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14 Jan, 5 tweets, 4 min read
1/n This, for example, is not "satire" by any reasonable stretch of the concept. It's mockery and agitprop, but not satire.
2/n For some reason, probably also owing to lack of talent, @TheBabylonBee made exactly the same crap line back in July, only changing "Delta" to "variant". I guess the Americans who died of Delta after July 04 might have cared, or their relatives.

3/ It's not as if the chief editor makes any attempt to keep his politics, and his lack of grasp on reality, hidden in any way. Plenty more bull like this.
4/ And from the managing editor of @TheBabylonBee, an outright lie, conveniently fitting in with antivaxx agitprop. I repeat: the below is an outright lie.

5/ When I say that if people with large audiences, asses like @JoelWBerry, @The_Kyle_Mann, @joerogan, @ConceptualJames, @Timcast, or the minion @michaelmalice, had been around in 1955, the USA would still be living with polio, this is not satire. This is stone-cold sober truth.

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1/ Idle late-night notes. A lot of people wiffle on about how the govt should advise on obesity in response to the pandemic. Never mind that many of those selfsame people would throw a tantrum if the govt started imposing health guidelines on fast-food; the main problems are...
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From now on, people like @truthinitiative will demand movies w/ cute, good-looking girls being mentally ill, as long of course as the bitter, grim reality of mental illness & consequences isn't shown. Or tobacco, my god, can't show the tobacco. But romanticise the mental illness.
I'm sure we can all see what the consequences of romanticising mental-illness will be. That's done already a fair bit in Hollywood. But all y'all will be happy to know no ciggies will get shown, no tobacco, heaven forfend.
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It became very obvious a long way back that @TheBabylonBee and its chief editor hated quarantine restrictions so much they became in effect antivaxxers as well. Their crap "satire" just happens to be what a large number in the USA actually believe, because of people like them.
You've got Joe Rogan, Bret Weinsten, James Lindsay, whoever tf Amanda LeftCoast is, and every antivaxxer & his dog saying exactly the same as @TheBabylonBee on COVID19 & vaccines for it, don't try to pretend to me it's "satire" on those subjects. What utter bull.
No. This is my point. Satire needs a discernable difference to reality to be satire, but @TheBabylonBee just regurgitates looney antivax fav, *serious* slogans. There's no difference between it & James Lindsay, WI GOP Treig Pronschinske,or Bret Weinstein
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How are you even a doctor, @BrentAWilliams2? If you want to deny an N95 face-mask is far more effective than a surgical mask, you're now moving in direct rejection of proven reality.
My main concern is the US poor, the ones who have to watch every penny. They would really benefit from the US govt sending everyone say 10 free N95 masks; the effects of some wearing them properly outweighs those who don't.
Here in Germany, where everything is über-official, the government still managed to provide residents with free FFP2's (equivalent to N95's), enough to last a long time with rotational re-use, & no-one worried about official training.

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