What's hilarious and depressing about this is that this is the "declaration" that was filled up with signature of obviously fake names, like "Dr. Fakename" and "Johnny Bananas"
Not sure why this isn't getting a lot of play in the US media. That NYT story didn't mention it at all! But it's all just a hoax, complete stinking bullshit, dangerous smoke and mirrors
No word if Dr. Mantis Toboggan signed it too
I actually cannot for the life of me understand why this is being treated as anything other than the massive scandal it actually is. Their version of "herd immunity" is predicated on what they consider "survival of the fittest." You know what else that's called? Passive eugenics.
"The Great Barrington Declaration grew out of a meeting of hosted by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian-leaning research organization...." Oh Christ, it's these assholes again
I feel so awful for Seth Rich's family, getting dragged through the muck and the mire for political points by disinformation whackadoodles as they grapple with the still-unsolved murder of their loved one. It's truly disgusting, what they have had to contend with since 2016.
It calls to mind the awful people who show up at the graves of children who have been gunned down in mass shootings so they can shove cameras into grieving parents' faces and scream that no one died and that it was a false flag. People the @NRA deliberately encouraged
I wanted to post the most infuriating quotes from this but there are too many
These are the people who legitimately think they deserve, that they are entitled, to have power over others. They must never be allowed to do so again. Look how bad they fuck it up when they have it
“I strongly believe that they are spreading fake news on behalf of hostile foreign powers and authoritarian governments as part of their business model.”
"Neighbors say trash bags, like the ones shown in a photo from two weeks ago, have been put outside Troesch’s house almost every Sunday night for Monday morning pickup."
He hasn’t changed his racist schtick since at least 1992 either. This is who he’s always been and I, for one, am beyond delight that it doesn’t seem to be working any more
I often worry that my incandescent rage at these mealy-mouthed lies flying around as people preventably suffer and die by the thousands daily is too much, that I’ve gone too far, that I’ve discredited myself. And then I see something like this from the people entrusted to power
and I realize I don’t go far enough criticizing the liars, the bad faith arguers, the both-sidesers. They are not serious people. They cannot handle the reality of life as it exists right now. It is awful