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A voucher for 40 € ? Why does the phrase, "Cheap Trick" come to mind here?

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Well, if you're willing to risk your life and health with the "poison-death shot" masquerading as "vaccines", you're pretty cheap to be had, aren't you?

Honestly, there's so much good data out there pointing to zero effects with respect to Covid (other than, well, a potentially wrecked immune system, as Israeli politicos and media are discussing quite openly:

https://www.brighteon.com/474635ae-9e29-4696-8d29-20f0fefd9a08

If you haven't seen this (yet), go ahead and click on the link; note that I don't understand Hebrew, but if those English subtitles (translations) are halfway accurate, we can probably guess quite well what will happen next.

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But it’s all about health! And how dare you say sex workers are objectified—haven’t you heard, they are empowered!

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Well, I thought so, too, but you know: Austrian political discourse has been "infested" (no pun intended either) with Anglo-American-derived "wokesterism", and until the Green Party joined the government around the advent of Covid-19, their supporters were the most ardent "wokesterisas" (if that's a word) around.

Now, though, the shoe is on the other foot, hence the same people who cried "wolf" (such as "police violence", "systemic racism", and the like) are perfectly fine with the government aiming to mandate experimental gen therepy on their fellow citizens.

While I've pointed out the absurdities in incoherencies of "wokesterism" in private and public everytime the opportunity arose (honestly, I do keep a list with my "best of" idiotic articles I come across online), the main problem is, of course, the selective taking of principled stances, including, but by no means limited to, things and statements such as:

"my body, my choice" (which was also proclaimed in the Vienna protests last Saturday), which, according to a text I received from Austria, must not be applied to this particular case

or "thought experiments" such as "substitute 'unvaccinated' with, e.g., 'foreigner' or 'immigrant'" are met with vehement objections, as if the discursive framing would be fundamentally different (in this instance)

You see, it's not just "in one's own mind", but so pervasive that perhaps the most apt comparison would be the following: "if fish were scientists, the last thing they'd discover is water"--which, in the present context, transmogrifies into something like "if wokesterism was indeed a coherent framework of reference, and if wokesters were principled people, the last thing they'd consider would be their own worldview".

I'll leave it at that for now, but if there's an audience for sharing my "woke idiocy best of", I'll certainly do that too (and I'll throw in a few acerbic comments here and there, too).

Cheers!

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I am sorry to hear Austria has been infected with wokesterism (and “wokesteristas” is a great term!) but not surprised since everyone is swimming in the same globally homogenizing propaganda campaign.

The woke idiocy best of article sounds great! Do you follow Peter Boghossian (https://boghossian.substack.com/), BTW?

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Well, it's not "just" Austria, as you correctly point out. It's also happening here where I'm right now.

As for your suggestion, I didn't check out his Substack, but I will do that ASAP.

As for the "wokesterista" stuff, I'm happy to oblige you. The pleasure, in fact, will be mine entirely ^-^

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