I still don't consider Jon Stewart an enemy. Yeah, we probably don't see eye to eye anymore, but I hold on to that glimmer of hope he'll still a spade a spade -- and I think we saw that when he went on Colbert earlier this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8
Still surprised this isn't deleted.
"This monster" is an empty suit.
Sure, run her and every RINO out of town. Go ahead and vote for every candidate Trump endorses because they're really, truly MAGA -- and then watch as most of them become Dan Crenshaw and Susan Collins anyway because the same corrupt apparatus is allowed to churn along and poison everything with dirty money, lobbying, and backstabbing.
We need a complete restructuring of our elected officials and campaign finance laws - everything needs to be transparent.
Being a public servant should be a burden, not a reward. 24+ years in Congress should be the exception, not the rule. Private citizens shouldn't have to worry about the government spying on them and their finances while our public officials rake in dirty money hand over fist and no one says a word about it.
Yes, get Susan Collins out. But don't assign her too much agency - and figure out who is financing her and go after them
...and then i go back and watch "because you'd be in jail" for the 10,000th time and realize that mad cow was already trying to push "fact checkers" back then.
Clearly the left and media are in bed together and have been for a long time. Not just mere bias but outright "we will lie and blatantly spin anything for you."
I actually disagree somewhat. I think most people do enjoy it as much as they enjoy most everything.
Think of the types of people who don't like good movies or books because they have to think too much.
Someone that doesn't like to think probably doesn't critically enjoy media like you or I do.
So yes, there is a part of it of "following social cues" as you say, but people like to fit in. Fitting in makes them feel good, so they attribute enjoyment to the media and talking to others about it.
You aren't wrong per se, just allow more for the psychosocial stimuli and paths of lowest resistance that most people respond and react to
The lion's share of the blame can be put on biology and society's poor understanding of the human animal.
If you want someone to take you seriously when you say you're disadvantaged or hurt -- just slap a sympathetic woman's story on it and you can get away with anything.
Feminists have been fighting for over 100 years for women to be taken seriously as equal members of society with exactly 0 of the obligations that were normally required for participation in said society.
Logic, unfortunately, has been thrown out the window under the biological ruse of protecting women.
Cheers - perfect, I think she'll enjoy reading this too
WatchPeopleDie was one of the most fascinating subs in reddit's history. It opened my eyes to the brutality of the world -- things that I knew but didn't know because I was so insulated in my first world bubble.
Made me appreciate life more, tbh.
Yep. I largely believe this to be true. My wife is a researcher for a big university (she's on an H1B and we're working on her green card) and she is really struggling with what I'm saying vs. what her MD boss and colleagues are saying.
Watching Peter McCullough talk has really been a missing puzzle piece for me in trying to figure this out. I'll link a video where he argues before the Texas Senate HHS Committee that there's no direction at all from the CDC on outpatient treatment options.
He testifies that the current medical practice for a positive COVID test is "go home, rest, and if it gets bad, call us" -- there's no advice on what can be taken, what can be tried, or when to worry. He's pushed for outpatient treatment centers in Texas and has worked to direct patients to them. He claims to have reduced mortality by 85% and, in his words, "I work with very sick people."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHi3lX3oGM&t
You can only find his google scholar page via archive as he's been professionally unpersoned for this.
He's only the most cited cardiologist in the world.
EDIT because I veered away from the anecdote about my wife and I: She looks at what I look at, and especially what I shared above, and she concludes that a lot of doctors are used to listening to guidance from above because they don't have time to read primary literature on every single new cutting edge thing. If CDC says HCQ and Ivermectin don't work, they're not going to question it. Why question it when questioning it can cause you to lose your job?
You're absolutely right.
Also, please note feminists lose their mind calling for "equality" and "fair pay" (even though the Wage Gap is a myth) - but not one will ever lose a wink of sleep when it comes to fixing the "life expectancy gap."
Because everyone is encouraged to get a test with any sign of a respiratory illness.
I dunno about you, but I'm used to getting sick 1-1.5x per year on some bullshit illness, usually around the Thanksgiving time. I've been sick twice since this whole hysteria started.
Both times, I monitored myself - checked temps, regulated fluids, and got a lot of rest. Both times I was fine in 2-3 days -- likely nothing, just a normal virus going around. But I do suspect I could have gotten a positive test once or twice during the ordeal.
I just think the tests and the cases are wholly unreliable. They mean essentially nothing unless they wanted to do a study of people in hospital ICUs with acute viral infections and breathing problems as a chief dx -- they don't want to do that.
Here's my honest take:
I think there really is some novel virus out there that has the potential to completely wreck people up. More likely to happen if you're older and/or obese or have other conditions. I've seen enough data of people with truly messed up lungs (even those without severe illness) to know it's a real thing.
BUT, it isn't nearly as contagious as the media lets on. It doesn't have asymptomatic spread, and it doesn't have an R0 of 2-4. It's probably less than 1, to be honest.
