lisasays
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Comment · 3 years ago
You know you're right, Dan - 'pernicious' is not the best mental model to use here. No matter how ineluctably dreary some of these leavings my seem.
So a non-reciprocal response would be more effective.
Comment · 3 years ago
All I can say, dan (and knowing this won't change your action): this wasn't my intent.
You've got some straight-up trolls running around, posting blatantly pernicious nonsense in regard to these topics -- obviously without sincere intent, simply to push buttons.
Mixed with some merely woefully naive and/or highly obstinate folks, posting basically noise (wildly inaccurate narratives about extremely basic historical matters or recent events).
If there is a better strategy or tone to use for countering this kind of negative behavior -- I wish I knew what it was.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks - it pretty much had to be something like that.
Comment · 3 years ago
Look, I don't have time to go down these rabbit holes with you. I'd just like you to consider one the following:
Yes, the Iraq invasion thoroughly evil and insane and stupid, and probably illegal. And yes, it was driven by preposterous, bald-faced lies from the start. Including lies about WMD and bioweapons and such.
Fast-forward 20 years: the Russians are telling the exact same kind of lies with regard to its (no less evil, insane, stupid and illegal) invasion of Ukraine; including lies about bioweapons and WMD -- yet even more cheaply and transparently so (using photoshopped slides no less) -- and you're just eating it up, like it's a box o' chocolates.
You're really very naive.
Just because you didn't hear about it on CNN
I never watch CNN. And if you think that anyone who doesn't buy into your narratives, therefore, does -- then you're definitely living in a bubble.
Comment · 3 years ago
The thing is he doesn't just "reference" the paper - he takes it out of context to suggest that it "serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons" (something the paper doesn't say at all, and which no researcher in the field would support). Alongside unsupported claims that the US and other governments are developing such weapons.
Of course he's also hedging, and talking out of both side of his mouth. It's a classic innuendo technique, and you fell for it.
Comment · 3 years ago
The young men of Ukraine are being killed at a rate of 7-1 vs Russia, with nothing to show for it but 300k dead Ukrainian young men.
You have this information from where, exactly?
Comment · 3 years ago
I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.
And yet, in his taped comments he said exactly that:
“There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. Covid-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Mr. Kennedy said at a private gathering in New York that was captured on videotape by The New York Post. “Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
But there's no wiggling out of it. Try as he may to do so.
Comment · 3 years ago
The bridge is clearly military infrastructure (and bringing it down will have significant military impact). Just not exclusively so.
Why is the West helping them do this?
To bring an end to this insanity. As soon as humanely possible.
Comment · 3 years ago
And yet - Pink Floyd with Syd matters so much more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36777995
Comment · 3 years ago