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10 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
There used to be a whole bunch of low-rent con artists who’d demonstrate supernatural power by “magnetizing” objects to their bodies. (The “magnetism” always mysteriously failed in the presence of talcum powder.) These morons are reproducing the con by accident!
If only James Randi were still alive he’d be having a field day…

Note these aren’t just cranks off the street. At least some of the folks rambling about magnetic vaccines were *invited by legislators* to speak in support of an antivaxx bill.
I can’t tell if the woman behind her is appalled and embarrassed by the crank testimony or totally buying it & horrified that people are being “magnetized.”

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11 Jun
Trump could probably put a stop to this. If he wanted to. Image
We need to be blunt about where we are. The de facto head of one of our two major political parties is leveraging threats of terrorist violence as part of a campaign to corrupt the administration of the electoral process.
He’s able to do this in a way that makes him impossible to hold responsible for it under U.S. law, but it’s nevertheless what he’s doing. And it could absolutely work.
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10 Jun
Just skip to page 9 where they give away the game: “[T]hey are trying to socially replace you.”
This document makes fairly explicit the strategy I posited in a thread yesteday.

Step 1: Take the sprawling body of academic work that can be labeled “Critical Race Theory,” give it a cartoonishly evil definition, and set it up as the new bogeyman coming for your children.
Step 2: But the CRT overlords are tricksy, and won’t CALL their indoctrination schemes “CRT”. So you have to look out for “buzzwords.” Like “structural bias.” Or “white supremacy.” Or “institutional bias.” Or “normativity.” Or… “equity.”

americarenewing.com/issues/list-cr…
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9 Jun
I very much doubt county schools are teaching “critical race theory,” for the same reason I doubt they’re teaching vector calculus. But the label does a good job obscuring what concrete elements of the curriculum parents are objecting to.
I have no trouble buying that there’s some actually cringy struggle-session stuff being pushed in some schools. I’d also bet many parents want their kids to learn mythologized history where systemic racism is a footnote. “CRT” as a vague umbrella term obscures the details.
I just skimmed half a dozen articles on Loudon County schools & “Critical Race Theory” and it’s striking how thin on specifics they all are. Parents are convinced it’s become part of the curriculum, which administrators deny, but there was virtually nothing concrete.
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8 Jun
This is incredibly depressing if true, but it’s also extremely hard to believe. A third of DEMOCRATS believe their own party cheated?
I will say, to the extent this even close to accurate, it may be because the press keeps saying “no evidence” when what they mean is “no serious or credible evidence”. There’s tons of bogus “evidence”—indeed, too much to address in any detail in a normal news article.
There are probably a lot of people to whom all the “baseless” and “no evidence” seems like a cover up, because they keep seeing tons of bogus “evidence” that mainstream outlets don’t bother addressing.
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7 Jun
I have no idea if this is plausible, and I’m fairly certain the editors of the Wall Street Journal don’t either. Whether it’s correct or not, op-ed pages seem like a pretty obviously horrible place to float technical empirical claims like this.
If it’s correct, or at least has a good chance of being correct, it should be reported in the news pages after peer review. If it’s wrong, you’ve leapfrogged that process and given it unwarranted currency. Either way, this is not a useful “opinion”.
Which is to say, it does not present an argument that the normal reader (or, really, 99.9% of the readership) has any meaningful capability to evaluate.
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5 Jun
Starting to feel almost bad for Mike Lindell. Mr. Lindell, I’d like to offer you my services. In exchange fo a fee to be negotiated, I will help you construct a body of slightly-less-obviously-bogus body of evidence for imaginary election fraud. My package includes...
* One (1) superficially plausible backstory for how I have visibility on traffic to hundreds of municipal government networks. At your discretion, I will pepper this backstory with references to actual monitoring tools like “nmap” and “Wireshark” for extra verisimilitude.
* One (1) properly-formatted fabricated pcap screenshot, suitable for use in online videos, guaranteed to provoke less mockery than just converting publicly available voter data to hex. At your request, I can create a version in green Matrix font that dribbles down the screen.
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