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I quit my job as a school teacher because of masking. I wore traditional Arab head scarf when I did “mask.” I will NEVER put ANYTHING on my face again. You’ll have to kill me.

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As I am dependent on a post-retirement part-time job, I still wear the mask, as do all teachers and students ... but half the time with our noses sticking out. Japan is funny that way ... knowing it has nothing to do with public health, the managers knowing we know, ad infinitum. But Japan has a long tradition of compliance to authority. Today's big ... uh ... 'news' — https://japantoday.com/category/national/Japanese-junior-high-school-girl-removed-from-class-for-three-days-for-grooming-her-eyebrows?

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damn crazy interference in personal appearance, where does this authoritarian compliance come from?

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Hi Ray.

Yeah. 40 years over here, but that might make it easier to see a universal genetic predisposition among all populations for dark-triad inspired behavior, and a Stockholm-syndrome compliance to it. Before 'dark-triad' was coined, Susan Sontag referred to them as 'the cruel 10%', but I am inclined to think it may be closer to the 30% associated with the bleeding edge of Mass Formation Psychosis. At least one academic study found that same percentage of American CEOs highly correlated with dark-triad traits.

I'm working with some public school teachers young enough to be my grand daughter, yet self assured that micro-management is the key to educational psychology. But there is probably a cultural variable as well.

One of my more enlightening reads is 'Invented Traditions of Modern Japan', a collection of academic essays edited by Stephen Vlastos. It would make a great book-end for Chomsky and Herman's 'Manufacturing Consent' in that the titles of both point to the oxymorons foisted on us by the ruling class — the Enlightenment inspired conceit of individualism and freedom in the West, and the superficial harmony of Confucian social engineering in the Far East.

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thankyou for the well thought out reply

i looked into dark triads a few years back, im now dissecting the narcissist and this topic is personal to me, it may explain why i dont follow the rules or care when people try to shame me into compliance.

interesting random fact on CEOs, In the US population, about 14.5% of all men are six feet or over. Among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, that number is 58%.

i think it says more about society and how irrationally leaders are chosen

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Hi again Ray, and my pleasure. Sharing thoughtful comments are one way to keep my head above some awfully dark waters.

Those percentages don't surprise me. Back in the day when I directed biology labs for non-science majors at Temple University (Japan), one of the lab discussions touched on a near universal trait of young women preferring men slightly taller than themselves ... but wiser women gravitating towards thicker wallets. ;-)

Glad to find another person who can appreciate connections between the current social malaise and dark-triads. I am thinking that other separations from purely empathy-driven behavior are also salient ... populations exceeding Dunbar's number and the 'one step removed' phenomenon of the Trolley Car ethical problem.

I don't see any ideology as capable of changing that part of human nature, so in the toss up between expanding our swarms to off-world resources or eventual self-destruction, I am not very optimistic.

Something I posted in a comment to one of Margarete Anna Alice's posts today ...

Thus, Norse society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole. Much of what the chiefs and clergy valued proved eventually harmful to the society. Yet the society’s values were at the root of its strengths as well as of its weaknesses. The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe’s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick to brand them as failures, when their society survived in Greenland for longer than our English-speaking society has survived so far in North America. Ultimately, though, the chiefs found themselves without followers. The last right that they obtained for themselves was the privilege of being the last to starve.

Diamond, Jared. Collapse (p. 276). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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Definitely spot on regarding the lull. There always needs to be lulls in between waves of terror. The hive mind populace can't accept too much at once. They need that recharge period before the next wave.

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Your ending is so true and so critical. However, having been to the grocery store yesterday and observing a whole lot of people, mostly young women, wearing masks I am not an optimist. As for Germany, the only reason they should be wearing masks this winter is to filter out some of the wood smoke they will be breathing while heating their homes.

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Cloth masks won't even filter the massive smoke particles.

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Would never in a million years put that slave thing on.

When me and a good friend were in Potsdam and Berlin three weeks ago, neither one of us used that on any public transport nor any place indoors even if it was ‘mandated’ on public transport. I would say that less than half of the people used this enslavement entrapment and in former East Berlin less than five percent.

The people that put this on now, I have no hope for them, they are plain out idiots, there is no other way to say it.

This plandemic I called out in January 2020 and have not taken part in any of the idiotic so called mandates. Everything has been a lie since day ONE.

