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My oh my. Someone is saying mean things about the Covidians. If we aren't careful, we may Other them. That would be a pity. I haven't checked in with them lately, wonder how those quarantine camps for the dirty plague rat unvaxxed are coming along?
I saw someone posting a meme suggesting that the vaccines may kill people. That's super irresponsible because the very suggestion that it might do that could make people die. Nocebo effect don't ya know. For that matter, the scientists who discovered that smoking causes lung cancer have a lot to answer for. All that going on and on about how smoking could kill ya probably killed as many people as those poor dears sucking a bunch of carcinogenic smoke into their lungs did.
I've really seen the error of my ways lately. Calling out a bunch of conformist assholes for enforcing performative masking and coercively advocating for mandatory medical experimentation on children is wrong headed and probably actually just a bunch of shadow projection. I'm pretty sure Dion Fortune would agree (although she didn't exactly roll over when the Nazis came after her country, but she probably should have).
Really, I should be grateful that I have a job, and property, and my now psychologically scarred for life kids, because the poor Covid Nazis were so scared they just couldn't help suggesting I should be fired, deprived of my rights and property, and should lose my children because I wasn't as gung ho about being a lab rat as they'd have liked.
Then again, maybe a little turnabout is fair play. I know, we should be above all that, and if memes and the internet were a thing during World War 2, I'd imagine some people would have posted mean memes about Hitler or Mussolini, and that would have probably been shitty political magic that proper folks (and proper mages) would have avoided. But some people fight with guns and bombs, and others fight with whatever tools they happen to have. Memes are probably about as good as anything.
Even though Jesus himself talked about turning the other cheek, he didn't seem to be too worried about offending the Pharisees or hurting the feelings of the money-changers in the temple. He was even mean to a tree, which was obviously some serious shadow projection he should have worked on before he cursed it, but I digress.
Given the scope of the opposition we face, and the monstrous nature of the crimes that have been committed in the last couple years (and that's just the really blatant ones), posting some memes in poor taste and suggesting that a bunch of malicious assholes may be influenced by demons is pretty mild. Really, I'd like to think they were, because if they came up with this on their own that's even worse.
I saw someone posting a meme suggesting that the vaccines may kill people. That's super irresponsible because the very suggestion that it might do that could make people die. Nocebo effect don't ya know. For that matter, the scientists who discovered that smoking causes lung cancer have a lot to answer for. All that going on and on about how smoking could kill ya probably killed as many people as those poor dears sucking a bunch of carcinogenic smoke into their lungs did.
I've really seen the error of my ways lately. Calling out a bunch of conformist assholes for enforcing performative masking and coercively advocating for mandatory medical experimentation on children is wrong headed and probably actually just a bunch of shadow projection. I'm pretty sure Dion Fortune would agree (although she didn't exactly roll over when the Nazis came after her country, but she probably should have).
Really, I should be grateful that I have a job, and property, and my now psychologically scarred for life kids, because the poor Covid Nazis were so scared they just couldn't help suggesting I should be fired, deprived of my rights and property, and should lose my children because I wasn't as gung ho about being a lab rat as they'd have liked.
Then again, maybe a little turnabout is fair play. I know, we should be above all that, and if memes and the internet were a thing during World War 2, I'd imagine some people would have posted mean memes about Hitler or Mussolini, and that would have probably been shitty political magic that proper folks (and proper mages) would have avoided. But some people fight with guns and bombs, and others fight with whatever tools they happen to have. Memes are probably about as good as anything.
Even though Jesus himself talked about turning the other cheek, he didn't seem to be too worried about offending the Pharisees or hurting the feelings of the money-changers in the temple. He was even mean to a tree, which was obviously some serious shadow projection he should have worked on before he cursed it, but I digress.
Given the scope of the opposition we face, and the monstrous nature of the crimes that have been committed in the last couple years (and that's just the really blatant ones), posting some memes in poor taste and suggesting that a bunch of malicious assholes may be influenced by demons is pretty mild. Really, I'd like to think they were, because if they came up with this on their own that's even worse.