Hey guys, this one's a doozy! I thought this story was worthy of being told. I already feel better having written it all out.
But if long-winded diatribes aren't your cup of tea, I won't be offended if you skip this one. ngl though, it's got some juicy bits. I'd love to know how all of this jives with the experiences and observations of many of you out there.
Wow. What an incredible read. Thank you for posting this.
I started browsing r/conspiracy before the 2016 election, not necessarily because I believed everything everyone posted, but because the sub had spirited debate and often posed great questions aimed at narratives that were just largely accepted. For some time I even bought into the idea that Trump was a plant. I still voted for him in 16 but the thought was on my mind. However, with the media’s rarely transparent praise when he acted in accordance to the neocons (ie his call to MOAB that base in Syria shortly after being elected) only to do an about-face immediately after and harpoon him on a daily basis did that opinion change.
I truly think Trump was an oddity, and after seeing the plandemic + election coup play out in real time, it makes me wonder if we even have free will in this country, let alone the rest of the world? If Trump truly was an oddity and not a plant, and he wasn’t “meant” to happen in 2016, how long has this actually been the case? How long have the people been largely unable to pick their president? Will a future Trump-like figure be a genuine win for the people, or will he/she be a deep state pick to give us a false sense of free will?
The idea of lack of free will extends beyond politics too. 2016-2020 saw a dramatic paradigm shift, with the tactics becoming more obvious and more public. It scares me to see how few people actually recognize it. If you question the narrative, you get cast out of society. Run against it and they ruin your family, fire you from your job. The true conspiracy theorists, the ones who take a nuanced approach to a question and consider the possibilities of something being a propaganda fueled lie, are lambasted as “neo nazis”, “fascists”, “racists”, other “-ists” and a plethora of other horrible labels that are simply just untrue (for most of us anyway).
There is now one narrative, the Sacred Narrative, and it is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Question it and you die. The left and it’s deep state acolytes have created a digital God to keep people in line. Honestly it makes me wonder if the damage can ever be undone? The brigading, the disinfo, the make-everything-into-a-conspiracy-so-nothing-is-a-conspiracy movement… all of it? With technology so pervasive and social media at the bedrock of modern life, where do we even begin? Big tech can oust the sitting US President, the most powerful person in the world… supposedly. If it can happen to a world leader, and they face no consequences, this even a fight that can be won?