My username was originally anonymous - reason being that I stumbled on Substack one day - one of Steve Kirsch's MANY ridiculous articles that pissed me off because of how insanely ignorant it was. I felt compelled to try to "educate" him (by providing dozens of resources questioning the legitimacy of germ THEORY - and thoroughly explaining why it does not meet the criteria of the Scientific method, Kochs' postulates or River's postulstes). Silly me for thinking he was ever interested in ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC discussion - versus opinion and popular vote/consensus.
Anyway, I never intended on using Substack beyond that - hence why I just had an anonymous name. But I quickly realized approx half of Steve's viewers strongly disagreed with him - in fact, were more aligned with my views. And then I found several other writers who brought MEANINGFUL conversation to the platform.
I was lazy and for awhile didn't bother fixing my name. Until one day I had a friendly debate with someone and they called me out. Fair point (wish I could remember his name....). So I finally took the time to fix it and welp, here I am. Not that my name currently is any more specific than anonymous 😂 but at least people can recognize me a little more when I comment a whole bunch on their articles or whatever.
Hmmm...I've never used a pen name, always my own. I have wondered why so many wish to hide, or maybe it just became normal not to use their real names. In today's America, I can see why. The FBI actually has a list of those who write very conservative articles...perhaps they'll go for them next especially with the insanity in CA. The legislature there just decided that if doctors don't follow what the government tells them is the "truth" or "protocol" that they can lose their license. Communism came here in 1821 and it's been here with it's ugly tentacles now in everything for over two centuries.
I've come to detest my government and most state governments. Every day totalitarianism rears its ugly head and grows more all encompassing on the American citizenry. I wonder if the people will ever wake up or will it take being loaded into a cattle car to realize what has happened.
Funny, but it is the ones that I pretty much recognise as controlled opposition that I considered not having visible on my subscribes list. But that's because I didn't want to promote them.
But I've left them all up. I probably don't recognize some that are conning me. It takes a while to really wise up, so I'm still working on it.
I find that it's the small audienced Substackers whom I am most enjoying - can properly converse with them, and maybe raise my consciousness.
I unsubscribed to Eugyppius and Bad Cat because their drum beating was too intolerable to read.
I still read Kirsch (occasionally) as he keeps me up to date with the moving narrative, and he's a good resource to send to the newly almost awakened. And then they can move on later.
I have been thinking for some time that we have the emergence of a new mainstream within the 'resistance' and what you describe may be a result of that. It may or may not have an element of intention of control within it (I tend to believe so) but carefully managed is how it turned out. The constant calls for unity are another symptom. There's a powerful desire for safety in numbers, even for the anonymous. Technically, I am anonymous on here (by request) but a curious person could figure out who I am quite easily. I only remember subscribing once while hiding that sub because it was a guy whose opinions were sometimes interesting, but more often downright nasty. Apologies, this is a comment without a real point.
My username was originally anonymous - reason being that I stumbled on Substack one day - one of Steve Kirsch's MANY ridiculous articles that pissed me off because of how insanely ignorant it was. I felt compelled to try to "educate" him (by providing dozens of resources questioning the legitimacy of germ THEORY - and thoroughly explaining why it does not meet the criteria of the Scientific method, Kochs' postulates or River's postulstes). Silly me for thinking he was ever interested in ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC discussion - versus opinion and popular vote/consensus.
Anyway, I never intended on using Substack beyond that - hence why I just had an anonymous name. But I quickly realized approx half of Steve's viewers strongly disagreed with him - in fact, were more aligned with my views. And then I found several other writers who brought MEANINGFUL conversation to the platform.
I was lazy and for awhile didn't bother fixing my name. Until one day I had a friendly debate with someone and they called me out. Fair point (wish I could remember his name....). So I finally took the time to fix it and welp, here I am. Not that my name currently is any more specific than anonymous 😂 but at least people can recognize me a little more when I comment a whole bunch on their articles or whatever.
Hmmm...I've never used a pen name, always my own. I have wondered why so many wish to hide, or maybe it just became normal not to use their real names. In today's America, I can see why. The FBI actually has a list of those who write very conservative articles...perhaps they'll go for them next especially with the insanity in CA. The legislature there just decided that if doctors don't follow what the government tells them is the "truth" or "protocol" that they can lose their license. Communism came here in 1821 and it's been here with it's ugly tentacles now in everything for over two centuries.
I've come to detest my government and most state governments. Every day totalitarianism rears its ugly head and grows more all encompassing on the American citizenry. I wonder if the people will ever wake up or will it take being loaded into a cattle car to realize what has happened.
Funny, but it is the ones that I pretty much recognise as controlled opposition that I considered not having visible on my subscribes list. But that's because I didn't want to promote them.
But I've left them all up. I probably don't recognize some that are conning me. It takes a while to really wise up, so I'm still working on it.
I find that it's the small audienced Substackers whom I am most enjoying - can properly converse with them, and maybe raise my consciousness.
I unsubscribed to Eugyppius and Bad Cat because their drum beating was too intolerable to read.
I still read Kirsch (occasionally) as he keeps me up to date with the moving narrative, and he's a good resource to send to the newly almost awakened. And then they can move on later.
Steve worked like that for me about a year ago.
I have been thinking for some time that we have the emergence of a new mainstream within the 'resistance' and what you describe may be a result of that. It may or may not have an element of intention of control within it (I tend to believe so) but carefully managed is how it turned out. The constant calls for unity are another symptom. There's a powerful desire for safety in numbers, even for the anonymous. Technically, I am anonymous on here (by request) but a curious person could figure out who I am quite easily. I only remember subscribing once while hiding that sub because it was a guy whose opinions were sometimes interesting, but more often downright nasty. Apologies, this is a comment without a real point.