In order to drum up the necessary fear, however, they've been pushing testing. Testing that we know to be unreliable and unable to differentiate between influenza or other coronaviruses. This explains why cases go up, this explains why the "vaccines" fail and why there's no good data on what a "COVID experience" looks like.
There's been a lot of positive cases that were NOT the coof. Not 50-50, but probably more like 80-20. If someone has difficulty breathing, loss of taste and smell without congestion, and a moderate-high fever as a first symptom, I'd treat that as probable coof, but these cases of people with normal respiratory illness saying "oh yeah I got it, and I got a positive test, and I beat it and it's nothing" are probably wrong too.
The real information is just so screwed up. The people who fancy themselves arbiters of information are hopeless biased, and they're being strung along by an incompetent and corrupt bureaucracy that has been scrambling for 18 months to find any consistency in its messaging.
The "vaccines" are probably useless, but we can't get a full picture because there's so many false positives in the way.
The actual, real novel virus that was released from the Wuhan lab is probably pretty deadly -- certainly not fun to get if you're one of the unlucky ones in any case. Not 10%, not 5%, but a very serious 2-3%.
I do believe Ivermectin works - I think the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh is a nice example, but I'm not willing to throw out corruption in statistics as an explanation -- even if I like the conclusions.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk, I hope it wasn't as boring as most TED talks.
Well, it could be what they tried to do to Trump -- it's just hard to do when he's pulling 40+K on a day's notice anywhere he goes.
I don't think I have ever raised suspicion as a troll or paid actor around here, but I am guilty of some mild forms of the sentiments you mention.
I don't want to sugarcoat reality in my comments: I do think we are hurtling towards an inflection point; a metaphorical rubicon that will need to be crossed. I just think every possible option needs to be exhausted before that.
There are some very dire consequences for resistance to actual goverment overreach, especially when we aren't sure just how far they are willing to go. Based the treatment of 1/6 prisoners - I suspect the distance is further than we reckoned a year ago.
My philosophy is very much "be prepared, but continue to resist through civil disobedience." There are further options and they aren't off the table yet.
Having said that, violating my bodily autonomy in order to earn a living is a RED LINE IN THE SAND, and i say that with a Trumpian conviction, not a Barrackian one.
Bravo, good sir
My theory is that a lot of old 'skeptics' got too close to that inflection point where you start getting into wrongthink -- and so they tried to go another direction because that would largely be career suicide in their circles.
I'm not extremely well versed on the whole sphere of skeptics you're referring to, but I think it's what happened with Chris, at least.
I don't think anyone HERE is discounting Robert E. Lee's military acumen and status as a major American historical figure.
I think the person you're replying to was mocking leftist arguments for tearing down Robert E. Lee statues -- William T Sherman, while also a great general, was kind of a borderline psychopath and openly committed atrocities with the goal being a quicker surrender.
I wouldn't mind some statues of Sherman -- we certainly may need his heart
Biggest takeaway: Boise
Every big city is a cesspool of subversion, race hustling, and intellectually bankrupt leaders.
Okay, champ, you've convinced me.
I'm sure you've cracked the code and no one else (especially the lawyers we have on our side) has thought of it. I wish you the best of luck on your journey.
You understand the concept of "at-will employment" right?
Your mistake is thinking your opponents follow the same rules as you.
Everyone here knows CRT is easily disproven - we all know it's cultural marxism baked in to race politics for maximum division, and we all know Barry O was the founding father of putting racial wedges between people for political gain.
But what -- you're gonna prove to your company's HR department (almost certainly full of stuffy white women who drank the Kool-Aid 25 years ago) using facts and logic?
Good luck and god speed, friend.
Maybe you can convince them the Wage Gap is a myth and almost 100% determined by individual life choices. Good luck with that, too.
the start of the endgame for real
a bit hyperbolic as I imagine the end result of whatever gets announced today is nothing happens.
But I do kind of hope they try to push a plethora of asinine and unconstitutional restrictions. I hope they put their full legislative power and propaganda machine behind it -- because I'm starting to get the sense a meaningful percentage of those in the middle are getting fed up.
Look at the "Fuck Joe Biden" chants at NCAA games.
Look at the 30% approval rating in a D+10 poll sample (ABC from yesterday or the day before iirc)
Look at the op-ed by Rand Paul telling people to resist.
Please, senile old fool and his handlers, try to bring the hammer down on us. There's a good number of people who need to realize we're going to have to engage in wide-scale civil disobedience.
It's not that surprising, really.
Academics - almost by nature - have an incredible amount of hubris. Hubris is one of the biggest flaws of humanity.
It's almost like we're biologically wired to protect women in danger -- including women who merely claim to be in danger.
It's almost like this is an incredibly effective tool at manipulating people.
The Frankfurt School
Funny what 50 years of systematically shitting on men and fatherhood does to people huh?