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What definitions of “extremist” are being used?

2024-04-06

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Screenshot of direct message conversation. text reads #OSHAhearing bit.ly/OSHAhearing Nicolas Smit @PPEtohe Jan 19, 2023 Replying to @PPEtoheros @nb_covid_info and 31 others — Here’s evidence @COVIDOversight knew about the widespread negligence in July. I was asked by their top investigators how they should investigate & they confirm I gave them info that helped -Show more- QUOTE — NYT Science @NYTScience “It’s frustrating and frightening because a mask like this can make the difference between life and death, but no one knows about them.” nytimes.com A Clunky Mask May Be the Answer to Airborne Disease and N95 Waste 11:54 AM 2022–07–09 — Nicolas Smit Jan 19, 2023, 3:46 PM

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The shadowbanning of the pandemic.

2024-04-05

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Screenshot of tweet, Joe Friday @justthefacts85 1:49 AM · Jun 24, 2022 These are just a few recent ones as I didn’t go back that far. I’m sure most posts, if not all, are lifted from others. (Last row reversed, sorry.) I don’t know if this is some kind of bot or what. Image attached to tweet are a series of screenshots showing Sammy4723 tweets verbatim copied from the original tweets as follows, TalkerTeacher don’t know who needs to hear this right now but it is perfectly normal to want to avoid catching a potentially debilitating disease during a world- altering pandemic anyone telling you different has an agenda that does not have your health and well-being in mind 8:55 AM 6/19/22 LaurentForan: In the future, students will read in their history book the chapter on the 2020s with shock and anger. “How can a ruling class consciously let a virus kill millions?” When they’ll learn that it was the logic of the profit system, they’ll understand the subsequent revolution. 6:20 PM 6/19/22, and AmySpiro: Israel confirmed more than 10,000 new COVID cases yesterday for the first time since early April. The positivity rate of all those tested yesterday is close to 40%. 2:11 AM 6/20/22

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Sammy4723, anonymous pandemic influencer sock puppet account.

2024-04-04

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Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469 Imagine, to begin with, a community completely partitioned into cliques, such that each person is tied to every other in his clique and to none outside. Community organization would be severely inhibited. Leafletting, radio announcements,or other methods could insure that everyone was aware of some nascent organization; but studies of diffusion and mass communication have shown that people rarely act on mass-media information unless it is also transmitted through personal ties (Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955; Rogers 1962)

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Journalist thinks covid is no longer political — just “trusts” right-wing covid denial.

2024-04-03

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Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert. A tent lit in pink and another lit in red under a tree line silhouette under a starry sky showing a portion of the Milky Way seen in a night sky at Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania. July 1, 2019.

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It’s Dark Sky Week & there’s a light pollution debacle in Scranton Pennsylvania.

2024-04-02

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Covid denial, the musical

2024-04-01

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Untrustworthy wellness influencer.

2024-03-30

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Authoritarians on the left are stifling debate Editor: I agree with the premise of Steve Corbin's column that "several groups... in conjunction with political parties... and politicians are trying to silence you and me via multiple measures" ("Maintaining democracy is not a spectator sport," March 6). They came for parents who spoke out at school board meetings calling them "domestic terrorists." They called you xenophobic when you supported a secure border, but when a busload of immigrants shows up in their backyard, they're put on the next bus out of town. They came after "radical" Christians and spied on them and shut down worship services during COVID lockdowns but allowed hordes of BLM and ANTIFA rioters in multiple cities to burn, loot, injure and destroy without consequences and even raised bail for these criminals. They silenced anyone that spoke out against their climate change dogma. Public health officials targeted Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and others that had opposing views on COVID. They lied and tried every dirty trick in the book to overthrow a duly elected president including a phony dossier, a Russian collusion hoax and two sham impeachments. They wasted tax dollars on a special counsel full of Trump-hating lawyers and found nothing and yet none of those DOJ, CIA and FBI liars were held accountable. They covered up Hunter Biden's laptop and Tony Bobulinski's story prior to an election to save their candidate. They convened a kangaroo court of anti-Trumpers called a Jan. 6 Commission and put on an orchestrated show for the public but failed to prosecute the killer of unarmed Ashli Babbitt. State attorneys general who campaigned to "get" Trump filed multiple lawsuits obviously to interfere with the election. Now state attorneys general acting as judge, jury and executioner are trying to keep their political opponent off the ballot. Get out and vote on Nov. 5 so America can shut down this "dictatorial-authoritarian control." Bill Gelatka WEST PITTSTON (Times-Tribune, Letter to the Editor March 14, 2024 Scranton Pennsylvania)

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Pointless Great Barrington Declaration b.s. in a letter to the editor in my local newspaper.

