Stella Dyck wasn’t someone who usually spent a lot of time on line. But she’d recently developed a medical condition that kept her at home more than she was used to. It was really boring. Luckily she had a computer and access to the web. She already had a Facebook account, but hadn’t done much with it except keep an eye on family and friends. But with time on her hands she’d started looking at the stories that got forwarded to her.
She was amazed. At first she’d noticed the odd story about how immigration was damaging Western nations. For example, she’d read several in-depth articles about how badly Europe was suffering from the huge waves of immigration from the Middle East. Indeed, there were places in England where women couldn’t even walk down the sidewalk without wearing a veil and foreign men were raping German women with total impunity. At first she couldn’t believe what she was reading. But after a while there were so many stories coming to her through social media that she knew there couldn’t be all that smoke without at least some fire. Moreover, they all had links in support of what they were saying, and when she followed those to the sources she found out that it was all true.
Indeed, as she did more and more of this type of research, she found that things were worse and stranger than she’d ever thought possible. A Jewish billionaire was funding anti-democratic movements all over the world. The leadership of the major “liberal” parties seemed to all be involved in charitable organizations that were little more than scams. And things were so sordid! The Prime minister of Canada was actually the son of Fidel Castro! Hillary Clinton had one of her staffers murdered to stop him from blowing the whistle on her activities! A sinister Cabal of liberals was selling children through a popular on-line furniture website! The Centre for Disease control in Atlanta was working with the Chinese government to develop biological weapons! Possibly worst of all, the elites wanted to replace people like her with masses of immigrants from “shit-hole countries”, low-life that are only used to being controlled by an elite and would swamp the real citizens with their votes.
And only President Norbert Blunt was willing to stand up the “Deep State” types doing all these horrible things. That’s why the mainstream media were so opposed to him. She was so glad to have him on her side that she gladly sent her some of her pension cheque every month. But even he had been torpedoed by the cabal of evil-doers. He’d won the last election handily, but voting machines had been manipulated to steal it from him. That’s why he was working so hard to get people elected who would enforce the real election laws and only allow real Americans to vote in the next election.
Unfortunately, after January 6th she found some of her most interesting sources of information were being censored. Luckily, an on-line friend walked her through how to use some of the social media systems that hadn’t been taken over by people like George Soros and Bill Gates. And what she found on these new sites was really an eye-opener. People were a lot more friendly, for example. That Blabber app was great! It was like being in a huge group phone call with other people interested in the same things as her.
And the really, really, wonderful thing was the people were so non-judgemental! When she’d started doing the on-line reasearch and began teaching herself about how the world really worked, she’d tried to talk to her friends and family about it. They’d been so cruel to her. They’d all be so quick to judge. They all asked the same questions “where did you hear that?” and so quickly pooh-poohed what she had to say. They talked to her like a child. Of course she couldn’t counter their criticism---she was new to all this stuff and they had all the goverment propaganda to throw at her. Besides, she was an old woman and only had a high-school education.
She got so mad at these people for being so arrogant. She was just as good a person as them. Why couldn’t they see how horribly things were going around us all? She’d been warned about “cancel culture” and the way the “socialists” and “libruls” had manipulated people into adopting “group think”. These people had been corrupted by their fancy university degrees and could no longer understand common sense.
Probably the worst had been her friend Jake. He’d originally been polite---she knew he really did care about her. He’d just asked for her to email her the links to where she’d heard about the new info. But he was so brainwashed by the system. He always had an answer---that person she quoted had been outed as a member of Russian Military Intelligence, ---she didn’t understand the statistical implications of some figures she quoted, ---that news site had been caught spreading disinformation so she shouldn’t ever pay any attention to it ever, ---he had that idea that ‘freedom’ should always be balanced by responsibility, etc. Eventually he’d told her that it took him a long time to hunt down the “facts” about the stories she was sending him and he just didn’t have the time to be trying to prove to her that what was obvious nonsense wasn’t true---why wouldn’t she just stop wasting her time with this stuff?
The real break with Jake happened when she complained about censorship on line. He said that what she was complaining about wasn’t censorship but rather editorial responsibility. After he’d made some song and dance about how people who publish newspapers and magazines have to be responsible for what they print---which is why there are libel laws---he asked why should anything on line be any different? At that point she knew that he really didn’t believe in free speech and was therefore one of the people who actively supported the cabal. At that point she knew that he really wasn’t her friend and that she shouldn’t talk to him about what she really believed. It was hard to admit, but she needed to face up to the truth---no matter where it led her.
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