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  1. Willem

    "If, on the other hand, there are notable cases of 'alternative' doctors or other dissidents who have converted to the vaccination doctrine, I would like to hear about them in the comments."

    Haha, you never read or see that!

    Anecdote: at the beginning of 2021 (when it was still life-threatening - according to the experts - to be in a hospital), I suddenly came across a doctor in the department where I worked at the time (and was almost the only one who populated the department every day, the rest were at home in front of the TV) (I'll keep it vague, I try to keep it anonymous) who, oh my goodness, was allowed to appear on a television news show that evening. Buuut, this doctor - in the eye of the camera - had to be almost the first in the Netherlands to be vaccinated. That doctor was very nervous when I spoke to that doctor before that event!

    -Of course that doctor was. Like me, he had read the Pfizer trial and therefore knew that the trial did not provide evidence that it was 'safe'. And now that doctor was almost the first to be vaccinated!

    Not good!

    You didn't see any of that fear in the broadcast itself. The certainty itself was that doctor there.

    I classify it as Doublethink.

    AI (how useful AI is!)

    Doublethink is the ability to simultaneously hold two contradictory beliefs and accept both as true. This concept, taken from George Orwell's novel 1984, describes a form of conscious self-deception and psychological manipulation in which facts are denied in favor of ideology.

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    1. c

      “Doublethink” what a wonderful short description of what has and continues to seriously endanger the future of our (grand)children. Now in the Netherlands there are still those regretters and whistleblowers like in the US and some other countries. 🤞Thanks for these interesting articles!

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    2. Miranda

      Maybe it was a placebo. After all, there was a small chance of an anaphylactic shock. That's why after the injection you had to sit on a chair for 15 minutes under the supervision of a nurse with an adrenaline syringe ready. You don't want someone to collapse after the injection on TV. Choosing a placebo in this case could very well be justified without damaging the 'narrative'. Even if it accidentally leaked.

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    3. Ed Sonneveld

      'Doublethink', isn't that actually the same as cognitive dissonance?

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      1. Anton Theunissen

        No, it is different: in doublethink from Orwell's “1984” the dissonance is actually eliminated. There is no discomfort, because the preceding conditioning - through media, enforcement and judiciary - switches off logic when reality threatens to reveal the lie.

        In an authoritarian system, doublethink is why the constant churning of the governing elite does not lead to rebellion. That is why media censorship is so important for the EU.

        • All major AIs already adhere neatly to the blue book of commandments with the golden star circle, which are just new.
        • In older segments this is a little less easy: rebellious journalists who were not phased out at an early stage are still canceled.
        • The EU, with its immensely deep pockets, filled with our tax money, wants to push X out of the market with its own social medium.
        • The other socmed have already caved in under the threat of fines and exclusion from the EU. What do they really care about the content: as long as advertisements are running?
        • The connecting nerve pathways that gave even the underclass in society a voice are severed.

        The remaining surviving social media will eventually suffer the same fate as our current mainstream state media: they become irrelevant. In China people only watch the news to see “what they want from us today”. They realize it there, we don't yet.

        Once power is firmly concentrated, with all the controlling, directing and financial technology of which the state claims a monopoly, you cannot simply pull it apart. That will take centuries, unless a devastating war shakes things up.

        All singlethinkers can do is make themselves heard. For those who don't, life will be a humiliating deception.
        We will remain non-violent, although the generation after us will probably resent us for that.

        Boiling a frog without noticing takes time. It's a slow process, although Ursula has turned up the throttle. If people ever realize what is going on, it will be too late. (And then we also assume that they can see through their own doublethink, while corona has actually already shown that 80% are not able to do that at all...)

        The window on the wall with all those beautifully dressed up (seen Zwagerman then? What a picture, eh), politely talking people and nice music and slickly lit studios simply wins over the view through the window on the third floor at the back.

        Share, don't be mean to each other if you disagree on points. Support, support, strengthen the singlethinkers.

        It's not five to twelve, it's 1983.

