I have a customer that owns a huge gym and health center in the town I live. I’ve done all the carpentry/contracting there for almost 40 years. His manager is a brilliant Jewish guy who’s helped me here and there with minor tech issues, we are friends. I was working at his house in Canton Mass and we got into a bit of a heated conversation to say the least about the president forcing the vaccine, masks, social distancing etc… Eventually he said because I’m unvaxed I should be locked in my house and not allowed out period. I told Steve that my father volunteered to go to Germany, risk his life, to help free his ancestors from the same type of totalitarian bullshit he was pushing on me. I told him my father was shot in the back by a Nazi that had similar ideas to his and that my father had a lung ripped out of him after being shipped to England on his death bed. I mentioned that my father died when I was 20 mainly due to the hell he went through in the battle of the bulge etc saving his friggen relatives. I told Steve I will never comply to his Nazi thoughts of locking people up for not taking a shot that I don’t believe in. I also said back in Nazi Germany they would inject Jews with different chemicals to see what would happen and that this created the Nuremberg Codes one being informed consent. This they decided was essential to all. Steve was dumb founded and never brought anything related up about it again. J.Goodrich
They found the one thing that would get the most people on board with enforcing their tyranny: FEAR. Fear of disease, especially, is a powerful motivator. So some people who might not support freedom-crushing measures in most other circumstances WILL do so if there is a virus on the loose.
They no longer see it as a violation of your freedom; they are made to believe that you are putting them at grave risk. That your very existence is a threat to them.
I love the white privilege one. Like the white privileged my father got in Germany 1945. Or when I’m shoveling salt off my truck at 3 in the morning in a snowstorm. Or the guy that works the night shift in a manufacturing plant etc….
My grandfather went to work in the coal mines of Wales. Ten years old. Six days a week. 52 weeks a year, with one extra day off at Christmas, and one at Easter. My Dad fought in 1939 to 1943. 18 years old. It stopped for him Boxing Day 1943. He was injured. 100% disabled from then on. Never felt good a day in his life after that. I lived in 18 places by the time I was 18. Homeless twice for about 3 months at a time, and homeless for about a week about 10 times. I am doing well. But I have worked my tail off for 56 years. I am 73. White privilege?
March 1st, 24 128 AM… Mystic William, I’m 58 years old. I was the last of 4 children. My father was 45 when I was born in 1965. As I’ve grown old I realize the 4 of us kids are somewhat of a miracle now understanding what my father had seen and gone through. There are just 3 of us left now. My father didn’t talk of the war hardly at all, I was only 20 when he died. He did tell me after he had been shot in the back, he was on the side of a road, and when he took a breath the blood gurgled in the bullet hole through his back. He said there were other soldiers there and one asked who is that? The other said it’s Goodrich he’s going to die. My father also boxed. You and me William have very parallel lives. My fathers father, my grandfather, who I never met, left his family in Mission Hill Boston to mine coal south in Virginia to support his wife and kids. In the depression there were no jobs here in Boston. My father grew up in poverty and told me his younger brother took sick and died. My father told me, insisted, that his younger brother starved to death. One day he said his mother showed him an obituary article and said this is your father he passed. A few years back my sister did a family search on ancestry . Com, and sure enough it showed my fathers 7 year old younger brother had died. You know William, “white privilege”. What a bunch of lying bullshit these Marxist democrat traitors feed our children. This girl Tanya on Naomi Wolf’s sub stack, who had her brainwashed college rant, called me a racist because I said I’m white and my family, my siblings and I have given blood and millions of dollars in taxes paid to this country and our citizenship is being devalued by this illegal open border Joe Biden and the rest of the Marxist have created. It’s funny how fucking stupid these college brainwashed assholes are, the ones like Tanya that don’t see the complete destruction of America will be the end of freedom throughout this world. As Yuri Bezmenov said they won’t realize it until the communist boot kicks them in their soft bottom, and they find themselves in the gulag. He said you can take these brainwashed fools and show them the forced labor camps in Russia and they still won’t believe it’s real. These are the kinds of absolute morons our schools and colleges produce today. I’m saddened by people like Tanya that have no idea who I am, what I’ve been through, who my friends are, how many different types of people I’ve worked for and different races of people that have worked for me, and calls me a racist like it’s saying hello to someone. She devalues the word racist to a point that the word is meaningless. I grew up free, free to speak, free to think, free to travel, free to go to church and I hope to die this way. Beyond that, with people like Tanya the world will no longer have this shining city on the hill, America. I still have hope and faith that somehow freedom will win, even with brainwashed people like Tanya.
I have a letter from a friend of my fathers wife sent on October 1st 1945. I would post it if you are interested, it’s an amazing letter that shows how willing Americans once were to sacrifice themselves for this country.
I have many other items I won’t post. Even though they were taken from dead Nazis some people would probably be offended. I have a pin given to teachers that taught kids how to be good Nazis. I’m pretty sure my father probably capped these people and then took the stuff off their dead bodies. It’s amazing after the hell he must have seen what a good father and a good man he was…,
I've come to the conclusion that people who wear masks (in their car for instance) like to be hidden.
Kind of like the people who throw punches online in forums and commentary who don't even have a picture of themselves showing. It empowers them, because they are basically cowards.
Now, I give a broad stroke to older people in Walmart who still mask up because they really don't want to get sick, and if the mask has even the slightest possibility of helping them avoid it, they are all in. And they're not expecting everyone else to follow suit.
But I've always felt like our face was the centerpiece of our expression. There's a reason we have a face, and a reason why it is so expressive. Hiding my face was an absolute affront to me. I did it for a short time at the time, but I can count on one hand those instances, and it always made me sick to my stomach and angered me greatly, as well as resentment when I discovered how it was being used to normalize servitude and remove identity from us, much the same way as slaves have no identity.
Funny how that happens. Seeing Bono shilling for Nvalny in his recent appearance made me wretch and want to throw punches. Just more people who have sold out and are protecting their nut.
Watching the young people chant with him who had no idea who Nvalny was and thought they were standing up for something good. It's unbelievable. But that's how impressionable people are.
"Now, I give a broad stroke to older people in Walmart who still mask up because they really don't want to get sick, and if the mask has even the slightest possibility of helping them avoid it, they are all in. And they're not expecting everyone else to follow suit."
—Sure, people can do what they want. Some people may have good reasons. For others, it's virtue signaling. I don't care, now that it isn't being forced on everyone.
You and the other chaps here are angry, aggressive people with a powerful shared sense of grievance about aspects of life which are not to your liking. The chap who has replied to me directly starts off by telling me he’s a big guy who is obviously proud of intimidating people with his stare. Now there might be areas where critics of your worldview might have been over declaratory but really, celebrating being in conflict with people working in shops and bars as you do - to the clear embarrassment of your partner - is not manly, dignified or rational conduct. My respondent at least made a friend in his Romanian. May you all make some more out with your angry jerk circle.
