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24 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
To his credit @MattBinder has accepted my offer to discuss the contention that I am "creepily infatuated" with college campuses because I have covered COVID surveillance policies recently

LIVE tonight at 9pm EST

Rokfin: rokfin.com/stream/9379
YouTube:
Please note: I will strive to be civil and friendly!
Starting momentarily...
2+ hours later we both agreed this was a constructive convo, so that's an accomplishment. Thanks to @MattBinder for doing it and everyone who watched, including the trolls. Full video's only on Rokfin at the moment, will upload to YouTube over the weekend rokfin.com/stream/9379/Am…

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Michael Tracey Profile picture
25 Sep
Here's my full stream with @MattBinder of the "Majority Report" on whether it's evidence of a "creepy infatuation" -- as was alleged on a recent @SamSeder segment -- for me to cover COVID surveillance policies

We both agreed it was a constructive convo 👍
In case you missed it (and I wouldn't blame you) here is what prompted the discussion -- the allegation that I'd only take an interest in covering extreme and arbitrary college COVID policies because of some "creepily" deep-seated psychological compulsion
After we dispelled with all the "meta" issues around my allegedly corrupt motivations, the substantive portion generated an instructive insight: @MattBinder rejects that "returning to normalcy" is a valid aspiration. I profoundly disagree. So that's a big philosophical difference
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
24 Sep
I think if anyone's "creepily infatuated," it's these weirdo YouTube pundits who choose to spend their time constantly gossiping about me
I also never mentioned "indoctrination by liberal professors," you weirdos. I've been covering the instatement of a permanent surveillance bureaucracy on a false premise of "safety," analogous to what was instated after 9/11. But I guess that's "right-wing" now 🙄
I've explained countless times -- in articles, tweets, videos -- that I'm covering this issue due to the wider societal implications. But @MattBinder & co. just ignore these explanations and claim I've suddenly developed some suspicious "infatuation" with college campuses. Creeps
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23 Sep
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By popular demand I have made this into an "NFT"

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This item officially has a bid! Lol. I've been launched into "NFT" superstardom
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
22 Sep
Turns out one of the most nasty and bitter journalists on Twitter has cut off personal friends -- all of whom are fellow left-wing residents of Western MA -- for allegedly being "anti-vax." Now he's bragging about it in The Atlantic. Not surprising theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Not long ago, this person launched into a raging tirade because I pointed out that a GOP-leaning county in KY had a higher vaccination rate than Berkshire County, MA. Now he's filing Atlantic dispatches on left-wing anti-vax sentiment in the Berkshires? 🤔
And as many have pointed out, it's hardly "anti-vax" to recognize that natural immunity generated by contracting COVID confers significant protection. Unless the Washington Post is now a heinously "anti-vax" publication: washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
21 Sep
Academia Is Establishing A Permanent Surveillance Bureaucracy That Will Soon Govern The Rest Of The Country mtracey.substack.com/p/academia-is-…
Wait, you mean the online left allowed their petty personal grievances and gossipy, snark-infused performance art to cloud their judgment again? I'm flabbergasted
Yeah, it's so "edgy" to suggest schoolchildren not be permanently surveilled for a virus from which they face astronomically low risk, and hauled off into isolation if they cough, even though everyone they might "transmit" to has universal vaccine access
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
19 Sep
The first time one of these parental surveillance "app" systems was demonstrated to me a few years ago, I was shocked. I guess I shouldn't have been. But it was just mind-blowing that parents would choose to actively monitor *literally every movement* of their teenage children
I like how this is supposed to be some sort of slam-dunk riposte. If I did have children, I can't fathom feeling a need to subject them to 24/7 surveillance as though they're criminals, and if I *did* feel that need I would assume something wrong with *me*
My basic view. I totally reject the idea that exerting constructive parental influence requires surveilling your kid's every movement and destroying their privacy. You have the "right" to do it, but it's crazy and probably causes more harm than it prevents
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