ryan cooper

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8 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read

listen up blue checks: the guy who boosted ivermectin as a potential miracle cure based on the word of an antivaxxer fraud has a condescending lecture about media ethics

well now, let's be careful about our facts and #media #ethics. it was actually a pie filled with horse semen

https://twitter.com/HedgeTexas/status/1435607819345092615

the target was Michael Wines, then the NYT Moscow bureau chief exiledonline.com/feature-new-yo…

at any rate yes, this is true. these guys are flipping out over a minor local news botch that got aggregated, then corrected, to disguise what they are really doing: pandering to conservative antivaxxers for money

https://twitter.com/beyerstein/status/1435407090764365831

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ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper

13 Sep

the horse paste is old hat (probably thanks to media attention) so the crackpots need a new quack remedy

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1437477930368524288

just watching this happen in real time theweek.com/politics/10046…

looking forward to another news cycle of anti-anti-Betadine discourse so the contrarians can get their weekly subscription bump

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper

13 Sep

Facebook "has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal." wsj.com/articles/faceb…

Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened to allow a Trump post calling for violence to remain up wsj.com/articles/faceb…

every day more convinced that the Xi Solution to social media is the right one. just get rid of it, all of it

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper

13 Sep

this argument has a pretty gigantic hole in it

https://twitter.com/sentientist/status/1436737457706311685

forcing someone to get vaccinated could quite literally *save their life or that of their friends and family.* it is just dishonest to class this with redlining or whatever

dishonest and also clumsily mistaken on the facts! that's the Evopsych Promise

https://twitter.com/swolecialism/status/1437410123383812102

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper

9 Sep

look at this hack fraud lol

oh for sure man. "Whether vaccine mandates are ok depends on if illness is easily transmitted" is a principle that hinges entirely on what level of government is implementing the mandate

https://twitter.com/philipaklein/status/1436098757632925696

conservatives gotta work themselves into a frenzy to get some more judicial rule-by-decree so they can stop Biden from saving their own voters' lives

https://twitter.com/zachdcarter/status/1436315709391450134

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper

9 Sep

substack contrarians pretending that pandemic controls are somehow a violation of civil rights is a new low even for them

even the most dog-brained glibertarians generally admit that the state can coerce people to prevent them from harming others. but that's too much from our freshly-minted McMegans

weeks ago these guys were pretending that an anti-vaccine crank was a legit expert being censored by a devious Big Tech/Big Pharma conspiracy theweek.com/politics/10046…

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper

8 Sep

seems about right nytimes.com/interactive/20…

not sure why they would call this a "progressive" party though, seems more like a classic SDP set of positions

at any rate the coalition of Canada-style Liberals, Blue Dog ""Labor,"" and socdems pulling in 52 percent is depressingly plausible

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