That’s just wild. The one silver lining to T2 is that I’m not shocked by anything anymore. It’s still outrageous, but the surprise is gone.

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    The tall letters in all caps.
    The dramatic fade to blue.
    Trump standing in the middle.
    The fancy font on 𝓒𝓸𝓿𝓲𝓭.

    Oooh the tackiness is too much to bear

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    So the narrative is COVID was a dangerous lab leak - but also, you don’t have to wear a mask?

    Consistency is not a strong point of these dumbasses.

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      It’s pretty standard to play both extremes simultaneously, and people just pick whichever they want to relate to at any given moment.

      eg.

      • (such-and-such group) are lazy, but also they are taking all the jobs.
      • They are stupid, but also have secret organisations that control the world, with mind-control, and lasers that control the weather, etc.
      • They are snowflakes obsessed with inclusiveness, but also they want (target-minority-group) to take over.
      • They are against free speech; and we must silence them.

      I’m sure others can think of more, and variations on those.

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      If they thought clearly, they wouldn’t be prime targets for conspiracy theories and propaganda. We’re talking about people who can’t think rationally.

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    I don’t think there’s enough evidence to conclusively say that it was natural or that it was a lab leak. There is actually quite a lot of evidence that it was a lab leak, but this website looks like such BS.

    There’s also good evidence that Jeanne Calment was not the world’s oldest woman, but was instead her mother. Also, it’s well-understood that lightbulb manufacturers conspired to lower lifespans of bulbs throughout the 20th century. Just because there was a conspiracy don’t mean it ain’t real.

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        Here’s an analysis of a debate about whether it is or is not a lab leak. There’s very compelling arguments on both sides, but I find the lab leak angle to have the most evidence for it.

        I think I understand why people assume it can’t be a leak – it sounds like fiction; people have said this about previous events and turned out to be wrong; it would be bad for China if true, so it must be politically motivated. It’s okay, you can relax and join me in the ranks of people who are open minded to either outcome.

        (Edit: This is a stupid aside, but you define theory as something with no evidence for it, and then put lab leak “theory” in quotes as though you don’t think it fits that definition.)

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    Regardless of where it actually came from (probably bats) this site is just propaganda.

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    So did it originate in a Wuhan Lab or not? I keep hearing one thing then another.

    Not trying to confuse the issue, I legitimately don’t know.

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      No one know because China are not going to admit if it was a lab leak. Also lab leaks doesn’t mean the virus is human made. However there are some un-answerd questions. There were scientists spies that got caught with sample from Canadian labs flying to China, and there was some concern about military funding and other few things that support the leak theory. However it is not conclusive evidence. So it stay at the theory level.

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        There were scientists spies that got caught with sample from Canadian labs flying to China.

        I think this fact is coincidence and not covid related in the slightest.

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    But I thought conservatives said COVID was all made up and a plot by the democrats to control the populace through mask-wearing?

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      Note that mask-wearing only makes it so you can’t breathe if Democrats want you to do it for public health reasons. Mask-wearing is hunky dory if you’re doing it because you’re a Nazi who doesn’t want to be personally identified.

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        Oh sure this is like them claiming that nanograms of mercury in vaccines cause autism but they argue that companies dumping mercury into their local atmosphere, soil, and water are overburdened by liberal government regulations and shouldn’t be regulated.

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          Then in order to “cure” said autism, they pump their children with any manner of completely worthless and dangerous interventions from the same pharma companies they claim to hate.

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            Yeah I just listened to the newest Behind the Bastards about this and Robert Evans describes numerous examples of parents treating their kids like lab rats and pumping them full of expiramental drugs until they died. It’s awful shit all around.

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              Is that this week or the nightmare chelation therapy and exploding death chambers to cure ‘heavy metal toxicity’ from last week?

              The child murder episodes are rather hard to handle.

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          Well you see, there’s a simple explanation for this. When we do it, it’s good, and when you do it, it’s bad.

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        I feel like I’m screaming, “help” at the top of a mountain, yet nobody can hear me. I feel like almost all online interactions are false. I feel like my day to day life is shrinking from country scale to community to household scale. This is where we are divided and we don’t care for another, but only ourselves. Not out of greed, but out of perceived necessity. It’s all fake.

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          I completely understand sometimes it feels like everyone has their head buried in the sand or worse is lapping up the misinformation without a second thought, living in a post truth society is truly hell for the analytical.

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          I’m with you. Corporations have figured out how to fully monetize the internet and information in general. Knowledge and education have been paywalled. What does filter through is manipulation and brainwashing in some form.

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        Such a good song. I have not thought about or listened to that song or album in at least a decade. Thanks for the reference to rekindle my fond memories. Time to go listen to some Bad Religion… :-)

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          They released a record called Age of Unreason during the first trump term. Its some of the strongest material of their career imo.

          New Maps of Hell was pretty killer though

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    That website is batshit. It looks like a tabloid website. It’s not just promoting the lab leak theory. It also calls out Fauci, Andrew Cuomo, and Biden. It is basically a political hit piece. Fucking embarrassing.

    It would basically be like Biden changing a site about Russia to include info about Trump’s pee tape.

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    I saw a billboard outside of my city yesterday saying something like “did your loved ones really die of COVID-19?” and had some “covid is a hoax” website named on it. What a fucking dark timeline we’re in.

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      I overheard a guy in 2021 say to someone that his brother said, “I just came from a funeral for a friend who died from covid.” The next thing the guy said was, "I told him, no, your friend died with covid, not from covid.

      It really upset me. I just tried to ignore him but it actually kinda ruined my day.

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      This is a group of people who feel they’ve been unfairly made fun of for too long finally getting their revenge.