Don't listen to the government!

With facemasks required people all over the world started screaming the government can't tell them what to do.

In the first place: yes, the government cán tell people what to do. That's basically what governments do. And it's also what we wánt governments to do. Except for those few people who would like to live in an anarchy. But won't for long because in an anarchy it's basically everyone for himself. But maybe the 'anti-maskers' would love to live (briefly) in a world where it's all about survival of the fittest and every single person has to take care of his or her own food, shelter, protection, bikelane, unemployment-benefit, healthcare, et cetera.

Second: why wouldn't you listen to the government? Should we also tell our children not to listen to their parents or teachers but 'to make up their own minds', based on their instincts and Facebook timeline?

Why are people so reluctant to listen to the government and government branches led by people with actual knowledge? What do you think?

If the government would tell you that for your own safety you shouldn't go bungee jumping with a garden hose in stead of an official bungee rope that requires all kinds of safety rules, would you not listen and go ahead anyway and take your garden hose to a local bridge?

Is the government telling you not to use violence against your kids or partner a reason for you to send your partner and kids to hospital? So why not wear a face mask? In the best case scenario you have helped save a few lives. In the worst case scenario you would have looked silly getting on the bus or go shopping.

And please, no silly arguments like 'If you wear a face mask for more than twenty minutes you would die!' That would entail that all surgeons, dentists, welders, Michael Jackson impersonators, masons, riot police officers, fire fighters and nurses are zombies. 

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It's not nice to call a racist a racist!

Freedom of speech is for everyone! Except for people who call racists racists 'because that's not nice'.

Somehow that doesn't make sense to me. It's like in 'All Lives Matter!' by which people usually don't mean all lives. But it stays unclear what they do mean. In thise case you can say everything what you want. Except that 'everything' does not mean 'everything'. But what it does mean stays unclear.

To me it's still unclear why - of all people - this one single individual is responsible for everyting 'realists' (you can't call racists racists, remember?) finds wrong in the world. What is it about George Soros that makes him 'alt-right' (you can't call racists racists, remember?) 's enemy no. 1?

This article (click) tries to explain. But I still don't get it: if every member of 'Antifa' (apparently it's a very bad thing to be anti-fascism. Okay.) is being paid by the old millionair and Jewish Holocaust survivor George Soros, just like every university (where leftist teachers indoctrinate our children and why you can only trust people to be knowledgeable about a subject when they have not studied it) single outlet of mainstream media ('MSM' for people who find it extremely difficult to read or write words that consist of more than two syllables), George Soros should have more money than Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, Bill Gates and Waren Buffett combined.  I find that improbable, highly unlikely, impossible to believe, not very logical.

But the question's still there: why are racists (Oops! I accidentally wrote the 'r'-word. If you feel insulted: it was a joke. If you don't get it, you have no sense of humour. There. Solved it for you.) usually so very angry? By far most of them are white (yes, racists come in all shapes and colours but 'white' is dominant (...) in this group of people), meaning in general they have little to complain about. Only about 'foreigners' (people from dominantly 'white' countries are not considered foreigners but 'Norwegian brothers' or 'expats'.) who steal their jobs and are too lazy to work.

They have in common that whatever bad happens to them, they themselves are never to blame for. So when someone says it's all the fault of [insert minority of choice] they are more than willing to believe so. Is it really that simple? Yes it is. 

Bombard them with fake news (you know, through local 'news' stations owned by the Sinclair Corporation) or via Fox Entertainment Channel and soon they will believe anything that's being told to them. Even when the information that's shoved into them is contradicting. Like: 'Don't listen to everything the government tells you and Antifa should always follow the rule of law but you should never!' and 'Raise your hand if you don't want to be seen as sheeple blindly raising their hands when someone tells them to!'

The Nazi's (you know, those famous fascists who looked like the angry young white males in kaki's with the tiki torches in Charlottesville) learned that young men who don't masturbate are extremely easy to manipulate. The same trick is used by alt-right leaders who tell their new members not-masturbating makes you more manly and attractive to young women. Although the very opposite is true. But hey, who cares about facts when you have Facebook, right?

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To be together (a poem)

While you flutter in the wind

I enjoy the smell of your hair

blowing my way

Also I'd like to be the clothspin

keeping you from being carried away,

far from me, from 'us,

to never return.

Sometimes I picture us as birds,

ínvolved in a mating ritual,

mockingly circling

and flying off swiftly,

knowing to be chased.

Playing in ever shrinking circles

occassionaly slightly bigger ones.

To eventually

land simultanously

in the same open nest,

choosing

to be together. 

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