Re: OffG still not having it Archived Message Posted by Mark Doran on April 28, 2020, 9:08 pm, in reply to "Re: OffG still not having it" I don't think anything has undermined the credibility of our burgeoning -- and vitally necesary! -- 'alternative media' as much or as fatally as *its own mad twaddle* since this virus emerged. One after the other, prevously worthwhile outlets (OffG not among them...) and formerly courageous and intelligent individuals have, in some weird ritual of spiralling self-debasement, been outing themelves as knee-jerk, contrarian, johnny-one-note bullshitters -- each one desperately taking their existing, good-quality script ... and shoe-horning it into the biggest story of the decade, unperturbed by the lack of fit... If I worked for the corporate state (I don't by the way...), I swear I wouldn't have been able to think of a better wrecking tool for unincorporated new media than to send out a few little 'hints' to a selection of writers and editors... "The virus isn't real!" "It's no worse than flu!" "The death toll is being wildly inflated!" "This is the worldwide martial law house arrest you were always expecting!" "Here comes the NWO cashless sub-dermal Bill Gates 5G prison planet GMO vaccine! And the people are all falling for it!" Some of these figures I was prevously in friendly touch with; now I really can't imagine myself ever wanting to speak again to, say, the person who was desperate to find significance in the fact that *we weren't being shown photographs of packed ICUs lined with dying people*... It has been a truly disgusting exhibition... M. Message Thread: ONS Covid -19 numbers - Mary April 28, 2020, 9:55 am ONS Total deaths in charts - flash April 28, 2020, 10:12 am Shucks, it's only the flu. Cough, cough... nm - Der April 28, 2020, 10:46 am OffG still not having it - Raskolnikov April 28, 2020, 11:28 am Re: OffG still not having it - Jackie April 28, 2020, 2:38 pm Re: OffG still not having it - dan April 28, 2020, 4:39 pm Re: OffG still not having it - Mark Doran April 28, 2020, 9:08 pm Re: OffG still not having it - dan April 28, 2020, 11:08 pm   Searching