I can't even fathom why any working person would ever vote this way.
(I know your incredulity is rhetorical, not trying to answer 'why' here so much as similarly express abject incredulity).
In Washington Times (and which I - with absolutely no inclination towards the current GOP - got from my Fb feed, in spite of this ubiquitous "shadow-banning") :
‘They’ are controlling you. ‘They’ are silencing you.
Despite what I considered pallid content, my article immediately jumped to “trending” status on several news sources such as The Hill, Facebook, Apple News and the like. In fact, it was number three (I think) when I first saw it on one of my news feeds.
But then something peculiar happened. The article just inexplicably disappeared from all the trending lists. It didn’t gradually lose traction. It was just gone. It was featured one second, but then it literally just disappeared. A mere mist. Dust in the wind. Popular and trending one minute and nonexistent the next.
I was confused, so I contacted
The Washington Times to let them know all the above. Their response? “You’ve been shadow-banned. Every article we’ve published on natural immunity has received the same.”
If this doesn’t frighten you, your mind is addled and dull. I don’t care if you’re conservative or progressive, a constitutionalist, a libertarian, an independent or an apolitical pragmatist, this story should worry you more than all the COVID-19 articles you’ve read combined.
They (whoever “they” are) decide what you can read and what you cannot. “They” are controlling the information and the news. “They” determine what articles will “trend” and what articles will be trashed. “They” are in charge. “They” manage the ideas. “They” will not permit anyone to read anything of which they disapprove. “They” are watching you. “They” are censoring you. “They” are silencing you. “They” are canceling you. “They” won’t even let you write something about the scientific facts of natural immunity. Say something “They” don’t like and you, my friend, are verboten.
Let that sink in for a minute or two. Sift it around a bit. Consider its import before you simply move on to the next mind-numbing blurb on your smartphone.
In his book, “Selling Hitler: Propaganda and the Nazi Brand,” Nicholas O’Shaughnessy argues that the success of Nazi ideology can only be understood via the role of propaganda in the Third Reich. The Nazis, he says, understood the modern techniques of opinion-formation. Joseph Goebbels, who was appointed to be the Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment of Nazi Germany, once declared: “There are two ways to [control people]. You can blast your enemy with machine guns until he acknowledges the superiority of those holding the [weapons]. That is one way. Or you can transform the nation through a revolution of the spirit [i.e., the mind].” In other words, you can control people with bullets and bombs, but you can do so even more effectively by manipulating the news they hear and the books they read. Hitler’s chief architect, Albert Speer, admitted as much when he told the Nuremberg Tribunal “what distinguished the Third Reich from all previous dictatorships was its use of all the means of communication to sustain itself and to deprive its objects of the power of independent thought.”
No clear enemy here. "They" aren't government, but if you don't let your abstract rage consume you about putting a piece of fucking cloth over your mouth - and if you don't direct this rage at the political party who happens to endorse masks (even though, reminder, it's *not* the government "cancelling" you, it's simply other people who own the media exercising
their own freedom*) then we WILL end up like Nazi Germany!
*Can't stress this enough: *not* the government.
