Heather Heying, one half of the excellent DarkHorse Podcast, published a very inspirational white-pill editorial this morning. It should resonated with a lot of SDA readers:
I have been hearing from people who feel very much alone. People who are grateful that I and many others are speaking up and out. We who speak up are publicly analyzing trends and claims. We refuse to kowtow to authoritarians, including the ones who wear lab coats or have fancy degrees or work at legacy institutions. And we call out bullshit when we see it. Because I am one such public voice who has been standing for science and against newspeak, I know this for sure: You are not alone.
You, the people whom I hear from, span all the demographic markers: young and old, rich and poor, so many skin colors and ethnicities and nationalities, religious affiliations and levels of education, politics and professions and predilections. What most of you do not have is the knowledge that there are many others like you—others who “feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about.” These others are likely walking on the very same streets that you walk on. They blend in. They self-censor. They are tired, and scared, and thus they are, mostly, mute.
No. I’m a blunt jackass that says thing way outside the Overton window as a matter of passing conversation.
Thus I know I’m not alone. I get loads of agreement, sometimes hushed other times enthusiastic.
The self censoring makes people feel alone.
Tact matters, but with reasonable tact you can say unspeakable things and receive broad and deep agreement.
While its probably true that most of the people are just a herd, that fact is irrelevant.
As Michael Malice likes to say, the dedicated and passionate minority is what changes the world. Eventually.
I see true black piller’s as no different than the tyrants. They are just mad that someone else is in charge.
“Black pillers” – maybe I’m just old and forgetful, or didn’t watch Men in Black enough times, but I don’t ever remember what all the colours of pills mean. Then when I read and try to understand commentaries that use them I have to stop reading and try to figure it out from the context. A form of jargon that leaves those of us who are not young and hip in the dark. Anybody got a chart I can print out and stick to my computer?
“Red Pill” and “blue pill” are from the Matrix films (originally). You take the red pill if you want reality and truth, the blue pill if you want to go back to your comfortable delusions. Someone is “red pilled” if they reject the propaganda of the MSM, the government bureaucrats, etc. in favour of the evidence of their own senses and the facts they see every day.
“Black pill” refers to people who have taken the red pill, come to conclusion that things are so f*cked up they cannot be repaired, and retreat into a kind of bitter existential cynicism. “White pill” refers to people who reject the black pill and believe that it is possible to collect enough blue-pilled people to rebuild society.
It was The Matrix that introduced the Red and Blue pills, not MiB.
But anyway, copy this and paste it into a note somewhere for future reference. You will come across this terminology quite a lot.
Blue Pill – Go back to sleep – keep drinking the Koolaid.
Red Pill – Wake up and see the world for what it is, warts and all (mostly warts).
Black Pill – A possible result of too many Red Pills – giving up all hope, basically waiting for the end.
White Pill – Seeing the possibilities. Maybe only a small chance, but there is a path, and it’s worth fighting.
Some people may argue that these are over simplifications, but they are good enough for most purposes.
Black is despondent, hopeless.
White hopefull, optimistic
Blue is woke/progressive
Red is some kind of realist, awake, not woke.
Purple is a person who admits some aspects of reality but falls back to progressive talking points all the time, even though this contradicts what they know.
Badwulf took the neon pill. You get them in Xanadu. You’ll have to ask him about it.
It’s just silly jargon, like you said. Think of it like a mood ring thing. I personally hate all the Matrix references, and have for a long time. That’s part of why I’m greypilled.
Trump tapped into the discontent of the nation. He recognized that the ‘people’ had had enough of the Bushes, Clinton’s and Obama. The elites thought Hillary had it in the bag. They and the media never saw it coming.
Nothing has changed. The people are still pissed. Even more so.
It is finally catching on in Canada. The Bong and the libranos are in serious trouble. It’s the end for them.
Preston Manning used to call it,”The common sense of the common people.”
We used to be called … “The Silent Majority”. That’s what we are … until the Barbarians have smashed through the gates … taken up lucrative government jobs or government contractor jobs … and become a defacto unelected government of functionary bureaucrats. Yeah we’re pissed … and becoming less silent. Now we show up at school board meetings and push back. We will keep pushing … the cultural rot is festering and destroying our beautiful countries.
This was one of the great legacies of the Truck Convoy. Not just the trucks, but the millions of people who lined the highways in sub-zero temperatures to join the throng in saying what we all had been whispering at our kitchen tables, but had self-censored in the workplace and in public.
We learned that we are not alone.
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Remember , the program has been well thought out and was being implemented for years. For example, 99% agree and the climate “denier ” label. They know if they can keep people fearful ,the majority will comply. As a result I question many things I thought were right in the past. They have no issue with sacrificing serfs.
Excellent words from Heather.
The truth prevails.
Agree first timer…it was the convoy that convinced me that not everyone had been brainwashed.
That’s true. My son had a training session at work about pronouns and stuff like that. Most people sat silent. One of the presenters, who could not wait to tell the world he was gay (like you couldn’t tell) made a lame joke that at least here, you could say gay, in reference to DeSantis. He got called out by a member of the audience, who laid down the facts that the law, named by the media, was about preventing sexual material (of any orientation) being forced onto elementary school kids, and had nothing to do with persecuting gays. A buch of people didn’t know that and by the majority’s reaction, the gay dude had to STFU and lost all credibility. Using mandatory “training” to push gay lies did not go down well. In other words, most people in that room resented that indoctrination session but held their tongue until somebody put their foot down. The silent majority being indoctrinated by a flamer with daddy issues.
I am too old and pissed off to worry much about speaking the truth or calling someone a bullshi@@er or liar.
If they don’t know and speak like they do it is BS.
If they know and speak falsely it is a lie.
I give them a choice framed exactly as above, “are you lying or bullshi@@ng?” It closes the conversation and I sit on the lid.
Then I educate them. It’s probably why I don’t have many friends. Lol.
I was a big hit at university being an outspoken Christian conservative.