Sadly, some people actually like tyranny. They don't see it as tyranny—they see it as security and respect for the collective. It's a huge philosophical gap that may even be rooted in personality predispositions and evolutionary survival strategies. The chasm between the individualist and the collectivist is enormous.
The thing is—we're not trying to force them to do anything. They are trying to force us to do all sorts of things.
And freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and war is peace.
Mask wearing is terrorism. Terrorism is not an altruistic act. In the long ago times I suspect you once knew this to be true. Before Orwellian Newspeak grabbed hold of your mind. Pre-2020, you see a person wearing a mask enter a bank what do you think? Bank robber. Pre-2020 you see a person on a plane wearing a mask what do you think? Hijacker. Seeing a masked face in public pre-2020 would've at least given you pause, probably made you a bit fearful while you discerned intentions.
Criminals, terrorists knew instinctively that masks make them more intimidating, make people they seek to quickly get under control fearful and compliant. Anonymity was of additional benefit, but not the main factor. Fear. Terror. Masked faces are inherently terrorizing, Amygdala fight-flight-freeze triggering. Same as seeing a snake. Here's the science:
Not an altruistic act. But behavioral scientists, aka BS'ers, wanted us to terrorize each other. And coined Newspeak campaigns to convince the public it was altruistic. Sadly, very effectively. Your comment born of propaganda four years ago reveals how effective. You see, the field of epidemiology is more than just virologists. It employs BS'ers. Who are tasked to change the perceptions of a targeted population in order to effect a behavior change.
Have you heard of the term "Nonpharmaceutical Intervention?" NPI. Not a medical intervention. Lockdowns, social distancing, masks, were all forms of NPI. Behavioral changes, "to slow the spread." None of them were medically effective anywhere in the world. Because they're not based in medical science efficacy. They're BS. And the BS'ers have their own language to describe their perception-changing tools, campaigns. Early in 2020 epidemiologist BS'ers diagnosed the population a 'suffering' from "Optimism Bias."
What Is Optimism Bias, And How Is It Affecting Our Response To The Pandemic?
Who believed we were 'too optimistic' that the bad, bad, flu wasn't that big a deal. And even if we caught it we'd get over it like we got over the flu. The BS'er had to 'fix' our flawed (not really, we were right) optimistic perceptions that we'd be ok. So they pulled out the nifty BS tool of "Fear Amplification" from their toolbox of manipulative deception to remedy us of our optimism affliction. Masked faces, as the science above proves, were known to amplify fear, like seeing snakes everywhere. "Amplifying Fear" = "Terrorizing."
Authorities weaponized fear. That's what masked faces do. It's terrorism. Nothing changed between 2019 masked bank robbers and masked hijackers. Except minds were manipulated by a massive BS campaign, that drafted every single person who complied into terrorist collaborators.
Ian, you, and everyone else who wore masks and still believe wearing masks are altruistic are actually acting as terrorists. Because your minds were professionally warped. While Christopher, me, and everyone else who defied mask mandates were trying to save you and our essential freedom to not live in fear. To not usher in tyranny out of fear. That compliant mask wearers and enforcers put the welcome mat down for. It was sad to watch in real time. Knowing every masked face I saw, everyone yelling at me to wear a mask were akin to Stockholm Syndrome sufferers. Hostages who identified with their captors to the degree that they fought their rescuers.
And that's not even getting into the harms that mask wearers inflict on themselves. But that's for another time. But you really should check yourself, Ian. That sanctimonious pedestal you think you're standing on is really a prison cell that your mind has taken up residence in. You were conned into becoming a terrorist. And still identify with your terrorist captors.
I am glad you mentioned his "sanctimonious pedestal," for that, I fear, is at the root of a lot of this. Simply put, much of the behavior of people like Ian is rooted in narcissism.
Look at me—look how virtuous I am. Look at how much I care about the collective. I am a good person. I am a BETTER person than you.
This is, in turn, I strongly suspect, rooted in the animal desire to climb in dominance hierarchies. The entire operating system of the left has provided people a virtue hierarchy in which they (feel that) they can climb and rise to a higher status of virtue.
I do not believe that people like Ian know this consciously. But if you were to remove the desire to feed one's inner narcissistic beast, how much of their behavior would change? I suspect a lot.
Good insight. Pre-2020 my largest group of friends I ran with were creatives. A lot of artists, hippie types, burners. Somewhat outcasts, counter-culture, free-thinker types. Which had a lot of misfits, people who felt a little broken.
I met them around 2010 when I was transitioning away from a high stress career working with many community leaders, high power, well-networked, public policy, a lot of it was health public policy. But it was full of a lot of phonies, ambitious, self-important, many ruthless, many frauds and corrupt. The creatives were a perfect respite, I rediscovered balance and appreciation for the simpler things with them. It was actually really good space for me for about a decade before 2020.
That's when what was appealing about the friend group was turned against them. The misfits who were feeling a little broken found belonging to a greater collective good irresistible. They finally could show they were good people, the mandates and restrictions to "beat Covid" gave them a higher purpose they were lacking inside. I watched many beautiful, but broken souls become seduced by the constant appeals to virtue. It was a chance at redemption that many thought they needed to make. When they were already redeemed and perfect in their imperfection.
Those same beautiful, loving souls became the biggest scolds, the nastiest enforcers, called me and others who defied the narrative horrible things, broke off friendships. It was terrible. They were the ones demanding others get the jab, proud to show off their proof, treated those who didn't obey as badly as they felt they had been mistreated much of their lives to be broken as they were. They desperately wanted to be more, to be accepted by society at large, to no longer be considered outcasts. To obey was to show for once they were better and others were the outcasts. To rise to a higher status of virtue.
Sad. Tragic. I'll never forgive the BS'ers and powers for what they did to these people who once welcomed me and gave me what I needed to make the transition I needed to make ten years earlier. Many found out that it was a temporary high, and crashed hard when it wasn't sustainable as the novelty wore off. Overdoses, suicides, I tear up typing this remembering them. Too many lost.
It was cruel what these bastards did. People didn't deserve to be mind-fucked like they were. And continue to be. My friends didn't deserve it. Even those who no longer are friends. Jumping from one latest new virtuous thing to the next. Low self-image types have been the most susceptible. I feel for them. I felt the anger you describe you felt in 2020-2021 peak insanity and the near fights with strangers. That anger alternated with my sympathies and pity for them. I knew they simply weren't prepared for what hit them. But I'd sometimes become angry at them for not being prepared and being turned into hostiles.
Most were good people. Victims. But like the hostages suffering from Stockholm Syndrome shooting at the police who were trying to rescue them, victims who became as big a danger as their captors who kidnapped them. Catching a bullet from a kidnapper or a hostage you're trying to rescue is still catching a bullet.
