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Originally Posted by irv
The power of mass propaganda is unreal. Liberals went from hating big pharma to adoring it in just months. Bizarre!
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I am a traditional liberal (which has been redefined the last few years in many quarters as "fascism", to my great amusement. To support free speech of all, a core liberal value, is now treated as a radical right-wing position for some reason), and I tend to find both sides living in echo chambers and feeding off the propaganda of their faction. I must say this element here was both bizarre and amusing to watch. So many of the even pro-socialists wing of the left came, at the drop of a dime, to believe in the righteousness of almost unlimited corporate power. Censorship by corporate was good, a company can do whatever it wants because it is not the state, big Pharma, an industry they specifically have been attacking for years (and in my personal opinion, generally correctly - my liberal values push me to be in favor of separating employment from healthcare and to believe that everyone should be able to live regardless of their fiscal status) became so imperative to the narrative that they were unquestionable. To even ask questions of Pfizer was, and still is in many leftist quarters, to be "anti-science". We had some of it here just a couple pages back. Whatever argument the narrative required was embraced, regardless of the blatant contradictions, of the absurdity to the entire rest of their ideology, to the abandonment of liberal values in favor of a state and corporate behemoths that needed to be (or were) empowered to do almost anything to shut down questioning, dissent, and any non-compliance to the will of the state and/or party.