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Mark Zuckerberg’s insufferable letter on covid censorship.

2024-09-06

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Elite panic style: Only the status quo matters in a changing world. They will sacrifice the restaurants to try to force the olden days.

2024-06-22

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Business incentives run counter to public health.

2024-03-30

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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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The image is 2 photos, one is of a man in a baseball cap, black leather jacket and tan cargo pants standing in a museum among life size statues of people including a shabbily dressed man with a duffle bag, trench coat and golf cap looking tired, another statue of a man in light blue overalls and a red scarf and train conductor hat standing straight back against a wall, and the third statue is of a businessman leaning back against a wall all in a black top hat, black long coat, black pants, black boots, a white shirt with a black tie, wearing white gloves and holding a black cane, and looking downward. Next to the top hat man is a yellow sign the image includes a closeup of the yellow sign which has a one line quote from J.P. Morgan saying I owe the public nothing. The caption on the image says Steamtown National Historic Site Scranton Pennsylvania USA. November 10, 2013. Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert.

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Christmas movie propaganda, job creator myths, and “sides” in perpendicular axis

2023-12-25

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