I never wore a mask the whole time. Only a few chose to give me shit. I think it's cuz I'm kind of a big dude, not fat, well built. I can give a mean glance though I am very amiably and wish people would talk more, be more vibrant and alive, in public. I guess they save that for their rants behind keyboards. Not all. My wife did occasionally wear one for a bit in awkward situations. She soon quit though and we did our thing. Even the folks I know who knew, a couple tough dudes included, still just wore it. I would tell them to join me, that we needed mass resistance. What is a man who doesn't stand up for his ideals? He ain't a man. They took a lot of years to soften people up, make men more effeminate which naturally makes women more masculine and definitely kills the sexual vibrations! It's a nation of cucks really, with some exceptions thrown in. I'm proud I never did that shit! Ya, and RATM, they've all signed contracts, they're owned by those who impose such ludicrous things as turning the flu into the crown virus. That's what they did. If you publish numbers of daily deaths of anything the people fly into panic. We are a nation afraid of death and truth, for the most part. I kind of think most would just do it again. I sure hope not. That was an ugly, embarrassing period. Our culture was already dull and pretty lifeless, now it's almost intolerable. Ya, fat people with masks and shopping carts full of diet Mountain Dew... Reminds me of Maui Burst... More of the same. Thank you for not complying. It was very rare for me to run into others that did the same. I did have quite a few people thank me, from behind their masks, for not wearing mine. A Romanian man, who wasn't wearing a mask, came up to shake my hand in the market. He told me this shit had happened in his country and he would never go along with it. People looked at us like we were crazy. In Traitor Joe's they made me push a special cart with a white flag on it cuz I wouldn't wear a mask. I mean how stupid do we get??? This nation is a sad affair at this point. "We'll know our disinformation programs are complete when everything the American public believes is false."- William Casey. We've hit that point. Thank you for not complying. I never will to madness.
I am waiting in line for food so I cannot answer to the degree this deserves. I will just say for now that I agree with all, and am glad we’re on the same side!
I relate to this post. The masking thing felt like such an indignation it made me furious.
Aside from 2 hospital visits and a funeral, I did not wear masks anywhere, and of course, had some confrontations. In one instance someone at the grocery store followed me around screaming that people were dying and why didn't I care!? He was carrying a mask for me to put on. I ignored him till I had enough then turned and started walking right for him. He scampered away. The manager of the store came over and asked me to leave. I said, "Great. You operate under public accommodation laws so my lawyer will be really happy to hear you're kicking me out." (No lawyer). He then asked if I could speed it up since my - gasp - uncovered face was upsetting other shoppers.
Here's the thing that I really noticed. I didn't like being looked at as an enemy, it's not my nature to seek out attention let alone confrontation, but there was a real sense of me - more of me -coming into my body more fully during the experience and I did not walk out of that store as the same person I walked in as.
Fewer confrontations, and def less extreme ones after that and I wonder if it was the signal I was putting off. It kept people at bay.
It's uncomfortable to be seen as an outlier. But it also quickens something inside, really important. Thanks. Great Friday theme. Maybe I'll write one for next week. Thanks.
I can't stand the face diaper! It was a source of conflict between me and many others.
I took a stand with a friend when the stupid vaxx passes were in effect. They put a fence up around the food court seats in the mall like a pig pen. A friend and I bought food and went through security enforcing the pass for the seating area. We sat down, started to eat when we were approached by the security guard telling us we have to leave. We refused, stated that we know our human rights and we continued eating. Security stated he had to call the police to which my friend replied "great, we would like to ask them questions". The police arrived as we were exiting the "pig pen" and we had a rational conversation. My friend had all the necessary documents saying we were within our rights to eat at the public food court. After a 10 minute conversation the officers agreed that we didn't do anything illegal and they were off. The mall security told us both we were banned from the mall for 6 months, without even knowing our names.
I have several mask stories but I don't want to type them.
It's nice to hear you stood your ground and refused to wear the face diaper when so many men wouldn't! Go Chris!
I actually have no idea lol I didn't print them or look at them but I'm guessing some legal codes about public spaces, how we are there to take part in the purpose of the space and our medical status is not to be questioned.
Funny you say that. A group of people tried the same thing at the same mall a few weeks later with a different result. Security was pushing back, doing their best to not let them through. An older man with a walker was pushed and hurt.
They knew their rights just as we did but security must have been told to man up!
It's a fkng honor to have been featured for freedom music friday, and also ,this story is unbelievably relatable, hilarious and awesome. THIS right here... I am proud to be associated with. I love how you outlined exactly what you were going to do to Mr Wear A FKNG Mask 😆 my brain works the same way. Lord if they try again they will find out. Pretty soon you'll be writing FAFO Fridays if that happens 😂 Thank you dude!
The thing is, the people I know who are like this tend to be the nicest people. Nicer, and happier…so long as no one FAFOs. Meanwhile, the "tolerant," "compassionate," BeautifulPeople™ are often really bitter and nasty on a personal level.
We wore the masks the first couple days then ditched them entirely. I had a a guy come up to be in the produce department, approached from the back, mind you, I could feel his breath on my shoulder and he scolded me for not masking. I was ok with keeping my distance (although that too was stupid), but he ran across the isle to tell me I was killing people. We just felt it was mass psychosis, but it scared me that it could compell so many people to to do things like he did. Now it’s happening again…. People are masking up. Next thing you know they’ll declare another emergency and mail in voting will be the answer to prevent mass deaths from
I’m a woman and I only wore a mask a handful of times, but then I knew the message I was sending my sons was wrong. I had one guy come up to me in an Aldi and thank me for being so brave...then I told him he could be brave too, and he looked at me like I had 2 heads. I will never comply again.
"I had one guy come up to me in an Aldi and thank me for being so brave...then I told him he could be brave too, and he looked at me like I had 2 heads"
Kudos to you. And what does that say about him? How weird...
That’s what I thought. He went on and on about how he was a veteran...maybe in his 60’s? My husband was stopped in the same Aldi for not wearing a mask and when he was asked why, he responded BECAUSE IM NOT A SLAVE. He said people clapped, but they kept their masks on! What a strange psychological experiment we are all living through.
I actually walked into a few stores maskless and watched while everyone else was wearing a mask. Since I never pay attention to the mainstream news, I didn't know that the mask slavery had been reignited. No one said anything. That was in 2020 or 2021. Now, who the frick cares about what any of these medical clowns say?
I expect that about 33% of the population believes the "experts" are 100% right about everything they say. Another 33% will comply no matter what they think. That leaves 33%. Of those, most will be highly skeptical. But, will they stand up this time? I thought they would last time, but they didn't.
It really is a powerful realization. One does not wish to be arrogant towards one's fellow man, but…well, at the moment, I don't know how to finish that sentence.
I remember those days, and I went about my business maskless so I empathize with you. I usually went about being the only one wearing one, and I was left alone. Juan said a grocery store and employee stash greeting every customer offering them a mask. She was polite and I explained my ADA rights so I refused her offer. The management was on top of things because she knew forcing me to wear one it was against the law.
