{"id":22417,"date":"2023-02-21T20:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T01:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=22417"},"modified":"2023-02-21T20:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T01:23:37","slug":"living-in-occupied-territory-part-1-losing-your-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/21\/living-in-occupied-territory-part-1-losing-your-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Occupied Territory \u2013 Part 1 \u2013 Losing Your Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the worst aspect of living under a hostile occupying power?\u00a0 That\u2019s what I\u2019ll try to figure out.\u00a0 Now, some may say that we are not occupied.\u00a0 Rather, we\u2019re conquered or colonized.\u00a0 Well, sure cases can be made for each of those designations.\u00a0 I\u2019ll leave that to the hair splitters out there. Suffice it to say that the Right has the distinct impression that we have lost our rights as Americans and are living under a hostile regime imposed from outside and backed up by a military force that is lurking behind the scenes waiting to haul away into a gulag anyone foolish enough to oppose it.<\/p>\n<p>Living under an occupying power, subjects you to many evils.\u00a0 You may have your property seized.\u00a0 The laws that used to protect you can be arbitrarily changed or even eliminated.\u00a0 New and unjust laws can be invented to punish the conquered people.\u00a0 Economic conditions can deteriorate due to the occupying power\u2019s conflicting goals.\u00a0 The occupier may employ propaganda to indoctrinate children in school.\u00a0 The military authority may employ paid informers to spy on the inhabitants.\u00a0 And so on.<\/p>\n<p>But under our occupation most of the evils we suffer are tied to the enforced adherence to the Left\u2019s cult of wokeness.\u00a0 This cult has as its tenets that white Americans but especially sexually normal white men are inherently racist, sexist and homophobic and that this evil must be atoned for with a permanent program of anti-white punishments.\u00a0 Obviously living under such a regime is brutally painful and damaging.\u00a0 I\u2019ll try to break out the individual aspects of this trauma in this series of essays.\u00a0 For tonight\u2019s theme I\u2019ll talk about what it means to lose your voice.<\/p>\n<p>What do I mean by \u201close your voice?\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ll give an example.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say you\u2019ve somehow survived through the first Obama term and after the hideously poor results of this regime you hope to see a conservative replace him.\u00a0 And after the Republican primaries you realize with horror that \u201cseverely conservative\u201d Mittens Romney has emerged from this debacle and will almost certainly lose to Barry Sotero because Romney doesn\u2019t actually differ from Obama in any real way and because he really has no desire to win anyway.\u00a0 He\u2019s a placeholder meant to mark time while Obama puts on his Hope Redux pantomime act.<\/p>\n<p>So, whenever Obama talks about how Black Lives Matter all Romney can talk about is reducing the deficit or reforming Medicaid.\u00a0 Not a word can be said about foreign wars or illegal immigration or FBI tampering with policing in the failing Democrat cities like Baltimore or Philadelphia.\u00a0 All of the things that we see as outrages and as the primary problems facing our society are taboo.\u00a0 That nitwit Paul Ryan can only talk about reducing corporate taxes and deregulating tech monopolies.<\/p>\n<p>And even when we finally had a candidate in 2016 who wasn\u2019t a Uni-party shill and who, against all odds, snuck past the election gatekeepers, what kind of coverage did he get in the media?\u00a0 We got Russia-gate 24\/7\/365.\u00a0 Maybe, just maybe Fox News may have had a few opinion types who talked to the issues but the news was still read by Shepherd Smith who pronounced every proclamation by Adam Schiff or Nancy Pelosi that the walls were closing around Trump and never mind about his policies, they wouldn\u2019t see the light of day once he was safely in prison.<\/p>\n<p>And now that they\u2019ve closed the gaps in their election scam and ejected the only honest president we\u2019ve had in thirty five years even Fox has reverted to shilling for the Dems and all we hear is transgender surgery for minors and trillions for Ukraine but not a penny for East Palestine, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019re unlucky enough to also be stuck in a Blue State well, then you\u2019re really without a voice.\u00a0 Because in one of these places you\u2019re not only unable to get your voice heard but if by chance the wrong people hear what you\u2019re saying you\u2019ll find yourself scooped up by the Stasi and deposited in a dungeon where you\u2019ll sit and rot for a few years before being sentenced by a kangaroo court to hard time in a hellhole prison.<\/p>\n<p>But even ignoring the fear of being persecuted, the primary trauma of being silenced is hopelessness.\u00a0 After all, how can things be fixed if you\u2019re unheard and alone.\u00a0 Even if the internet allows for some way to contact like-minded people, the social media companies have elevated shadow-banning and algorithmic siloing of conservatives to a fine art.\u00a0 Google, Facebook and until recently, Twitter did everything they could to minimize the reach of voices on the Right.\u00a0 We are shadow-banned while the Left is amplified.<\/p>\n<p>It may be the case that the beginnings of a change are appearing.\u00a0 Alternative news sites are beginning to gain ground.\u00a0 A few mainstream names like Tucker Carlson are starting to talk to us in our own language and tell the truth.\u00a0 Elon Musk has let much needed light flood in to show how the feds and Twitter conspired to silence the Right and protect Biden and others on the Left.\u00a0 And more and more regular people go to their favorite websites to find out what is happening in the world.\u00a0 Sites like Whatfinger even let me amplify my reach to many times what I normally can.\u00a0 Recently someone like Michael Anton was able to find his way to my site.\u00a0 Maybe we\u2019re not as alone as we were.\u00a0 Maybe we\u2019re starting to regain our voices.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still a lonely fate being occupied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the worst aspect of living under a hostile occupying power?\u00a0 That\u2019s what I\u2019ll try to figure out.\u00a0 Now, some may say that 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