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Rikard's avatar

"Freude Schöner Götterfunken..."

It's funny in the wrong way to follow the never-ending Covid-drama in the US and other nations, when it was done and dusted here a year ago or more.

People who were panicked 2020-2021 are now resentful and critical of those pundits and such who fanned the flames of fear, and there's a lot of quiet shame from many, from feeling they were duped. There's also anger over the vaccinations, since it is slowly leaking out that these shots are nothing like older vaccines (since we automatically think of the old tetanus, smallpox and polio shots).

In a very surprising verdict the other day, the Supreme Court ruled that SVT, the state's TV-company, is to pay a woman 100 000:- in damages for slander due to them painting a portrait of her as a right-wing extremist wingnut because she was calling attention to all those early reports and studies showing that Covid could be handled easily, with Ivermectin.

As the Supreme Court is 100% political appointees, I don't know what to think.

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epimetheus's avatar

Re the Sweden-bashing by Aavitsland: I'll call BS and projection.

Weirdly enough, this gut has apparently no problems saying all that stuff I wrote about the other day--and doing the other thing the next day. Might be pathological, though.

As to the Swedish Supreme Court, well, the Norwegian one last autumn (if memory serves) declared Norway's entry ban and quarantine rules illegal--like, 1+ years after the fact. Better than nuthin', I suppose, but still: weird.

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Rikard's avatar

'Samnytt' published an interview with the woman I mentioned above, Linda Karlström who holds a Master's of Economy-degree:

[https://samnytt.se/exklusivt-linda-karlstrom-om-svts-overgrepp-det-kandes-som-att-de-valdtog-mitt-hem/]

In swedish obviously but it should be legible enough using a translator. It highlights all the dirty tricks swedish state media always use against those who do not follow the officially sanctioned narrative.

A state media company with an operating budget of €950 000 000/year vs. a mother-of-five.

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epimetheus's avatar

Thanks for the link--this is as disgusting as it is important to draw this out into the limelight.

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Rick Larson's avatar

People these days have nothing to defend other than for payments. That's the rub, those who want those payments better behave.

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Victor Jr. et al's avatar

So this constitutes the sacrifice. Start over. Bottom up.

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Rick Larson's avatar

One way or the other. Starting now and implementing over time is easier than when its forced on us. Probably too late the enforcement is upon us, but I am trying anyway.

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Victor Jr. et al's avatar

if one- a population- has doubt, disbelief that another can do a terrible thing to another, then it is a de facto license to do that terrible thing, for who would believe such a tragedy? Sherlock Holmes author has a similar quip: "once you have eliminated all that is impossible what ever remains, however improbable must be the truth." A paraphrase.

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Michael DAmbrosio's avatar

“ He said that it was ‘almost a little scary’ what the population ‘accepts without protesting’”

Indeed

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epimetheus's avatar

Indeed, yet he and his ilk pushed for these mandates anyways.

Talk about character. Or lack thereof.

I think people like Aavitsland and their ilk got quite mad, or drunk, with power. No wonder none of them wanted--wants--to relinquish it.

What a pathetic personality.

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