During that whole time I only encountered two places where I experienced resistance from management. One was at a Mexican grocery store where I got into a huddle with the manager. She backed off when I gave detailed information about the federal ADA laws. The same thing happened at a Starbucks. I stayed away from most businesses which required you to wear them. I know those businesses and now I won’t go near one. Recently an owner of a beauty shop here in town sent an advertisement inviting me to her salon. I let her know why I would never step foot in her business.
I think the worst thing that happened to me as I was in a parking lot at a grocery store not wearing a mask and a friend of mine wearing a mask approached me. I let her know as she was approaching me I was not vaccinated and she saw I wasn’t wearing a mask, as if we needed to wear them outside. Anyway she turned on her heels and started making disgusting sounds showing me her dislike. Later her three times vaccinated husband suddenly died from an aggressive cancer and I saw her when the mask requirements are lifted and we gave each other a big hug. It was nice to know our relationship has been mended. A few other times I was accosted by elderly people in grocery stores for not wearing a mask.
I’m so proud of you and your wife that you stood by your convictions 🙏✨💖
Everyone was in terribly difficult positions. Most people do not even know that they ought to suspect that the "experts" and overlords in charge do not have our best interests in mind…let alone where to look for alternative information. So it's really no wonder that so many were clueless and believed utterly wrong things.
Part of my problem in those days was that my expectations of the people around me were much higher than was justified by the reality. I won't make the same mistake again.
I am very glad your relationship with that woman was mended. And it is sad that her husband fell victim to their evil plan.
The gaslighting was so unbelievable. I remember our local hospital pushing vaccines and offering bribes on FB. The online discussion was very lively to say the least. But why would the hospital lie to you, right? I felt like I was living in a science fiction movie. 🍿
Yes!!! I felt so alone and also "empowered" by my own strength defying the masking, my soul could not - would not do this....so many times I stood there watching others (men and women) stare at me, sometimes shout, sometimes whisper under their breath, how could she not comply? At first I had anxiety, had to psych myself up to walk in somewhere, knowing I might meet confrontation or get kicked out, which did happen a few times, but I found peace over time, more inner calm....it felt surreal, where were the others? Appreciate this post!
The Asch conformity experiments, the Milgram experiments, Desmet/LeBon, and so much other info all tell us the same thing: Most people will conform to the group. Most people will do what the authorities say...NO MATTER WHAT THE AUTHORITIES SAY. Human beings are highly programmable, malleable, and conformist. And they are TERRIFIED of the minority of us who are not.
There are different levels of defiance. The same thing came up when my wife and I were discussing the vaccine passport things. We never got any, but when the subject came up, we talked about how
—getting a fake one (IOW, lying) is sort of a level-one defiance. It says, "I will participate in the passporting system, but I do not feel any need to respect the system by telling the truth."
—Level two is refusing to even dignify the system by getting any passport at all, fake or otherwise.
—And, of course, getting a real one is no defiance at all; it is compliance.
So, you did not comply and get the vaccine, which is good. You defied the system by lying, which is also good. So yeah, maybe you did not go to level two and say, "Füque your whole damn system," but still, level one ain't bad.
But still, I feel you. I have accumulated a few similar regrets over my half-century of life. Still, we march on!
Much respect and rock on, my friend! I, too, have had several such encounters, and have also marveled at the limp-dick conformity and acquiescence of so many "men" these days. Keep fighting the good fight; we are winning this shit! (Also, good call with ye olde "kick to the knee, bottle to the head plan." Kid tested, mother approved! haha)
Yeah—I have put "men" in scare quotes numerous times when writing and talking about this. I had higher expectations of the XY humans around me. I won't make that mistake again.
And yeah, this guy looked stronger than I, so I was going to have to act quick! #@%$ him and everyone like him.
I am friendly! Everyone knows that :-) And peaceful. I believe in the nonaggression principle.
But the corollary to the NAP is the notion that protective force is entirely legitimate in response to the initiation of coercive force. And I feel just as strongly about the corollary as I do about the main principle. People should not initiate force. If they do, they get what is coming to them. FAFO.
My belief in the NAP was, in fact, the reason why—even in the heat of the moment and in the face of verbal insults from this guy, to me and, as enraging as it was, to my wife!—I still would not initiate physical force. Words, as vile as they are, are not the same as force. So I squared off with him and waited to see if he would throw the first punch. He didn't. But if he had, I would have fought until one of us was on the ground.
—Aye, there's the rub. That is the situation we are in now. EVERYTHING that governments (and their allies in crony corporations) are doing to us constitutes coercive force, violation of our self-ownership, and needless restriction of our freedom.
These are all actionable violations of natural law.
But where does one even begin in response? Protective force is justified, but would it even work?
I have a customer that owns a huge gym and health center in the town I live. I’ve done all the carpentry/contracting there for almost 40 years. His manager is a brilliant Jewish guy who’s helped me here and there with minor tech issues, we are friends. I was working at his house in Canton Mass and we got into a bit of a heated conversation to say the least about the president forcing the vaccine, masks, social distancing etc… Eventually he said because I’m unvaxed I should be locked in my house and not allowed out period. I told Steve that my father volunteered to go to Germany, risk his life, to help free his ancestors from the same type of totalitarian bullshit he was pushing on me. I told him my father was shot in the back by a Nazi that had similar ideas to his and that my father had a lung ripped out of him after being shipped to England on his death bed. I mentioned that my father died when I was 20 mainly due to the hell he went through in the battle of the bulge etc saving his friggen relatives. I told Steve I will never comply to his Nazi thoughts of locking people up for not taking a shot that I don’t believe in. I also said back in Nazi Germany they would inject Jews with different chemicals to see what would happen and that this created the Nuremberg Codes one being informed consent. This they decided was essential to all. Steve was dumb founded and never brought anything related up about it again. J.Goodrich
Yup.
They found the one thing that would get the most people on board with enforcing their tyranny: FEAR. Fear of disease, especially, is a powerful motivator. So some people who might not support freedom-crushing measures in most other circumstances WILL do so if there is a virus on the loose.
They no longer see it as a violation of your freedom; they are made to believe that you are putting them at grave risk. That your very existence is a threat to them.
This is very similar to their tactics with "climate change" and "white privilege." https://christophercook.substack.com/p/climate-change-white-privilege-pretexts-force
I love the white privilege one. Like the white privileged my father got in Germany 1945. Or when I’m shoveling salt off my truck at 3 in the morning in a snowstorm. Or the guy that works the night shift in a manufacturing plant etc….
Yep. It's a lie. A trick to make you guilty for existing.
It's also a hustle for power and a grift to get money for nothing.
100 %.
And also to program people to be fearful and thus more easily controlled. Dependent on "experts" and "the authorities" to save us.
My grandfather went to work in the coal mines of Wales. Ten years old. Six days a week. 52 weeks a year, with one extra day off at Christmas, and one at Easter. My Dad fought in 1939 to 1943. 18 years old. It stopped for him Boxing Day 1943. He was injured. 100% disabled from then on. Never felt good a day in his life after that. I lived in 18 places by the time I was 18. Homeless twice for about 3 months at a time, and homeless for about a week about 10 times. I am doing well. But I have worked my tail off for 56 years. I am 73. White privilege?
