I’d take 1:1000 odds on that bet – my ten dollars to your penny – that this doesn’t happen. 😂
I wonder if we’ll ever see a prediction with a timeline/deadline attached. Very unlikely, I think.
We must stop people from considering the track record of their sources!
This guy is such a nut.
“The curriculum for media literacy is about how not to do your own research.”
No, they’re about knowing your own limitations and having the prudent respect for the expertise and track record others have built over a lifetime.
He conflates poor track records with “alternative sources”. Silly dude.
Thank god for the medical literacy curriculum. It seems the only way to improve the population’s focus on track-record-based credibility will be generational because when you lose it, there are a seemingly endless number of self-insulating hucksters ready to manipulate broken trust profiles to radicalize for influence and profit.
The gift of narcissism and self-fulfilling delusion
“Every feeling you’ve ever had is true.”
“Your gut is the one thing that doesn’t lie to you.”
“If you feel deception, you’re being lied to. Period.”
“If you feel you are being lied to, you are 100% right. You are being lied to.”
Are we being serious here? Do serious people accept these statements as anything other than encouraging narcissism and laying the bedrock for a self-insulating rhetorical model for retaining a following?
“What you’re seeing is evil done for its own sake [by people who disagree with me]. Hurting people for the sake of hurting people. […] I’ve never attacked anyone for not sharing my views. […] They hate the truth. If you are governed by people who actively hate the truth and who lie for the sheer animal thrill of doing so, you are living in a dark time under very dark people”
🤦🏻♂️
Pretending ten seconds from one hallway defines the entirety of J6
It’s almost as if at other places or other times, these and other people might have been behaving differently.
Mind-blowing, I know. 🤯
The definition of “selfawarewolf”
The ability to convince yourself that you are comfortable with uncertainty while desperately grasping for anything that reduces uncertainty while propagating baseless and extremely tenuous claims is impressive.
An R0 lesson in preventing community transmission
The crux: just because a vaccinated person can shed a disease doesn’t mean that the unvaccinated population is not responsible for community outbreaks.
Here’s why:
Transmission levels in a community are measured by R0 (“R naught”), which represents the average number of transmissions per case of any disease.
No vaccination is bullet-proof. We intend them to reduce the number of transmissions caused by the vaccinated individual. Even though vaccinated individuals shed mumps, they shed it less than their unvaccinated counterparts (source).
If we really consider this, though, it’s obvious. If the vaccinated got and transmitted mumps as though they were not vaccinated, unvaccinated individuals would get mumps at the same rate, regardless of outbreaks, because everyone around them would be getting it and passing it as though the vaccine didn’t exist. Of course, this isn’t what happens because the vaccine successfully reduces R0 and reduces it to under 1 (the minimum requirement for ongoing community spread) when the population has a healthy vaccination rate.
Presenting election interference as “mockery”
Here are two of the posts he was convicted for:
I’m not surprised that Tucker chose not to show the posts’ actual content. It seems they would have been a critical piece of the story to share for any journalist worth their salt, but let’s not pretend Tucker is a journalist.
I’m not sure what Tucker is suggesting is mocking here (“The First Amendment is done. Douglass Mackey is about to go to prison for mocking Hillary Clinton on the internet.”). Note that the second counterfeit ad above says “paid for by Hillary for president,” a clear attempt to mislead. Tucker says, “Hillary Clinton […] dismisses out of hand that you have a first amendment right to make fun of her.” He goes on to quote Clinton: “people say all kinds of things about us, but his went from running a very deliberate effort to mislead people about where and how to vote in an effort to subvert the election.”
Ironically, this Clinton quote is the most sane thing said about the situation in the entire interview.
A jury of his peers found him guilty.
This was Douglass Mackey’s second conviction for attempting to suppress votes, the first being in 2016.
It’s not zero-sum
The Glamour Women of the Year award has multiple winners.
Nobody “lost” to Geena.
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There are laws for nonviolent behavior…
“Defendant overran multiple police defensive lines.”
“Sheppard was found guilty [by a jury of his peers] in January of obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony, entering and remaining in a restricted grounds or building, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.”