2024-03-30

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Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign. Mar 28th, 2024 wat3rm370n on tumblr Image Alt Text: The disinformation didn’t just happen, it was deliberate. Teams Human. State Government Leadership Foundation openly bragged on social media about an advertising campaign that specifically targeted liberals to persuade them of the lie that masks supposedly do more harm than good.16 There is evidence that mask requirements are beneficial. But the State Government Leadership Foundation appears to have used old school advertising and simple repetition that uses the mere exposure effect, where people come to believe something simply because it seems familiar after hearing it a lot.17 teamshuman.substack.com/p/anti-mask-woke-washing Dark money from big corporations funded a right-wing think tank to do a deliberate advertising propaganda campaign to convince liberal Democrats that masks are bad. ProPublica headline: Buying Your Vote Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding for Republican Dark Money Group IRS files show that some of the biggest companies in the country provided more than a million dollars a decade ago to launch a Republican dark money group. by Justin Elliott Feb. 14, 2013, 8 a.m. EST Tweet from State Government Leadership Foundation brags about an anti-mask advertising campaign targeting liberals.

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Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign.

2024-03-28

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Anti-vax & health misinfo is just part of right-wing orthodoxy now.

2024-03-26

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Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreyatucker Do people know how insulting it is to put on a mask when you come near? It's like saying: I suspect that you are diseased and I don't want your filth near my body. Never mind that it doesn't work. It's ruinous to friendship. 5:09 PM · Jan 13, 2024 · 81.7K Views 386 replies 184 retweets 712 hearts 10 bookmarks

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Jeffrey Tucker, covid contrarian and right-wing propagandist

2024-03-23

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Disease denialism is cognitive warfare.

2024-03-23

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SLURRING TRUMP Gives Confusing Speech to Christian Broadcasters - No One Tries to Help! Feb 23, 2024 Jesse Dollemore (Youtube) The image is a screenshot of timestamp 2:12 in the video. On screen is Donald Trump speaking at a microphone at a podium labeled National Religious Broadcasters. Taking up nearly a quarter of the screen is a big ad that says IVERMECTIN question mark, in all caps. There’s a save with code message under make care great again website. The chyron reads RSBN 1120 PM ET Live Coverage Trump, Vows to grow GOP majority in 2024, Trump’s latest sneaker venture, and above the chiron, below Trump, is another ad chiron that says get your contagion emergency kit today and be prepared and more codes for discount offers. The Youtube description box reads 220,235 views, some hashtags, and the description: Jesse talks about a few moments from yesterday’s Trump speech before the National Christian Broadcasters group, where Trump rambled incoherently about a number of topics even though he was supposed to be reading prepared remarks from a prompter.

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Trump still promoting covid pseudoscience quack products.

2024-03-20

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SIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL Strategic Services Field Manual No. 3 Office of Strategic Services Washington, D.C. 17 January 1944 - Image is of typewriter typeset pages describing tactics for sabotage in office settings.

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Sabotage works best when it looks like incompetence.

2024-03-19

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Covid minimizers now reveal themselves to also push HIV bigoted conspiracy theories, as Brett Weinstein goes on Joe Rogan to spread AIDS denialism

2024-03-19

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Racknitz, Joseph Friedrich zu. 1789. Ueber Den Schachspieler Des Herrn Von Kempelen Und Dessen Nachbildung. Leipzig [u.a.]: Breitkopf.

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I had a dream of soylent chatbots made out of people.

2024-03-15

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The Economy First Model. Manufacturing consent to normalized harm. Chloe Humbert. The real damaging and disturbing propaganda is characterizing avoiding illness as “fear of covid” when nobody would say that about cancer, second hand smoke, or about allowing a toddler to run loose near the edge of a cliff. If someone was pointing a gun you wouldn’t say you’re “dealing with fear of guns” after all. Ironically, if the disabled person has a mental health issue, that is also expected to take a back seat to the able-bodied person’s discomfort. Minimizing the real threat as mere “fear of covid” that “truncates” going to concerts and restaurants, while simultaneously raising up the value of “mourning” of travel and big parties. It has internal logic when you realize it’s all just oriented toward prioritizing economic engagement. This cognitive tactic has a name, and it’s called woke-washing, and it’s a favourite of climate contrarians and covid deniers.

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The Economy First Model.

2024-03-12

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CDC made medical guidelines please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry - Image is the letter from Delta Airlines to the CDC Director asking for shortened guidelines because of the impact on their business caused by 10 day isolation.

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The CDC, Media and PR: a public health disinformation campaign.

2024-03-04

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Anti-Science MAGA CDC: “It’s like the flu”

2024-03-02

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Robin Hanson @robinhanson 11:29 AM — 14 Feb 2020 “Though it is a disturbing & extreme option, we should seriously consider deliberately infecting folks with coronavirus, to spread out the number of critically ill people over time, and to ensure that critical infrastructure remains available to help sick.”

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Robin Hanson’s 2020 Viral Valentine Tweet

2024-02-29

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The Princess Bride Inigo Montoya You keep using that word meme, the picture of Inigo Montoya giving Vizzini a confused look, the caption says you keep using that word “immunity” I do not think that word means what you think it means in the context of medical science.

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WaPo reporter’s citation used fraudulent appeal to authority to make anti-vax “natural herd immunity” claim.

2024-02-26

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Once more, this time with feeling, propaganda about “learning loss” is a myth.

2024-02-25

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