Exactly. "White privilege" is an evil scam.
March 1st, 24 128 AM… Mystic William, I’m 58 years old. I was the last of 4 children. My father was 45 when I was born in 1965. As I’ve grown old I realize the 4 of us kids are somewhat of a miracle now understanding what my father had seen and gone through. There are just 3 of us left now. My father didn’t talk of the war hardly at all, I was only 20 when he died. He did tell me after he had been shot in the back, he was on the side of a road, and when he took a breath the blood gurgled in the bullet hole through his back. He said there were other soldiers there and one asked who is that? The other said it’s Goodrich he’s going to die. My father also boxed. You and me William have very parallel lives. My fathers father, my grandfather, who I never met, left his family in Mission Hill Boston to mine coal south in Virginia to support his wife and kids. In the depression there were no jobs here in Boston. My father grew up in poverty and told me his younger brother took sick and died. My father told me, insisted, that his younger brother starved to death. One day he said his mother showed him an obituary article and said this is your father he passed. A few years back my sister did a family search on ancestry . Com, and sure enough it showed my fathers 7 year old younger brother had died. You know William, “white privilege”. What a bunch of lying bullshit these Marxist democrat traitors feed our children. This girl Tanya on Naomi Wolf’s sub stack, who had her brainwashed college rant, called me a racist because I said I’m white and my family, my siblings and I have given blood and millions of dollars in taxes paid to this country and our citizenship is being devalued by this illegal open border Joe Biden and the rest of the Marxist have created. It’s funny how fucking stupid these college brainwashed assholes are, the ones like Tanya that don’t see the complete destruction of America will be the end of freedom throughout this world. As Yuri Bezmenov said they won’t realize it until the communist boot kicks them in their soft bottom, and they find themselves in the gulag. He said you can take these brainwashed fools and show them the forced labor camps in Russia and they still won’t believe it’s real. These are the kinds of absolute morons our schools and colleges produce today. I’m saddened by people like Tanya that have no idea who I am, what I’ve been through, who my friends are, how many different types of people I’ve worked for and different races of people that have worked for me, and calls me a racist like it’s saying hello to someone. She devalues the word racist to a point that the word is meaningless. I grew up free, free to speak, free to think, free to travel, free to go to church and I hope to die this way. Beyond that, with people like Tanya the world will no longer have this shining city on the hill, America. I still have hope and faith that somehow freedom will win, even with brainwashed people like Tanya.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0dbgQutsYWMVp-Crl-CzWlfqg This is my fathers Purple Heart. If you look there in the corner of the box there is a Nazi pin he took from a dead Nazi soldier.
Very cool that you have these amazing mementos.
I have a letter from a friend of my fathers wife sent on October 1st 1945. I would post it if you are interested, it’s an amazing letter that shows how willing Americans once were to sacrifice themselves for this country.
Perhaps you should make it the inaugural piece of your own substack.
I recently heard from a woman whose grandfather had died on the same bombing run that my great uncle had.
Oh, and this is a letter from my great great grandfather about the death of one of his sons: https://shootingwithhobie.blogspot.com/2011/05/leonard-boole-van-cott.html
Amazing letter!!!
Yeah. Wm Hathaway Van Cott Sr. was an amazing guy. Judge, first president of the National Base Ball Players Assn., helped create modern baseball, etc.
I have many other items I won’t post. Even though they were taken from dead Nazis some people would probably be offended. I have a pin given to teachers that taught kids how to be good Nazis. I’m pretty sure my father probably capped these people and then took the stuff off their dead bodies. It’s amazing after the hell he must have seen what a good father and a good man he was…,
Yes, amazing indeed. Not easy for a lot of people.
I've come to the conclusion that people who wear masks (in their car for instance) like to be hidden.
Kind of like the people who throw punches online in forums and commentary who don't even have a picture of themselves showing. It empowers them, because they are basically cowards.
Now, I give a broad stroke to older people in Walmart who still mask up because they really don't want to get sick, and if the mask has even the slightest possibility of helping them avoid it, they are all in. And they're not expecting everyone else to follow suit.
But I've always felt like our face was the centerpiece of our expression. There's a reason we have a face, and a reason why it is so expressive. Hiding my face was an absolute affront to me. I did it for a short time at the time, but I can count on one hand those instances, and it always made me sick to my stomach and angered me greatly, as well as resentment when I discovered how it was being used to normalize servitude and remove identity from us, much the same way as slaves have no identity.
I had a lot of RATM on my playlist in that time.
"I discovered how it was being used to normalize servitude and remove identity from us, much the same way as slaves have no identity."
100%
Too bad RATM are no raging FOR The Machine.
Funny how that happens. Seeing Bono shilling for Nvalny in his recent appearance made me wretch and want to throw punches. Just more people who have sold out and are protecting their nut.
Watching the young people chant with him who had no idea who Nvalny was and thought they were standing up for something good. It's unbelievable. But that's how impressionable people are.
I have not followed the Nvalny thing at all…
You're not asking so I'll respect that other than to say it's just more Russia hysteria so they can launder more money in Ukraine.
Nothing surprises me. There is no limited either to foolishness or venality.
"Now, I give a broad stroke to older people in Walmart who still mask up because they really don't want to get sick, and if the mask has even the slightest possibility of helping them avoid it, they are all in. And they're not expecting everyone else to follow suit."
—Sure, people can do what they want. Some people may have good reasons. For others, it's virtue signaling. I don't care, now that it isn't being forced on everyone.
Mask wearing is an altruistic act. It has some efficacy in protecting the wearer, but works mainly by protecting others.
Mirror, mirror on the wall…
Eh?
You and the other chaps here are angry, aggressive people with a powerful shared sense of grievance about aspects of life which are not to your liking. The chap who has replied to me directly starts off by telling me he’s a big guy who is obviously proud of intimidating people with his stare. Now there might be areas where critics of your worldview might have been over declaratory but really, celebrating being in conflict with people working in shops and bars as you do - to the clear embarrassment of your partner - is not manly, dignified or rational conduct. My respondent at least made a friend in his Romanian. May you all make some more out with your angry jerk circle.
Tyranny has a way of making people feel angry.
Sadly, some people actually like tyranny. They don't see it as tyranny—they see it as security and respect for the collective. It's a huge philosophical gap that may even be rooted in personality predispositions and evolutionary survival strategies. The chasm between the individualist and the collectivist is enormous.
The thing is—we're not trying to force them to do anything. They are trying to force us to do all sorts of things.
And freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and war is peace.
Mask wearing is terrorism. Terrorism is not an altruistic act. In the long ago times I suspect you once knew this to be true. Before Orwellian Newspeak grabbed hold of your mind. Pre-2020, you see a person wearing a mask enter a bank what do you think? Bank robber. Pre-2020 you see a person on a plane wearing a mask what do you think? Hijacker. Seeing a masked face in public pre-2020 would've at least given you pause, probably made you a bit fearful while you discerned intentions.
