Do you remember how this anti-tobacco fascism campaign started? I can't remember exactly, but it was somewhere in either the late 1970s or early 1980s.
I was engaged in one of many debates with an anti-smoking Karen I knew, when she pulled out a newly discovered ace in the hole.
"I saw something on TV that said breathing 'second-hand' smoke is just as bad as primary smoking."
At that juncture, I knew exactly two things.
1 - that the claim that passive smoking was just as bad as direct smoking was an absolute crock of shit,
and,
2 - that despite the absurdity of the claim, it would gain traction. I knew the Karen I was debating with very well. She was a domineering narcissistic control freak. Not content with a "live and let live" philosophy, she wanted to live and force others to live in accordance with her preferences. (Though neither of us realized it at the time, she was a perfect exponent of Liberal Party politics.)
It was obvious at the time that this "you're not only harming yourself, you're harming others" schtick would become the MAIN justification for subsequent smoking bans. I would tell friends that before they knew it, smoking in bars would be prohibited. They laughed at me. "That will never happen." It didn't bother me. I knew I was right. I was already well aware that the dominant political philosophy of our time was authoritarian collectivism, (A.K.A. communism, fascism, socialism, Liberalism, A.K.A., wokery.) The trajectory of said philosophy made it easy to predict the future.
Once the control freaks had successfully prohibited smoking on private property to which the public had access they took off their masks. They no longer needed to pretend they were motivated by a desire to protect innocent bystanders from whiffs of ETS and directly proceeded to impose the rest of their narcissistic agenda by banning smoking on patios. And in parks. And now, even on beaches.
Another thing I knew was that it wouldn't end with smoking. The mission would expand to every other aspect of life, from eating meat, to driving a car, to choosing whether to get vaccinated, to the freedom to express opinions. The COVID nightmare was just a dress rehearsal for the type of society woke ideologues crave. All of these predictions have come to pass. It is indisputable.
And here we have a post by a "concerned citizen" advocating participation in something that was common in Nazi Germany. A fucking snitch line! You can't make this shit up.
The control freak mentality will never be satisfied, and will not stop, until every last member of the population has the woke jackboot on their necks.
Amen
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