I was the ONLY one who pushed back and said something about it.
Silence, these days especially, sure gives off a feeling of, at a minimum, that maybe THEY'RE right or have an opinion to be thoughtfully considered. I don't believe we're in the position of being to afford this much longer. People need to start speaking up before it will be illegal to do so.
Lately I have been reaching out to people I know and trust to talk a bit about what is going on. One person has decided to pigeonhole their angst and upset and focus on what is happening in Gaza. I tried to get them to zoom out but they couldn't.
Another person has decided to stay out of politics entirely. They do not see a way forward. They are fed up with the world and do not see a way forward. They are all criminal no sense in supporting one over the other. They are struggling to make sense of their world locally and just trying to keep things going at home.
There are a great number of people who cannot bear the constant harassment of listening and thinking about 'this stuff'. They have lives to live or so they tell me.
I do too. I have a life to live, and it includes trying to make this a better place. When I see things heading in the wrong direction, I feel compelled to tell people, 'danger ahead' 'pothole' 'elevator's broken' 'that milk is expired' 'there is a lunatic in the white house'. You know just reaching out for each other.
Anyway I hope enough of us get it together and get as many of our friends together to vote and fight for what is right and fair and safe and gets that lunatic out of the white house or at least contains him in a rubber room. they have to have one of those there right? I mean the white house has everything.
Your post was both depressing and inspiring. The people choosing to opt out when we need them the most is depressing, the fact there are people like you prioritizing how bad this is and speaking out is inspiring. Thank you.
I don't know about you, but the weird thing is that before Trump, I was politically knowledgeable, but didn't speak out much. Trump changed EVERYTHING for me.
Same here, always politically knowledgeable, but this has been the impetus of shouting out in pain. I blame the younger generation for not having it as rough, not living without the adversity that many of us in the older generation have firsthand knowledge of. They do not know how free they really are. Although, I will say this, we were a lot freer in that as children, we enjoyed the ability to be gone all day, travel and meet new people in ways todayтАЩs youth will only experience on the other side of the cell phone screen.
That is not a before and then after tyrant effect. That I attribute to the slow erosion of community, a turn inwards, isolation. If we had corrected for that and really became accepting of the changing complexions of our neighbors, we would not be where we are right now.
I had a guy I've known for 30 years, share a link with a group of us buddies during COVID, that was of an interview between a show host and a lawyer, both of were complete unknowns to me. The lawyer was claiming that he represented a whistleblower from one of the pharma companies making the COVID vaccine. The whistleblower claimed that the pharma was intentionally creating the vaccine to kill people and the justification was something about eliminating witnesses or something. I don't remember exactly the reasoning, but it didn't make sense to me at the time and I do remember questioning him (the guy who shared the link) about a company making a product that kills its consumers. Seemed like a bad business model.
In retrospect and over time...one of the things that maybe is more concerning/baffling than him believing this and sharing it with others...was that....out of the 6 people on the e-mail...I was the ONLY one who pushed back and said something about it.
Silence, these days especially, sure gives off a feeling of, at a minimum, that maybe THEY'RE right or have an opinion to be thoughtfully considered. I don't believe we're in the position of being to afford this much longer. People need to start speaking up before it will be illegal to do so.
Lately I have been reaching out to people I know and trust to talk a bit about what is going on. One person has decided to pigeonhole their angst and upset and focus on what is happening in Gaza. I tried to get them to zoom out but they couldn't.
Another person has decided to stay out of politics entirely. They do not see a way forward. They are fed up with the world and do not see a way forward. They are all criminal no sense in supporting one over the other. They are struggling to make sense of their world locally and just trying to keep things going at home.
There are a great number of people who cannot bear the constant harassment of listening and thinking about 'this stuff'. They have lives to live or so they tell me.
I do too. I have a life to live, and it includes trying to make this a better place. When I see things heading in the wrong direction, I feel compelled to tell people, 'danger ahead' 'pothole' 'elevator's broken' 'that milk is expired' 'there is a lunatic in the white house'. You know just reaching out for each other.
Anyway I hope enough of us get it together and get as many of our friends together to vote and fight for what is right and fair and safe and gets that lunatic out of the white house or at least contains him in a rubber room. they have to have one of those there right? I mean the white house has everything.
Your post was both depressing and inspiring. The people choosing to opt out when we need them the most is depressing, the fact there are people like you prioritizing how bad this is and speaking out is inspiring. Thank you.
I don't know about you, but the weird thing is that before Trump, I was politically knowledgeable, but didn't speak out much. Trump changed EVERYTHING for me.
Same here, always politically knowledgeable, but this has been the impetus of shouting out in pain. I blame the younger generation for not having it as rough, not living without the adversity that many of us in the older generation have firsthand knowledge of. They do not know how free they really are. Although, I will say this, we were a lot freer in that as children, we enjoyed the ability to be gone all day, travel and meet new people in ways todayтАЩs youth will only experience on the other side of the cell phone screen.
That is not a before and then after tyrant effect. That I attribute to the slow erosion of community, a turn inwards, isolation. If we had corrected for that and really became accepting of the changing complexions of our neighbors, we would not be where we are right now.
Covid is fertile ground for bizarre conspiracy theories. You canтАЩt argue with them either.