Criminals, terrorists knew instinctively that masks make them more intimidating, make people they seek to quickly get under control fearful and compliant. Anonymity was of additional benefit, but not the main factor. Fear. Terror. Masked faces are inherently terrorizing, Amygdala fight-flight-freeze triggering. Same as seeing a snake. Here's the science:
Of snakes and faces: An evolutionary perspective on the psychology of fear Scandanavian Journal of Psychology, November 19, 2009 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00784.x
Not an altruistic act. But behavioral scientists, aka BS'ers, wanted us to terrorize each other. And coined Newspeak campaigns to convince the public it was altruistic. Sadly, very effectively. Your comment born of propaganda four years ago reveals how effective. You see, the field of epidemiology is more than just virologists. It employs BS'ers. Who are tasked to change the perceptions of a targeted population in order to effect a behavior change.
Have you heard of the term "Nonpharmaceutical Intervention?" NPI. Not a medical intervention. Lockdowns, social distancing, masks, were all forms of NPI. Behavioral changes, "to slow the spread." None of them were medically effective anywhere in the world. Because they're not based in medical science efficacy. They're BS. And the BS'ers have their own language to describe their perception-changing tools, campaigns. Early in 2020 epidemiologist BS'ers diagnosed the population a 'suffering' from "Optimism Bias."
What Is Optimism Bias, And How Is It Affecting Our Response To The Pandemic?
Wisconsin Public Radio, January 6, 2021
https://www.wpr.org/what-optimism-bias-and-how-it-affecting-our-response-pandemic
Who believed we were 'too optimistic' that the bad, bad, flu wasn't that big a deal. And even if we caught it we'd get over it like we got over the flu. The BS'er had to 'fix' our flawed (not really, we were right) optimistic perceptions that we'd be ok. So they pulled out the nifty BS tool of "Fear Amplification" from their toolbox of manipulative deception to remedy us of our optimism affliction. Masked faces, as the science above proves, were known to amplify fear, like seeing snakes everywhere. "Amplifying Fear" = "Terrorizing."
Authorities weaponized fear. That's what masked faces do. It's terrorism. Nothing changed between 2019 masked bank robbers and masked hijackers. Except minds were manipulated by a massive BS campaign, that drafted every single person who complied into terrorist collaborators.
Ian, you, and everyone else who wore masks and still believe wearing masks are altruistic are actually acting as terrorists. Because your minds were professionally warped. While Christopher, me, and everyone else who defied mask mandates were trying to save you and our essential freedom to not live in fear. To not usher in tyranny out of fear. That compliant mask wearers and enforcers put the welcome mat down for. It was sad to watch in real time. Knowing every masked face I saw, everyone yelling at me to wear a mask were akin to Stockholm Syndrome sufferers. Hostages who identified with their captors to the degree that they fought their rescuers.
And that's not even getting into the harms that mask wearers inflict on themselves. But that's for another time. But you really should check yourself, Ian. That sanctimonious pedestal you think you're standing on is really a prison cell that your mind has taken up residence in. You were conned into becoming a terrorist. And still identify with your terrorist captors.
I am glad you mentioned his "sanctimonious pedestal," for that, I fear, is at the root of a lot of this. Simply put, much of the behavior of people like Ian is rooted in narcissism.
Look at me—look how virtuous I am. Look at how much I care about the collective. I am a good person. I am a BETTER person than you.
This is, in turn, I strongly suspect, rooted in the animal desire to climb in dominance hierarchies. The entire operating system of the left has provided people a virtue hierarchy in which they (feel that) they can climb and rise to a higher status of virtue.
I do not believe that people like Ian know this consciously. But if you were to remove the desire to feed one's inner narcissistic beast, how much of their behavior would change? I suspect a lot.
Good insight. Pre-2020 my largest group of friends I ran with were creatives. A lot of artists, hippie types, burners. Somewhat outcasts, counter-culture, free-thinker types. Which had a lot of misfits, people who felt a little broken.
I met them around 2010 when I was transitioning away from a high stress career working with many community leaders, high power, well-networked, public policy, a lot of it was health public policy. But it was full of a lot of phonies, ambitious, self-important, many ruthless, many frauds and corrupt. The creatives were a perfect respite, I rediscovered balance and appreciation for the simpler things with them. It was actually really good space for me for about a decade before 2020.
That's when what was appealing about the friend group was turned against them. The misfits who were feeling a little broken found belonging to a greater collective good irresistible. They finally could show they were good people, the mandates and restrictions to "beat Covid" gave them a higher purpose they were lacking inside. I watched many beautiful, but broken souls become seduced by the constant appeals to virtue. It was a chance at redemption that many thought they needed to make. When they were already redeemed and perfect in their imperfection.
Those same beautiful, loving souls became the biggest scolds, the nastiest enforcers, called me and others who defied the narrative horrible things, broke off friendships. It was terrible. They were the ones demanding others get the jab, proud to show off their proof, treated those who didn't obey as badly as they felt they had been mistreated much of their lives to be broken as they were. They desperately wanted to be more, to be accepted by society at large, to no longer be considered outcasts. To obey was to show for once they were better and others were the outcasts. To rise to a higher status of virtue.
Sad. Tragic. I'll never forgive the BS'ers and powers for what they did to these people who once welcomed me and gave me what I needed to make the transition I needed to make ten years earlier. Many found out that it was a temporary high, and crashed hard when it wasn't sustainable as the novelty wore off. Overdoses, suicides, I tear up typing this remembering them. Too many lost.
It was cruel what these bastards did. People didn't deserve to be mind-fucked like they were. And continue to be. My friends didn't deserve it. Even those who no longer are friends. Jumping from one latest new virtuous thing to the next. Low self-image types have been the most susceptible. I feel for them. I felt the anger you describe you felt in 2020-2021 peak insanity and the near fights with strangers. That anger alternated with my sympathies and pity for them. I knew they simply weren't prepared for what hit them. But I'd sometimes become angry at them for not being prepared and being turned into hostiles.
Most were good people. Victims. But like the hostages suffering from Stockholm Syndrome shooting at the police who were trying to rescue them, victims who became as big a danger as their captors who kidnapped them. Catching a bullet from a kidnapper or a hostage you're trying to rescue is still catching a bullet.
sharing this!
Pfp checks out. Get your estradiol levels checked out bud.
BS. Pure propaganda.
