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Jan 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"Podcasts are a source of disinformation!"

Signed: Podcast host
Oh fuck off.
ASSOCIATE!
Dude, I'm just lightly skimming this lmfao
Reply to this tweet with the dumbest signatory you can find. Happy hunting: spotifyopenletter.wordpress.com/2022/01/10/an-…

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Jan 22
I've found that none of these Twitter covid hawks who constantly retreat to "but kids" and "but vulnerable people" and "but but but" will never ever tell you what their personal covid endgame is. Not even hypothetically. It's because secretly they're still hoping for covid zero.
And yes, people who are like "keep covid restrictions in place because of my personal medical risks" are selfish people and don't think of the very real medical problems that were and still are created BECAUSE OF covid restrictions. Something I know about intimately.
"I might catch covid and I'm at risk" does not get to supersede "this person's medical condition has deteriorated because they had to stay home for two years and now they also can't find the specialized medical care they need because of restrictions and shortages." Screw that.
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Jan 20
I am a firm believer in the philosophy of tone matching, and I generally feel fine being nasty to someone if they were being nasty. This was a particularly egregious example and so I don't think that by making a couple of munchkin jokes I stepped over some line.
Is this a universal? No. Am I entirely consistent with this? No. But nastiness is an emotional reaction, not a cerebral one. None of us are perfect. Reich was galactically gross but instead of just cursing him out I went for the jokes. Trust me, it was the nicer option.
I think someone's physicality is fair game when the issue is some sort of physical scenario (in this case, a bunch of men backhanding a woman). If someone threatens to punch you, him being a waif becomes relevant.
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Jan 20
Is there a name for the reverse version of Motte and Bailey? Like when you argue a defensible position but then are expected by the other party to defend its more extreme and indefensible version by extension?
I get that it's basically a strawman, but that's too vague for this very specific phenomenon.
No the scenario I'm describing is that I said I think masks in schools being optional is considerate, someone was like "well so should all childhood vaccines be optional too? Since you're so committed to being considerate..."
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Jan 20
I don't know that any other facet of covid has been more politicized and less fact-based than natural immunity, and the vast majority of it is reactive because god forbid you give the vax skeptical any ammo, even if they happen to be right about something.
Yeah 800,000 people died, but at least 100 million Americans had gotten covid in 2020 alone. So your 800,000 sounds large, but it's way less than 1% of the total number of Americans who got covid.

Source: publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-…
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Jan 18
You're being dishonest, James. Health officials specifically talking about BLM protests was a big story and involved hundreds of professionals in the field.
Here's epidemiologists from Harvard and Yale in The Atlantic:
New York Times:
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Jan 16
Yoko in the snow is an entire aesthetic.
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