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@Justin_Ling
Mar 1, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Holy shit. Unplug from reality for a second and appreciate the pure, unfiltered, fluoride-free comedy of this video.
I need to take a break from reading Russian propaganda so indulge me for a second as I break this truly unhinged video down.
First off: Paul Gosar has numerous ties to far-right and white supremacist groups. theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…

He was censured by the House for sharing memes suggesting his rivals should be killed. cnn.com/2021/11/17/pol…

Can't stress enough: washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
First off: Yes, it's *another* Mineral Monday (I wish it was Sunday, that's my gem day.) Gosar legitimately hosts a weekly show where he talks minerals. One such mineral was....airplanes.

"Without mining, you can't build planes," he says.
Onto fluoride: he's coming to you live from a drain
Austria
Belgium
China
Austr-Denmark
I mean, obviously, wonderful.

This is directly from the "Fluoride Action Network."
The word "elevated" is important, because some of these "74 studies" found cognitive impairment *could* happen when levels hit 2ppm, whereas the U.S. regs recommend 0.7ppm. (Fluoride occurs naturally, remember.)

And a snake
Also, of course, if your criteria is "studies that connect fluoride to IQ" — you might get a weird cohort of studies.

I also think this bonkers graph conflates the acceptable fluoride water levels and the fluoride levels in women (Tends to be well below 1.) Anyway.
Deeply, deeply funny.

Anyway, well-regulated fluoride levels in our drinking water is good and Paul Gosar is insane.

ilikemyteeth.org/fluoridation/d…
Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it?
It's breathtaking, really.

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Here's apparently what got @donie and @atrupar (two really top tier journalists) suspended
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This is core to the right-wing "groomer" discourse: Introducing the concept of Queer people is indoctrinating children; therefore it's sexualizing; therefore it's pedophilia. This is a fundamentally extreme position that has been mainstreamed thanks to some very couched language.
There is nothing new to this argument. There is nothing interesting about it. There is no valid point to be made, or new data to be pointed to.

This argument only works by trading in unhinged paranoia and fear.
If you're against teaching kids about the concept of diverse genders and sexualities, if you're afraid of drag queen story time, if you want to actively prevent parents from teaching their kids that Queer people exist and are fabulous: Then you're homophobic/transphobic.
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We probably don't talk enough about just how prevalent the QAnon ideology is in Germany. dw.com/en/german-poli…
This really fascinating study does a great job of quantifying the popularity of QAnon in the German-speaking world, as well as the reach of some of its most influential channels and narratives.
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There is an avowedly QAnon print magazine in Germany. It repackages some of the wildest Q theories — Chris Cornell was murdered by the deep state! The pandemic was planned!

And it's super pro-Putin. ImageImageImageImage
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Dec 6, 2022
After the much-hyped Twitter Files failed to prove that the FBI had any role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story, the pro-Trump crowd obsessed over ex-FBI counsel James Baker's role at Twitter.

His crime? Urging caution.
Musk is doing shit designed to elicit fervor and traffic on Twitter and alternative social media platforms, then directly responding to it.

This is business by conspiracy theory.
Baker, Twitter's deputy chief counsel, reviewed a bunch of internal emails before another Twitter lawyer handed them off to Taibbi to be leaked.

Apparently this became as a huge surprise to Musk, who fired him.
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Dec 6, 2022
Alex Jones has gotten a lot of attention recently for looking reasonable next to Ye's Hitler fandom.

And yet...

"Here's a bunch of leftist academics and Hollywood people, a lot of them Jews, literally trying to teach...[that] white people, except Jews are all bad people."
Jones has been on this kick for *a long time.* In the early 2000s, Jones ranted that "90%+ of the time, the vast majority of the time" Nazi and Klan rallies are run by "feds" and those Nazis: "You can look at them and tell, but it turns out they're Jewish."
As Ye gets denounced by even those friendly to his cause, Jones is seeing his star rise once again — despite the fact that he absolutely laid the groundwork for West's brand of paranoid antisemitism.
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Dec 5, 2022
This is an absolutely atrocious take. Mass surveillance and data capture is *always* abused. Giving people control of their data — and the freedom to commoditize or keep private that asset — needs to be a fundamental principle going forward. thehill.com/opinion/techno…
Put another way: Enabling mass surveillance, even for altruistic purposes, actually robs people of their autonomy and power. If you want to eliminate disparities in the market: *Give people more control over their data.*
Take this passage on pay gaps, which blames "asymmetric information within the market, held by employers" which can be fixed by "publicly collecting salary data."

This is a false choice! Tax agencies and labour departments already do this and could publish *aggregated* data.
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