Once programmed, a significant percent of people can never be un-programmed.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/47-studies-confirm-inefectiveness-of-masks-for-covid-and-32-more-confirm-their-negative-health-effects/
Well that’s authoritative 🤭
I never wore a mask the whole time. Only a few chose to give me shit. I think it's cuz I'm kind of a big dude, not fat, well built. I can give a mean glance though I am very amiably and wish people would talk more, be more vibrant and alive, in public. I guess they save that for their rants behind keyboards. Not all. My wife did occasionally wear one for a bit in awkward situations. She soon quit though and we did our thing. Even the folks I know who knew, a couple tough dudes included, still just wore it. I would tell them to join me, that we needed mass resistance. What is a man who doesn't stand up for his ideals? He ain't a man. They took a lot of years to soften people up, make men more effeminate which naturally makes women more masculine and definitely kills the sexual vibrations! It's a nation of cucks really, with some exceptions thrown in. I'm proud I never did that shit! Ya, and RATM, they've all signed contracts, they're owned by those who impose such ludicrous things as turning the flu into the crown virus. That's what they did. If you publish numbers of daily deaths of anything the people fly into panic. We are a nation afraid of death and truth, for the most part. I kind of think most would just do it again. I sure hope not. That was an ugly, embarrassing period. Our culture was already dull and pretty lifeless, now it's almost intolerable. Ya, fat people with masks and shopping carts full of diet Mountain Dew... Reminds me of Maui Burst... More of the same. Thank you for not complying. It was very rare for me to run into others that did the same. I did have quite a few people thank me, from behind their masks, for not wearing mine. A Romanian man, who wasn't wearing a mask, came up to shake my hand in the market. He told me this shit had happened in his country and he would never go along with it. People looked at us like we were crazy. In Traitor Joe's they made me push a special cart with a white flag on it cuz I wouldn't wear a mask. I mean how stupid do we get??? This nation is a sad affair at this point. "We'll know our disinformation programs are complete when everything the American public believes is false."- William Casey. We've hit that point. Thank you for not complying. I never will to madness.
I am waiting in line for food so I cannot answer to the degree this deserves. I will just say for now that I agree with all, and am glad we’re on the same side!
me too brother. thank you for that. appropriate you were in the food line. lol. have a great day.
Landmark restaurant in our small town is closing for good. Line is out the door.
Bon Apetit. It's hard to run a restaurant always, now especially...
I relate to this post. The masking thing felt like such an indignation it made me furious.
Aside from 2 hospital visits and a funeral, I did not wear masks anywhere, and of course, had some confrontations. In one instance someone at the grocery store followed me around screaming that people were dying and why didn't I care!? He was carrying a mask for me to put on. I ignored him till I had enough then turned and started walking right for him. He scampered away. The manager of the store came over and asked me to leave. I said, "Great. You operate under public accommodation laws so my lawyer will be really happy to hear you're kicking me out." (No lawyer). He then asked if I could speed it up since my - gasp - uncovered face was upsetting other shoppers.
Here's the thing that I really noticed. I didn't like being looked at as an enemy, it's not my nature to seek out attention let alone confrontation, but there was a real sense of me - more of me -coming into my body more fully during the experience and I did not walk out of that store as the same person I walked in as.
Fewer confrontations, and def less extreme ones after that and I wonder if it was the signal I was putting off. It kept people at bay.
It's uncomfortable to be seen as an outlier. But it also quickens something inside, really important. Thanks. Great Friday theme. Maybe I'll write one for next week. Thanks.
YES YES YES to ALL you just said.
I can't stand the face diaper! It was a source of conflict between me and many others.
I took a stand with a friend when the stupid vaxx passes were in effect. They put a fence up around the food court seats in the mall like a pig pen. A friend and I bought food and went through security enforcing the pass for the seating area. We sat down, started to eat when we were approached by the security guard telling us we have to leave. We refused, stated that we know our human rights and we continued eating. Security stated he had to call the police to which my friend replied "great, we would like to ask them questions". The police arrived as we were exiting the "pig pen" and we had a rational conversation. My friend had all the necessary documents saying we were within our rights to eat at the public food court. After a 10 minute conversation the officers agreed that we didn't do anything illegal and they were off. The mall security told us both we were banned from the mall for 6 months, without even knowing our names.
I have several mask stories but I don't want to type them.
It's nice to hear you stood your ground and refused to wear the face diaper when so many men wouldn't! Go Chris!
Go Rebecca!
What documents did you show them?
I actually have no idea lol I didn't print them or look at them but I'm guessing some legal codes about public spaces, how we are there to take part in the purpose of the space and our medical status is not to be questioned.
Surprised it worked.
Funny you say that. A group of people tried the same thing at the same mall a few weeks later with a different result. Security was pushing back, doing their best to not let them through. An older man with a walker was pushed and hurt.
They knew their rights just as we did but security must have been told to man up!
Too bad none of them have any idea what being a man is truly all about.
It's a fkng honor to have been featured for freedom music friday, and also ,this story is unbelievably relatable, hilarious and awesome. THIS right here... I am proud to be associated with. I love how you outlined exactly what you were going to do to Mr Wear A FKNG Mask 😆 my brain works the same way. Lord if they try again they will find out. Pretty soon you'll be writing FAFO Fridays if that happens 😂 Thank you dude!
#FAFOFriday—Yes! Closely related to #FOADFriday 🤣
The thing is, the people I know who are like this tend to be the nicest people. Nicer, and happier…so long as no one FAFOs. Meanwhile, the "tolerant," "compassionate," BeautifulPeople™ are often really bitter and nasty on a personal level.
I am very proud to know you, Tess. Keep rockin'!!
We wore the masks the first couple days then ditched them entirely. I had a a guy come up to be in the produce department, approached from the back, mind you, I could feel his breath on my shoulder and he scolded me for not masking. I was ok with keeping my distance (although that too was stupid), but he ran across the isle to tell me I was killing people. We just felt it was mass psychosis, but it scared me that it could compell so many people to to do things like he did. Now it’s happening again…. People are masking up. Next thing you know they’ll declare another emergency and mail in voting will be the answer to prevent mass deaths from
disease X.
100 percent on all of that. Madness, and more to come.
I’m a woman and I only wore a mask a handful of times, but then I knew the message I was sending my sons was wrong. I had one guy come up to me in an Aldi and thank me for being so brave...then I told him he could be brave too, and he looked at me like I had 2 heads. I will never comply again.
"I had one guy come up to me in an Aldi and thank me for being so brave...then I told him he could be brave too, and he looked at me like I had 2 heads"
Kudos to you. And what does that say about him? How weird...
That’s what I thought. He went on and on about how he was a veteran...maybe in his 60’s? My husband was stopped in the same Aldi for not wearing a mask and when he was asked why, he responded BECAUSE IM NOT A SLAVE. He said people clapped, but they kept their masks on! What a strange psychological experiment we are all living through.
At least they clapped!!🤣
Yes, strange days.
I actually walked into a few stores maskless and watched while everyone else was wearing a mask. Since I never pay attention to the mainstream news, I didn't know that the mask slavery had been reignited. No one said anything. That was in 2020 or 2021. Now, who the frick cares about what any of these medical clowns say?
