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  • I think you’re right - women are also socialized to seek out social/interpersonal connections more than men; this is a big factor in why the suicide rate for elderly men tends to be significantly higher than for elderly women.

    This doesn’t explain the 60 year olds but with the elderly (70+) women in my life, the vulnerability to misinformation is also an artifact of their comparatively poor levels of education. They were schooled with the expectation that they would be SAHMs.











  • A lot of them also seem to refer to earlier forms of 1080 etc. Given the “silent seas” I suspect what this is really about is a sort of folk response to climate change and ecological collapse.

    But the rabid activist ones seem to have linked the “Agenda 21” conspiracies, chemtrails etc with 1080. The covid/5G stuff as well, Sue Grey (antivax lawyer) was mixed up with the ban 1080 movement.







  • I think I see what’s happening here. The missing piece of the puzzle is that there are 2 kinds of rights.

    “Negative rights” = the right to not have certain things happen to you, aka freedoms. Eg freedom from being assaulted.

    “Positive rights” = the right to do/have stuff.

    In the case of enslavement, the negative right - to be free from being forced to work, owned, etc is a much more important right than the positive right to own property.