What are you on about? The vaccines haven’t killed anyone.
Hoo boy... Someone only watches MSM for their news.
Readit NewsAll of these "free money!" ideas sounds absolutely fantastic until we get to "okay, so where does the money to pay for it come from?"
I see that the article completely omits the possible source for this funding.
so link it then.
Here you are:
I glad there are people willing to participate because I wouldn't be able to sleep knowing there's worms in me. Never mind the itching.
I'm afraid you are likely loaded with worms, even without your participation in this experiment.
dudeithinkBLM commented on What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol projects.propublica.org/p... · Posted by u/Borlands
> Doesn’t exactly look worthy of losing our collective freedom of speech and right to assemble over.
No one has suggested it is, so I’m not sure why you are beating that strawman.
Unfortunately it's not exactly spelled out for you like that. Can you imagine though?
As seen on a hypothetical NBC Nightly News broadcast: "The government is using its influence over corporate media to shape public opinion in an effort to remove constitutionally protected rights like free speech and the right to assemble.. Now is the time to protest if you want to have any chance at keeping them"
That would never happen. Efforts like this much more hidden and shrouded in secrecy. Out of necessity... They don't want protesting.
The theft of your most sacred rights will not be broadcasted to you before it happens. All of a sudden you'll wake up one day, and they'll be gone. Unless you resist of course.
dudeithinkBLM commented on What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol projects.propublica.org/p... · Posted by u/Borlands
So it's not the people that participated in an seditious attack on the capital and the most cherished democratic process, the democratic choosing of the US president that are the problem here? They built gallows outside the capital, they screamed "hang Mike Pence" because he didn't literally attempt to end American democracy for them.
It's still "those other people who want to take our freedumbs away" that are the problem?
This feels a lot like the group of people whose first reaction to when a school gets massacred by yet another school shooting is, "My Second Amendment is going to be under attack now, this sucks!"
I'm afraid I see it differently. After years of carefully watching the media, I've realized that they do not have the citizen's best interests at heart. Whatever they're pushing, I'm intensely suspicious of.
Here's an interesting thought experiment for you to conduct:
What if these incidiary figures committing violence, egging on fellow protestors and erecting guillotines at the Capitol were actually bad actors with a nefarious agenda.
The crazier the crowd looks, the easier it is to ram through legislation that curtails the right to dissent. Personally I find it completely believable and considering the events of the last couple years, likely.
dudeithinkBLM commented on What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol projects.propublica.org/p... · Posted by u/Borlands
Doesn't exactly look worthy of losing our collective freedom of speech and right to assemble over. A stark contrast over the story being pushed in the media.
Yet this event will be used as a scapegoat to push those very things in the near future.
Just know that any laws passed or precedents set will be used first on the "radical right", will undoubtedly be used on the anti-vax and conspiracy crowd but will eventually be used on the anti-war left, and then simply "dissidents".
If you haven't realized it yet, the wheels are turning to silence unapproved narratives forever. The media campaign just screams the phrase "manufacturing consent".
dudeithinkBLM commented on Misinformation: The First Digital Drug ebenezermann.medium.com/m... · Posted by u/_njuy
For victimless misinformation (e.g. "Earth is flat") I see no problem with this approach.
For politically motivated misinformation (e.g. "Stop the steal") I think recent events show we should pretty clearly play it extra safe (e.g. ban the dealer) until we figure out how to reduce the risk of it being weaponized against democracy.
Uh no. A group of yahoos being let into the Capitol to take selfies is not a valid reason to endorse censorship and giving up our collective freedom of speech.
dudeithinkBLM commented on Dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy politicians arrested asia.nikkei.com/Politics/... · Posted by u/1ark
Comparing the people at DC currently and HK is so blatantly disrespectful, and such a false equivalence I don't even know where to start.
Edit: Responding to redis_mic's comment below here, because it's been rightly flagged for misinformation.
> There's plenty of evidence, literally tons, that the US 2020 election was rigged.
Show some then. The public hasn't seen any. The courts haven't seen any. No one, has seen any.
I am so done with people saying things repeatedly because they think it makes it true. Dang, I apologize for getting into flamewar territory.
“[a]fter thorough investigation, WHO confirmed that the tests were not always being used appropriately and in accordance with the instructions provided by the manufacturer.”
“In particular, users in laboratories encountered problems with these tests when they did not apply the recommended positivity threshold — this can result in either false negative results (if the threshold applied is lower) or false positives (if threshold is higher),” the WHO said.