I expect that about 33% of the population believes the "experts" are 100% right about everything they say. Another 33% will comply no matter what they think. That leaves 33%. Of those, most will be highly skeptical. But, will they stand up this time? I thought they would last time, but they didn't.
Fun times. I get a chuckle out of walking in those shops now that was kicked out of too. I enjoyed it being so obvious I was above all these plebes.
It really is a powerful realization. One does not wish to be arrogant towards one's fellow man, but…well, at the moment, I don't know how to finish that sentence.
I remember those days, and I went about my business maskless so I empathize with you. I usually went about being the only one wearing one, and I was left alone. Juan said a grocery store and employee stash greeting every customer offering them a mask. She was polite and I explained my ADA rights so I refused her offer. The management was on top of things because she knew forcing me to wear one it was against the law.
During that whole time I only encountered two places where I experienced resistance from management. One was at a Mexican grocery store where I got into a huddle with the manager. She backed off when I gave detailed information about the federal ADA laws. The same thing happened at a Starbucks. I stayed away from most businesses which required you to wear them. I know those businesses and now I won’t go near one. Recently an owner of a beauty shop here in town sent an advertisement inviting me to her salon. I let her know why I would never step foot in her business.
I think the worst thing that happened to me as I was in a parking lot at a grocery store not wearing a mask and a friend of mine wearing a mask approached me. I let her know as she was approaching me I was not vaccinated and she saw I wasn’t wearing a mask, as if we needed to wear them outside. Anyway she turned on her heels and started making disgusting sounds showing me her dislike. Later her three times vaccinated husband suddenly died from an aggressive cancer and I saw her when the mask requirements are lifted and we gave each other a big hug. It was nice to know our relationship has been mended. A few other times I was accosted by elderly people in grocery stores for not wearing a mask.
I’m so proud of you and your wife that you stood by your convictions 🙏✨💖
Everyone was in terribly difficult positions. Most people do not even know that they ought to suspect that the "experts" and overlords in charge do not have our best interests in mind…let alone where to look for alternative information. So it's really no wonder that so many were clueless and believed utterly wrong things.
Part of my problem in those days was that my expectations of the people around me were much higher than was justified by the reality. I won't make the same mistake again.
I am very glad your relationship with that woman was mended. And it is sad that her husband fell victim to their evil plan.
The gaslighting was so unbelievable. I remember our local hospital pushing vaccines and offering bribes on FB. The online discussion was very lively to say the least. But why would the hospital lie to you, right? I felt like I was living in a science fiction movie. 🍿
I think we still are living in that same movie.
Yes!!! I felt so alone and also "empowered" by my own strength defying the masking, my soul could not - would not do this....so many times I stood there watching others (men and women) stare at me, sometimes shout, sometimes whisper under their breath, how could she not comply? At first I had anxiety, had to psych myself up to walk in somewhere, knowing I might meet confrontation or get kicked out, which did happen a few times, but I found peace over time, more inner calm....it felt surreal, where were the others? Appreciate this post!
The Asch conformity experiments, the Milgram experiments, Desmet/LeBon, and so much other info all tell us the same thing: Most people will conform to the group. Most people will do what the authorities say...NO MATTER WHAT THE AUTHORITIES SAY. Human beings are highly programmable, malleable, and conformist. And they are TERRIFIED of the minority of us who are not.
But we are right and they are wrong. Rock on!
I regret lying to my boss and telling him I got the jab. I should have manned up and said I wasn’t getting it. Good read bro.
Thank you.
And I hear you. But…would you have lost your job if you had done that?
Probably not, but I should have stood up.
There are different levels of defiance. The same thing came up when my wife and I were discussing the vaccine passport things. We never got any, but when the subject came up, we talked about how
—getting a fake one (IOW, lying) is sort of a level-one defiance. It says, "I will participate in the passporting system, but I do not feel any need to respect the system by telling the truth."
—Level two is refusing to even dignify the system by getting any passport at all, fake or otherwise.
—And, of course, getting a real one is no defiance at all; it is compliance.
So, you did not comply and get the vaccine, which is good. You defied the system by lying, which is also good. So yeah, maybe you did not go to level two and say, "Füque your whole damn system," but still, level one ain't bad.
But still, I feel you. I have accumulated a few similar regrets over my half-century of life. Still, we march on!
Yes sir! Continue to March!
Much respect and rock on, my friend! I, too, have had several such encounters, and have also marveled at the limp-dick conformity and acquiescence of so many "men" these days. Keep fighting the good fight; we are winning this shit! (Also, good call with ye olde "kick to the knee, bottle to the head plan." Kid tested, mother approved! haha)
If you've got good stories, share 'em!
Yeah—I have put "men" in scare quotes numerous times when writing and talking about this. I had higher expectations of the XY humans around me. I won't make that mistake again.
And yeah, this guy looked stronger than I, so I was going to have to act quick! #@%$ him and everyone like him.
i fired every single friend
one at a time
last chance to be
not-slave with me
~
now i live inside a perfect life
impossible i know
and yet
There are moments in history that clarify.
That divide.
That break old allegiances and form new alliances.
So
Be
It.
hi not-slave friend
if i can call you that
Hi! Yes, please do :-)
god, you are so friendly
i had no idea you were as mad
as i am :P
I am friendly! Everyone knows that :-) And peaceful. I believe in the nonaggression principle.
But the corollary to the NAP is the notion that protective force is entirely legitimate in response to the initiation of coercive force. And I feel just as strongly about the corollary as I do about the main principle. People should not initiate force. If they do, they get what is coming to them. FAFO.
My belief in the NAP was, in fact, the reason why—even in the heat of the moment and in the face of verbal insults from this guy, to me and, as enraging as it was, to my wife!—I still would not initiate physical force. Words, as vile as they are, are not the same as force. So I squared off with him and waited to see if he would throw the first punch. He didn't. But if he had, I would have fought until one of us was on the ground.
i have so far
always given them a chance
to walk away
~
once i even let a
non-fighter slap me
without immediate
retribution
~
i only know nap
as a 'non aggression pact'
but i do feel that line
strongly,
and i am keenly aware
of my obligation
to not become
an initiator of violence
in uncoerced situations
~
the trouble came
when i realized
that every aspect of my life
was being coerced
~
in martial arts
if you find a real school
you learn the practical realities
like how to run really fast
that seemed like a good technique
to apply
when surrounded by coercive forces
now i drop pebbles from orbit
the only people i want to punch
are not from around here - lol
"the trouble came
when i realized
that every aspect of my life
was being coerced"
—Aye, there's the rub. That is the situation we are in now. EVERYTHING that governments (and their allies in crony corporations) are doing to us constitutes coercive force, violation of our self-ownership, and needless restriction of our freedom.
These are all actionable violations of natural law.
But where does one even begin in response? Protective force is justified, but would it even work?
i have simplified it
probably way past
but no further
to this;
i love to be alive
i am willing to be dead
i am freedom - hi
Every day is precious.
Freedom is the fuel that makes things REAL.
that magic pen of writing life i found inside impossible strife