So many people died unnecessary as they were to afraid to come to empty hospitals as the FEARmongering has been immense. And all too many died of fake and awful so called protocols.

People are suffering in all ways possible due to FEAR. Trust your own gut, your instincts, use your critical thinking and live life the way you should. As a free human being not entangled in any type restrictions, and for F.cks sake, stay away from the injections. Stay away from the pharmaceutical industry that only wants to harm you together with all the paid off governments officials and others that has made lots of money on people being maimed or dead.

One day they will face the consequences of what they have done to humanity.

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I'll probably get some flack for posting this. However, I really don't care. Anyone that wears a face diaper is dumber than shit. Any air born virus is smaller than the holes in the mask. Put on three or four masks. Blow your breath at a glass. What will you see? The haze. You are also poisoning yourself by breathing in carbon dioxide. Especially when worn by children and seniors.

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I would say both dumber and "scared-er"!

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Scheduled future mandates...follow the science that hasn’t happened yet. Their imagination, our reality. So they think.

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The second verse is the same as the first. I will not comply.

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Thanks for the heads up. Expecting the corporate nation state of Japan to ramp up the fear porn now that the ruling majority has secured a solid election win. Expecting a new wave of NIPs and emergency fiat currency (for the corporate elites). Doing post-retirement work as an assistant at public schools in Tokyo, I am seeing 12 year old kids expected to give a short PowerPoint presentation in English — with their eyes on their laptops, and mouths muffled by masks. Those masks are quite effective at a couple of things — preventing the spread of communicative micro-expressions, and helping funnel dehumanization through the digital panopticon.

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As I have always said...if YOU want to wear a face diaper that is your right...but don't force me to adhere to your stupidity.

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When I used to get stopped to put on a mask, I would just say, “I’m Jehovah’s Witness,” and keep walking. I had fun with that. If I have a Dr appt and they tell me masks are required, I tell them I will leave if I have to wear a mask. Usually they back down. But here in Texas the only people who wear masks are those nutters who walk in an empty park or drive a car alone, masked up for life.

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I was thrown out of more places than I was allowed I. After a two hour mask wearing for some tests, I had a major panic atteack and refused to wear one. I have a mask exemption card around my neck. Worked sporadically. My markets accepted my medical condition(Dysautonomia) and left me alone. But doctors offices were the worst. Went in person to make an appt for a skin check. Just the sec and I were there, as I went at lunchtime on purpose. She handed me a mask and I held it. Another came in and demanded I wear it for the 2 min. This was in late June. They are all crazy!!!

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I agree that doctors offices are the worst! In fact ALL medical facilities are bad. Even in Florida, where I live it's medical offices that will give you the hardest time, and there was never a "lull" in that- it continued all the way through and is still that way today! I have just about completely lost respect for the medical industry at this point!

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And it’s th3 way those ignorant fools will keep it, even tho studies show how useless and damaging they are! Breaks my heart when I see kids in them!

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We still have people in NJ wearing masks outside by themselves. In fact, driving today I saw a guy driving with a N95 mask on with a non masked passenger and windows open.

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"Ludicrously, such measures are being finalized months in advance when nobody even knows what the COVID situation will be later in the year."

Not "nobody," somebody knows what variants will be released, it is all probably on a schedule, and the schedule can't be changed, no matter what. It is too late, assets have been 'deployed" and have gone dark just waiting to fulfill their timetables.

How do we know this? Well, we don't, but it is what I would do if I were "them."

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Masking followed by lockdowns and social media censorship sounds like a strategy to blanket over the people freezing in their houses in winter. Maybe they could ration energy supply based on social credit score.

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I was going to make some derogatory comment about Germans needing more ProgreSSive Tyranny, but if freezing this winter doesn't provoke them then wearing face diapers certainly won't.

I'm more concerned with Americans, where a majority got the Jab and liked it, as well as wore their face diapers obediently.

It's a toss up if the coming Travails provoke Resitance or Obedience in the Land of the Formerly Free and Brave.

Samuel Adams said it best and We need to Inhale it:

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

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If you have a moral or religious rationale to not comply, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is very useful. I do not mask, test, nor vax, and my employer gave me full time work from home status with no required office days to accommodate me.

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They are nuts! But, they think we are!

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