not even photoshopped, I mean why bother
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Dr. Fauci: whatever she asks, do NOT let her get a hold of your urine. No good can come of this… but I’ve said too much already.
Latest Frontline doc a chilling look into how we ended up with a POTUS who traffics daily in conspiracy theory, with narcissistic goons like Alex Jones and Roger Stone to blame. America is undergoing an epistemological crisis as much as a partisan one. "World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” — Marshall McLuhan
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Heh. I remember the good old days when a White House astrologer was the low point.
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As harsh as this sounds, if conservatives want to take hydroxychloroquine, let them take it.
Breitbart and a bunch of conservative dark money orgs are pushing this ‘cure’, this is what the conservative powerful want for their own people.
This might be the only way they’ll learn, so maybe it’s a ‘cure’ for stupidity.
I know, I know, it’s a pretty horrible thing to say, but there it is, they want the freedom to jump off a cliff and I’m at the point where I say “okay, fine, not gonna argue with you anymore.”
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This from The Guardian’s Moustafa Bayoumi:
“Her sermons reveal that she believes alien DNA is being used in modern medicine, that scientists are currently working on a vaccine to prevent people from becoming religious, and that the American government is partly run by non-human reptilians. (She may be on to something with this one. cough Mitch McConnell cough.)”
emphasis mine
Oh, would that that were true!
Also, RE the “reptilians” thing: STFU with the David Icke bullshit, no matter how much McConnell reminds you of Yurtle!
Guardian link
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So is the bleach suppose to neutralize the demon sperm?
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If it were only this simple, I’d agree and we could close the thread.
Unfortunately, they feel that their freedom to jump off a cliff is also their freedom to throw other people off the same cliff.
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Right, I understand that, but. . .
There’s a scene in Dallas Buyers Club where the protagonist is buying AZT on the sly, and he immediately just starts taking it, with no idea of dosage. He takes a couple, closes the bottle, thinks a second, takes another one, then does it again. It’s like he thinks he’s warding off evil with magic pills.
This is how I’m envisioning the covidiots using hydroxychloroquine. They’re not going to be sharing their precious pills, and they may not even survive long enough to get ill from COVID.
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If it were just them poisoning themselves it would be easier to go along with, but they are also causing shortages of a drug needed by vulnerable members of our community That’s on top of the disease risk from having a sizable chunk of the population thinking they don’t have to take reasonable precautions because they think they have a cure.
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Further connecting the rotten dots:
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These kinds of delusions are shared by millions of evangelicals who believe that there is a spiritual war going on between God and the Devil. Seriously. You likely know some these people but probably don’t know about their beliefs. And these people are in all strata of life and business and politics.
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Oh, I had a number of crazy evangelical family members and know about their beliefs - they just didn’t have medical degrees. And there was no way they could have accomplished that, given how their beliefs interfered in how they processed reality. I mean, my grandmother went completely blind because she was relying on God, not medicine, to cure her (treatable) condition. Then, thanks to those delusions, she refused to acknowledge she couldn’t see, leading to her getting hit by a bus. (That she ended up surviving that just fueled her faith, rather than denting it.)
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The reason the Trumps are praising these doctors, is probably because they’re a group purpose-assembled to praise him.
Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign communications director, confirmed to AP that an effort to recruit doctors to publicly support the president is underway, but declined to say when the initiative would be rolled out.
“Anybody who joins one of our coalitions is vetted,” Murtaugh said Monday. “And so quite obviously, all of our coalitions espouse policies and say things that are, of course, exactly simpatico with what the president believes. … The president has been outspoken about the fact that he wants to get the country back open as soon as possible.”
Good thing that they vetted them! Imagine if they hadn’t.
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ETA: I tried to look up the Madonna story on the WWN website, but couldn’t find it. Oh, I thought, they just made up the funny headline, and that’s all. Turns out they didn’t write a story perhaps because it would hit too close to Madonna’s home (and maybe they’d rather not be sued?)
Hat tip to @anon48584343
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While chiropractors push their services as an ongoing necessary regimen (as do physiotherapists and massage therapists), chiropractic does work very well in some cases. The AMA was busted in federal court for an unfounded 50 year campaign to discredit chiropractic.
Acupuncture is much less regulated but falls into the same category; it was the only thing that stopped a very painful muscle spasm from spontaneously occurring in my shoulder when I extended my arm too quickly. One treatment by someone that actually knew what they were doing and it was immediately and permanently fixed.
Not all modes of treatment work for all people at all ages. The older you get the more “you become your own physician”, figuring out what your body needs and tolerates for treatment. Just don’t blindly accept anything that doesn’t have proper research backing it.
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A statement like “Diseases are caused by evil deposits from the spirit husband”, makes her sound ill. Is she being exploited?
Please, stop doing this folks. All you are doing is stigmatizing people with ACTUAL mental health struggles and giving the people who act to damage the lives of others a PASS. You are not helping by equating mental health struggles with people who are aligned with fascists. This is what they WANT you to do, because then it flies under the radar for many people, who just then assume believing in conspiracy theories or in white supremacy is not an ideology designed to destroy democratic norms, but are merely a quirk of someone who isn’t “in their right mind.”
In addition, refer to number 2 on the community guidelines…
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Do not make assumptions as to anyone’s mental state, race, gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs, group affiliation or sexual orientation without corroboration.
Thank you.
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I got the Wikipedia article when I tried it. The knowledge panels are generated automatically so of course they’re not going always be immediately useful; we’re probably lucky it didn’t link to Breitbart instead. I miss the days when search engines just gave you search results.
Anyway, the frightening thing about all of this is that it I don’t think Trump has a coherent end game here. I mean, sure, he might be trying to pump up pharma stocks so he can dump his, but this is only going to hurt him in the election. The only people who buy this bullshit were already Trump voters.
It also occurs to me that if as has been suggested Trump is still trying to start up a Trump News Network he’s going to hurt his own ratings right out of the box. He and Junior can’t stop themselves from pushing this kind of bullshit, which only his most dedicated followers are going to want to watch.
Although to be fair they’re the easiest to fleece.
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I think it’s a few things.
- If Democrats believe or propose something Republicans must, as a matter of Faith, be against it
- Two Scoops doesn’t want to deal with things that aren’t easy and don’t make him look good, so wishing it all away is natural
- Covidiots praise him, so he enables them in a vicious positive feedback loop
- Mistrust of science and expertise has been a Republican tactic and value since the tobacco misinformation campaigns and was further weaponized during the Gingrich days. Now it’s foundational.
- It serves the Republican Donor Class. They want the proles back at their jobs (for reduced wages) and don’t want to spend any money on prevention or treatment.
- It gins up hatred and lets them sneer because only shudder dark-skinned people shudder and Big City #libturds and weak betas without Strong Immune Systems get it.
- And if a Real Merkin gets it then dying for the God-Emperor is the supreme Act of Faith.
These are the immediate high points. There may well be others.
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