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        1. Cees Mul

          Not just social media. Coincidentally, I stayed on the NOS after Remembrance Day and accidentally saw the NOS news... I rarely watch it anymore, but it is educational. To see how we are being manipulated, not because of the news value.
          I just wanted to say this, I think it fits your analysis.

          Regional elections will soon be held in the UK. There the scepter is held by Keir Starmer. According to the NOS, Labor is under heavy pressure. Nigel Farage's Reform UK is the largest in the polls. But…. there is also pressure from the left, the 'greens'. According to the NOS.

          A reporter went to Birmingham, the cradle of the industrial revolution, and interviewed some people there. All nice, diverse green people. They indicated in general terms what was wrong. We were waiting for someone to have a say on behalf of Reform UK. You guessed it, it didn't come. So what was NOT said/shown?

          – How big are those Greens actually compared to Reform UK? According to a poll I just looked up, the Greens are somewhere in 6th place. Reform UK is at 1st.
          – No reference whatsoever to Reform UK. But the introduction did say that they were leading the polls.
          – No analysis whatsoever as to why Reform UK is the largest.

          What I wonder: how would the average viewer judge this? Is it just taken for granted? Pure propaganda.

          There was only one of course.

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  2. Cees Mul

    I find this even more interesting than bar graphs about excess mortality in the Netherlands. Sorry:-)

    Nice reactions from Willem too. I think that in my response to Maarten I also indicated that 'conversions' are actually very one-way. There are plenty of things to go from religious to skeptical. I mentioned Malhotra as an example. Maarten indicated that it also happened the other way around, but unfortunately he did not give any concrete examples.
    Katy Talento is a wonderful example. As soon as she started looking seriously at the facts, she realized that her confidence in vaccines was based on hearsay. Everyone in the medical bubble had 100% confidence in vaccines as a life-saving elixir, so it must be true. Never looked for evidence. The hatch falls away under your feet and nothing makes sense anymore. Even the idiot Robert Kennedy Jr. (Charles Groenhuizen in the New World) turns out to say and write meaningful things if you look beyond NRC and Volkskrant propaganda.

    I hope we can start having open discussions about vaccines and other medical interventions. But I agree with Willem, the propaganda has been working for 200 years (one more time: read Dissolving illusions), governments are gaining more and more control over the 'thinking' of citizens, the average IQ is falling, censorship is increasing. Young parents (I was once one) do not think about vaccinations, that insight only comes later (and then by no means for everyone).

    I hope the image will change. So far I see them all dutifully rolling up their sleeve for the flu shot and most even for a Covid booster.

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  3. Geerke

    Maybe reconsider A Midwestern Doctor? This seems to copy articles from others in full without mentioning the name of the author, but putting his own name underneath. I think that's called plagiarism. Here's an angry response from an original author.
    https://substack.com/inbox/post/160130852

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    1. Anton Theunissen

      Substack read. They appear to have used partly the same sources. I haven't spent hours studying it, but my first impression is: no hard case for plagiarism. And where the content deviates, AMD is blamed for having adopted it incorrectly. Then it gets complicated.

      I also think: if you're trying to throw ideas out into the world, you shouldn't be so angry when you come across them elsewhere in an article or something. Then you can at best hope that you have contributed to its spread.

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  4. Jan van der Zanden

    I find it remarkably quiet around Kennedy...
    Perhaps also disgraced by “The Big Boss”?
    I can't imagine Kennedy being 100% enthusiastic about Trump anymore.

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    1. Anton Theunissen

      There are vaccine studies underway now, and a start has been made on tightening the rules - I thought.

      But two more days to indict Fauci before the statute of limitations expires. They let him walk, it really looks like that. That's a bad signal to Kennedy.

      Fauci simply gets away with everything he has done throughout his career, everything that RFK has accused him of in “The Real Anthony Fauci.”

      I feel this as a milestone, an unmistakable positioning of the government towards the citizen:

      “It’s a club, and you ain’t in it.”
      – George Carlin

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