Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Syt]

Guys, could you take the discussion to one of the numerous Covid threads, please?

FACTS:

Let's see how the Facebook Nazis fact checks this !

"The Chinese biological laboratory in Wuhan is owned by Glaxosmithkline, which (accidentally) owns Pfizer!"  (the one who makes the vaccine against the virus which was (accidentally) started at the Wuhan Biological Lab and which was (accidentally) funded by Dr. Fauci, who (accidentally) promotes the vaccine!

"GlaxoSmithKline is (accidentally) managed by the finance division of Black Rock, which (accidentally) manages the finances of the Open Foundation Company (Soros Foundation), which (accidentally) manages the French AXA!

"Soros (accidentally) owns the German company Winterthur, which (accidentally) built a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan and was bought by the German Allianz, which (coincidentally) has Vanguard as a shareholder, who (coincidentally) is a shareholder of Black Rock,"  which (coincidentally) controls central banks and manages about a third of global investment capital.

"Black Rock" is also (coincidentally) a major shareholder of MICROSOFT, owned by Bill Gates, who (coincidentally) is a shareholder of Pfizer (which - remember? Sells a miracle vaccine) and (coincidentally) is now the first sponsor of the  'WHO!

Now you understand how a dead bat sold in a wet market in China has infected the WHOLE PLANET!

[Tamas]

I must admit I liked the "identifies as" bit

[Duque de Bragança]

Above a very low average to be fair. Same goes for the now cliché reductio at Hitlerem and its variants.

Democratic Socialism as Socialism is WAD though.

[Josquius]

It always makes me laugh that you always hear this "you just call everyone who disagrees with you a nazi" thing from people with fsscy leanings before anyone has actually called them that.

[The Brain]

The first one is stupid even for these people. The term explicitly spells out that it's Socialism.

[Valmy]

I like they put a few red scare shit in there, just to pretend they are something outside of anti intellectualism and culture war shit

[Berkut]

Correct, Bekut's argument and mine is based on the assumption of no net paradoxical effects.  As well as the assumptions that our perception of reality isn't being distorted by demons and that Texas is a real state and not a fictional marketing gimmick of the dying hat and cowboy boot industries.

By the same token, the counter-argument does depend on some assumption of paradoxical effects.  (the demon hypothesis would be helpful but not strictly necessary). So where is the proof?

Yeah, I give up.

I mean, sure, there could be some magical "other factor" that COULD exist that makes the repeal of mandates somehow cause people to actually wear masks. I suppose it's possible.

I think Occam will claim that absent some compelling data, the simple conclusion would be that removing a law trying to enforce an action, the result will be less of that action, not more of it.

If in order to accept that AR if full of shit, you demand that someone prove that magic space aliens are not forcing people to wear masks, but only when mask wearing is NOT mandated, then that really isn't an interesting debate to me anymore - have at it DG and AR. You guys can defend Texas and De Santis and all the other fucking nuts all you like.

[Syt]

[grumbler]

Yet another own goal.

[Syt]

[Valmy]

How is it politically incorrect to do any of those things?

[Valmy]

Warning: this house does extremist environmental things. We recycle cardboard. If this radical and extreme action is too much for you please leave. HAIL GAIA!

[Syt]

 

[Syt]

[The Brain]

Republicans trust Soviet leaders over other authorities. Film at 11.